From the business unit adhesives & chemicals

Tur­bu­lent, but still suc­cess­ful – this is the best way to sum up the year 2018 for the adhe­sives & chem­i­cals depart­ment at ViscoTec.

Personnel change at the top

A major change this year was the per­son­nel change at the top of the depart­ment. Daniel Pöss­nick­er has head­ed the adhe­sives & chem­i­cals busi­ness unit since August 1, 2018. He has been part of the Vis­coTec team since 2010 and there­fore brings the nec­es­sary knowl­edge for this posi­tion. As busi­ness unit man­ag­er, he focus­es on the imple­men­ta­tion of strate­gic sales tar­gets in the nation­al and inter­na­tion­al mar­ket as well as in the rapid­ly grow­ing aero­space and e‑mobility industries.

Emerging Business Developments

These two indus­tries, which are part of Vis­coTec’s busi­ness devel­op­ment, achieved great suc­cess in 2018. The aero­space sec­tor devel­oped very well this year and land­ed many orders with great poten­tial. The auto­mo­tive indus­try, espe­cial­ly e‑mobility, also record­ed a strong increase in orders. There is par­tic­u­lar­ly high demand for the appli­ca­tion of 1- and 2‑component ther­mal con­duc­tive pastes which Vis­coTec mas­ters excel­lent­ly with its products.

Popular applications and products

The appli­ca­tions that were par­tic­u­lar­ly in demand in 2018 come main­ly from the 2‑component sec­tor. Accord­ing­ly, the 2‑component dos­ing sys­tems were the best­sellers this year. The Vis­co­Duo-VM for medi­um and the Vis­co­Duo-P4/4 for very small quan­ti­ties had the largest mar­ket share here.

Oth­er appli­ca­tions suc­cess­ful­ly imple­ment­ed by Vis­coTec in 2018 include the inte­gra­tion of dos­ing tech­nol­o­gy in trick­le sys­tems, sta­tor pot­ting in elec­tric motor pro­duc­tion and reli­able mate­r­i­al han­dling of 1K and 2K impreg­nat­ing resins.

Vis­coTec offers the cus­tomer – not only in the 2‑component sec­tor – two essen­tial advan­tages: On the one hand, abra­sive mate­ri­als can be dosed extreme­ly low shear and very pre­cise­ly thanks to the end­less pis­ton prin­ci­ple. On the oth­er hand, a spe­cial­ly devel­oped ceram­ic rotor ensures even more pre­cise and gen­tle pro­cess­ing of the mate­ri­als. This means less mate­r­i­al waste and longer ser­vice life.

Result

Daniel Pöss­nick­er was very suc­cess­ful in his posi­tion as busi­ness unit man­ag­er in the first half of the year. “My team is enter­ing the year 2019 stronger and more con­fi­dent. Nev­er­the­less, we are still look­ing for new mem­bers in order to mas­ter the growth of 2019 and con­quer fur­ther mar­kets,” says Pöss­nick­er. The main focus for 2019 is on the elec­tron­ics and auto­mo­tive sec­tors. Impor­tant loca­tions will be Asia, East­ern Europe and France.