Ms. Andrea Glawe graduated in 1992 with the Master degree for “Technical textiles and process engineering” at the Technical University of Chemnitz. She started her career as scientific assistant and project leader for the Textile Research Institute Plauen GmbH between 1992 and 1993 and for the Textile Research Institute Thüringen-Vogtland e.V. Greiz between 1993 and 2001. From 2001 to 2011 she worked as Deputy Sales Director with responsibility for technical sales and project management at Coatema Coating Machinery GmbH in Dormagen. Between 2011 and 2015 she took her responsibility as R&D leader DRYTEC GmbH & Co KG in Norderstedt and later as Director R&D for all R&D activities of the whole KROENERT group in Hamburg and was also responsible for Business Development Since October 2015 she is responsible as Regional Sales Director for the Asian / Pacific market at KROENERT. Ms. Glawe is Chair of the Strategic Advisory Board of the LOPEC exhibition.