Michael Thielen

Dr.-Ing. Michael Thielen is a PR consultant, text service provider, and founder, editor, and publisher of the trade journal “bioplastics MAGAZINE”. He is a qualified machinery design engineer with a degree in plastics technology from the Institute for Plastics Processing (IKV) at RWTH Aachen University, Germany, where he also completed his doctorate. After several years in various sales and communications roles – including at the Krupp Research Institute, Krupp Kautex Maschinenbau,and SIG Plastics International – he set up his own business as a consultant and publicist in 2003.

He has written several books on the subjects of blow molding technology and bioplastics and disseminated his knowledge of plastics in numerous presentations, seminars, guest lectures, and teaching assignments at universities of applied sciences both in Germany and in other countries worldwide.