By dividing our business into four focused units, we adopted this approach for our market activities, thus taking account of the specific needs of the individual industries, customers and applications.
DORST TECHNOLOGIES has segmented its market activities into four material-oriented business units plus one cross-sectoral, country-specific service division—a structure that allows us to tailor our business to our customers' needs.
This kind of organization is designed to ensure the best possible responsiveness and individual, personalized advice at eye level with our customers. Knowing the specific framework and competitive situation in the respective markets, we position ourselves as a partner and solution-oriented system provider.
Within our competence teams, we see ourselves primarily as consulting engineers who, drawing on their expertise and many years of experience, are able to convert our customers’ wishes into market-oriented concepts. This procedure is backed by a strong network of technical and market experts, who take a broad portfolio of processes, machines and equipment as their basis to work out tailor-made customer solutions.
The precise combination of proven technology and new ideas often results in technological transfer and—ultimately—in an innovative product with unique selling points for our customers.
Evonik produces Polyimide P84©NT and P84©UHT polymers of excellent thermal stability, which are used for challenging applications mostly in tribological contexts. Yet, since polyimides (PI) usually have no melting point, conventional processing methods such as extrusion or injection molding are not possible for this kind of material. This is why we count on the expertise and knowhow of DORST and are successfully developing in their Technology Center a procedure to press and sinter PI parts close to their final shape ("Direct forming"). Our customers in turn will benefit from detailed process recommendations that Evonik will be able to offer as well as from the experience in terms of plant dimensioning and mold making provided by DORST.
Jean-Marc Chassagne
General Manager Evonik Fibres GmbH
