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webs in situations that are beyond the reach
of other methods, such as the spreading
action of concave and curved-axis rollers.
Believing strongly in the importance of handson
engineering, Brown has constructed a
laboratory machine for demonstrating and
studying lateral web behavior and is the only
independent web handling consultant with a
lab machine in his basement.
Brown has a BSc in physics and math from
Oklahoma State University.
Dr. edward D. cohen
Edward D. Cohen Consulting
email: cohened146@aol.com
Website: www.edcohenconsulting.com
Blog: www.convertingquarterly.com/blogs/
web-coating.aspx
Dr. Edward D. Cohen is a
technical consultant in all
aspects of the web coating
process. His expertise
includes the coating and
drying of thin films, coating
process development and
scale-up, polyester base development, film
defect mechanisms, defect characterization
techniques, litigation support and professional
development activities for scientists.
Cohen has many years of experience
in coating research and manufacturing
technology with the DuPont Company,
where he retired as a DuPont Fellow, and as
a consultant. He has extensive publications
in the field and has published several books
and articles for industry publications. He
was founding president of the International
Society of Coating Science and Technology.
He has a Bachelor of Science in Chemical
Engineering from Tufts University and
a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the
University of Delaware. His honors are the
John Tallmadge Award for contributions
to coating technology and the AIMCAL
President’s award. Currently he is technical
consultant for AIMCAL.
Larry Gogolin
Gogolin & Associates
email: lgogolin@gogolincoating.com
Website: www.gogolincoating.com
As a principal at Gogolin &
Associates, Larry Gogolin
consults in dozens of
industries that use web
coating applications and
help clients develop and
improve coating processes
and select equipment. He also evaluates
coating companies, helps clients find
contract coating firms and teaches seminars
in coating technology.
Prior to becoming a technical consultant in
the process, chemical and coating areas in
1988, Larry spent 23 years at Polaroid Corp.
where he managed the quality and technical
support groups. He also led the technical
group that contracted Polaroid’s excess
coating capacity to external customers
and he helped develop specifications and
sourcing for new coating equipment.
Larry has a Masters in Engineering
Management and a B.S. degree in Chemical
Engineering.
Dr. Dilwyn P. Jones
Emral Ltd
email: dpjones@emral.co.uk
Website: www.emral.co.uk
Dr. Dilwyn Jones is a
consultant in Materials
Science and Engineering,
working through his
company Emral Ltd based
in the north East of England.
He graduated from the
University of Cambridge with first class
honours in natural Sciences, and stayed
on to complete a Ph.D. in Low Temperature
Physics. He then joined ICI (Imperial
Chemical Industries) where he worked on
the processing and properties of polymers
at their laboratories in Welwyn Garden City
and Wilton, and during secondments to
Cranfield Institute of Technology and the ICI
production facility at Hopewell, Virginia. He
moved to DuPont in 1998, along with ICI’s
Polyester Film business. He established
his consultancy business in 2000, where
he works with clients worldwide on web
handling, polymer processing and properties,
static charge, training, software development
and Finite Element Analysis, bringing a blend
of fundamental understanding, modeling and
practical application.
As a specialist in Polyester Film technology
from 1984, Jones has been involved with
winding and web handling since that time. He
provides technical support to Rheologic, Ltd.
for their TopWeb web handling software. He
has attended all but one of the International
Web Handling Conferences, has presented
a Keynote Address in 2001 and has won
Best Paper awards in 2007 and 2011.
He has presented papers and tutorials at
all of AIMCAL’s Applied Web Handling
Conferences. He served on the committee
of the Printing and Graphics Science
Group of the Institute of Physics from 2000-
2010, chairing the group for 4 years, which
included a successful relaunch. In all, Jones
has authored 15 journal papers and has
completed 42 conference presentations.
clarence Klassen
KlassEngineering
email: cklassen@klassen.on.ca
Website: www.klassen.on.ca
Blog: www.convertingquarterly.com/blogs/
drives-for-web-handling.aspx
Clarence Klassen is president
of KlassEngineering, which
was incorporated in 1999.
The company performs
Pre-Start Health and Safety
Reviews as required by the
Ontario Ministry of Labour.
Klassen applies 31 years of experience in the
pulp and paper industry to solving problems
with drives for web handling. He has 10
years of experience as a drives engineer
with GE Canada and 10 years of experience
with Opcode Systems Inc., a PLC and Drives
Systems Integrator. Much of Klassen’s
experience was gained in onsite installation
of new equipment and troubleshooting of
existing equipment. He is a Designated
Consulting Engineer with the Professional
Engineers Ontario (PEO).
Dr. Kenneth Mccarthy
Clean Room Coating Solutions
email: kenclnrm@prodigy.net
Website: www.cleanroomcoatingsolutions.
com
Ken McCarthy has over
35 years of experience,
primarily related to coating,
at Polaroid and most
recently at Multilayer Coating
Technologies LLC, until it
closed in november 2007.
Since then, he has managed a consulting
service, Clean Room Coating Solutions.
McCarthy’s areas of expertise include
coating fluid mix preparation and delivery,
coating operations, clean room operations,
coating applicator design, environmental
management and new product development.
In addition, he has extensive experience
in new product translation, from
laboratory through scale-up into full-scale
manufacturing. He has three patents related
to Polaroid product development.
McCarthy received a Ph.D. and MS in
Chemical Engineering from Brooklyn
Polytechnic Institute and a BS in Chemical
Engineering from the University of notre
Dame.
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