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TECHNICAL
STAFF
Daniel
C. Fuccella -- PCE Project Manager
Daniel C. Fuccella, PE has accumulated over 30 years
of plastics design, materials, and processing experience. After joining
Dow Chemical Company’s Plastics Department in 1967, Dan devoted
the next 23 years contributing to the growth of Thermofil, Inc., a specialty
plastics provider, managing quality, applications development, process
engineering, marketing, and serving as vice president of plastics materials
research and development. Dan has assisted the Polymers Center of Excellence
with client projects and as an instructor since its inception. Dan is
also the founder and president of Applied
Technologies, Inc., a product design and engineering firm located
in Cary, North Carolina. Dan is a past-president of the Piedmont-Coastal
Section of the Society of Plastics Engineers, and an active member of
Society of Manufacturing Engineers.
PCE Phone: 704-602-4108; Mobile Phone: 919-349-5911; Fax: 704-602-4114
Thomas P. McHouell -- Extrusion Department Manager
Tom McHouell joined the Polymers Center in July of 1999.
He has a BS in Electrical Engineering from NC State University and worked
for seven years in Corporate Research and Development for Collins &
Aikman Products Company, a global supplier of automotive interior trim
components.
His background includes sheet extrusion, computerized rheometry, acoustic
testing, and scanning electron microscopy/elemental analysis.
PCE Phone: 704-602-4106: Fax: 704-602-4114
Joe
Henz -- Training Department Manager
Joe Henz has over twenty years in the
plastics industry. A graduate of GE’s Plastics Technology Program,
he holds a MS degree in Chemical Engineering and has broad experience
in plastics, including polymer processing, material testing, part and
mold design, and mold flow analysis.
Joe’s teaching experience includes instructor roles at GE Plastics’
Industry Seminars and most recently at the Eastern North Carolina Plastics
Technology Center.
Joe can be reached at 704-602-4125.
Dan McWilliams -- Materials Engineer
Dan has over 38 years of experience in the plastics industry.
After receiving his M Eng degree in Chemical Engineering from Cornell
University he joined The Dow Chemical Company, where he spent the next
28 years in the areas of process design, manufacturing support, lab
and pilot scale research and product technical support. He held a number
of supervisory and management positions within the foams and films R&D
areas before retiring after his last assignment as a development project
manager.
Dan moved to Charlotte, NC in 1998 to help found Carolina Compounding,
Inc. as its President. He joined the staff of PCE in late 2006, after
having been a consultant and extrusion instructor with PCE for several
years.
PCE Phone: 704-602-4118; Fax: 704-602-4114
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