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Prof. Steven Abbott
Steven Abbott TCNF
Email: steven@stevenabbott.co.uk
Website: www.stevenabbott.co.uk
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Professor Steven Abbott studied chemistry at U. Oxford then did his Oxford PhD at Harvard. His post-doc research was in the lab of Nobel Prize winner, Prof. J-M Lehn in Strasbourg. He worked for 15 years at ICI on polymer and coating science then became Research Director at Autotype near Oxford who specialize in coatings onto polyester and polycarbonate films. As a way of bringing coating science into development and productionisation he partnered with the coatings research group at U. Leeds and subsequently became a Visiting Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering. With colleagues from U. Leeds he developed TopCoat and TopWeb that are used throughout the converting industry to help optimizing coating and converting conditions and solve real-world production problems.
When he retired from Autotype he set up Steven Abbott TCNF, where T=Technical Software, C=Coating/Printing, N=Nanocoatings and F=Formulation. His software includes Hansen Solubility Parameters in Practice that aids the understanding of solubility issues, Optimal Surfactant that helps understand surfactant formulations, Formulating For Efficacy the helps optimizing delivery of active molecules to the skin, Surface Profiler that helps understand surface roughness phenomena. He is currently working on an adhesion modeller to provide insights into the various mechanisms of adhesion. This will be used on his AIMCAL Adhesion & Adhesives 2-day training course.
With his broad interests he has published papers, gained patents and spoken at conferences in a wide range of subjects from data storage to organic photovoltaics, from oil-field corrosion to geomembranes, from coating science to surfactant optimization for cosmetics manufacture.
Although he loves pure science, his passion is applying science to real-world production. Because he finds that he often doesn’t understand a subject just by reading papers and equations he has to write programs to bring the academic science to life. His hope is that these models and the science behind them can help others to troubleshoot their own development and production issues. |
Dr. Charles A. Bishop
C.A.Bishop Consulting Ltd
Email: cabuk8@btinternet.com
Website: www.cabuk1.co.uk
Blog: www.convertingquarterly.com/blogs/vacuum-web-coating.aspx
On leaving school at 16 Charles served a four-year Craft Apprenticeship in Mechanical Engineering. During this time he also studied to gain O.N.C. and H.N.C in mechanical engineering at the local Technical College.
On completing the apprenticeship as a Toolmaker, winning a ‘Best student’ award on the way, he entered Loughborough University and studied for a B.Sc. in Materials Engineering. On gaining an Honours degree and a Diploma in Industrial Studies he moved to the Physics Department to research into vacuum deposition processes and went on to gain both an M.Phil. and Ph.D. by research and thesis.
After a period of time as a post-doctoral research scientist at University where Charles also took on consultancy work he was headhunted into Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI plc). His first position in ICI was as a senior research scientist in Surface Engineering within the New Science Group. During his time within ICI he worked for business as diverse as Nylons, Polyesters, Explosives, Imagedata and Flex Products Inc. Projects included taking laboratory processes through to production, the technical input during the company selection process for the acquisition of a vacuum deposition company, troubleshooting a new $45M explosives production line, technology scanning to provide new technologies as part of a route to new markets as well as numerous smaller product development tasks. During this time, work was carried out in the USA and Europe as well as the UK.
In December 1998 Charles elected to return to consultancy work and established his own business, C.A.Bishop Consulting Ltd., offering help on all aspects of vacuum deposition including system design, process development and scale-up, process control, plasma surface treatments and coatings, as well as troubleshooting existing processes and running training courses.
Charles has published over 60 technical papers, has 5 patents and has conducted training courses in the UK, USA, India and Europe. In 2007 his book Vacuum Deposition onto Webs, Films & Foils was published and this was followed in 2010 by a second book Roll-to-roll vacuum deposition of barrier coatings. |
Jerry Brown
Essex Systems
Email: jlbrown1@optonline.net
Website: www.essexsys.com
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Jerry Brown began his career in web handling in 1960 at Fife Corporation, one of the leading manufacturers of web guiding systems. He was involved with a wide variety of web-fed processes and made many important contributions to the early development and application of web handling equipment. Among these are:
- Independently discovered the normal entry rule in 1960, allowing Fife to become the first company in the U.S. to design web guide applications with predictable dynamic performance.
- Conceptualized, in collaboration with an associate, the first bearing system that used more than two linear bearings to support steering rollers.
- Developed numerous optical sensors and electronic control systems for applications in converting, textiles and metals.
- Led the development of the world’s first microprocessor-based online nuclear thickness gauge.
