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With over 35 years in industrial management of research, customer technical service, marketing and sales (in the PVC and additive industries), and an ability to communicate effectively both in writing and "one-on-one" in person, as well as experience in management and organization geared SPECIFICALLY to solve customer problems, he knows these strengths can be used effectively to help an organization enhance its product and sales development activities.

With a scientific background, strong work ethic and good health, he knows that he can make positive contributions to any operations involving the science and technology of PVC.

Represented a number of plastics additive and lab test equipment suppliers to the plastics (mainly PVC) INDUSTRIES. These included suppliers of metal-organic, organometallic, and organic PVC stabilizers, epoxy and ester PVC plasticisers, calcium carbonate and alumina trihydrate fillers, paraffin wax and ester lubricants, azo bis formamide foaming agents, torque rheometers, and heat stability ovens. Grew territory from $1.2 MM to over $5 MM in a very competitive environment.

He was responsible for all phases of customer introduction, plant trials, and additive developments for rapidly growing PVC markets in North America, Europe, Latin America. Intimately involved with the development of di/mono methyl tin mercaptoacetate heat stabilizers for PVC, and later development of di/mono methyl tin mercaptoethyl oleates ("reverse esters") as even better PVC stabilizers, finally the first "one-pack" stabilizer-lubricant system in which the methyl tin chloride/mercaptide reaction was carried out in the molten wax medium, resulting upon cooling in a homogeneous stabilizer-lubricant package for the PVC pipe industry. These developments resulted in a market penetration of over 70%. Published in-house booklet, "Rigid PVC Extrusion I&II" which included a trouble shooting guide for PVC -primarily twin screw-extrusion.

As a research chemist he worked on the organic syntheses of various polyesters, and evaluation of these as viscosity control agents in motor oils-which led to a brief Olin/Avisun venture in early multi-grade automotive lube oils.

Also worked on improving synthesis of polyethylene terephthalate fiber forming Polymers.

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He presented Seminars on Rigid PVC Extrusion, and Compounding PVC for Optimum Quality and Profitability to
Petroquimica Colombia, located in Cartagena, Colombia SA
Following the seminars, he held private consulting sessions for Petroquimica's customers attending.

He presented the Seminar, Flexible PVC Technology to
Morton International (now Rohm &Haas) in Reading, OH,
to educate their sales force who had been oriented towards rigid PVC markets.

He spent over a week in the plant of
Rival Plastic Pipe, located in Quenca, Ecuador SA---the purpose being to increase extrusion output rates on their twin screw extruders while running a fairly high regrind level. Output rate increases of 80-90% were realized by simply optimizing temp./feed/RPM profiles.He helped Townsend Polymer Services of Houston TX develop a production cost summary for PVC Additives production by furnishing detailed chemical reaction/yield analyses on the desired materials.

He presented a tutorial for the technical staff of Color Matrix Cleveland, OH on the optimum use techniques and evaluation of computerized Brabender Torque Rheometer testing of PVC materials containing their colorants. Laboratory demonstrations followed the tutorial.