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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…
Rotogravure Printing, Flexo Printing Operation, Flexible Packaging Manufacturing, and Printing Inks
Expert can suggest and design any type of pouches/bags/packaging in flexible packaging. He also has extensive experience with different bagging machinery. He knows "bag-in-box packaging; he designed it for Bangkok based converter. Expert has worked on different structures of flexible…
Safety Consulting, Safety Engineering, Recreation Safety, Ergonomics, Fall Protection
Expert currently serves as a general safety and health consultant as a safety engineer, and has done so since 1978. This has involved General Safety Engineering Consulting with emphasis on worker safety, industrial product safety, third party safety, accident prevention,…
Medical Device Product Development; Machine Design; Biomedical Engineering
Medical device product development engineer. He performed research on adding an antimicrobial agent to a silicone rubber medical device molded using LIM. The research included materials, methods of molding, color changes, and effects on biocompatibility. His library contains many materials…
Plastic Packaging Technology, Molding, Creating New Technology, Intellectual Property, New Products
Expert developed multilayer packaging materials for oxygen barrier and moisture barrier for bottles, trays, films via co-extrusion, lamination, and insitu multi-component structures. Expert has a 40-year history of product development efforts including material selection, process development to mate with the…
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…
Rubber, Plastics, and Polymer Materials: Calendaring, Injection Molding, and Compression Molding
Blending of different types of elastomers is an area that Expert has been involved in since he began his industrial career with Gencorp (formerly General Tires and Rubber Co., an Akron, Ohio-based company), followed by BF Goodrich, and most currently,…
Surface Science, Polymers, Textiles, Testing Materials, Plastics, Physical Chemistry, Pharmaceutical
Expert worked for three years as the Director of RD&E for the chemical products division of Waters Inc. In addition to the direction of the research in chromatographic media he was co-inventor of 7 patents for water-wettable extraction media and…
Rubber Compounding, Compression, Vacuum and Injection Molding, Rubber Extrusion, Elastomer Selection, Nanoaditives for Rubber Application
Expert's comprehensive experience involves: Definition of the correct compression molding procedure. Production of rubber compound, or its adaptations to that one already known, to meet the process requirements, less energy consumption and better productivity. He also knows systems of flash…
Fasteners, Latching mechanisms, structures, aircraft decompression.
Expert has extensive experience in the nonlinear analysis of structures and metals behavior. He has developed algorithms that enable accurate nonlinear finite element analysis of metallic components and assemblies up to the point of failure. As Chairman of the joint…