CANCELLED - Lecture Jaap Dijt from NEG Fiber Glass in Hoogezand
About this event
- Category
- Career
- Organizer
- Career Committee
- Date and time
- Mar 24, 2020 17:15 - 18:15
- Location
- NB 5115.0013
Dear members, the Career Committee presents you another activity. We will host Dr. Jaap Dijt, who works in the R&D department of NEG. This is a very large company from Japan, which produces and sells specialty glass products. He will be talking about his career, studies in the R&D department and give us an insight in working for such a big exciting company.
Hope to see you there!
The Career Committee
Abstract
Jaap Dijt studied Molecular Sciences at Wageningen Agricultural University, and obtained his PhD in 1993 at that same university in the field of Physical and Colloid Chemistry. Since then he has worked for over 25 years in Research of the NEG (till 2017 PPG) fiber glass production plant in Hoogezand, close to Groningen city.
In his lecture Jaap Dijt will talk about work in industrial R&D, and how a combination of a scientific and practical approach can result in innovations and new products that are produced on mass-scale day in day out. He will also show how sand and clay are molten in large furnaces, and formed into fiber glass, that is used to reinforce thermoset and thermoplastic polymers. The chemistry of the glass / polymer interface is key to high strength of the composite materials used in cars, wind mills, household appliances and many other.
Disclaimer: Please bear in mind that there is a possibility that the event will be cancelled due to COVID-19.
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