Board elections at AVK – continuity and fresh impetus for the future. At our general meeting on November 11, 2025, the board of the AVK – Industrievereinigung Verstärkte Kunststoffe was elected on a rotating basis. We are pleased that Dr. Michael Effing (AMAC GmbH) as chairman, Dirk Punke (BÜFA) as deputy chairman and Jens Ridzewski, Prof. Dr.-Ing. (Applus+IMA) as treasurer were unanimously re-elected. We welcome Nicole Stoess (Polynt) and Ralph Breiltgens (Kunststoffverarbeitung Reich) to the board – welcome to the team! A big thank you goes to Gerhard Lettl (C. F. Maier) and Michael Polotzki (Menzolit), who are retiring. For their many years of commitment to board work, the management of working groups and seminars as well as the Innovation Award jury, they were awarded the new AVK Volunteer Award. We are looking forward to the nex 3 years together!
 

We are delighted to introduce the Advisory Board of the Interreg Project SMARAGD – Smart Technologies for Advanced Manufacturing in the Euregio Maas-Rhine.

Join our upcoming Interreg Cypress event on E-Mobility on November 5, 2025 in Helmond at Rai Automotive. You can register here.

Michael Effing will be a speaker at JEC Forum DACH 2025! 
Organized by JEC Group in partnership with AVK this key event will bring together the composites industry of the DACH region from October 21–22, 2025 
at the Maritim Hotel & International Congress Center, Dresden (Germany). Two days of conferences, business meetings and networking, all focused on the innovations shaping the future of our industry. 
Join us!

Join our Innovation Day of the Interreg Project Smaragd on September 30, 2025 in Liège, Belgium. Please find the agenda and registration possibility here.