Conference Speakers

Henning Röttger

Director of Innovation, Glatfelter Gernsbach GmbH

BIOGRAPHY

Henning Röttger, Ph.D., has been leading the Innovation team of Glatfelter’s Composite Fibers Business Unit (CFBU) since 2018 where he is focused on the development of step change products and processes instrumental to the existing business.

Prior to this position Henning has been leading the product innovation of Glatfelter’s Airlaid Materials Business Unit AMBU since 2009.

Before joining Concert Industries in 2009 (acquired by Glatfelter in 2010), Henning has been active in the nonwoven and fibers industry in different senior R&D and business development positions at Albis Nonwoven, Neumag/Oerlikon, Sympatex and BBA Nonwovens. Before moving to BBA Nonwovens in 1997, Roettger began his career at Akzo Nobel.

Henning Roettger holds several patents in the field of membrane technology, fibers and nonwoven materials & processes (23). Henning received his Ph.D. from the University of Cologne (Germany) in 1992.

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