Micropelt Appoints Wladimir Punt as VP Sales and Marketing
FREIBURG, Germany-(Business Wire)-June 9, 2009 - Micropelt GmbH, Freiburg, Germany-based specialist in thin film thermoelectrics, today announced the appointment of Wladimir Punt as VP sales and marketing. Punt has over 12 years of experience in international marketing and product management, having worked in marketing positions at NXP (formerly Philips Semiconductors), technology start-up Microtune Holland and most recently as marketing director at Micronas.
Mr. Punt will drive the growth of Micropelt’s technology in thermogenerators (TEG), thermoelectric coolers (TEC) and fast thermal sensors for use in the rapidly developing fields of thermal energy harvesting, active micro-cooling, and fast thermal sensing and cycling. Punt’s appointment follows the recent kick-off of Micropelt’s production facility in the Eastern German city of Halle, which will start production in 2010.
”I’m excited to announce Wladimir as a new member of the Micropelt team,” said Fritz Volkert, CEO of Micropelt. “With our thermoelements ready to go and volume production starting soon, we are penetrating the market and entering the era of Micropelt’s growth. Wladimir brings a wealth of business experience and skills and will settle in quickly to catalyze the success of Micropelt’s unique thin-film thermoelectric technology.”
“Micropelt is very well positioned to become a dominant and successful player in the emerging thermal energy harvesting market,” said Punt. “I am excited to join Micropelt’s very skilled and knowledgeable team. Together we will bring new levels of sustainability and energy efficiency to our continuously growing customer base.”
Photo: http://www.micropelt.com/images/im_press/wladimir_punt.jpg
About Micropelt
Micropelt GmbH, a 2006 spin-off from the research cooperation between Infineon Technologies and Fraunhofer Institute IPM Freiburg, develops and markets the world’s smallest and most effective thermoelectric elements for clean-tech power generation (energy harvesting) for sensing, cycling and cooling. Readily available standard products from the pilot-production plant at the company’s headquarters in Freiburg, Germany are currently being evaluated by and incorporated into the products of more than 40 customers. A large scale production facility, fully financed and currently under construction in Halle, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany is expected to raise capacity to some 10 million devices per year by mid 2010.
About Micropelt’s Thermoelectric Elements
Micropelt’s thermoelectric elements are based on a proprietary scalable MEMS (Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems) micro-structuring platform technology. Compared to conventional thermoelectric elements, Micropelt’s unique and patented technology reduces component and feature sizes by orders of magnitude, yielding 10 times higher cooling or heating power densities. Economies of scale through volume production break the existing cost and price barriers of conventional thermoelectrics, enabling Micropelt’s devices to scavenge free electric power from waste heat to replace or recharge batteries in low power wireless sensor networks. For more information contact Micropelt at +49 (0) 761 156 337 0, info@micropelt.com, or visit our website at www.micropelt.com.
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