Roland Verreet

Roland Verreet (* 1950) is a Belgian graduate engineer and expert for wire ropes . He is recognized by experts as the "rope pope".

Live and act

Verreet studied engineering in Aachen and was then technical director at a rope manufacturer in Saarland for ten years . He then founded an engineering office for conveyor technology in Aachen . He rented a large hall to conduct experiments there. He sold all of the patents he received so that he could try new things.

Verreet lectures regularly in the USA . In 2018 he will speak at the Association of Wire Rope Manufacturers near Scottsdale on the subject of "Wire Rope: From Fiber to Steel - and Back to Fiber?" His wire rope seminars are booked from Dubai to Düsseldorf , from Stavanger to Sydney , in London , Las Vegas and Buenos Aires .

Roland Verreet was involved in

• the catapult of Space Mountain in Disneyland Paris ,
• the development of the highest vertical lifting bridge in the world, Pont Gustave Flaubert ,
• the construction of lifting cranes from NASA and
• the construction of the largest land crane in the world, the Demag CC 8800 Twin

Verreet used to play drums in Marius Müller-Westernhagen's band.

Verreet has been married to his wife Regine for 40 years and has two grown-up sons with her. The couple live in Aachen- Richterich .

Web links and sources

• Roland Verreet: Wire ropes in court - compilation of typical and less typical wire rope damage in text and images (PDF file), accessed on July 21, 2012
• Sabine Rother: Aachen engineer comes around the world with steel cables , in Aachener Zeitung on April 14, 2018
• (English) Roland Verreet: Wire rope news , and Upcoming Events with Roland Verreet in the Wire Rope Technology newsletter from March 2018
• Patents by Inventor Roland Verreet , at patents.justitia.com (English)
• https://www.aachener-zeitung.de/nrw-region/aachener-ingenieur-kom-mit-stahlseilen-um-die-welt_aid-24485835
• http://seile.com/bro_engl/WRN_roland-verreet-reprint.pdf