In 1997 Jerry became an independent web handling consultant. He is a regular participant in web handling conferences sponsored by the Web Handling Research Center at Oklahoma State University and by AIMCAL. He has developed a modeling method based on elasticity theory and commercially available FEA software that precisely predicts the lateral behavior of webs in situations that are beyond the reach of other methods, such as the spreading action of concave and curved-axis rollers.
Believing strongly in the importance of hands-on engineering, he has constructed a laboratory machine for demonstrating and studying lateral web behavior and is thus the only independent web handling consultant with a lab machine in his basement.
He has a BSc in physics and math from Oklahoma State University. |
Dr. Edward D. Cohen
Edward D Cohen Consulting
Email: cohened146@aol.com
Website: www.edcohenconsulting.com
Blog: www.convertingquarterly.com/blogs/web-coating.aspx
Dr. Cohen is a technical consultant in all aspects of the web coating process. His expertise is in the coating and drying of thin films, coating process development and scale-up, polyester base development, film defect mechanisms, defect characterization techniques, litigation support and professional development activities for scientists.
Dr. Cohen has many years of experience in coating research and manufacturing technology with the DuPont Company, retired as a DuPont Fellow, and as a consultant.. He has extensive publications in the field and has published several books and articles for industry publications. Currently he is Technical Consultant for AIMCAL. He was founding president of the International Society of Coating Science and Technology. He has a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Tufts University and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Delaware. His honors are the John Tallmadge Award for Contributions to Coating technology and the AIMCAL President's award. |
Larry Gogolin
Gogolin & Associates
Email: lgogolin@gogolincoating.com
Website: www.gogolincoating.com
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As a principal at Gogolin & Associates, Larry Gogolin consults in dozens of industries, which use web coating applications and helps clients develop and improve coating processes and select equipment.
He also evaluates coating companies, helps clients find contract coating firms and teaches seminars in coating technology.
Prior to becoming a technical consultant in the process, chemical and coating areas in 1988, Larry spent 23 years at Polaroid Corp. where he managed the quality and technical support groups. He also led the technical group that contracted Polaroid's excess coating capacity to external customers and helped develop specifications and sourcing for new coating equipment.
Larry has a Masters in Engineering Management and a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering. |
Dr. Dilwyn P. Jones
Emral Ltd
Email: dpjones@emral.co.uk
Website: www.emral.co.uk
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Dilwyn Jones is a Consultant in Materials Science and Engineering, working through his company Emral Ltd based in the North East of England. He graduated from the University of Cambridge with First Class Honours in Natural Sciences, and stayed on to complete a PhD in Low Temperature Physics. He then joined ICI (Imperial Chemical Industries) where he worked on the processing and properties of polymers at their laboratories in Welwyn Garden City and Wilton, and during secondments to Cranfield Institute of Technology and the ICI production facility at Hopewell, Virginia. He moved to DuPont in 1998, along with ICI’s Polyester Film business. He set up his consultancy business in 2000, and works with clients worldwide on web handling, polymer processing and properties, static charge, training, software development and Finite Element Analysis, bringing a blend of fundamental understanding, modelling and practical application.
As a specialist in Polyester Film technology from 1984, he has been involved with winding and web handling since that time. He provides technical support to Rheologic Ltd for their “TopWeb” web handling software. He has attended all but one of the International Web Handling Conferences, presented a Keynote Address in 2001 and won Best Paper awards in 2007 and 2011. He has presented papers and tutorials at all of AIMCAL’s Applied Web Handling Conferences. He served on the committee of the Printing and Graphics Science Group of the Institute of Physics from 2000-2010, chairing the group for 4 years through a successful relaunch. In all, he has authored 15 journal papers and 42 conference presentations. |
Clarence Klassen
KlassENgineering
Email: cklassen@klassen.on.ca
Website: www.klassen.on.ca
Blog: www.convertingquarterly.com/blogs/drives-for-web-handling.aspx
President. Designated Consulting Engineer with Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO). KlassENgineering was incorporated in 1999. Clarence applies 31 years in the Pulp and Paper industry to solving problems with drives for web handling. He has 10 years of experience as a drives engineer with GE Canada and 10 years of experience with Opcode Systems Inc., a PLC and Drives Systems Integrator. Much of Clarence's experience was gained in onsite installation of new equipment and troubleshooting of existing equipment. KlassENgineering performs Pre-Start Health and Safety Reviews as required by the Ontario Ministry of Labour. |
Dr. Kenneth McCarthy
Clean Room Coating Solutions
Email: kenclnrm@prodigy.net
Website: www.cleanroomcoatingsolutions.com
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Ken McCarthy has over 35 years of experience, primarily related to coating, at Polaroid and most recently at Multilayer Coating Technologies LLC until it closed in November, 2007. Since then, he has formed a consulting service, Clean Room Coating Solutions. His areas of expertise include coating fluid mix preparation and delivery, coating operations, clean room operations, coating applicator design, environmental management, and new product development. In addition, he has extensive experience in new product translation, from laboratory through scale-up into full-scale manufacturing. He has three patents related to Polaroid product development.
