Expert Details
Fabric Softener Formulations, Product Development, Manufacturing, Technical Issues, and Markets/Sales
ID: 726307
Ohio, USA
in the marketplaces. He not only knows the fabric softener market in North America but also understand and has worked throughout the world with many fabric softener formulators to provide expert advise and technology for the most up-to-date innovations in the industry.
In addition, Expert has a detailed knowledge of the global washing machine technologies, as well as fragrances, preservatives, dyes and fragrance carrier systems and their interactions with the softener actives so as to be able to improve product stability and softening performance. He also has a through knowledge of the global softener markets, the producers of the softener concentrates and well as the domestic and global formulators in the marketplace.
He has been an exclusive consultant with the company he has worked with for 25 years (Evonik/Degussa/Witco/Sherex) from April 2005 to March 2009. Evonik has used him to serve as a global expert for their customers and travel and give seminars and techincal lectures on the theorical and practical issues of rinse and dryer sheet fabric softeners. He is now (as of April 2009) a non-exclusive consultant in this specific area of rinse and dryer sheet fabric softeners.
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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| Year: 1979 | Degree: Masters | Subject: Mining (Minerals Processing) Engineering | Institution: Penn State University |
| Year: 1977 | Degree: B.S. | Subject: Chemistry | Institution: Geneva College |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
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| Years: 2005 to 2008 | Employer: Consultant for Evonik | Title: Consultant for Evonik Corp | Department: Global Fabric Softener Consultant |
Responsibilities:He has been an exclusive expert fabric softener consultant for Evonik Corp until 2009. He has consulted with many clients concerning new fabric softener product development and fabric softener formulations worldwide. With over 18 years experience in this field, he is both known for his accomplishments and work in the this area and his technology that he has developed over the years. At which time he is a non-exclusive consultant in the fabric softener area. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1999 to 2005 | Employer: Degussa Corp. | Title: Sr. Technology Manager | Department: Textile Care Group |
Responsibilities:He was responsible for managing and supervising research acitivities for research staff in the development of new advanced technologies in the area of detergents and fabric softeners. He was responsible for the innovation of new fabric softener technology and with working with both large and small customers on problems and answers to their needs in the marketplace. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1992 to 1999 | Employer: Witco Corp. | Title: Senior Scientist | Department: Fabric Care Group |
Responsibilities:He designed and developed new novel technologies for biodegradable fabric softeners for the global marketplace. He worked with customers and solved product formulation problems which were causing difficulties in the marketplace. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1981 to 1999 | Employer: Sherex Chemical Company | Title: Scientist | Department: Mining Chemicals Group |
Responsibilities:He worked in the Mining Chemicals Dept. with the development of novel and improved products in the areas of coal, sulfides, potash and iron ore. He developed a totally new line of chemicals within Sherex for the coal area including coal flotation, freeze conditioning agents and dewatering aids. He also worked in the Amine and Quaternary Ammonium Salt chemistry areas where he synthesized new chemistries. He developed new prodcuts in the industrial car and home care product areas and scaled up product powdering from lab to large scale commercial equipment. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1979 to 1981 | Employer: Battelle Memorial Institute | Title: Researcher | Department: Materials Development Dept. |
Responsibilities:He worked in the development of new technology in the area of mineral processing especially relating to selective flocculation. He wrote proposal for new contracts and conducted a wide range of research endeavors in the mineral processing area. |
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International Experience
| Years | Country / Region | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Years: 1991 to 2007 | Country / Region: Asia (including Australia, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, China, Japan and Thailand | Summary: He has traveled in all these many countries in Asia many times during the time period described providing technical and expert advise on fabric softener innovations and product formulations. He has worked in many labs all over the world with customers helping them with formulating rinse cycle softeners to meet their specific customer product needs. He has given seminars many times in these countries to educate them on the formulation and production of fabric softeners. |
Career Accomplishments
| Associations / Societies |
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| American Oil Chemist's Society |
| Awards / Recognition |
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| American Oil Chemist's Rosen Award (2006) Witco Scientist of the year (1999) Sherex Patent Incentive Award (1987) |
| Publications and Patents Summary |
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| He has over 12 publications and over 25 U.S. and World Patents |
Additional Experience
| Training / Seminars |
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| He has presented in depth training seminars for clients in the area of fabric softener formulations (theory and practice). |
| Marketing Experience |
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| He is a global expert in the area of fabric softeners. Spending over 18 years in the field, he has both worked in the lab to developed new biodegradable fabric softener molecules, developed new, novel softener formulations and handle complex customer formulation issues as well as helping customers in their plants, scaling up softener formulations from assembling the equipment for formulation manufacturing through the final bottling process. With over 30 patents and receiving many awards for his work in the softener area (American Oil Chemists Rosen Award 2006)), Witco Corp. Scientist of the Year 1999, he is well known and respected for both is knowledge and innovation. He has traveled many times to Asia as a technical expert helping with formulations and innovations in the fabric softener area. He has knowledge of the global markets, the technologies being used and the players (strengths and weakness) in the marketplace. |
Fields of Expertise
fabric softener, innovation, laundry, new product development, product formulation, product improvement, product manufacturing, product testing, surface chemistry, surfactant chemistry, commercialization, mineral recovery, new consumer product development, mineral extraction, laundry facility, commercial laundry facility, hospital laundry facility, institutional laundry facility, column flotation, aqueous suspension, contact angle measurement, performance, product development cycle time, new product design, laundry equipment, design for manufacturability, research and development, research and development management, new product development management, design process, selective flocculation, research and development productivity, production control, mineral, mineral processing, micelle, froth flotation, defoaming, detergent, colloid and interface chemistry, cleaning agent