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Plastics, Polymers, Injection Molding, Extrusion, Blow Molding, Engineering Plastics, and Compounding
Expert is a business consultant with over 30 years' experience in marketing, business development, new business growth, and commercial sales. For the past 10 years he has been President of his consulting firm, which specializes in business development in the…
Polymer Processing, Rheology and Composites, including Nanocomposites
Expert has personal experience with resin transfer molding and pultrusion. He has published work on modeling of pultrusion of vinyl ester composites. He teaches a graduate-level course on composite material processing. Expert has been doing research on polymer nanocomposites since…
Rubber, Polymeric Materials, Design, Testing, Production Evaluation, Processing
Expert joined the rubber industry in 1969 after he graduated from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell with a B.S. Degree in Plastics Engineering. He has held various positions throughout his career involving laboratory management, compound design, process evaluation, process and…
Machine and Facility Safety; Industrial, Building and Community Noise Measurement and Control
Expert is recognized nationally as a professional in the fields of machine and facility safety, and industrial and community (environmental) noise control, having conducted numerous training and certification courses for engineers, safety and law enforcement personnel with respect to machine…
Polymer and Plastic Rheology, Polymer and Plastics Processing, Plastic Molding Processes
Capillary rheometry has been central to his research efforts in the area of polymer rheology and processing. It has been used many times in his lab to mimic polymer extrusion of various polymers and plastic compounds. Capillary rheometry has been…
Coloring, Formulating and Compounding Thermoplastics for all Processes, Rotomolding expert, materials specializing in stabilization of long life outdoor products
He has worked in or supplied the rotational molding industry since 1969. He designs and sells CNC machined research test molds to the roto industry. He has developed technology to dry color rotomolded parts without reducing the physicals and to…
Injection Molding, Training, Material Selection, Part Design Review, In-Mold Instrumentation
Expert has expertise in specifying and implementing VPT (Velocity to Pressure Transfer) techniques via Cavity Pressure and Temperature Transducers for injection molding applications. He is intimately familiar with systems offered by numerous manufacturers and is proficient in implementing processing methodologies…
Process Automation, Robotic Work Cell Design, Mechanical Design, Machine & Product Design, 3D Models
Expert has been involved as lead design engineer and project manager on numerous manufacturing automation projects for more than a decade. These projects have varied from dedicated "hard automation" systems designed specifically for a single product to flexible automation cells…
Plastics/Polymers, Design with Plastics, Plastics Failure, Plastics Processing, Patents/IP
Has done research in compression molding of SMC, GMT, BMC, LFT, etc. for over 20 years. Has given several seminars on compression molding. Has done research on curing thermosetting polymers for two decades. Has published several papers on this topic…
Plastics and Medical Device Development, Plastics Processing, Material, Tooling, Failure Analysis
Expert is a huge proponent of concurrent engineering practices. He has helped numerous companies by helping them implement principles of concurrent engineering which requires all the departments from marketing to manufacturing and assembly to work together right from the inception…