PlastChicks Lynzie Nebel and Mercedes Landazuri host four of the 2022 SPE Foundation Scholarship winners: Rachel LeBlanc, Allen Román, Kelsey Allis, and Wyatt McGraw. The SPE Foundation is an arm of SPE that supports the development of plastics professionals by funding quality educational programs, grants, and scholarships, emphasizing science, engineering, sustainability, and manufacturing to create inclusive opportunities for students around the world. The 2023-2024 Foundation Scholarships dea...
Mar 03, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 5Ep. 3
PlastChicks Lynzie Nebel and Mercedes Landazuri with guest Ed Hall, President and CEO of Baerlocher USA , discuss Ed's career journey, the importance of ethics and diversity in the workforce, Baerlocher USA's move into sustainability and services, and the need for the plastics industry to get together to teach, learn and collaborate in their approach to finding recycling solutions. Find out more about the 2023 Re|Focus Sustainability & Recycling Summit , being held May 1-4, 2023 in Minneapol...
Feb 03, 2023•41 min•Season 5Ep. 2
PlastChicks Lynzie Nebel and Mercedes Landazuri with guest Mason Myers, Principal Implementation Consultant at Autodesk , discuss the advantages of using simulation software to make it easier to get a process up and running, saving time and money using simulations, Autodesk's Moldflow Simulation software, and automation software advances in meshing and Cloud solving. Watch the PlastChicks podcast on the SPE YouTube channel. PlastChicks is sponsored by SPE-Inspiring Plastics Professionals and is ...
Jan 06, 2023•42 min•Season 5Ep. 1
PlastChicks Lynzie Nebel and Mercedes Landazuri with guest Neil Thompson, Founder of Teach the Geek , author and podcaster of Teach the Geek to Speak , discuss helping STEM professionals develop their presentation skills to further their career development, the challenges engineers face when communicating to a non-technical audience, attributes of engaging and unengaging presentations and dealing with presentation fears. You can find out more about developing engaging presentations from Neil on ...
Dec 02, 2022•33 min•Season 4Ep. 10
PlastChicks Lynzie Nebel and Mercedes Landazuri with guest Dr. Katrina Knauer, Program Manager, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and CTO of the BOTTLE (Bio-Optimized Technologies to keep Thermoplastics out of Landfills and the Environment) Consortium discuss attaining your ideal job in your plastics career; Katrina’s research into deconstructing plastics to get useful chemicals and building blocks out of the process -- pure and useful monomers -- without needing energy-intensive proce...
Nov 04, 2022•47 min•Season 4Ep. 9
PlastChicks Lynzie Nebel and Mercedes Landazuri with guest Pat Haney, Research and Development Engineer, MTD Micromolding , examine research and development in micro-medical plastics injection molding; the unique challenges of super-small molding, including differences in non-Newtonian fluid behavior, shear thinning and crystalline formation; processes for developing implant molds; designing for bioabsorbables; tooling for micromolding; finding a bridge between university research and the plasti...
Oct 07, 2022•36 min•Season 4Ep. 8
PlastChicks Lynzie Nebel and Mercedes Landazuri with guest Tim Osswald, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Co-Director of the Polymer Engineering Center , University of Wisconsin-Madison , delve into plastics history, plastics developments at the University of Wisconsin, the evolution of plastics programs in universities, the sharing of ideas between industry and the educational community at ANTEC®, the benefits of participating in SPE-Inspiring Plastics Professionals, and plastics educatio...
Sep 02, 2022•27 min•Season 4Ep. 7
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. Watch the podcast at the SPE YouTube site . PlastChicks ...
Aug 05, 2022•22 min•Season 4Ep. 6
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....
Jul 01, 2022•31 min•Season 4Ep. 5
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-l...
Jun 03, 2022•49 min•Season 4Ep. 4
On this episode of PlastChicks – The Voices of Resin – Lynzie Nebel and Mercedes Landazuri host Elisabet Sjölund, Brand Owner Management, Neste Renewable Polymers & Chemicals . They discuss helping companies find renewable solutions to reduce the use of carbons from fossil sources by reviewing production processes, considering sustainability when designing processes, reducing waste, upcycling, exploring options for materials that are challenging to recycle, considering new approaches to recy...
