--- title: Veco Blog | Harrie Knol description: "Mr. Harrie Knol has been working for more than 10 years as manager R&D at Veco B.V.\nHe is the industry leading expert in the field of Electroforming, being inventor /author of many (>15) patents. 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He is the industry leading expert in the field of Electroforming, being inventor /author of many (>15) patents. He has been involved in many application developments and has been sharing knowledge with ECN (Energy research Centre of the Netherlands). 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