Interview: Innovation with potential

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At the award ceremony (from left to right): Christoph Schulte (Editor in chief, BFT International), Stefanie Blank (Head of Organization, FBF Betondienst GmbH), winner Roy Thyroff (Managing director, V. Fraas Solutions in Textile GmbH), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans-Wolf Reinhardt (Chairman of the jury), Dr. Ulrich Lotz (Managing director, FBF Betondienst GmbH)

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Since the beginning of February 2012 Roy Thyroff (on the right) is the new managing director of the Tudalit association, as he told BFT editor Christian Jahn (on the left) during the interview.

At this year’s BetonTage congress in Neu-Ulm, V. Fraas Solutions in Textile was awarded the 2012 Innovation Prize for Structural Concrete Products of the Supplier Industry. The company received this award for its SITgrid textile reinforcement (see BFT International 02/2012, 250-251). In this interview, managing director Roy Thyroff explains the development process and the benefits of this innovative product to BFT editor Christian Jahn.

BFT International: Mr. Thyroff, let me congratulate you on having received the Innovation Prize.

R. T.: Thank you very much. When we got to know that we were...