Dear Reader September draws to a close and it has been another busy nine months for Gurit. We have made further progress in developing our core businesses, strengthening our product offering and adapting our organizational footprint to customer and market needs. At product level, the launch of Gurit Kerdyn™ Green PET and the new Balsaflex™ Lite as the future wind core material solution was a major step forward. Please see page 32. We believe that both products create strong customer value. This will support our business partners in achieving the necessary cost savings for wind energy to reach unsubsidized cost parity with non-renewable forms of energy. Better user health and safety has been the driver for our Formulated Products development activities. Ampreg™ 30 and Ampreg™ 30 LRT (see page 33) are the first additions to the product range that have been launched this year and further products will be introduced in the coming months. The appointment of Dr. Emiliano Frulloni as Group CTO and member of the Executive Committee as of November 1st, 2018, will strengthen our innovative capability and we look forward to having him add a new perspective to the experience and know-how that our teams have built up over the course of the years. At organizational level, transfer of our prepreg production activities from the UK to Spain made further progress and is expected to be completed within the coming weeks. Moreover, aerospace has been established as an independent business unit in order to bundle resources and strengthen focus. Recruitment of Michael Muser as Head of Business Unit Aerospace and member of the Executive Committee as of January 1st, 2019, supports our target to further enhance customer value and growth. We are also very pleased that the marine market has returned to a healthy growth rate and there is a large number of projects that we want to share with our readers. Therefore, we have launched a dedicated quarterly marine newsletter. Please feel free to subscribe to stay up to date. We hope you enjoy the selection of projects and updates in the current issue of Shape – The Gurit Magazine. Happy reading!
Yours sincerely, Rudolf Hadorn CEO
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