Vice President, Coatema Coating Machinery, Germany
Thomas Kolbusch is Director Sales, Marketing, Technology, VP at Coatema Coating Machinery GmbH in Dormagen, Germany. Coatema is belonging to the ATH holding in Hamburg. Coatema is offering equipment for coating, printing and laminating, it provides a wide range of services around coating, printing and laminating, like the Coatema R&D centre, the participation in public funded projects, the Coatema slot die masterclasses and the Coatema coating conference.
Thomas is member of the OE-A board since 2009 and served from 2010 to 2016 as LOPEC exhibition chair. He is chair of the advisory board of the OPE Journal and in the advisory board of the ITA in Aachen and in the industrial advisory board of the FFB in Münster. He. is part of the strategic advisory board of LOPEC.
For the last 25 years he serves as organizer and chair of the international Coatema conference and has been member and working group leader of over 20 German funded and European funded R&D projects.