Ken received a PhD and MS in Chemical Engineering from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame. |
Dr. Donald J. McClure
Acuity Consulting and Training
Email: AcuityCT@hotmail.com
Website: www.linkedin.com/in/donacuitymcclure
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Don developed his skills as a vacuum roll-to-roll coating specialist during a 25 year career in 3M. He has worked on an extraordinarily broad range of programs in that arena that include coating process development, product development and launch, coating out-sourcing, new machine design and specification, coater modification, project management, cost modeling, patent strategy development, and acquisitions. He has taught a variety of courses on vacuum web coating and sputtering across the US and in China. His classes have been reviewed as highly accessible and immediately useful.
His vacuum roll coating and processing career includes efforts on the metallization of reflectors for automotive, optical, space, and display applications; preparation of vacuum-deposited videotape; coating of conductors for both high performance and low cost flexible circuit constructions; coating of transparent conductors for displays, touch screens, and architectural glazing applications (including switchable windows); coatings for lithium battery electrodes and fuel cell catalysts; demonstration of flexible thin film transistor arrays; thin film optical design; and etching of polymer surfaces for adhesion enhancement. He has published much of this work and holds 19 issued patents. Before his career at 3M, he spent 5 years at IBM's corporate research facility and 2 years at Bell Labs. He earned undergraduate degrees in chemistry and math and a PhD in physical chemistry. He served the Society of Vacuum Coaters as President and Secretary. He was awarded the SVC's highest honor, the Nathaniel Sugerman Award, in 2004. |
Dr. Eldridge M. Mount
EMMOUNT Technologies
Email: emmount@earthlink.net
Website: www.emmount-technologies.com
Blog: www.convertingquarterly.com/blogs/substrate-secrets.aspx
Dr. Mount earned a BA in Chemistry and an ME and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering. A specialist in polymer processing, He joined ICI Americas in 1978 where he did screw design and biaxially oriented polyester film manufacturing and orientation process research. In 1981 he joined Mobil Chemical Films Division performing manufacturing research, biaxially oriented polypropylene product and process design and high barrier metallized film development. He holds five United States and two European patents, in the field of metallized films and high barrier metallized films. His research has encompassed metallization process and product design for OPP films, Clear barrier coatings, atmospheric and vacuum based film surface treatment, film treatment system specification and start up, polypropylene, polyester and polyethylene extruder screw design and characterization, film coextrusion process studies and trouble shooting.
Dr. Mount has been an industrial scientist and research Manager for 25 years with a strong manufacturing focus and has worked as an expert witness and managed the Intellectual Property Process. He is currently principal consultant for EMMOUNT Technologies. |
Dr. David Roisum
Finishing Technologies Inc.
Email: drroisum@aol.com
Website: www.roisum.com
Blog: www.convertingquarterly.com/blogs/web-handling-and-converting.aspx
Dr. David Roisum of Finishing Technologies is a well-known authority in web handling and converting. He has authored eight books and more than 100 papers and articles such as his monthly Web Works column in Converting magazine. His background includes a variety of web manufacturing and converting experiences. At Beloit Corp. he was a machine designer and then research manager for winders. At the Web Handling Research Center he served as an advisor and helped set up their pilot lab. At Kimberly-Clark he worked as an internal converting consultant to all business units. Finally, as an independent consultant, he helps troubleshoot a variety of problems in the paper, film, foil, nonwoven and textile industries. He has visited nearly 1,000 plants in his more than 30 years of experience.
An accomplished professional speaker and instructor, he is noted for his skill in translating highly technical information into a common sense, practical reference. He has been honored several times with TAPPI's Finest Faculty Award based on the positive feedback from short course attendees. More than 5,000 students have attended his own courses including the ever-popular Web Handling and Converting. |
David Rumson
Slitting Educator/Consultant
Email: drumson@maine.rr.com
Website: drumson.wordpress.com
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Dave Rumson is a Slitting Educator/Consultant with over 23 years of Roll /Shaft Handling, Un-wind/Rewind equipment and Web Slitting experience. The past 10 years were with Dienes USA and Sigmala, Ltd.; the latter having developed a computer/servo-motor controlled shear knife holder.
