Management of R&D team , 8 R&D project leaders and lab technicians.New product development in Construction, Specialty , automotive and printing & graphic application.Continuous improvement on standard products range, design and process change control.Technical support to Sales and Site.

- From December 2014 to April 2016, Management technical side ( process and product ) of full product range transfer from SCAPA Swiss site to French site. - Project management in new product development , stage gate process.- Development of new adhesive tapes for printing & graphic, general industrial, medical and automotive application.- Production site support via cost-out project , raw material change and process improvment.- Work in cross-functional mode in a international multi-site environment.- Management of R&D technicians.Skills:- Formulation of PSA adhesives chemistries; waterbased,solventbased,acrylics,rubber .- Formulation of heat activated adhesives; CoPA, PU , CoPET, ...- Coating process technologies; meyer bar, roll over roll , reverse roll , hot melt.- Patent watch and application.- Project management tools ; risk analysis, functional analysis , FMEA,planning.

Mission : - development of heat activated adhesive for interlining product used in the cloth industry.- lab work and industrial trial follow up.- Active participation to the design and investment of the new Electron Beam (EB) production line.- Patent application on EB adhesive technologySkills : - formulation of heat activated adhesive; PU, PE,PET and PA.- Adhesive coating on textile- radiation curing technology EB and UV adhesive