Meet SPE President Jason Lyons
Starting July 1, 2021, Dr. Jason Lyons, Business Manager, Arkema, began his tenure as SPE's President. Dr. Lyons has been part of the SPE community for many years in many roles that have helped influence his journey to becoming the society's newest President. SPE News asked Dr. Lyons a handful of questions to get to know him a little better. Besides finding out he’s a die-hard Pearl Jam fan, we discovered Dr. Lyons has many passions.
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Conor P. Carlin, SPE's VP Sustainabilty, was recently named as the 2021 recipient of the Society’s President’s Cup Award. Dr. Jaime Gomez, SPE’s Outgoing President, presented the award to Carlin during SPE's Honors & Awards Ceremony, which took place virtually on June 29th. The ceremony also presented the Passing of the Gavel and celebrated SPE's 2021 Fellow and HSM award winners.
SPE President Jason Lyons appointed Paul Martin, Vice President, JSW America, as VP at Large and Pavan Valavala, Sr. R&D Leader for the Materials Engineering Center in the Engineering and Process Sciences Organization, Dow, Inc., was approved by the Executive Board to assume position of SPE’s VP Professional Development. Each of these positions started on July 1 and will run for one year.
RACE ASIA, taking place virtually July 15-16, 2021, will feature multiple speakers and panelists from a range of companies and organizations focused on recycled applications and their end use.
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On this episode of PlastChicks – The Voices of Resin – Lynzie Nebel and Mercedes Landazuri host Hugh Karraker, executive producer of the film, All Things Bakelite: The Age of Plastic, also the great grandson of Leo Hendrik Baekeland, the inventor of Bakelite, and John Maher, director of the film. They discuss the film, the life of Leo Hendrik Baekeland, Bakelite and its role in the development of modern plastics.
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