Ronny Vrijens
Ronny Vrijens received his master degree in chemistry, with an emphasis on polymer science and plastics processing, from the Catholic Industrial College in Limburg, Belgium, in 1992. Prior to joining Datwyler in 2007 he has held positions as R&D ‘flavourist’ in the food industry and as packaging and material development engineer at medical device manufacturer Terumo Europe in Haasrode, Belgium. His career in Datwyler (at that time still called Helvoet Pharma) started as R&D product development manager in the Healthcare R&D center in Alken, Belgium where he became responsible for new product developments of rubber and rubber/plastic components for pharmaceutical devices in the parenteral drug delivery industry. He is also coordinating the intellectual property management for the global healthcare division of the Swiss-headquartered Datwyler Sealing Solutions Group. In 2013 he started complementing the work done on conductive rubber material research in the company by coordinating product development activities around dry/soft EEG electrodes in close collaboration with the Wearable Health Solutions team at Holst Centre / imec. Today, Ronny is Head of New Product Development in Datwyler’s Advanced Technology & Innovation group.
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What do capsuled coffee and imec’s eyetracking glasses have in common?
Datwyler is a Swiss company with worldwide production sites for various ‘sealing’ solutions. They ensure that you can enjoy a good cup of capsuled coffee, that no water penetrates the Channel Tunnel and that the Gherkin in London remains intact. And their expertise in materials – rubber is the core of the company – also comes in handy for the electrodes in imec’s brainwave headset and eye-tracking glasses.
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