About ME

Dr. Jürgen Breil

Professional Career

Founder & Managing Director

Divisional Head of New Technologies

Divisional Head of R&D & Process

Department Leader Automation

Course of Studies

Dr.-Ing. Machinery Engineering

Dipl.-Ing. Electrical Engineering

BO Film Consulting

Brückner Maschinenbau GmbH

Kraus-Maffei Kunststofftechnik

RWTH Aachen, IKV ( Institute for plastic processing )

RWTH Aachen, Faculty of electrical engineering

I am bringing over 35 years of experience in the field of biaxially oriented films to your company and projects. I lead the division of New Technology and R&D at Brückner Maschinenbau - a pioneer and global market leader in the field of film stretching technology. Since 2018 I am provide consulting, coaching and R&D support through my own boutique consultancy. You can also book me for expert lectures. Down below you can find more details about my services as well as reference projects.

Key Achievements

Development of process and machinery for battery separator film ( BSF )
Market introduction of new technologies for BSF ( Evapore® )
Development of new technologies for biaxially oriented films
Senior expert for BO-films ( BOPP, BOPET, BOPA, BOPE, BOPS, BOPLA, … )
Set-Up of technology center for BO-films and BSF
Development / Market introduction of LISIM® simultaneous stretching technology

R&D Management

Head of R&D at Brückner Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG
Deployment of new process with deduction of machine concepts
Development of new film types
Expansion of product portfolio with new products
Strategic R&D projects

Technology Center

Development platform for oriented films
Laboratory stretching equipment
Pilot lines
Laboratories
R&D Support for customers

Process Development

Development of new process and film types
Basic development on laboratory extrusion and labstretcher
Utilisation of pilot line with sequential and simultaneous stretching
Upscaling from pilot scale to production lines

Patents & Publications

Conference papers
Technical literature
Reference books
International Patents

Technologies -

WHERE I CAN SUPPORT YOU

During my career I got to know, developed and co-created many state of the art production technologies for film stretching. Below you can find a selection of the technologies I have most experience with.

Film Stretching

Sequential and simultaneous biaxial stretching:

BOPP
BOPET
BOPA
BOPS
BOPE
BOPLA

Monoaxial stretching:

MOPP
MOPET-G
MOPS

Technical Films

Solar backsheets
Capacitor films
Flat panel displays
Substrates for organic electronics

Packaging Films

Label films
Multilayer barrier films
Cavitated films
Metallized films
Synthetic paper
Films for pouches

Battery Separator Films

PP / PE
Dry- / Wet- process
Evapore technology