PETCORE Europe has appointed Martin Stephan as executive director, replacing Ermis Panagiotopoulos, who served as interim executive director since January 1, 2023.
Martin Stephan spent his entire career in the chemical industry, in France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland, and has been more recently Deputy chief executive officer of CARBIOS, a French clean-tech company developing technologies for the end-of-life of plastics and fibers, including PET. CARBIOS was one of the founding members and co-chair of the Depolymerization working group of PETCORE Europe.