About PRT:

History & coworkers of PRT

History

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January 2005

PRT was founded

  • export of a gas phase pilot plant
  • patent licenses sold to a leading PO company (“draught reactor” and “tubular (slugging) reactor”)
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November 2006

PRT found a new home under the roof of PROFILAN GmbH & Co KG, in Legden, Germany.

100m2 laboratory and 80m2 out-door facilities with the focus on

 

  • first fluidization studies
  • UHMWPE processing
  • gas / liquid purification units
  • catalytic polymerization of ethylene
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2008

move to Heek, rental of 300m2 area

  • fluidization studies
  • RAM extrusion scaling up to 100mm rods
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2010

move to Ahaus, Wessum, 1800m2, 600m2 research hall;

  • large transparent fluidization units in operation (1m diameter, 3000m3/h)
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2011

erection of a second research hall for pilot plants, 600m2

  • design and manufacturing of high pressure laboratory equipment for the Johannes-Kepler University, Linz,
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Austria

  • guest professor ship of Prof. Weickert at JKU
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2012

400 kg UHMWPE produced in PRT’s slurry pilot plant

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2013

high temperature-co-polymerization reactor operational

first contract with a leading Bio Science group

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2014

pilot plant completion: 800-Liter stirred tank, 1000-L Hosokawa vacuum dryer; wiped film evaporator

Team

Günter Weickert (Prof. Dr. Ing. habil.)

CEO, owner and founder of PRT

email: weickert.g@prt-ahaus.de

Tobias Rickert (M. Eng.)
Project management & plant design

Software development & experimental investigations

since: october 2022

email: rickert@prt-ahaus.de

Tim Franzbach
Mechatronic electrician

Mini polymerisation plant Operator

since: january 2018

email: franzbach@prt-ahaus.de

Heiner Wenning

Mechanic

Manufacturing of mini- multipurpose Polymerisation Plants

since: january 2019

email: wenning@prt-ahaus.de

Katja Weickert
Analytical Laboratory,

(viscosimetry ,MFR, DSC, Strain-Stress, POD, Frictian&wear, etc.)

since: 2009

email: weickert.k@prt-ahaus.de

Martina Weickert
PRT office,

especially: purchasing, account control, invoicing

 

email: prt-gmbh@email.de

Henry Weickert
Software Engineer,

computer vision & animation, front-end & back-end developer, data bank managing

C++; Python; JavaScript, Ruby, VisiualBasic, LinuxShell, WindowsBatch, MailScript, VIMscript

email: weickert.h@prt-ahaus.de