Plastics Design

Glenn Beall, Glenn Beall Plastics Ltd.
Beall owned Glenn Beall Engineering, a plastics product design and development company, from 1968 to 1993, and after retiring from that company, he established and is currently president of Glenn Beall Plastics, Ltd., a plastics consulting business.

Dr. Emile Homsi, BASF Performance Polymers
Dr. Emile Homsi currenlty leads a ‘Commercial Technology team’ that is responsible for business development applications spanning various industry segments for BASF Performance Polymers’ business unit.

Chul Lee, BASF
Chul Lee, an Applications Technology Leader at BASF, has been involved with plastics applications and developmental activities for the past three decades.

Gretchen Leighliter, Teknor Color Company
Gretchen Leighliter has 20 years of experience with plastics colorant technology. She manages the color laboratory at Teknor Color Company’s manufacturing facility in Lodi, OH.

Michael Sepe, Private Consultant
Michael Sepe's involvement in the plastics industry since 1975 lends credibility to his expertise in research, development and manufacturing of plastics applications.

Vishu Shah, Consultek
Vishu Shah is an author, instructor, and President of Consultek, a Technical and Management consulting firm for the plastics industry. He is a graduate of UMASS Lowell Plastics Engineering program.

Bob Trinklein, Teknor Color Company
Bob currently works as Color Technology Manager for Teknor Color Company, where his responsibilities include internal and external color education, ERP implementation, corporate quality programs, and the Teknor Color R&D Lab.

Plastics Processing

John Bozzelli, Scienfic Injection Molding
Competent in resin characterization and analysis, John's specialty is practical, hands-on injection molding training with both small and large machines.

Ottmar Brandau, OB Plastics Consulting
Mr. Brandau started out as service engineer for Bekum, Germany and has worked for Husky Injection Molding Systems, Canada and the distributor for Magic mpa, Italy, He has started his own consulting firm in 1997.

Mike Brostedt, Gammaflux
Mike Brostedt is the Director of Market Development for Gammaflux.  He has been with Gammaflux since 1994 and has served the company in a variety of sales and marketing roles.

Tim Cutler, Dyna-Purge
Tim and his staff work with thousands of processors to implement standard operating procedures for purging. Tim has worked for the Dyna-Purge division of Shuman Plastics since 2001 as their Business Manager.

Allan Griff
Allan Griff is an extrusion consultant and educator who's been working with plastics extrusion since 1955 -- first as a technical service engineer with Union Carbide Plastics, and then independent since 1961.

Bob Hatch
Bob Hatch is one of the leading on-the-spot problem solvers in the molding industry. Currently, he writes articles for Injection Molding Magazine under the pseudonym The Troubleshooter.

Randy Hough
His main emphasis has been CNC EDM and the hand work side of mold making. At present Randy is involved in web site work regarding plastic injection molding/mold making as a means to make use of some of his accumulated knowledge.

Jay Shoemaker, Moldflow
Jay has co-authored and presented 16 papers on education and the application of Moldflow products for various SPE publications and trade show events. He is also the editor of the 2006 edition of the Moldflow Design Guide.

Suhas Kulkarni, FIMMTECH
Suhas is the President of FIMMTECH, a consulting firm that specializes in services related to injection molding.

Shane O'Connor, Plastic Components Inc.
Shane has been the point engineer of Plastic Compoents since 2003. Obtaining a BSMET, his experience also includes Magma Flow Technology.

Plastic Materials Information

Brad Cleveland, The Protomold Company
Brad Cleveland has been the president and CEO of The Protomold Company, Inc. since November of 2001. Prior to Protomold he was cofounder and vice president of AeroMet Corporation, a laser additive manufacturing company and subsidiary of MTS Systems Corporation.

Steve Gerbig, DSM Engineering Plastics
With 40 years of experience in the plastics industry, Steve Gerbig has collected a vast amount of expertise in the area of engineering plastics.  Since 1981, Steve has worked within DSM Engineering Plastics as a technical service engineer, market development specialist, product manager, and currently the technical support manager.

Ben Howe, IDES Inc.
Ben Howe has several years of experience in mechanical engineering and plastic materials expertise. As a content manager for IDES Inc., he's responsible for the management of 77543 unique grades of plastic material data sheets.

Dr. Mike Kmetz, IDES Inc.
Mike Kmetz is the President of IDES. Dr. Kmetz has significant experience in the plastics industry and provides insightful articles that focus on polymer selection.

Nic Maennling, Standards Consultant
Since 1993, Mr. Maennling has been the International Secretary of TC 89. He is a Standards Consultant working out of Lanark, Ontario, Canada.

Richard Rabe, RTP Company
Richard Rabe is the Thermoplastic Elastomer (TPE) Technology Manager at RTP Company. He has over 17 years experience working with TPEs in material, process and application development. Dr. Rabe has nine TPE related patents issued with three pending. He is also a board member of the TPE special interest group (TPE-SIG) of SPE.

Plastics Sales & Marketing

Anglea Charles, Polysort LLC
Angela is an expert in Internet marketing and a sought-after speaker for meetings and Internet marketing presentations.  She joined Polysort in 1995 from Crain Communications, where she helped launch Plastics News in 1989 and Waste News in 1995.

Josh Dorrell, IDES Inc.
Josh Dorrell is the director of new business development for IDES and enjoys finding creative ways to help customers promote their business.

Melissa Jones, IDES Inc.
Melissa is the Prospector Sales Manager. She is responsible for Prospector sales, renewals and training.  Dedicated to ensuring that customers feel extremely pleased when using IDES’ products and services, she is the resident expert on the Prospector Tool and is available to answer any question reguarding it. She runs the weekly webinar training as well as special training for businesses using the Prospector Tool or interested in it.

Nathan Potter, IDES Inc.
Nathan is the Marketing Manager for IDES and is responsible for creating, managing and measuring all marketing campaigns. He joined IDES in 2000 and has held mid to high-level sales and marketing positions for Winter Park Ski Resort and PlanetClick.com, a democratic search engine that developed technologies later adopted by Google™.