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Expert has over 20 years of experience in the metal container industry with specific emphasis in can manufacturing, R&D, interior and exterior can coatings, can evaluation, cost reduction analysis, chemical/ physical testing of can components and canned products, and can filling of beer, beverages, processed foods, aerosols, and paint. Expert can consult on can specifications, can filling, can troubleshooting, can defects, can manufacturing problems, filled can failure, can rusting/corrosion; can coating (including interior) failure, leakage problem in filled cans, analysis of metal pick up in beverage cans, corrosion inhibitors in canned food and beverage cans, tinplate specifications, three piece tinplate cans, two piece aluminum cans.

Expert is knowledgeable in the metal container technology, metal container manufacturing process, metal can manufacture and filling, aerosol can manufacture and filling, metal decoration, coating of metal surfaces, interior and exterior can coatings, and printing on tinplates and aluminum cans, draw-redraw, draw and iron metal cans, and beer and beverage two-piece aluminum cans.

Expert is an independent technical consultant in the metal container (cans) industry (including beer and beverage cans, sanitary cans, aerosol cans, paint cans, industrial products cans); the canning/filling of metal containers. He is also knowledgeable of can corrosion, can inhibitors, and can specifications test packs. Along with major can manufacturers, Expert has conducted lab and field tests on materials for metal containers. He is familiar with tinplates, aluminum can coatings (interior and exterior), varnishes, and inks for metal decorations. The testing also included instrumental (IR, AA, and GC) and chemical analysis.

Expert has designed and evaluated test packs using the above methods of analysis to determine shelf life of canned goods. Expert was in charge of specifying interior coatings and tinplate containers for packing various products such as beer and beverage; aerosol; fruit and vegetable; paint; industrial; and personal care products (e.g. shaving cream and deodorants). He has evaluated test packs and container-product compatibility. Expert has worked closely with suppliers of raw materials such as tinplate and coatings, production personnel and can fillers by conducting hands-on testing to evaluate, troubleshoot, and provide technical service to manufacturing. He developed over 40 analytical methods that include the use of IR, AA, GC, and corrosion testers for predicting the shelf life of the container. He prepared complete quality assurance/quality control manuals for can manufacturing and incorporated the use of the computer, when in its infant stage, in these areas. Additionally, he has ensured plant compliance with environmental regulations.

Having served as an expert witness, Expert has resolved customer claims valued at $0.5 to 1.0 million dollars, and defended his clients through the clients' attorneys. He has also approved raw material vendors of tinplate, coatings, and varnishes. Expert's hands-on experience includes interior/exterior coating recommendations and identifications, container-product compatibility, tinplate specifications, shelf-life evaluation, and determination of container failure for product improvement or litigation purposes. He has conducted corrosion studies on various products in tinplate containers using galvanic cell principles to estimate the shelf life of canned goods for warranty purposes. Expert has worked as a liaison between the container manufacturer and the container packers/fillers. The troubleshooting process involved investigating both the container and the product to determine the source of failure.

Experienced in flexo printing on corrugated boards and flexo ink formulation, Expert has recommended the best flexo ink, printing plate, and anilox roll to ensure best print quality. He has also helped customers comply with environmental issues related to solvents and inks. He has made improvements on existing ink formulas through testing and actual application using customer equipment. In order to help his customers improve print quality, Expert conducts training seminars at customer plants. The seminars cover flexo printing on corrugated board with bleached, mottled, and natural kraft liners. Additionally, the seminars address how to maintain presses and keep printing plates and anilox rolls in good condition.

Expert was responsible for performing test packs for aerosol cans stored at room temperature and elevated temperatures to evaluate the corrosivity of the product and make recommendations as to the best coating system and best tin plate compatible for that product. Corrosion testing was also incorporated to expedite the process of selecting the appropriate can specifications for that product. Corrosion test curves, corrosion currents, etc., were used to predict the corrosion potential of the product with the chosen product.

Working with the can manufacturing industry in the areas of resolving customer complaints, applied research, and research and development for 20 years, Expert obtained the needed analytical skills, knowledge, and experience to resolve complex field problems in the can manufacturing plants, and customers' filling plants. His expertise in these areas made him indispensable to his employers especially in the sales department. In addition, Expert helped many clients in the metal container industry in resolving complaints and working with the client attorney, and providing technical information to help clients in ongoing research projects.

Expert spent the first 13 years of his work career in the analytical chemistry field, the last four years of which he spent as analytical lab supervisor. He performed analysis on beer and beverage, fruit and vegetables, foodstuff, organic coatings such as epoxy, acrylic, phenolic, and vinyl coatings, oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, and carbon in pure chemicals, as well as other products such as petroleum and textile. In the process of the analysis, Expert used analytical instruments such as the atomic absorption, gas chromatograph, infrared spectrometers, and corrosion testing instruments, as well as wet chemical analysis.

While with Southern Can Company, Expert developed a new procedure to test the shelf life of numerous corrosive products such as oven cleaners, using corrosion testing instrumentations. The method reduced the testing period to few days instead of three, six, nine, and 12 months, at room temperature or elevated temperature storage. The method was considered a great success in the company and helped expedite approval of certain coating and tinplate combination with certain products, hence, promoted sales.

While working in the anilox roll industry, one of the methods recommended to clean the anilox rolls was the ultrasonic cleaning system. Expert worked with the customers to perfect the ultrasonic cleaning systems to avoid damaging the surface of the anilox roll. The setting on the equipment, solution alkalinity or acidity, temperature of the solution, speed, and duration of the cleaning cycle were very important factors to keep the system under control. Many a time, when some of the above conditions were not set right, the customer would end up damaging the anilox roll and submitting claim to the supplier of the anilox roll.

Expert helped a client win over half a million dollars in a lawsuit against his can supplier by proving that the interior enamel of the cans were inadequately applied. He provided another client with complete descriptions and illustrations of various can lines including two-piece aluminum cans, a peel-easy aluminum end line, a sanitary can production line, and a sanitary tinplate end line. Expert did consulting work for a client in a flexo printing box plant where he helped re-formulating and matching colors at the press side and assisted the press personnel in achieving the best print quality. The process lasted two months. The customer was completely satisfied for saving the account from going to a competitor. He made presentation to a customer on the manufacturing process of two-piece aluminum cans. Expert did consulting work for another customer in the flexo printing area where he determined the cause of score lines in the anilox roll and helped the client correct such condition, and identified the cause of poor printing and made the appropriate recommendations.