PlastChicks Lynzie Nebel and Mercedes Landazuri

PlastChicks Lynzie Nebel and Mercedes Landazuri with guest Dr. Katrina Knauer, Program Manager, National Renewable Energy Laboratory and CTO of BOTTLE Consortium discuss attaining your ideal job in your plastics career, the challenge of deconstructing plastics to get useful chemicals out of the process without requiring high amounts of energy, and a chemical and biological tandem technology process to bring waste carbons back into a new lifetime.

On this episode of PlastChicks – The Voices of Resin – Lynzie Nebel and Mercedes Landazuri host Pat Haney, Research and Development Engineer, MTD Micromolding. They discuss research and development in micro-medical plastics injection molding, challenges with super-small molding, processes for developing implant molds, working with bioabsorbables, tooling for micromolding, and MTD Micromolding's protyping pipeline.

On this episode of PlastChicks – The Voices of Resin – Lynzie Nebel and Mercedes Landazuri host Tim Osswald, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Co-Director of the Polymer Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, live at ANTEC® 2022. They discuss the history of polymer research at the University of Wisconsin, plastics knowledge-sharing at ANTEC®, and plastics education trends.

On this episode of PlastChicks – The Voices of Resin – Lynzie Nebel and Mercedes Landazuri host Amanda Nicholson, Senior Project Engineer, The Madison Group, live at ANTEC® 2022. They discuss the importance of conducting professional moldflow analysis, establishing credibility as a young female engineer in the plastics industry, using short videos to provide pinpoint training for young engineers and different approaches to sustainability.

On this episode of PlastChicks – The Voices of Resin – Lynzie Nebel and Mercedes Landazuri host Amy Aussieker, Executive Director, Envision Charlotte, live at ANTEC® 2022. They discuss the circular economy, sustainability, new advances in recycling techniques developed in the Innovation Barn, and challenges in recycling plastics.

Please note the audio is somewhat rough due to issues with the live recording.

On this episode of PlastChicks – The Voices of Resin – Lynzie Nebel and Mercedes Landazuri host Cara Walton, Director, Harbour Results Inc. They discuss efforts to interest Millennials and Gen Z in manufacturing, using data to make manufacturing better, the importance of diversity in solving problems better and faster, developing techniques for benchmarking in rapidly changing times and challenges in sourcing in the plastics industry. ANTEC, being held June 14-16, 2022 in Charlotte, NC, is co-located with PLASTEC(R) South. PlastChicks is sponsored by SPE-Inspiring Plastics Professionals.