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    19.11.2025 Another successful Dörken Days 2025

    This year, DÖRKEN's Industrial Coatings division once again hosted its “Dörken Days” – an event, which serves not only as a valuable forum for exchange across the entire value chain, but also as a platform for new ideas and innovative solutions.

    With a total of 200 participants, this year's Dörken Days was filled to capacity. Representatives from Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Czechia, Romania, Turkey, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, as well as the USA, India, South Korea, and China met to discuss current industry topics and network.

    Tobias Kleyer, Technology & Networking Manager at Dörken, acted as moderator for the day and warmly welcomed the international guests. He handed over to the host, Managing Director Christos Tselebidis, who was visibly delighted and proud of the lively participation. “Especially in these tough times, it is so important not to bury your head in the sand, but to exchange ideas and work together,” said Tselebidis. This cooperation is a decisive factor for success in a constantly changing industry.

    PFAS – a key topic at Dörken Days

    Christos Tselebidis and Omar Sawani from Dörken then looked back at the topics covered in last year's presentations and opened the main section on PFAS. Dörken expert Sabrina Hilbt led this part of the event and gave participants an in-depth overview of PFAS, a topic that continues to be of great concern to the industry. The guest contributions from two leading OEMs received particular attention. Dr. Pellkofer from Daimler Truck AG explained the path to PFAS-free fasteners and held out the prospect of PFAS-free products being introduced. He also presented the new Daimler Truck specification, which clearly separates Mercedes Benz.

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    Sine Groenne Karlsen from Siemens Gamesa, on the other hand, shed light on the topic from the perspective of the wind industry and focused on the future. She made it clear that wind turbines planned today and built in the future must be regulatory compliant. Siemens Gamesa has therefore decided to use PFAS-free products.

    Another highlight was the panel discussion, to which Sabrina Hilbt invited the speakers as well as Walter Mauri from AGRATI and Norbert Lewan from Galfa. Together, they discussed the challenges facing the entire supply chain in dealing with PFAS and what is needed to further advance the issue.

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    Exciting insights into new technologies

    After a short break, there was an exciting presentation by Florian Feldmann, Team Lead Analytical Services at Dörken, and Dr. Clara Linder from the RISE Institute. The two experts presented current projects at the institute, which focuses intensively on corrosion, and provided interesting insights into the results of the Dörken systems. Equally exciting was the presentation of the “LAMA” system – Laser-based preparation of Mass bulk material for subsequent coating (zinc flake coating or galvanized zinc) – by Olav Schulz from SLCR Lasertechnik and Christian Rabe, Team Lead Product and Application Engineering at Dörken. Laser cleaning of bulk materials in preparation for subsequent coatings offered a fascinating glimpse into modern technologies for improving corrosion protection processes.

    As in previous years, the event concluded with regional managers from overseas providing exciting insights into their markets. This highlighted how global the challenges facing the corrosion protection industry are and how important it is to stay in touch with each other worldwide.

    After an intensive and informative program, there was plenty of time for networking and personal exchanges at the evening event. Christos Tselebidis summed it up: “We were particularly pleased that, in addition to many familiar faces from the industry, new participants also found their way to Dörken Days. It was great to see how enthusiastic both regular guests and new faces were about this now well-established industry gathering.”