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AiMcAL technical Advisory Panel
The AIMCAL Technical Advisory Panel is a distinguished group of industry consultants selected and approved by the AIMCAL board based
on their years of experience, reputation and contributions to the converting industry. Panel members serve one year terms. They participate
in our Ask AIMCAL service and provide tutorials at AIMCAL technical functions, including the Web Coating and Web Handling Conferences
and Converting School. We are proud and honored to have such a distinguished group participating in AIMCAL technical initiatives, and we
are confident that their contributions will continue to strengthen the technical services provided to the AIMCAL membership and the industry.
Prof. steven Abbott
Steven Abbott TCnF
email: steven@stevenabbott.co.uk
Website: www.stevenabbott.co.uk
Professor Steven Abbott
studied chemistry at U.
Oxford, then completed his
Oxford Ph.D. at Harvard.
His post-doc research
occurred in the lab of nobel
Prize winner, Prof. J-M Lehn
in Strasbourg. He worked for 15 years at
ICI on polymer and coating science, then
became research director at Autotype, near
Oxford, who specializes in coatings onto
polyester and polycarbonate films. As a way
of bringing coating science into development
and production, Abbott partnered with the
coatings research group at U. Leeds and
subsequently became a visiting professor
in the School of Mechanical Engineering.
Together with colleagues from the U. Leeds,
he developed TopCoat and TopWeb, which
are used throughout the converting industry
to help optimize coating and converting
conditions and solve real-world production
problems.
When he retired from Autotype he
established Steven Abbott TCnF, where
T=Technical Software, C=Coating/Printing,
n=nanocoatings and F=Formulation. His
software solutions include Hansen Solubility
Parameters in Practice, which aids the
understanding of solubility issues; Optimal
Surfactant, which elaborates on surfactant
formulations; Formulating For Efficacy,
which provides solutions to optimize delivery
of active molecules to the skin; and Surface
Profiler, which aids in the understanding
of surface roughness phenomena. He is
currently working on an adhesion modeler to
provide insights into the various mechanisms
of adhesion, which will be covered in his
AIMCAL Adhesion & Adhesives two-day
training course.
With his broad interests, Abbott has published
papers, gained patents and spoken at
conferences on a wide range of subjects
including data storage, organic photovoltaics,
oil-field corrosion, geomembranes, coating
science and surfactant optimization for
cosmetics manufacture.
Although he loves pure science, his passion
is applying science to real-world production.
Because he finds that he often doesn’t
understand a subject just by reading papers
and equations, he writes programs that bring
the academic sciences to life. His hope is
that these models and the science behind
them can help others to troubleshoot their
own development and production issues.
Dr. charles A. Bishop
C.A.Bishop Consulting Ltd
email: cabuk8@btinternet.com
Website: www.cabuk1.co.uk
Blog: www.convertingquarterly.com/blogs/
vacuum-web-coating.aspx
On leaving school at 16,
Charles Bishop served a fouryear
craft apprenticeship in
Mechanical Engineering.
During this time, he also
studied to gain O.n.C.
and H.n.C in mechanical
engineering at the local technical college.
On completing his apprenticeship as a
toolmaker, winning a ‘Best Student’ award
along the way, Bishop entered Loughborough
University and studied for a B.Sc. in Materials
Engineering. On gaining an Honours
degree and a diploma in Industrial Studies,
he moved to the Physics Department to
research vacuum deposition processes and
he went on to gain both an M.Phil. and Ph.D.
by research and thesis.
After a period of time as a post-doctoral
research scientist at the University where
Bishop also took on consultancy work, he
was headhunted into Imperial Chemical
Industries (ICI plc). His first position in ICI
was as a senior research scientist in Surface
Engineering within the new Science Group.
During his time, he worked for businesses as
diverse as nylons, Polyesters, Explosives,
Imagedata and Flex Products Inc. Projects
included taking laboratory processes
through to production, the technical input
during the company selection process for the
acquisition of a vacuum deposition company,
troubleshooting a new $45M explosives
production line, technology scanning to
provide new technologies as part of a route
to new markets, as well as numerous smaller
product development tasks. During this time,
work was carried out in the USA, Europe and
the UK.
In December 1998, Bishop elected to return
to consultancy work and established his
own business, C.A. Bishop Consulting,
Ltd., offering help on all aspects of vacuum
deposition including system design, process
development and scale-up, process control,
plasma surface treatments and coatings, as
well as troubleshooting existing processes
and running training courses.
Bishop has published over 60 technical
papers, has five patents and has managed
training courses in the UK, USA, India
and Europe. In 2007, his book Vacuum
Deposition onto Webs, Films & Foils was
published, which was followed by a second
book Roll-to-Roll Vacuum Deposition of
Barrier Coatings in 2010.
Jerry Brown
Essex Systems
email: jlbrown1@optonline.net
Website: www.essexsys.com
Jerry Brown began his career
in web handling in 1960
at Fife Corporation, one of
the leading manufacturers
of web guiding systems.
He was involved in a wide
variety of web-fed processes
and made many important contributions to
the early development and application of web
handling equipment, including the following:
• Independently discovered the normal entry
rule in 1960, which allowed Fife to become
the first company in the US to design
web guide applications with predictable
dynamic performance.
• Conceptualized, in collaboration with an
associate, the first bearing system that
used more than two linear bearings to
support steering rollers.
• Developed numerous optical sensors and
electronic control systems for applications
in converting, textiles and metals.
• Led the development of the world’s first
microprocessor-based online nuclear
thickness gauge.
In 1997, Brown became an independent
web handling consultant. He is a regular
participant in web handling conferences
sponsored by the Web Handling Research
Center at Oklahoma State University and
by AIMCAL. He has developed a modeling
method based on elasticity theory and
commercially available FEA software that
precisely predicts the lateral behavior of
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