Robert Smulders
MAIRE TECNIMONT
Robert Smulders
VP Innovation
Mr. Smulders joined Stamicarbon (part of the Maire Tecnimont group) and the Fertilizer industry as VP of Innovation in 2015. His prior experience includes a variety of roles in New Business Development and Innovation focused businesses at DSM and Philips Electronics.
In his current role the most important fields are both in Incremental Innovation at Stamicarbon (e.g. Sustainability, OPEX and CAPEX optimization, lifetime value material engineering) as well as radical Innovation (adding new Technologies in new Customer fields) for the group. Recent examples of the latter are the Venturing project into Siluria (US) and the Open Innovation approach with NFT (US) and other partners into the field of coated Urea as well as Seedcore Urea.
In his current role the most important fields are both in Incremental Innovation at Stamicarbon (e.g. Sustainability, OPEX and CAPEX optimization, lifetime value material engineering) as well as radical Innovation (adding new Technologies in new Customer fields) for the group. Recent examples of the latter are the Venturing project into Siluria (US) and the Open Innovation approach with NFT (US) and other partners into the field of coated Urea as well as Seedcore Urea.