May “Green” Meeting
May 7, 2009

Our March meeting, a celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary with the Student Chapter of the University of Cincinnati was very interesting, and with the turn out of UC students and their posters explaining the projects was well done. Dr. Clarson went on to explain the number of outstanding students, both present and past, as well as the introduction of the Nobel Prize winning Dr. Paul John Flory. Dr. Flory came to UC from Du Pont after his boss John Corruthers (inventor of Nylon) untimely death, and began to research polymers some ten years before anyone at Brooklyn Polytechnic University. On September 3, 2003 the American Chemical Society designated PRI as a National Historic Chemical Landmark, because of their work in polymer studies. We will ask someone at National SPE to look into this and work on a plaque for UC, saying the same type of work was being done here ten years earlier.

Our April 2nd meeting will be at Cold Jet LLC in Loveland, OH. Our speakers for the night are Fred Young and Tyson Marlowe. Fred C. Young, VP of Engineering Systems, has enjoyed a career at Cold Jet LLC, the world leader in dry ice particle blasting technology, since 1990. Before coming to Cold Jet LLC Fred earned his BSME from Miami University in Oxford, OH and spent ten years as a project and new product design engineer with Cincinnati Milacron Inc's Industrial Robot Division, attaining a US Patent for a torsion robot axis force balancing device. Fred also spent two years with Cincinnati Control Dynamics, Inc. as Chief Engineer, developing mass airflow testing equipment for the aerospace industry. He made his career move to Cold Jet in 1990 and began as the company's first Project Engineer, eventually evolving into his current role of designing all custom engineered solutions. Fred holds two US Patents for dry ice blasting processes and designs.

Setting industry standards in dry ice technology and solutions for over twenty years. The use of plastics is present in many industries from automotive to medical device manufacturing to bottling and more. No matter the application all plastics have something in common: The machines that mold them must be cleaned in order to maintain efficiency and uniformity. Dry ice blast cleaning is a unique cleaning process that is environmentally friendly, can reduce scrap and labor rates, and saves machinery from damage caused by other cleaning methods. To learn more about this and its applications in mold maintenance, deflashing and deburring, we invite you to join Cold Jet for our presentation " Innovative Cleaning in the Plastics Industry: Improving Quality While reducing Costs."

Please join us after the presentation to see the equipment in action. Our usual timing will be Board meeting for anyone interested in joining the Board of Directors of the MVSPE at 5:00 - 6:00, registration 6:00-6:30, dinner at 6:30 - 7:15, 7:25 start of business for the meeting.

Byron Nelson Memorial Golf Outing

Last month I reported the dates of the golf outing. With the tough economic times and lack of sponsors, the MVSPE Board of Directors and Golf Committee have decided to forgo an outing this year. If you, or you Company would like to contribute to the Education Fund of MVSPE in lieu of the outing, please send a check to:

MVSPE Education Committee
P.O. Box 41713
Dayton, OH 45441-0713

Bob Rajkovich