GERMANY
The Hohenstein Institute in Germany has officially opened the second section of the Otto Mecheels building, after more than a year of construction work.
The new institute building will provides Hohenstein employees, mainly in the textile testing team, with about 2,100 square metres of laboratory and office space. In a ceremony on 7 April 2016, architect Carsten Körner handed the symbolic key to the building to Prof. Stefan Mecheels, MD of the Hohenstein Institute for Textile Innovation and the Hohenstein Academy.
The occasion also marked the renaming of a department in honour of the doctoral supervisor of the Institute's founder, Prof. Otto Mecheels: the department of hygiene, environment and medicine will now be known as the William Küster Institute for hygiene, environment and medicine. In a further ceremony, Prof. Hans Smola was presented with the Otto Mecheels Medal for his outstanding work in modern wound management.
OPENING: The Hohenstein Institute in Germany has officially opened the second section of the Otto Mecheels building
