About Us

Our Team

Our Founders

In 2010, in response to the devastating earthquake in Haiti, Polycare was founded. Dr. Gerhard Dust and Gunther Plötner were looking for a way to build affordable, durable and comfortable houses made of locally available (secondary) raw materials without the need for expensive equipment. This led to the foundation of our philosophy that we still inherit today and also to our beautiful headquarters in the middle of the Thuringian Forest.

If you want to read more about our history, feel free to dive through our blog posts from that time.

Blog Post

Polycare Founders Dr. Gerhard Dust and Gunther Plötner

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Our Leadership Team

Our leadership team, with years of experience, drive forward our mission to revolutionise the construction industry and motivate to continuously push the boundaries.

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Our Team Leads

Our technical minds steering our innovations and empowering our teams to implement sustainable solutions operationally.

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Our R&D Team

Our Material Scientists, Chemists and Environmental Engineers passionately develop groundbreaking building materials on our way to a regenerative future.

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Our Production Team

The engine behind our technical excellence and sustainable production processes.

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Andreas Göbel

Chemist

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Andreas Kunsmann

CEO

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Benedikt Musiol

Development Engineer

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Felix Bauroth

Head of Product

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Dr. Gaone Koma

Head of Material Science

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Heiko Wehmeyer

Logistics & Facility Manager

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Isabel Faller

Head of Strategic Partnerships & People

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Jürgen Fischer

Process Technician & Production Lead

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Michael Preuß

Production

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Michel Schmeck

Head of Systems Engineering

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Narendra Donthula

Architect

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Nicolas Schönberger

Video & Content Creation

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Patrick Müller

Material Scientist

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Paul Jekal

Production

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Philipp Scherer

Head of Sustainability

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Robby Lenz

Production

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Robert Rösler

CTO

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Silvia Reschke

CFO

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Tibor Bädecker

Head of Factory Tech

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Tim Kaiser

Accounting & Finance

A Quick History

2023

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Polycare Highlights in 2023

2022

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Polycare Highlights in 2022

2021

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Our Highlights in 2021

2020

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The Kindergarten Project in Namibia

2019

Inauguration of Polycare Namibia & starting of mass production

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Inauguration of Polycare Namibia & starting of mass production

2018

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Delivery of Polyblocks plant to Namibia

2017

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Foundation of Polycare Namibia

2016

Winner European Contest & Model House in Namibia

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Winner European Contest & Model House in Namibia

2015

First 2 story Model House & first Model House in India

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First 2 story Model House & first Model House in India

Press Kit

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High quality imagery and information rich texts

Our press kit is packed with lots of interesting content. If you need more specific material, please get in contact. We’re happy to share that with you.

Press Kit

Prizes & Awards

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Winner of the UNIDO ITPO
Global Call 2021

We are very proud winners of the UNIDO ITPO Global Call 2021 in the category "Circular Production and Industrial Processes". The award is dedicated to our work in the context of our efforts to integrate local secondary raw materials into the production of our Polyblocks that can be re-used again after dismantling a building after the end-of-life. At Polycare we are calling this Material Circularity and Building Circularity.

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Winner of the German Entrepreneurship Award for Development 2021

The German Entrepreneurship Award for Development is conferred every two years on the initiative of the Carl-Duisberg-Gesellschaft e.V. (CDG) on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The award honours the commitment of companies in developing and emerging countries that goes beyond the corporate objective and that benefits the local people. Polycare is the awardee in category A that is intended for companies that are already operating successfully abroad and make a contribution towards improving local social or environmental conditions, over and above their entrepreneurial activity.

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