Am 4. Oktober fand im Fachbereich PMV die Kinderuni – Forscherclub statt. Kinder zwischen 8 und 13 Jahren waren herzlich willkommen.

Christiane Helbrecht and Patrick Jahn went to the Baltic Conference Series in Scandinavia to present their research, winning the prize for best poster presentation.

The employees of the PMV went together to the BAMP! exhibition in Mainz in the middle of July. BAMP! is short for the project “Building with Paper”, in which the PMV was involved.

We are pleased to welcome Ricardo Fitas to our team.

The Symposium of Paper Engineers will be held in Darmstadt from October 19 to 21. This year's theme of the lecture series is KLARTEXT.RECYCLING, in which, among others, Professor Schabel will also give a lecture on the “Opportunities and challenges for the circular economy with paper”.

Niklas Schäfer participated at the Science Flash of the ZELLCHEMING-Expo on June 21, 2023. The topic of his talk was “Mechanical properties of folded paper cores”. Niklas delivered the talk in the style of the “Sendung mit der Maus”, for which the audience thanked him with loud applause.

The new bachelor's program Bio-Materials Engineering at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at TU Darmstadt will start in the winter semester. The online application is open until 31.08.23. The new program includes topics in mechanical engineering as well as chemistry, biology and materials science.

In mid-June, a large group of students had the opportunity to visit the company FriPa in Miltenberg, which manufactures tissue paper. After a friendly welcome and introduction, the group had a tour of the pulp production, two paper machines, the paper converting department and the high-bay warehouse. After lunch, we returned to Darmstadt. We would like to take this opportunity to thank the company once again for the exciting insights!

At the end of April, PMV staff visited the TAPPICon in Atlanta, where Niklas Schäfer gave a presentation on “Mechanical Properties of Paper Folding Cores”.

The Volleypap 23 took place in Darmstadt at the weekend.