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VDMA awards junior engineers at Techtextil in Frankfurt

24 Jun '22
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Pic: VDMA
Pic: VDMA

On the occasion of the Techtextil fair, the chairman of VDMA’s Walter Reiners-Stiftung Foundation, Peter D Dornier, has awarded prizes to seven young engineers. For the first time, the foundation gave two sustainability awards. They are awarded for academic works in which, for example, solutions for resource-saving products and technologies are developed.

A sustainability prize in the category of project work, endowed with €3,000 was awarded to Simon Hoebel, TU Dresden, for his thesis on recycled thermoplastic fibres for composite components, VDMA said in a press release.

Marina Michel, TU Dresden, received a sustainability award in the category of master, worth €3,500. The topic of her master thesis was the functionalisation of yarns for the filtration of micro- and nanoplastics from water.

A promotion prize in the category of project work, endowed with €4,000, was awarded to a student group from RWTH Aachen. The teamwork of Luis Gleissner, Leopold Habersbrunner, Frederic Olbrich and Frederik Schicks was the construction of a test rig for tests on oil-adsorbing textiles.

Felix Zerbes, RWTH Aachen, was awarded a promotion prize of €3,500 in the category Master. He developed a technical solution for air jet weaving to improve the quality of woven fabric.

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