Since 2018 Dr. Iris Rommerskirchen is working with the German pipe manufacturer EBK as
Business Development Director with a special focus on pressure and corrosion resistant lined and
clad pipes. Additionally she is managing shareholder of the Rommerskirchen GmbH doing
consultancy projects. Between 2015 and 2018 she was appointed Senior Vice President Business
Development and Quality at the internationally acting W. Schulz Group, with stainless steel pipe
and fitting mills in Germany and USA. From 2002 until end of 2014, Dr. Iris Rommerskirchen was
Managing Director in different companies and holdings of the Butting Group covering
responsibilities for sales, purchasing, quality, product and market development for all kinds of
Stainless Steels, Nickel Alloys, clad and lined pipes. Dr. Rommerskirchen has particular experience
in the market, applications and development of lined, clad and Duplex pipes. She is deputy
chairwoman of the German Society for Corrosion Protection and member of the technical
advisory board of the German Federal Institute for Materials Research. After her studies of
chemistry at the university in Düsseldorf she started her career as research assistant at the Max –
Planck – Institute for Iron Research in metallurgy and high temperature corrosion. The results
were published in her PhD thesis about the high temperature corrosion behaviour of Iron- and
Nickel Aluminides. Iris has published more than 50 papers and given numerous lectures at various
technical conferences around the globe.