Bernd Roser, Hygiene Program Manager, Habasit
Niels Vindsmark, Sales and Brand Owner Program Manager, NGI
What do you hope attendees will gain at your webinar?
Bernd
My aim is to show food processors how belting experts can help them meet their hygiene and food safety challenges. I can’t promise a single solution to cover absolutely everything, but I’ll be sharing some key concepts and tools that will make a significant and important difference.
Niels
I’m looking forward to giving our attendees ideas on how to achieve concrete and pragmatic solutions, especially regarding hygienic design. My goal is for them to finish the webinar and look at their production equipment with new eyes, seeing details they were previously unaware of.
What discussions are you looking forward to having with the attendees?
Bernd
Any know-how exchange about experiences with food processing belting will help me better understand our attendees’ challenges. We can only improve by working together as an industry. Everyone is involved: manufacturers as well as equipment and component suppliers.
Niels
Sharing knowledge and discussing individual issues and solutions is fundamental if we want to have a useful discussion on hygienically optimized solutions. I want to hear about local difficulties and daily challenges in the workplace and contribute my experience and advice.
What do you enjoy most about your role?
Bernd
The huge variety of processes, food products and applications keep me constantly on my toes and energized to find fresh solutions. Preset answers might make life easier, but they are rarely optimal, and it’s much more interesting and rewarding to find out-of-the-box ideas that give excellent results.
Niels
I really enjoy being able to move the status quo and challenge statements like “hygienic design is just a theory…” Creating innovative tools and ways of doing things, and changing the entire mindset on how to approach hygienic design all along the supply chain, gives me huge satisfaction.
How did you get into the conveyor belting industry?
Bernd
I started out in marketing and sales controlling and realized very quickly that deeply understanding products and customers’ needs were the only way to succeed. I went into product management and learned how to work with customers to meet their needs and understand industry trends and opportunities.
Niels
I’ve been in belting since 1997, and it has been privileged to live in different countries, which gave me the opportunity to see the industry from various angles and perspectives. What I’ve learned over the years and from different experiences helps me help my customers optimize their businesses.
Where is your favorite place in the world and why?
Bernd
Somewhere in rural France. There are many great places, but perhaps the best is the Vezere Valley. You can find culture, history, landscape, sports and great food there. It’s a combination I really enjoy.
Niels
I’ve been lucky enough to spend 12 years of my life in Italy, though I come from Denmark, and people often ask me where I prefer to live. For me, the external environment where you live isn’t so important. What counts is how you feel inside. If I have the most important thing in the world around me, i.e. my family, I think I could live anywhere in the world and enjoy every day.
Join Bernd Roser and Niels Vindsmark on a webinar entitled Factoring belting and conveyor components into your food safety strategy by Habasit on 15th of April at 3PM London.