Contributors
Paul Andersen, Contributor
Ken Braney, Contributor
Coleman, Ernie, Contributor
Roger D. Corneliussen, Editor
Mark Kaptur, Contributor |
Sam McCord, Contributor
Salvatore J.Monte, Contributor
Eldridge M. Mount, Contributor
Gary Oliver, Contributor
Austin H. Reid Jr., Advisor
Donald V. Rosato, Contributor
Thomas Twardowski, Contributor
Tim Womer, Contributor
William J. Woods, Contributor
Richard P. Wool, Contributor
Below are short biographies of the contributors. They are the basis of the Encyclopedia. All SPE members are invited to contriibute on the special expertise. For more details, see the Editor's comments below. (RDC 6/24/2010)
Roger D. Corneliussen
Editor
Society of Plastics Engineers Plastics Encyclopedia
rcorneliussen@4spe.org
www.4spe.org/plastics -encyclopedia
Paul Andersen, Contributor is Director of Process Technology for Coperion Corporation in Ramsey, NJ. In this position he is responsible for Process Engineering and New Technology Development for Twin Screw Extrusion/Compounding within Coperion Corporation, and R&D coordination between Coperion in Europe and the U.S.
Ken Braney, Contributor
2010-2011 President of SPE International
2004-2006 Chair SPE European Board
2002- Managing Director Thermoforming Solutions Ltd
• Consultant to the Plastics Industry
• Interim management
• Product development
• Company buy outs/purchases
2007- Chair, Greencourt RTM Company Ltd
• One of the founding directors
• Company formed to take over management control of apartment complex in London
For several years he lived and worked in the USA (Michigan) as general manager and commercial director of two North American divisions of multi national companies. He then returned to Europe when he joined a multi national machinery manufacturer (USA based) and for thirteen years held the position of director for Europe, Middle East, Africa and India.
Ernest Coleman, Contributor, has formulated and compounded thermomplastic materials for major plastics companies (DuPont, Union Carbide). He has worked for custom compounders (Fiberfil) and concentrate houses (Wilson Color). He has worked with custom compounders and he has consulted form many plastics and additives companies. Dr. Coleman has given plastics seminars for over 30 years and has been an international seminar leader for about 20 years. He is an Honored Fellow of SPE and serves on the Publications Committee. (RDC 2/10/2010)
Roger D. Corneliussen PhD,Editor, is editor of Maro Publications, a current awareness service, Professor Emeritus of Materials Engineering, Drexel University and an SPE member since 1962. His passion is keeping up and helping others to keep up. This keeping up will be an important part of the SPE online encyclopedia. He received a BA in Chemistry from Concordial College, Moorhead, Minnesota and a MS and PhD in Chemistry from the University of Chicago. He has taught Chemistry at Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, served as Chemist at the Camille Dreyfus Laboratory, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, Senior Chemist, North Star Research, Minneapolis, Minnesota, president of Research Services and Associate and Full Professor of Materials Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His research interests range from polymer morphology to polymer failure. He has served as the Philadelphia Section President and Councilor and has taught an SPE course on Plastics Failure for several years. (RDC 6/4/2009)
Mark Kaptur, Contributor, account manager of Chroma Corporation, began his career in Plastics in 1979, selling DuPont Engineering Plastics in Orange and San Diego counties of Southern California. He attributes much of his early success (selling Delrin® acetal homopolymer against Celcon® acetal copolymer) to the teaching of the late Paolo Canovi. In 1984, Mark moved to West Chester, PA, where he and his family have remained, despite numerous job changes. Since then, his focus has been on growing business. From 1984 to 1995, Mark undertook various sales and marketing assignments with DuPont. From 1995 to 1997, he “globalized” the sales effort of AlliedSignal’s Wire and Cable business, closing sales in the Middle East, Central America, and China. Later, he was AlliedSignal’s Sales Manager for the Distribution segment. From 1998 through 2002, Mark managed the North American and Asian Stat-Kon® conductive polymer business for LNP Engineering Plastics.
Sustainable /Renewable Materials
Sustainable Technology
Sam McCordleverages his years of experience in business operations of executive search, business development and strategic planning, site selection for new manufacturing facilities, project coordination and sales and marketing in the plastics industry. He has represented companies ranging from startups to Fortune 500. He currently serves on the board of the IAMC (Iowa Advanced Manufacturing Council), Director on the BioSIG (Bioplastics Special Interest Group), which is part of the Society of Plastics Engineers and Chair of the BioProducts Committee which is part of the Iowa Biotechnology Association. Mr. McCord is responsible for overall vision and planning for the future of the business.
