Webinar: PT Tech Days: Film Extrusion — New Technologies, Efficiencies by Gardner Business Media, Inc. Webinars

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About this Webinar

Register and learn more about emerging trends and technology in film extrusion. Tune in to hear speakers advise on how to improve your blown or cast film operation with new technologies, tips and tricks of the trade that will help you squeeze more productivity and efficiency from your film-extrusion operation while bolstering your sustainability initiatives.

Agenda

Process control
Multi-layer structure
Gauge management
PCR management/use
Bio-resins management/use
PFAS

Christine Ronaghan

Technology Group Director, Cloeren

Christine Ronaghan is a seasoned expert in polymer engineering with over 25 years of experience in the extrusion industry. She holds both a bachelor's and master's degree in polymer engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology and an MBA in innovation and technology from Rutgers University.

Since 2013, Christine has been the technology group director at Cloeren Incorporated. In this role, she focuses on feedblock and die design, as well as process optimization for various product areas.
Dr. Robert Sherman

Technical Director, Special Additives; Baerlocher USA

Dr. Robert Sherman is the technical director for the special additives division at Baerlocher USA. Before coming to Baerlocher, Robert held several R&D positions related to polymer additives and stabilization in different resins including: acrylics at Aristech Acrylics, polyethylene at LyondellBasell and polyesters at GE Plastics. Robert received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Oklahoma State University, did Post-Doctoral research at Texas A&M and bachelor's and master's degrees in chemistry from Southern Illinois University. He is the current membership committee chair and the former chairman of the board of directors for SPE’s polymer modifier and additives division.
Mark Spalding

Fellow in PE Product R&D, Dow Inc.

Mark A. Spalding is a fellow in PE product research and development in Midland, MI. He joined Dow in 1985 after completing a bachelor's degree from the University of Toledo and a master's degree and Ph.D. from Purdue University, all in chemical engineering. He has performed fundamental research in single-screw extrusion, developed methods to measure resin physical properties that are important to polymer processing, developed numerous techniques to troubleshoot and increase the rates of extrusion lines, and has developed new mathematical models for extrusion simulation. He has designed and troubleshot numerous extrusion lines for Dow and for resin customers. He is a fellow and honored service member of SPE and a current member of the Extrusion Division Board of Directors. He was awarded the Bruce Maddock Award in 2006 for his contributions to the industry in single-screw extrusion and the SPE Research and Engineering Award in 2019. He has won best paper awards in the SPE Extrusion and Injection Molding Divisions 10 times.