Introduction to Florian Hermes

Is Florian exactly the right contact person for you? In our short questionnaire, he briefly introduces himself:

MY CAREER PATH IN A NUTSHELL:

Polymer chemist

Master of Business Administration

Professional experience ranging from paints and coatings research to high-performance polymers marketing in consumer goods

Focus today: sustainability and circularity

MY FAVORITE PLASTIC OBJECT IS:

My climbing shoes. Bouldering is about developing an idea for a solution to a climbing problem, ideally in a strong team. And then you have to push forward and solve the problem giving your all. We need to approach circularity in a similar way.

WHAT I FIND ESPECIALLY INTERESTING ABOUT THE TOPIC OF CIRCULARITY:

Creating new partnerships along the value chain. After all, we cannot get through the challenges on our own.

MY TASK IN THE CIRCULAR PLASTIC TEAM AT EVONIK IS:

I deal with sustainability issues in the High Performance Polymers business line for products such as our PA12. From the CO₂ footprint to circularity.

THE FOLLOWING PLASTIC PRODUCT IS ABSOLUTELY INDISPENSABLE IN MY DAY-TO-DAY WORK:

Life without plastics is not comfortably possible. There is probably not a moment in life where we do not profit from the great properties of plastics.