Jörg Römbke, Co-Founder of ECT, retiring after 31 years in the company

Jörg Römbke, Thomas Knacker and Hans Schallnaß funded ECT Oekotoxikologie GmbH in 1993. After 31 years of service to ECT and after securing ECT’s future as part of the Syntech Research Group in 2021, Jörg Römbke will retire at the end of 2022. We all at ECT and SynTech Research Group are grateful for all the years of cooperation, and wish Jörg all the best for his next step in life!

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