Xaver Hopfenspirger is responsible for business development of thermal management applications at BASF SE. He studied plastics engineering at University of Applied Sciences Rosenheim ant University of Lowell, MA. He joined BASF in 1990, where he went through different positions in the field of plastics in the automotive industry. As engineer he has a long and vast experience of plastics in simulation, processing and part development for the automotive industry.

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