About MCG BioComposites LLC
The advent of new base raw materials composed of recycled post consumer/post industrial plastics combined with organic bio fibers that up to now had no value added/sustainable use, has created a global market for a new classification of materials, Bio Fiber Composites or commonly known as Biocomposites. Fundamentally, these composites reduce the hydrocarbon content, (oil) replaced with natural fillers in the form of organic “renewable.” This family of materials is best suited to replace pure polymers, and drives the green, sustainable shift of achieving a balance of physical and mechanical properties to produce the goods and components needed across the complete product landscape. Any product that is injection molded, extruded, thermoformed, or rotationally molded today, can be replaced with a natural organic filled BioComposites Materials. MCG BioComposites, LLC has been formed to supply this place in the industry.
Salvatore J. Monte,Contributor, received his B.C.E. from Manhattan College in 1961 and M.S.-Polymeric Materials from NYU Poly in 1969. He is President and co-owner with Erika G. Monte of Kenrich Petrochemicals, Inc. – Bayonne, NJ. Sal holds twenty-nine U.S. Patents filed worldwide. Two patents on “Enhanced Energetic Composites” and “Solid Rocket Propellant” were held under Secrecy Orders by DOD for over a decade.
Three Hundred and Seventy ACS CAS abstracted patents, technical papers; journal articles and book chapters on applications of organometallics and reactive diluents in thermosets and thermoplastics are attributed to Sal. In addition, he has authored a 340-page Ken-React® Reference Manual on Titanates, Zirconates and Aluminates -- 78,000 copies printed; authored several book chapters (Most recent – Chapter 5 – Functional Fillers – Wiley-VCH, 2005 – edited 2020); testified on several occasions before the U.S. Congress on Intellectual Property and Trade issues; and lectured on coupling agents around the world including: Europe, Greece, Turkey, South America, Canada, Mexico, India, Australia, South Korea and Japan. Sal’s titanate technology is being used to render conventional plastics anaerobic landfill biodegradable.
He is a licensed Professional Engineer in NY & NJ; Fellow of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE); SPE Honored Service Member; SPE: Member of the Finance Committee and Technical Advisory Board, Chairman of ANTEC Operations 2007; Past-Chairman of the FOAMS 2000 and 2002 Technical Conferences and Co-Chair of FOAMS 2009, Councilor & Past Chairman-Thermoplastic Materials & Foams Division of SPE (1997 –2000); Past President – SPE Palisades-New Jersey Section-2009; Proxy Councilor for Israel, Italy and Belgium; Past Chairman of the New York Rubber Group – ACS Rubber Division; twice winner of the C. Homer Flynn Award for Technical Excellence – Federated Society of Coatings Technology; member AIChE; member SAMPE; Voting Member to the ASC (Adhesives and Sealants Council), SPI (Society of Plastics Industries), CPIA (Canadian Plastics Industries Association) and ACMA (American Composites Manufacturers Association); Life Member of the National Defense Industrial Council; Paul Harris Fellow; and listed in Who's Who in Finance and Industry and Who's Who in the World. (Salvatore J. Monte, 7/1/2010)
Contributor Eldridge M. Mount’s career in Plastics began in the summer of 1970, at General Electric, as a summer engineer working with Epoxy/glass filament winding. He worked two years as a synthetic Chemist for Sterling Drug and then went to Rensselear Polytechnic to perform an experimental and theoretical study of the melting and extrusion behavior of solid polymers to earn his advanced degrees. From 1978 to 2000 he has worked for ICI Americas and ExxonMobil Films Division in the area of Extrusion, Coextrusion, orientation technology and product development for biaxially oriented PET and PP films. Eldridge is now an independent consultant in polymer extrusion, film converting and intellectual property (www.emmount-technologies.com). Currently, he holds 6 US and two European Patents in the field of Metallized Films.
Eldridge has been a member of SPE since 1975, when he joined as a student member. He has served the Extrusion Division Board of Directors from 1980 to present with his current term expiring in 2013. He is a Fellow and Honored service Member of the Society and from 2001 to 2004 he served as a Vice President and Executive Board Member of the Society.
Gary Oliver, Contributor, has been in the polymer processing industry for 40 years beginning his career at Brown Machine in 1969 as a draftsman for the Thermoformer Manufacturer. Gary has extensive experience in barrier packaging and coextrusion, specializing in polymer processing. He spent 13 years at Dow Plastics in Research and Technical Service and Development before joining Ball Plastics barrier packaging business as Extrusion Engineering Manager and Director of Plastics Engineering. Gary spend 18 years with Cloeren most recently as Senior Corporate Scientist. Gary joined Extrusion Dies Industries in 2008 as Vice President, Technology where he is responsible for EDI’s Engineering and Technology Group and EDI’s Technology Center.
