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[Ladies and gentlemen, I am very happy that I can introduce myself]
[as the new chair of Carbon Composites at the University of Munich,]
[The Technical University of Munich. ]
[We agreed today on a cooperation, and we have now the chance]
[to closely work together to bring composite materials,]
[carbon composites, into applications and to improve the components]
[and to ensure that innovations for General Electric]
[ will enter the market with better products.]
[And we have several topics discussed so far.]
[Wind energy for example will be a great topic.]
[Engines will be a great topic]
[because we have a lot of possibilites to develop new manufacturing technologies]
[for cheaper and high performance plates for example--a very big topic for us.]
[And also oil and gas could be a very interesting topic. ]
[So, we start with the carbon fiber]
[with an important part in the SGL carbon.]
[You see here, our carbon fibers]
[in the braiding machine because we have to work]
[with the fibers and textile technologies. ]
[The next step, to bring fibers in the right shape, ]
[so they can really carry load and make the next steps very possible.]
[And the next step is then introducing the matrix,]
[injecting the matrix into the fiber network,]
[and around this, we need a lot of technologies:]
[design for example, structural mechanics, ]
[automization, facility concepts, ]
[and we are rather happy that we can work together]
[on all these fields for the future]
[between TUM and General Electric. So, thank you very much. ]
