VosConsult

About VosConsult

VosConsult  was established by Dr. Josef H. Jilek in 2002 and is involved in the polymers and coatings field on an international level, helping  clients to place their products in various emerging markets. The main emphasis is on countries in Central and Eastern Europe, but the company is also active in South America, the Middle East and Africa.

 

VosConsult also offers the know-how to formulate and produce a wide range of resins, both water and solvent based. Examples are acrylic and styrene/acrylic  dispersions, alkyd resins, unsaturated polyesters and others.

A variety of paint and coatings formulations can be offered to solve a multitude of technological challenges. This includes architectural and industrial paints, traffic paints, powder coating formulations, corrosion and maintenance systems and many more.

 

Company audits and evaluations of production processes as well as help in modernising sales and marketing strategies can also be carried out.


Josef H. Jilek

Dr. Josef H. Jilek received his Diploma in Chemical Technology and his B.Tech. Degree from Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1972 and 1975, respectively. Between 1973 and 1975 he was employed by Inmont of Canada Ltd. in Toronto where he was involved in the development of  water soluble and UV curable coatings. He continued his studies in the Polymers and Coatings Department at North Dakota State University in Fargo, North Dakota, where he obtained his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry in1979.

 

After graduation he joined the Epoxy Resins Group of Dow Chemical in Horgen, Switzerland, where he was responsible for technical service and development of functional powder coatings in Western Europe, Eastern Europe and the Middle East and, from 1980 to 1983, he was also Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Powder Coatings” of the “Technology Marketing Corporation” in Norwalk, Connecticut.

 

He successfully established DOW as the major supplier of epoxy resins for pipeline coatings in Europe and the Middle East. A major order for 1000 metric tons of epoxy resins worth more than US $2 million was received from Saudi Arabia in 1984.

 

In 1983 he joined the newly formed Diversification Department at Dow Chemical in Rheinmünster, Germany where he was  involved in composites technology for Dow Pipe Systems, developing  filament wound glass fiber reinforced plastic pipes. From 1984 to 1986 he was active as Sales Development Manager for Dow Pipe Systems in Vienna, Austria responsible for sales in Switzerland, Austria and Central and Eastern Europe.  In this function he succeeded in selling the first government approved GRP pipe line in the Austrian oil fields as well as a major water pipe line to Djibouti through an Austrian engineering company.

 

From 1986 to 1990 he was group leader in the development laboratories of Isovolta in Vienna responsible for the development of new products and processes for electrical insulation based on prepreg and GRP technology.

 

In 1991, he joined Rohm and Haas Austria to become Market Development Manager for water based traffic paints in Western and Eastern Europe. He established Rohm and Haas as the leading supplier of emulsions for this industry and increased sales from zero to about 1500 metric tons, representing a value of about US $ 3 million.

 

In 1995, he became Sales Development Manager for the Polymers and Resins Department. These products are used in the manufacture of paints and coatings as well as for adhesives and sealants.

 

 

In this position he was instrumental in setting up and managing a network of agents and distributors in the various countries. He grew the business from sales of 600 metric tons to sales of  more than 10 000 metric tons, representing a sales volume of approximately US $ 12 million. Furthermore, he established, coordinated and supervised  a viable network of agents and distributors in most of the Central and Eastern European countries.

 

Dr. Jilek started his own company, VosConsult in 2002. With this company he is involved as an international consultant in the field of polymers and coatings with the main emphasis on Central and Eastern Europe. A large portion of the work involves extensive market studies and identification of major potential key accounts and partners or distributors for a given product or application. Typical clients are Kline Management, Ashland, Organik Kimya, Siemens, Agrana and many others.

 

In June 2005, he published the "Directory of Paint Manufacturers in Central and Eastern Europe" and in 2011 an update of this directory.

 

Since 2006, he has also been publishing articles on the paint industries in Poland, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Jordan, Egypt and many other countries in several international journals.