Austin H. Reid Jr. PhD, Advisor, received his BS in Chemistry from the University of Montevallo. He completed a PhD in Chemistry from Auburn University under the direction of P.B. Shevlin and T.R. Webb. After a postdoctoral period under the direction of F. Albert Cotton at Texas A&M University, he joined DuPont in 1985 at their Johnsonville titanium dioxide facility. He has held numerous positions in research and and in research and technical services management. He is currently a Research Fellow in the DuPont Titanium Technologies Division. He has been active in the Society of Plastics Engineers for twenty-two years and was named a Fellow of the Society in 2002 and an Honored Service Member in 2004. In 2008 he was named to a three-year term as a Vice President and Member of the Executive Committee of the SPE. He is also a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Crystallographic Association, Sigma Xi and AAAS. (AHR 6/4/2009)
Donald V. Rosato, Contributor, has extensive technical and marketing plastic industry experience from product development, through production, to marketing, having worked for Northrop Grumman, Owens-Illinois/Graham, DuPont/Conoco, Celanese/Ticona, and Borg Warner/G.E. Plastics/Polysar. He has written extensively in emerging plastic material, process and end use areas, authored multiple handbooks, developed numerous polymer related patents, participates in many trade groups (SPE, SPI, PIA, CPPIA, SAMPE), and is involved in these areas with PlastiSource, Inc. (technical development; prototype manufacturing). BS Chemistry, Boston College; MBA, Northeastern University; M.S. Plastics Engineering University of Massachusetts Lowell; Ph.D. Business Administration, University of California, Berkeley.
Thomas Twardowski PhD is President of Twardowski Scientific. Twardowski Scientific is a consulting company with specialization in polymeric materials, composites and nanocomposites, regenerative materials and adhesion. He is an accomplished academic chemical engineer, having published over thirty papers and presentations. Tom’s special talents are in the areas of technology transfer, nanocomposites, polymers and plastics, and regenerative biomaterial scaffolds. His academic career includes teaching posts at Drexel, Villanova and Widener Universities. Tom is also author of the book, Introduction toNanocomposite Materials, Destech Publications, 2007.
Twardowski: General Information
Tim Womer, Contributor, is Chief Technology Officer at Xaloy. He is a recognized authority in plastics technology and machinery with a brilliant career spanning more than 25 years. He has designed over 8,000 screws that have been used in all areas of single-screw plastication, such as extrusion, blow molding and injection molding. Numerous patents have been issued on his inventions in screws, screw mixers and other products. He also has extensive expertise, knowledge and experience in heat transfer rolls used in the plastic sheet and paper laminating fields.
Tim joined Xaloy with this company’s acquisition of New Castle Industries in 2003. Earlier he served in leadership positions in engineering, research and development at Spirex Corporation, Conair, Inc. and NRM Corporation. For three years he was an independent consultant in plastics process engineering with major clients engaged in extrusion, blow molding and injection molding.
Tim started his career in the plastics industry in 1974 as a machinist at NCI. He spent four and a half years working on the shop floor operating various pieces of machine shop equipment, which included lathes, mills, and cylindrical grinders. He has hands-on working knowledge of the chrome plating process and various methods of welding, which include TIG, MIG and PTA. He was promoted from the shop floor to an engineering draftsman and returned to college in 1978 to complete his mechanical engineering degree at Youngstown State University.
Tim Womer has presented many lectures for both colleges and businesses around the world in the area of screw design and plastic processing, in both extrusion and injection molding. He has presented technical papers at four annual technical conferences (ANTEC) of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) and at conferences organized by the Wire Association and TAPPI (Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industries).
Tim served as president of SPE from May 2006 until May 2007 and will continue to serve on the Executive Committee SPE until May 2009. He is a “Fellow of the Society” in SPE’s Extrusion Division.
Since 1995, Tim has also served on the Executive Committee of the SPI / NPE Show Committee as chair of the Conference and Seminar Committee for both NPE (National Plastics Exhibition) and Plastics USA, which are sponsored by the Society of Plastics Industry (SPI). He has also acted as the liaison between SPE and SPI in the area of conferencing.
William B. Woods PhD, Contributor, earned a Ph.D. in Biochemical Engineering and a BS in Chemistry from The University of Michigan.
Dr. Woods holds six industrial biocides patents, and is the author of more than 20 papers on biocides technology and industrial microbiology. He is a member of the Society of Plastics Engineers, Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology, the American Chemical Society, and The American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
International Specialty Products, Inc. (ISP) is a leading global supplier of specialty chemicals and performance-enhancing products for a wide variety of materials protection, personal care, pharmaceutical, food, beverage, and industrial applications. ISP produces more than 400 specialty chemicals, which it markets and sells worldwide. The company's headquarters is located in Wayne, New Jersey, USA.
