6Focus 10 years of DesPro 01 17 unique packpaper Diverse challenging hectic never a dull moment Stefan Ebli s passion for creativity and innova tion jumps out right away when he speaks about his daily work routine He has been a DesPro em ployee from the very start In 2006 while employed at Greiner Extrusion he was always pointing out suggestions for new packaging solutions introdu cing ideas to management and during his free time would fiddle about with new concepts that could be of relevance for the customers of the company His commitment attracted attention and after just a brief period he received an offer to set up an in ternal Design Prototyping department for Grei ner Packaging That was a really exciting time I was entirely on my own since there was still no great experience internally with design processes I was therefore able to freely fully develop myself but it was very demanding as well I could make many de cisions by myself but also had to assume the respon sibility for them In the first few months I tried above all to learn the extent of the variety within the company I wanted to be well informed about the entire value added chain at our company as well as at the customers in order to specifically make sugge stions for improvement or offers for new products Ebli explains An international team guarantees solutions with added value The concept takes off the customers of Greiner Packaging respond positively to the new creative program of the company and orders increase And within ten years the one man show has become a corporate division where today in an intensive col laboration with international project management more than 70 employees implement new products From Austria Switzerland the US and Great Britain the team devotes itself to extensive processes of innovation The most varied processes imaginable cross the desks of DesPro from finding ideas to creation to examining technical feasibility In our collaboration with the specialists in project manage ment we must succeed in finding not just attractive but above all functional and cost efficient solutions with real added value as well It is important for us not just to present a great idea to customers we examine beforehand whether these can really be implemented within the framework conditions of time budget and technical requirements We there fore avoid disappointments and ensure that we ne ver lose sight of the customers and all their needs says Ebli A building façade a leaf from a tree a pair of eyeglasses Stefan Ebli sees structures shapes and functions where most people see ordinary objects The 38 year old finds inspiration everywhere No wonder he is head of Design Prototyping at Greiner Packaging and as such is consequently responsible for DesPro the firm s internal design department which is celebrating its ten year anniversary this year Going through life with open eyes is the unofficial motto of the international team which has made it its goal to surprise customers and consumers with original packaging and plastic solutions Focus

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