Blown Plastic Film and Extrusion Consultant
Plastic film design and manufacturing expert
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Expert consultant and specialist in plastic film design, manufacturing, trouble-shooting and conversion. Ample experience in working with customers to identify and convert market needs into product performance requirements, anticipating failure modes and translating into specifications. Film resin selection to extrude mono or multilayer films and/or complementary film substrates to build multi-functional layer structures to conform to required product applications and performance requirements within available film manufacturing capabilities and constraints.
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- 30+ years of experience in the design and manufacture of film products and their conversion - printing, laminating, and finishing - into product forms suitable for their intended application.
- Experienced in reading, understanding, and preparing product specification sheets as well as establishing BOM and selecting/sequencing manufacturing processes. Well versed in quality control methods and in laboratory testing to establish conformance/failure to re-engineer products. Directed testing and quality control systems have applied GMP and TQM.
- Solid understanding and knowledge of film manufacturing and converting equipment and of the structure and properties of polyolefins as well as of a multitude of film structures, and the methods to improve and vary performance (barriers, stiffness, seal ability, formability, clarity, strength etc.) to obtain the simplest structure to fit the design parameters.
- Frequent seminar presentations and technical speaker at conferences on Blow Film and Converting operations including Latin Pack
- Good analytical and problem solving skills combined with outstanding relational capabilities allow me to integrate solutions and relate well to others
- Excellent communication skills and ability to explain/present complex issues to manufacturers and in simple terms
- Perfectly fluent in English and Spanish.
Experience
Independent Consultant
2001 - Present
Southern Cone-South America - Sun Chemical, Inc.
1998 - 2001
General Manager
Ellehammer Industries, Inc.
1990 - 1998
V.P Manufacturing and Technology
Lecofilms and Polyhouse
1988 - 1990
Plant & Technical Manager
Plastimag
1978 - 1988
Plant and Technology Manager
Independent Consultant
2001 - Present
- Operations improvement to blown film converters in North and South America
- Film resin selection, selection of processes and vendors to manufacture a flexible structure to be utilized to construct a 100 liter bioreactor-container to provide an outdoor service life of 6+ years while hanging- continually loaded - and subjected to frequent chemical cleaning of the inner surfaces.
Southern Cone-South America - Sun Chemical, Inc.
1998 - 2001
General Manager
- Ink systems for flexible packaging film converters.
Ellehammer Industries, Inc.
1990 - 1998
V.P Manufacturing and Technology
- Blown film extrusion and converting, USA and Canada plants
Lecofilms and Polyhouse
1988 - 1990
Plant & Technical Manager
- Blown film extrusion and converting, Toronto Canada
Plastimag
1978 - 1988
Plant and Technology Manager
- Blown film extrusion and converting, Santa Marta, Colombia SA
Education
Publications
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- Chemical Engineer- B.A.Sc.- Bachelor of Applied Science in Chem Eng, U. of Windsor, Canada
- MBA- Master of Business Administration University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
- MA&FM- Master of Accounting and Financial Management, De Vry University – US (2006)
Publications
- Click here to read a paper from Ricardo on seal thinning
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