EDWARD S.ROWSE
4 Janice Drive
Wilmington, DE 19810-3016
302 475 0575/302 528 0864 cell
EDUCATION
B.S.Chemical Engineering, University of New Hampshire, Durham
EXPERTISE
Nylon polymer polymerization and extrusion compounding.
Polyester polymerization and extrusion compounding and solid phase polymerization.
Acrylic polymerization and extrusion.
Ethylene copolymers polymerization and extrusion.
Rubber polymerization and extrusion.
Recycling of plastics, industrial waste, consumer waste.
Product development of plastics.
Plastics plant design, construction, and start up.
Plant safety analyses.
Basic data aembling and use in project design
Plant cost reduction, optimization.
Bulk material handling, solids flow, pneumatic conveying.
Single screw extrusion
Twin screw extrusion
Farrel Continuous Mixers and Banbury Mixers and extrusion
Screw injection molding procees
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Independent Consultant20002000
Oversaw the site selection ad relocation of the Elvanol® polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) plant from
Greenville to Laurens, SC.
Led the front-end loading of Elvanol® powder handling and packaging at Greenville, SC, and
LaPorte, TX.
Headed the team defining the projects needed to optimize the packaging and bulk handling
system at Sabine River, Works, Orange, TX; led the front-end loading for new packaging line.
Consulted on a team that reduced the bottleneck at the Keldax® facility at M.A.Hanna in
Dyersburg, TN, and increased its capacity from 250 million to 320 million pounds a year.
Worked as project team leader with a full-service design contractor to design and estimate the
cost ($6 million) of a system for adding Bynel® compounding capacity at the plant in Dordrecht, Netherlands.
Senior Technology Aociate, Fabricated Products Department19831979
Directed a $5 million project optimizing the acrylics proce.
Led the team that optimized the Lucite®/Elvacite® manufacturing procees for cost, capacity,
and quality, included several succeful projects for bulk handling and compounding.
Division Engineer, Engineering Polymers1963 - 1970
Headed the start-up and expansions of DuPont’s first plastics compounding division in
Parkersburg, WVA.
Directed the team that developed and commercialized the manufacturing proce for the original
family of gla-reinforced Zytel® nylon products at the plant at Wapakoneta, OH.
CREDENTIALS
EIT Certificate in West Virginia
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Society of Plastics Engineers
American Institute of Chemical Engineers
HONORS
DuPont Executive Committee Award in 1991
Edward S.Rowse# 955The CECON Group, Inc.
