CM Interviews

Q&A – NASCAR Champion Supports Composites Integration

February 21, 2012
Q&A – NASCAR Champion Supports Composites Integration

Rusty Wallace raced NASCAR circuits from 1979 until 2005, winning 55 NASCAR Cup wins over the course of his career. During this time, Wallace also built his own cars and until recently continued to work with his own racing team at Rusty Wallace Racing. As the keynote speaker at COMPOSITES 2012, February 21-23 in...

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Q&A – R.J. Marshall Prepares for COMPOSITES, and Growth

February 14, 2012
Q&A – R.J. Marshall Prepares for COMPOSITES, and Growth

Timothy C. Price is vice president of The R. J. Marshall Company, which offers a broad base of products to the cast polymer market. He’s also general manager of Alpine Milled Glass, which specializes in the engineering and manufacture of milled glass products. Prior to joining The R.J. Marshall Company in 2001, he was...

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Q&A – The USDA-Certified Way to Promote “Green” Products

February 7, 2012
Q&A – The USDA-Certified Way to Promote “Green” Products

The demand for eco-friendly materials is rising throughout the composites industry. Until now, many industry firms that offer biobased products made from biological or renewable agricultural materials have relied on company marketing strategies to promote green initiatives. This is no longer the case. At COMPOSITES 2012, Ron Buckhalt, manager of the BioPreferred Program at...

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The Power of Statistics in a Growing Industry

January 31, 2012
The Power of Statistics in a Growing Industry

Robert R. Lacovara, CCM, CCT-I, has been in the composites industry for more than 30 years, and he thinks composites manufacturing is at a crossroads. Traditional methods and thinking may facilitate the status quo, he says, but “real transformation is necessary to meet the challenges of our time.”

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Q&A—Fighting the Recession and Winning

January 24, 2012
Q&A—Fighting the Recession and Winning

Scott Lewit is the president of Structural Composites, West Melbourne, Fla., a composite engineering company that specializes in structures for marine, military, commercial and theme park applications. He has a master’s degree in Ocean Engineering from the Florida Institute of Technology – the same school where he started his company in 1986 based on...

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Q&A – New Technology Integrating Composites in Sports & Rec

January 17, 2012
Q&A – New Technology Integrating Composites in Sports & Rec

Steve Ehlers is the vice president of golf club innovation and development at Callaway Golf in Carlsbad, Calif. Ehlers has over 30 years working with composites, 20 of them in the aerospace industry working with large structures such as spacecrafts and helicopters. In 1997, he moved into consumer products and was interested in the...

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Q&A – Manufacturers Take a Breath, the Worst is Behind You

January 10, 2012
Q&A – Manufacturers Take a Breath, the Worst is Behind You

Ray MacNeil is the principal at Ray MacNeil Composites Consulting in Wexford, Pa. He has over 39 years of experience working in the composites industry and previously worked for PPG Industries’ Fiber Glass Division.

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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Beyond the University Gate

January 5, 2012
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Beyond the University Gate

The September/October issue of Composites Manufacturing magazine featured research projects underway at universities worldwide. We also received an update on one project, the bike-manufacturing IsoTruss technology, included in last year’s article on university research. Here we catch up with Brigham Young University alumnus and CEO of Altus Poles Mark Jensen, who is manufacturing and...

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Q&A – Domino Effect in Bio-based Composites

December 20, 2011
Q&A – Domino Effect in Bio-based Composites

Lane Segerstrom studied Business at Bethel College in St. Paul, Minn., before obtaining a degree in Entrepreneurship from Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He went on to work in the service and hotel industry for a decade and then run a B&B with his wife, a chef, in Denison, Texas. In 2009, Segerstrom founded...

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Q&A – CAFE 54.5 MPG is a Catalyst for Change

December 13, 2011
Q&A – CAFE 54.5 MPG is a Catalyst for Change

Bruce Benda is the vice president of automotive and transportation for Bayer MaterialScience LLC. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering. Benda grew up in the Detroit automotive industry where his father worked for General Motors for more than 30 years.

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