Energy Curable Coatings and Adhesives Expert Specializing in UV/EB Product Development and Commercialization

Technical Consultant #1804

Industrial experience of 25 years in energy curable (ultraviolet / electron beam) coatings and laminating adhesives for graphic arts and food packaging industries.
Knowledgeable of photochemistry, monomers, polymers, inks, coatings, adhesives, and interfaces.
Design, synthesis of acrylic reactive monomers and polymers.
Formulating energy curable and conventional coatings and adhesives.
Using vehicles such as acrylics, polyesters, epoxies, polyurethanes as building blocks.
Planning, testing and data analysis.
Feasibility and application studies.
TSCA, EPA and FDA compliance.
Water based coatings.
UV and EB processors (set-up, operation and maintenance).
Coating application equipment and process refinement.
Process scaling-up.
Applying DOE, SPC or other statistical tools to formulation optimization and process control.

Expert Witness

Printing inks: Formulation research and product evaluation (associated with coatings and adhesives).
Printing and coating application methods: Letterpress, gravure, flexo, litho and screen printing methods (associated with coatings and adhesives).
Pigment wetting and dispersion.
Substrate screening (paper, PE, OPP, PET, PVC, metallized films, metal, wood, and glass).
Pressure sensitive adhesives (UV/EB curable resins and waterborne).
Surfactants, defoamers, stabilizers and flow additives used in coating and adhesive formulations.
Packaging process control and equipment evaluation.
Analytical instrument and data interpretation.

Independent Consultant, Present

Rohm and Haas Company, Elgin, IL, Technical Manager, 1993 - 2007

Planned, organized and assigned short term and long term research and development projects.
Identified problems, eliminated bottlenecks and found solutions.
Designed and synthesized new monomers, co-polymers, oligomers and adhesion promoters for coating and adhesive formulations.
Developed water based primer and blister pack coatings for graphic arts.
Developed FDA compliance EB curable release topcoats for cold seal applications.
Developed FDA compliance EB curable laminating adhesives for food packaging applications.
Developed training protocols for production personnel and assisted in customer press trials.

Morton International, Woodstock, IL, Group Leader, Polymer System, 1987 - 1992

Developed UV curable laminating adhesives for paper//film, film//film, film//metallized film.
Developed UV curable laminating adhesives for glass laminates (TV flat-screen application).
Developed abrasion resistant coatings for solar film and security film.
Developed 3-D UV curable optical coating for photographic application.
Assisted plant start-up and provided on-site technical support.

Morton Thiokol Company, Trenton, NJ, Senior Chemist, 1981 - 1986

Synthesized polysulfide prepolymers, polyester, polyether, urethane acrylates, epoxies, epoxy acrylates and reactive monomers.
Developed non-wax scuff-resistant UV coatings for PVC floor tiles.
Developed moisture resistance primary and secondary Optical Fiber coatings.
Developed high resistivity conformal coating for electronic applications.

Atlantic Richfield Chemical Company, Philadelphia, PA, Senior Scientist, 1978 - 1980

Languages

Credentials

Developed and commercialized UV high speed overprint varnish products lines (Mira-Glos™ and Seri-Glos™) to serve the graphic art and packaging industries.
Boosted the product annual sales from $ 2 million to $15 million.

Academic and Professional Affiliations

Publications and Patents

Author of technical papers and presentations at ACS, Tappi, RadTech, CMM, SME are published in the Conference Proceedings.
4 U.S. patents.