The Chinese city of Suzhou is located about 8,500 kilometres from Norderstedt. What connects the two cities with each other: Both are home to a location of the adhesive specialist tesa – There is a large production plant in eastern China, and the company headquarters is in northern Germany.Nela knows both places. She worked in Suzhou until mid-2019. Since then she has managed a laboratory for the development of adhesive tapes in the area of rubber technology at the Norderstedt Research Centre.

Anyone who googles his name will come across the term “inventor”. Wilhelm is listed with the identification number “EP2684927A2” in the register of the European Patent Office. Together with two colleagues, the graduate engineer for material science developed an adhesive tape for improved protection for glass edges, especially on solar modules – registered in 2013 by his employer tesa.