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Franz A.Salamon,Ph.D.,Dr.-Ing.,Biography:born on February 8,1932 in Budapest,Hungary. Father Austrian, mother Hungarian. Deported to Bavaria/Germany in 1944.Returned to Hungary with his parents in 1946.Maturity at the "Fazekas Mihàly Gimnazium" in Budapest in 1950. Diploma from the Budapesti Müszaki Egyetem as Mechanical Engineer in 1954. Electrical Engineer in 1956.Escaped from Hungary in November 1956 after the revolution.He married in Basel,Switzerland in June 1957, with Pintér Hilda, Kayak-2 world champion in 1954 in Macon/France. Worked in Switzerland from 1956-1960.Worked at SHELL in The Hague/The Netherlands from 1960-1962.Worked for Du Pont de Nemours in the USA and in Europe from 1962-1990.Started as Technical Rep.,followed as Techn.Manager,Product Mgr.,Customer Service Mgr.,Director of Corporate Planning, Corporate Waste Management.Inventor of the "Fishtail Guide", for the waste free production of the TEFLON® PTFE unsintered tape.Developed from the idea to commercial product the Gore-Tex®,made from Teflon®,and Crofon® fiBer optic as the employe of Du Pont de Nemours. From 1990,he is working as independent consultant.CEO of DINATAR S.A. in1995 in Geneva..President and CEO of TEDE S.A./Zug/Switzerland in 2004.Associate in the GLOBAL METAL CO.He lives in Geneva, Switzerland.

Published Artickles (Parcial list)

1)	Erweiterung der Produktionstechnologie im Bereich der thermoplastisch verartbeitbaren Fluorkunststoff-Copolymere 2)	A poli(tetrafluor-etilén) története, elöàllitàsa és kristàlyszerkezete (Müanyag és gumi, 1973) 3)	Choice of materials for the chemical industry (International Scandinavian Congress, 1974) 4)	Verarbeitungsmethoden für Teflon®-FEP-Harze (KAUTSCHUK UND GUMMI KUNSTSTOFFE, 1964) 5)	Egenskaper och bearbetnings-metoder hos Teflon® FEP-plaster (Plastvärlden, 1965) 6)	La mise en oeuvre des resins d’éthylène-propylène fluorè (Plastiques Modernes etElastomères, 1965) 7)	Comment determiner la qualité des tubes flexibles en PTFE (COMPOSANTS MECANIQUES ET ELECTRIQUES, 1972) 8)	PTFE HOSE How to recognize the quality (Fluid Power International, 1972) 9)	La qualità dei tubi flessibili (1972) 10)	Fluorplast til kemiske anlaeg (DANSK PLAST, 1974) 11)	Kvalitetsbedömning (DANSK PLAST, 1974) 12)	Plastics and plastics combinations (REVIEW, 1973) 13)	Wie gut ist ein PTFE-Schlauch? (Fluid, 1972) 14)	Industriele toepassingen van PTFE slang (Metaal und Kunststof, 1972) 15)	Geschichte,Rohstoff-Herstellung und chemischer Aufbau von Polytetrafluoräthylen (PLASTIC-REVU, 1971) 16)	Die “beiden” Teflon®-s (Werkstoff-Technik, 1971)

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