Biography:

Native from Strasbourg, Ophélie WESTPHAL began her training as a mechanical and plastics engineer at INSA. Passionate about sailing in her youth, she then decided to move to Nantes for a thesis in the mechanics of composite materials, during which she worked on the fatigue behavior of materials used in the Multiplast shipyard (Carboman group). After a short contract at CETIM, she joined Demgy as project manager. 3 years later, during which time she developed a tailor-made composite process for a large-scale project at the Gétigné plant, the company asked her to set up the R&D department to accelerate innovation and support diversification. Married and mother of 2 children aged 3 and 5, Ophélie WESTPHAL now manages a team that supports brands from proof-of-concept to product qualification, positioning the company as a Tier 1 supplier in the sports & leisure sector.

About DEMGY Group:

DEMGY Group, an innovative plastics technology company, designs and manufactures high-performance plastic & composite solutions that are lighter than metal to decrease carbon footprint and promote energy savings. Our unique circular Multiplasturgy® concept, a one-stop shop for our 14 areas of expertise, is indeed a new cycle thanks to eco-design, which allows us to manage the end-of-life of our products and their capacity to be recycled. Our R&D center creates innovative production processes to meet all your requirements for creation & manufacturing of complex parts focus on our 3R strategy as The Reboorn project, developed in collaboration with Decathlon, a strategic approach to end-of-life and waste management, encompassing the following actions: * Reduce the quantity of products that reach the end of their life cycle; * Reuse products or parts of them that would otherwise become waste; * Recycling raw materials.