 

In 2008, he became external expert for the CBI (Center for promoting exports from developing countries to the European Union),  an office of the Dutch Foreign Ministry. In this function, he audited and assessed paint companies in Columbia and Bosnia-Hercegovina.  

 

Moreover, in 2015 and 2016, he was instrumental in publishing a European Market Analysis on the CBI Market Intelligence Portal on "Pipes and Process Equipment"

 

Starting in 2012, he become an external expert for the EBRD (European Bank for Restructuring and Development). In this position, he has advised several clients in Moldova, Turkmenistan, Jordan, Kazakhstan and Belarus. Major activities included streamlining the sales and marketing operations of the companies as well as improving laboratory and production facilities and modernising the product range.

 

Dr. Jilek is author and co-author of numerous publications and patents on powder coatings, cationic UV curable coatings and other aspects of coatings technology such as the potential application of positronium annihilation in organic coatings research.

 

He has also held many lectures on functional powder coatings, photo-sensitised cationic polymerisation, water based coatings as well as glass fibre based rigid laminates at conferences and meetings in Europe, Japan and the U.S.

 

 

 

 


Publications

  • “Calcium Salts of Tall Oil Rosin” in Journal of Coatings Technology 48, No. 620 (1976)    83-87
  • “o-Positronium Annihilation – A new Tool for Coatings Research?” in Progress in Organic Coatings 5 (1977) 97-114
  • “Photosensitized Cationic Polymerization” Ph.D. Thesis, North Dakota State University, 1979
  • “Epoxy Powder Coatings for Pipeline Protection” in Powder Coatings 4, No. 4 (1981) 20-22
  • “Powder Coatings for Steel Pipeline Protection” in Powder Coatings 6, No. 1 (1983) 20-22
  • “Powder Coatings” Monograph in the Federation Series on Coatings Technology Publisher: Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology, Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, USA, 1991
  • “Powder Coatings” JCT Spotlight in Journal of Coatings Technology 69, No. 871 (1997) 91-94
  • “View on Central and Eastern Europe” Global Market Place in Paint & Coatings Industry 19, No. 6 (2003) 24-26
  • “View on Poland” Global Market Place in Paint & Coatings Industry 19, No. 9 (2003) 24-27
  • “View on Hungary” Global Market Place in Paint & Coatings Industry 20, No. 1 (2004) 28
  • “View on Czechia and Slovakia” Global Market Place in Paint & Coatings Industry 20, No. 6 (2004) 36-37
  • “View on the Baltic States” Global Market Place in Paint & Coatings Industry 20, No. 10 (2004) 30-33
  • “Directory of Paint Manufacturers in Central and Eastern Europe” First Edition, June 2005, PRA Booklet and Compact Disc
  • “A View on Slovenia and Croatia” World Market Place in Paint & Coatings Industry 22, No. 5 (2006) 34-36
  • “Paint Industry Country Profile: Poland” in Coatings Comet, (Glenda Thisdell Ph.D. Ed.) September 2006, 14 (9) 9-10, ISSN 0968 7149
  • “Paint Industry Country Profile: Hungary” in Coatings Comet, (Glenda Thisdell Ph.D. Ed.) November 2006, 14 (11) 6-8, ISSN 0968 7149
  • “Small and large producers are contributing to Russia’s growing paint industry” in Coatings Comet, (Glenda Thisdell Ph.D. Ed.) March 2007, 15 (3) 3-4, ISSN 0968 7149
  • “Growth in Ukraine” in Coatings Comet, (Glenda Thisdell Ph.D. Ed.) May 2007, 15 (5) 3-4 ISSN 0968 7149
  • “Paint Market Profile:Georgia” in Coatings Comet, (Glenda Thisdell Ph.D. Ed.) September 2007, 15 (9) 4-5, ISSN 0968 7149
  • “Clean, lean, green…….” Report on ICE 2007, Toronto, Canada in Coatings Comet, (Glenda Thisdell Ph.D. Ed.) October 2007, 15 (10) 3-5, ISSN 0968 7149
  • “Country Profile: Albania” in Coatings Comet, (Glenda Thisdell Ph.D. Ed.) February 2008 16 (2) 24 ISSN 0968 7149
  • “Rompaint 2008” in Coatings Comet, (Glenda Thisdell Ph.D. Ed.) March 2008, 16 (3) 6-7 ISSN 0968 7149
  • “Russian paint market grows at 10%…….” in Coatings Comet, (Glenda Thisdell Ph.D. Ed.) May 2008, 16 (5) 23, ISSN 0968 7149
  • “Industrial profile: The Baltics” in Coatings Comet, (Glenda Thisdell Ph.D. Ed.) July 2008, 16 (7) 5-6, ISSN 0968 7149
  • “Country profile: Colombia” in Coatings Comet, (Glenda Thisdell Ph.D. Ed.) Oct. 2008, 16 (10) 16-17, ISSN 0968 7149
  • “Country profile: Bosnia-Herzegovina” in Coatings Comet, (Glenda Thisdell Ph.D. Ed.) Nov. 2008, 16 (11) 3, ISSN 0968 7149
  • “Egypt: A profile of the Egyptian paint industry” in Coatings Comet, (Glenda Thisdell Ph.D. Ed.) Oct. 2009, 17 (10) 18-19, ISSN 0968 7149
  • “Country profile: Paint manufacturing in Austria” in Coatings Comet, (Glenda Thisdell Ph.D. Ed.) April 2010, 18 (3) 22-23, ISSN 0968 7149
  • “Directory of Paint Manufacturers, Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)” July 2011, Book and CD, Published by Chem4CEE