For 18+ years Dave has developed and conducted technical presentations for CEMA, AIMCAL and TAPPI. 10 of those years included numerous nationwide employer sponsored public and private Shear Slitting, Crush Cutting and Razor Slitting Seminars.
In 2006 and 2008 Dave Co-Chaired the AIMCAL AWEB Conferences; presenting Innovative Web Converting Technologies for the Paper, Film, Foil, Nonwovens, Coating and Laminating Industries. In 2008 he won the Matteucci Technical Excellence Award for Best Paper/Presentation; “A Paradigm Shift for Converting Shear Slitting Technologies.” Dave currently serves as a CEMA Trustee and on AIMCAL’s AWEB Committee.
Dave’s past includes Director/Instructor for Interaction Management, a supervisor/employee relations training program; Editor and developer of Dienes Corporation’s Shear and Crush Cutting Guide Books; Author of numerous technical papers relating to web cutting operations and techniques. Dave is a currently a technical article contributor to AIMCAL’s Quarterly Magazine, a new technical publication and Website for the web-processing, converting and finishing industry.
Current located in Scarborough, ME, Dave can be reached at 860-256-5658, or drumson@maine.rr.com. |
Richard Swisher
Swisher & Associates
Email: rswisher@deskmedia.com
Website: www.linkedin.com/pub/richard-swisher/8/b85/
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Dick received his undergraduate degrees in Math and Physics in 1963. In 1968 he finally finished a Master's Degree in Space Physics under Dr. Van Allen at the U. of Iowa. He changed careers from launching things to helping make things in order to feed the family adequately. He joined Sheldahl that year to help develop a patented solid state, flat screen television display. The patent for the TV screen didn't actually work. However the thin film materials and processes developed in the attempt, led to innovative portable X-Ray image intensifiers, IR image intensifiers, and low visible light image intensifiers that were of great interest to the US government. After this several coatings were developed for use on adaptive, deceptive, or just stealthy space decoys. Along the way roll-to-roll coating of Bismuth films on polymers with immediate in-tank hot lamination was developed to make laser tracing films for situation displays.
Most of his interesting deposition experiences have been in evaporating very thick coatings of metals onto a variety of polymers and other webs. This has involved Lead, Tin, Bismuth, Aluminum, Copper, Silver, Gold, and Lithium.
He holds seven US patents in thin film coatings and five of them are making money for people. His most recent large projects were evaporating Copper for use in flexible printed circuitry.
His current focus is helping some people try to make the world's lowest cost, brightest solar mirrors for concentrating solar energy hybrid power plants.
He retired from Sheldahl in May 2006. He hopes that his prolific entries in the "Journal of Failed Experiments" can be of use to help others avoid some potholes in the road to success. |
Timothy J. Walker
TJWalker+Associates Inc
Email: tjwalker@tjwa.com
Website: www.tjwa.com
Blog: www.pffc-online.com/web-lines
Timothy J. Walker is a web handling, winding, laminating, and slitting specialist with 25 years experience in process development, production support, and technical education. He is president of TJWalker+Associates Inc, providing services in web-based processes and technology management. Tim estimates over 4000 people have attended his web handling training over the years, mostly in private on-site classes.
Before starting his own company in 1999, Tim was corporate web handling technology leader for 3M, leading 3M’s web handling process development lab and their corporate process technology management committee. Tim served for many years on the Industrial Advisory Board at Oklahoma State University’s Web Handling Research Center and co-taught their “Application Seminar on Web Handling” course.
Tim has presented several papers over the years at the International Conference on Web Handling and helps organize the semi-annual AIMCAL Web Handling Conference since 2006. Tim leads the unique Web Handling Workshop series held at Optimation in Rochester, NY. Tim has written a monthly column for Paper, Film, and Foil Converter magazine (Web Lines) since 2003, now totaling over 100 columns, all available at www.pffc-online.com/web-lines.
Tim has a Master’s in Management of Technology from the University of Minnesota and a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Iowa. He resides in Saint Paul, MN, with his wife (Lisa), son (Horace), and twin daughters (Juno and Johna). His hobbies used to include golfing and ice fishing, but now he is more active in Hot Wheels and Lego. Tim has a collection of over 15,000 comic books. |
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