Nabaltec
dr Alexander Risch was appointed to the Management Board of Nabaltec AG on October 1, 2021 and is responsible for the areas of development and application technology, production and sales. After completing his studies in mineralogy at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg and the diploma thesis at Bilfinger + Berger environmental process technology in Mannheim, he led a BMBF project supervised by Siemens AG with a focus on high-temperature superconducting oxide ceramics at the geoscientific institute in Erlangen. As part of this project, Dr. Alexander Risch also successfully completed his doctoral thesis. From 1999 he worked at Hoffmann Mineral GmbH in sales as Technical Support Manager before taking over the "Contract Manufacturing" profit center in 2001 with the aim of expanding this business area into a second pillar. From 2006 to 2021, Dr. Alexander Risch was responsible for sales, marketing and order processing worldwide at Hoffmann Mineral GmbH and during this period gained extensive experience in the field of industrial fillers and their functionalization.
Nabaltec
Nabaltec AG is a Germany-based company that develops, manufactures and distributes functional fillers for the plastics industry and raw materials for technical ceramics. The Company operates through two segments: Functional Fillers and Technical Ceramics. The Functional Fillers segment develops, produces and distributes halogen-free, flame retardant fillers on the basis of aluminum hydroxide und the APYRAL trade name, as well as on the basis of magnesium hydroxide, under the APYMAG brand. The Technical Ceramics segment produces calcined aluminum oxides and sintered mullites, as well as complete ceramic bodies. In addition to that, the Company also performs chemical and physical tests for inorganic raw materials and technical materials, mineral raw materials, mineral- or ceramic-bound construction materials and inorganic binding agents, plus the analysis of geological samples, filter dusts and fly ashes.