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Editor's Notes
The Society of Plastics Engineers is in the process of building a Plastics Encyclopedia. It is a massive job but it will be built bit by bit into a valuable resource for all technical people working with plastics.
It is based on two ideas; One is that member experts will insure accuracy and completeness by their review and input. The second is that references to recent patents and articles are regularly added to make this encyclopedia a current awareness tool as well as a source of information.
At the present time the encyclopedia is in an embryonic state on the SPE website. It is open to anyone but eventually it will be accessible only to SPE members and only members will be allowed to contribute.
A key feature of this Encyclopedia is the contribution of member experts. Everyone is an expert in some aspect of Plastics. The Society is asking each member to contribute their expertise to this venture.
The expert member can contribute in several ways:
- Each member should become acquainted with the Encyclopedia and identify their areas of expertise. If the area is not present, they should contact the Editor (rcorneliussen@4spe.org ) who will add the sections.
- Review the appropriate Topic Pages. Review what is written. Many times what is written is very short and just a start. Usually an expert can add much to the introduction and add many interesting details. Send potential additions or changes to the editor (rcorneliussen@4spe.org ) who will incorporate changes into the Topic pages.
- Monitor these pages regularly and make suggestions as needed.
- Consider becoming a Technical Editor which can make additions and changes directly to the Encyclopedia. To do this send a short biography to the editor who with the Advisory Board will review the application. Upon acceptance, the new editor will be given a login and password which will allow him or her to make changes.
- Encourage other members to participate. This Encyclopedia will only work if there is broad based member participation.
There is a Principle of Attribution that will be carefully followed. There will be no anonymous contributors. Every contribution will be acknowledged. There will be a list of contributors with a link to their membership file. In addition, sources such as patents and articles as well as other supporting material will be listed.
The Encyclopedia is to be a dynamic growing source. Each week, the US Patents and Journals are searched for relevant items which will be listed in the Encyclopedia by Topic. If a subject shows several references, that subject will be given its own topic page. The intent is to keep reference list on each Topic Page to a minimum. Often a Topic Page will be a narrow piece of research. It is hoped that the authors or experts in that Topic will write the introduction for that Topic.
The editor will start the page with a brief introduction and hope it will soon be replaced by one from an expert.
We hope to add pictures, graphs and even short video tapes to entries. The contributors should feel free to add those things which can teach the reader about a Topic.
This is a massive project. Many potential contributors don’t even want to think about writing what they think will be a large project. The Encyclopedia is a dynamic project. It will start small and grow and grow and grow. Any Topic will never be finished or complete. We are asking experts to contribute many little contributions over time. In principle each little addition will improve the entry. With time this can become an extremely valuable resource to the whole plastics community. Errors are inevitable. Expert reviews with quick changes are necessary.
A member may only critique entries which can be a valuable service. Another may suggest additions or changes without becoming a Technical Editor. Some may contribute a graph or picture or even a short video tape. Others may contribute a 10 page introduction and so on.
It is essential for intesrested SPE membersto start immediately. They can start by reviewing the existing entries and go from there..
To summarize, the building steps are as follows:
- The US Patents and Journals are searched for Plastics related items.
- Relevant Topic Pages are defined. Preliminary Introductions with definitions and so on are written by the editor based on his understanding, the references and other sources such as Wikipdedia. Member experts may suggest new Topics. Once a Topic is added, they are included in the search for new Patents and Articles.
- These Topic Pages are reviewed by member experts who rewrite or add or critique the pages and suggest changes and additions.
- Changes are made and new Patents and articles added.
- Member experts continue to monitor the Pages, suggesting additions and changes.
Roger D. Corneliussen
Editor
Society of Plastics Engineers Plastics Encyclopedia
rcorneliussen@4spe.org
www.4spe.org/plastics -encyclopedia
Comments
I think the comments on flame
I think the comments on flame retardants are somewhat misleading and rather negative in tone. Broad-brush generalizations about large groups of diverse compounds (such as bromine compounds, phosphorus compounds and metal hydroxides) are misleading, and give ammunition to the chemophobic and anti-plastics people. I have coauthored a recent book (issued in 2009) on the topic of Flame Retardants for Plastics and Textiles, and I have encyclopedia articles in Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology and in the Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Engineering. Is it possible to reference books and other encyclopedias in your Encyclopedia? If so, I would be willing to write some sections on this topic, provided I don't have to format in HTML.
Best regards,
Ed Weil
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Prof. Edward D. Weil
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