Polymer and Rubber Polymerization and Processing Expert

Technical Consultant #955

Nylon polymer polymerization and extrusion compounding.
Polyester polymerization and extrusion compounding and solid phase polymerization.
Acrylic polymerization and extrusion.
Ethylene copolymers polymerization and extrusion.
Rubber polymerization and extrusion.
Bulk plastic material handling, solids flow and pneumatic conveying.
Packaging and filling systems for plastics.
Plant safety analyses, including bulk storage and conveying of plastic resin.
Recycling of plastics, industrial waste and consumer waste.
Product development of plastics.
Plastics plant design, construction and startup (built 6; moved 2).
Plant cost reduction and operations optimization.

Independent Consultant, 2009 - Present

Clients Include ADM, Metabolix, DuPont, Davis Standard, Barnet Polymers and Gala Industries.
Built, dismantled, enlarged, relocated plants in USA, Holland, India, Hungary (all DuPont experience.)
Specialist in plastics extrusion and compounding.
Product and process development in plastics
Developed a new trade marked plastic product using recycled materials.
Business analysis, market studies, manufacturing cost analysis, process optimization and cost and savings.
Computer modeling of polymer manufacturing operation.
Capital project design, estimation and management.
Chemical and plastics process optimizations.
Scope of work preparation for capital projects.
Training operations crews for start up and operations.

Safety Resources, Senior Consultant, 2000 - Present

Safety programs marketing.
Safety surveys and training; visiting companies to improve their safety performance.
Safety improvement and process hazard survey consultation.
Presentations given for the most common safety issues in factories, accident prevention, identifying hazards, reducing medical treatment costs and downtime.
Conducting safety consultation in Russia and the United States.

E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company, Wilmington, DE, 1967 - 1999

Senior Technology Associate, Packaging and Industrial Polymers, 1993 - 1999

Oversaw the site selection and relocation of the Elvanol® polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) storage facility from Greenville to Laurens, SC.
Led the front-end loading of Elvanol® powder handling and packaging at Greenville, SC, and LaPorte, TX.
Headed the team defining the projects needed to optimize the packaging and bulk handling system at Sabine River, Works, Orange, TX; led the front-end loading for new packaging line.
Consulted on a team that reduced the bottleneck at the Keldax® facility at M.A. Hanna in Dyersburg, TN, and increased its capacity from 250 million to 320 million pounds a year.
Worked as EVA project team leader with a full-service design contractor to design and estimate the cost ($6 million) of a system for adding Bynel® compounding capacity at the plant in Dordrecht, Netherlands.

Senior Technology Associate, Fabricated Products Department, 1983 - 1993

Headed the team that estimated the investment needed to construct a nylon recycling plant in Bayswater, Australia; designed the plant.
Oversaw the manufacturing of Alcryn® rubber for a contract compounder at a plant in Carpentersville, IL.
Led the front-end loading for the expansion of a film warehouse in LeTrait, France.
Directed the team that selected the site and designed the NDDB/DuPont plant in Ahmedabad, India, for producing extrusion blown film for low-density polyethylene.

Senior Engineer, Fabricated Products Department, 1979 - 1981

Supervised the team that designed and constructed the Howell Recycle Center in Howell, MI, for recycling PET beverage bottles.
Led the team that developed a process for recycling PET beverage bottles; designed and constructed the Grifton Recycle Ctr. in Grifton, NC, using this process.

Senior Engineer, Engineering Polymers, Washington Works, Parkersburg, WVA, 1975 - 1979

Directed a $5 million project optimizing the acrylics process.
Led the team that optimized the Lucite® and Elvacite® manufacturing processes for cost, capacity, and quality, included several successful projects for bulk handling and compounding.

Division Engineer, Engineering Polymers, 1967 - 1970

Headed the start-up and expansions of DuPont's first plastics compounding division in Parkersburg, WVA.
Directed the team that developed and commercialized the manufacturing process for the original family of glass-reinforced Zytel® nylon products at the plant at Wapakoneta, OH.

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