with S. P. Pappas:

  • “Photoinitiated Cationic Polymerization by Photosensitization of Onium Salts” in Journal of Photographic Science and Engineering 23, No. 3 (1979) 140-143

with S. P. Pappas and L. Gatechair:

  • “Cationic UV-Curing” in Proceedings 6th International Conference in Organic Coating Science and Technology Athens, Greece, July 14-18, 1980, 587-595
  • “Cationic UV Curing,” in Adv. Org. Coat. Sci. Technol. Vol. 4 (G. D. Parfitt and A. V. Patsis, Eds.), Technomic Publish. Co., Westport, CT, 1982, pp. 103- 7.
  • “Photoinitiation of Cationic Polymerization III” in Journal of Polymer Science, Polymer Chemistry Edition 22 (1984) 77-84
  • “Photogeneration of Cationic Initiators by Donor-Acceptor Interactions. VII. Ag (I), Cu(II) and Onium Salts as Acceptors,” in J. Imaging Sci. 30, 218 (1986).

with S. P. Pappas, B. C. Pappas, L. Gatechair and W. Schnabel:

  • “Photoinitiation of Cationic Polymerization IV” in Polymer Photochemistry 5 (1984) 1-22
  • “Photoinitiation of Cationic Polymerization. II Laser Flash Photolysis of
  • Diphenyliodonium Salts,” in J. Polym. Sci., Polym. Chem. Ed. 22, 69 (1984).

with R. Holderegger:

  • “A composition for coating a substrate with an epoxy resin powder coating and amethod of making matt finish with the composition” European Patent application EP 0 072 371 A1, 1981, US Patent 4, 528, July 9, 1985

with V. Valenta and W. Eichberger:

  • “Electrically insulation part and a process to manufacture it” Austrian patent application 3374/86, 1986

with W. Eichberger:

  • “Phenolic hardener for epoxy resins, a process to manufacture it and its application in epoxy powder coatings” Austrian patent application 3130/87, 1987

with G. Clamen, A. Sanfilippo and A. P. Trapani:

  • “Improvements relating to fast drying traffic paints” European patent application 94304095.6, 1994

with A. Sanfilippo, D. C. Schall and A. P. Trapani:

  • “Prevention of yellowing in waterborne road marking paints” European patent application 96304411.0-2109, 1996