Tethered Caps: Design, Produce and Inspect!
Online conference March 24, 2:00 – 3:00 pm CET
Content
Ask the experts: Learn from Sascha Baumanns, Head of Sales at Intravis about the possibilities of inspecting tethered caps. Mark Smith, Senior Vice President at Universal Closure and Michael Fink, VP Sales & Marketing of z-moulds will report on their joint projects and present their moulding concepts and systems.
All three companies are well established in the market and will be available to answer your questions!
PETplanet’s Editor-at-Large Ruari McCallion will guide through the PETinar.
Presenters
Sascha Baumanns, Head of Sales, Intravis
Sascha Baumanns joined Intravis GmbH in 2005 and works in the International Sales Department. He is an expert for vision inspection technology for the injection moulding branch, especially in Europe, Asia and Australia. He focused and specialised on the injection moulding industries and their products and was deeply involved in the Drinktec 2017 closed loop closure production project. Since 2019 he is leading the sales team.
Before joining Intravis GmbH, Sascha Baumanns has worked in the consumer goods industry and the NATO Headquarter in Brussels for corrective maintenances and servicing. As a keynote-speaker he conducted different presentations at several conferences.
Michael Fink, VP Sales & Marketing, z-moulds
Michael Fink is Vice-president of Sales & Marketing at z-moulds, the Austrian closure and mould specialist. He is globally responsible for all sales activities and joined z-moulds in 2005. Before his VP role, he developed the closure business in emerging markets.
Mark Smith, Technical Director & VP, Universal Closures
Mark Smith is Technical Director and VP at Universal Closures with a passion for developing products and people. Responsible for the design, development and commercialisation of the company’s product portfolio and now in his second spell with the company. Mark previously held the position of lead designer, where he was instrumental in the creation of the Sylon CSD closure – the lightest, fastest produced full CSD closure in the world at the time.
Prior to returning to Universal Closures, Mark was Head of Engineering at Dyson. During his time there, he led the UK engineering team in the design and development of the Supersonic hairdryer, marking the company’s first entry into the personal care market. Working with and for some of the world’s largest brands from Coca-Cola to British Airways, Dyson to Land Rover. He has obtained a 1st Class Honours Degree in Product Design and a Higher National Diploma in Mechanical Engineering.
Event Moderator: Ruari McCallion, Editor, PETplanet
Ruari McCallion has been writing on business matters, manufacturing especially, for over a quarter of a century. He has been a contributing editor to PETplanet Insider since 2008 and is an experienced moderator, chairman and presenter of business seminars and webinars, in the UK, Europe and the USA.
He is also a founding director of Industrio Ltd, editor of the UK Manufacturing Review and a contributing editor to eureka!, which is published by Cat Lift Trucks Europe.
