Duquet Dirk
Dirk Duquet is Vice President Saflex Operations, responsible for manufacturing units in Belgium, Brazil, China, Mexico and USA. He joined Monsanto (prior to the formation of Solutia) in 1988 as Process Chemist in the Ghent plant During his 22 years with Monsanto/Solutia he assumed roles in manufacturing, engineering, quality and technical sales of increasing responsibility.
Dirk Duquet has a Ph D in Organic Chemistry, 1985, University of Ghent
" Operational Excellence as driver for becoming a Global Organization"
Saflex is the market leader in Poly Vinyl Butyral interlayers, used in automotive, architectural and Photovoltaïc applications. The presentation will describe how operational excellence was used to globally standardize, implement process improvements and share knowledge and experiences. In addition the challenges of starting up a plan in China will be discusses