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...
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...
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...
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.”
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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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