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Plastics Marketing and Design in the Automotive Industry

ID: 727328 Michigan, USA

Expert has worked with thermoset and thermoplastic resins in the automotrive industry specifying polymers and performing engineering design work for over twenty years. During a large portion of these years he has been engaged in the marketing of engineering thermoplastic polymers, working heavily with OEM and first tier engineers in the selection of polymers to meet specific performance requirements.

He has consulted on the high performance thermoplastic area of the automotive industry, discussing the requirements and fit of high temperature polymers, discussing the market demand and cost pressures as well as the alternatives. While employed for(Undisclosed) he reviewed nearly on a weekly basis the problems, the requirements, and alternative polymer solutions for automotive applications for tier-1 suppliers and on occassion OEMs.

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Education

Year	Degree	Subject	Institution
Year: 1974	Degree: MS	Subject: Physics	Institution: Bowling Green State University
Year: 1969	Degree: BS	Subject: Physics	Institution: Findaly College

Work History

Years	Employer	Title	Department
Years: 2005 to 2008	Employer: undisclosed	Title: Sr. Dev. Specialist	Department: Undisclosed
Responsibilities: He performed marketing application development with the key objective of identifying mainly PPA applications and in doing so also develop new customers. His primary contacts were engineers at the OEM, tier-one and tier-two level where the major topic was application engineering requirements, design feasibility for metal conversion to plastic. He also coordinated technical resources, performed necessary engineering calculations to confirm fit of the polymer product to the application. He developed valve actuation components business, transmission components, thermostat housings, engine mounts, caliper bushings at existing and new accounts.

International Experience

Years	Country / Region	Summary
Years: 1995 to 1995	Country / Region: Japan	Summary: He made a presentation to a Japanese high temperature polymer manufacturer and sales group on the automotive market fit for the PPS, its advantages and fit in solving design problems.

Career Accomplishments

Associations / Societies
He has had a one of his SAE papers published in a special edition plastics design book and has had his design and analysis work on an ATV bumper and rack system patented by Polaris. In addition to multiple SAE papers on plastic design, he has also presented papers to SPI and the National Design Engineering Conference.

Awards / Recognition
He was elected to Sigma Pi Sigma National Physics Honor Society in graduate school.

Publications and Patents Summary
He has one patent and one patent application made by companies at which he was employed, these pertaining to plastics design and processing. He has published four papers all dealing with plastics design.

Fields of Expertise

plastic resin, polymer marketing, market assessment, polymer application, polymer