May 06, 2022•37 min•Season 4Ep. 3
On this episode of PlastChicks – The Voices of Resin – Lynzie Nebel and Mercedes Landazuri host Dr. Erin Keaney, Research Scientist, Adjunct Faculty, University of Massachusetts Lowell and COO and Co-Founder of Nonspec . Nonspec is committed to providing affordable and adjustable prosthetic limb systems to all amputees. They discuss Erin's plastics research, her challenges in developing Nonspec , lessons learned when building a great team, and overcoming roadblocks as women in STEM....
Apr 01, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Season 4Ep. 2
On this episode of PlastChicks – The Voices of Resin – Lynzie Nebel and Mercedes Landazuri host Toi Clarke Jones, Vice President Sales & Business Development at iMFLUX . They discuss Toi's journey in the plastics industry, iMFLUX's role in helping businesses find better solutions for running plastic injection molding sites, diversity in the plastics industry and the role of the National Minority Supplier Development Council in diversifying the supply chain....
Mar 04, 2022•54 min•Season 4Ep. 1
On this episode of PlastChicks – The Voices of Resin – Lynzie Nebel and Mercedes Landazuri host Evan Morton, Programs and Sustainability Coordinator and PlastiVan® Educator at the SPE Foundation. They discuss plastics usage, sustainability, plastics education, consumer behavior and STEAM.
Feb 04, 2022•48 min•Season 3Ep. 11
On this episode of PlastChicks – The Voices of Resin – Lynzie Nebel and Mercedes Landazuri host David White, Founder and Lead Consultant at ExtruPharm. They discuss extrusion-based manufacturing for the pharmaceutical market. Find out more at ExtruPharm .
Jan 07, 2022•43 min•Season 3Ep. 10
On this episode of PlastChicks – The Voices of Resin – Lynzie Nebel and Mercedes Landazuri host Jason Brownell, Director of Engineering at Polyfuze. They discuss labelling for the polyolefin family of plastics using fusion instead of in-mold labelling technologies. Find out more at Polyfuze .
Dec 03, 2021•39 min•Season 3Ep. 9
On this episode of PlastChicks – The Voices of Resin – Lynzie Nebel and Mercedes Landazuri host Mitch Hecht, Founder and Chairman, International Recycling Group (IRG) and Chris Dow, IRG's CEO. They discuss the challenges of recycling plastics and IRG's work in developing processes for the recycling industry to take in all plastics and rapidly sort them in an automated way for use by recyclers. Find out more about International Recycling Group at https://www.internationalrecycling.com ....
Nov 05, 2021•40 min•Season 3Ep. 8
On this episode of PlastChicks – The Voices of Resin – Lynzie Nebel and Mercedes Landazuri host Dr. Chris DeArmitt, a plastics scientist and Founder/President of Phantom Plastics. They discuss his work providing a reference to scientific research on the environmental impact of plastics at https://plasticsparadox.com/ and in his book, The Plastics Paradox ; his efforts to address plastics myths; and Phantom Plastics' service to help companies create better plastics to solve problems....
Oct 01, 2021•39 min•Season 3Ep. 7
On this episode of PlastChicks – The Voices of Resin – Lynzie Nebel and Mercedes Landazuri host Anastasia Kraft, CEO of Xena Workwear. They discuss her journey into engineering and manufacturing, and how her interest in developing workwear that allowed her to work professionally in the office and on the manufacturing work floor led her to launch her own business creating fashionable personal protective equipment for women.
Sep 03, 2021•50 min•Season 3Ep. 6
On this episode of PlastChicks – The Voices of Resin – Lynzie Nebel and Mercedes Landazuri host Elena Mantagaris, VP of Plastics, Chemistry Industry Association of Canada. They discuss plastics as a backdrop of our modern lives, how it helps us achieve our sustainability goals, and how these roles need to be considered in establishing partnerships between government and industry in addressing the circular economy.
Aug 06, 2021•35 min•Season 3Ep. 5
On this episode of PlastChicks – The Voices of Resin – Lynzie Nebel and Mercedes Landazuri host Hugh Karraker, executive producer of the film, All Things Bakelite: The Age of Plastic , who is also the great grandson of Leo Hendrik Baekeland, the inventor of Bakelite, and John Maher, director of the film. They discuss the film, the life of Leo Hendrik Baekeland, Bakelite and its role in the development of modern plastics. Find out more about the film at the All Things Bakelite site ....
Jul 02, 2021•44 min•Season 3Ep. 4
On this episode of PlastChicks – The Voices of Resin - Lynzie Nebel and Mercedes Landazuri host Adam Baker, Founder and CEO of SodaPup. They discuss pet industry innovation, design, manufacturing, marketing and merchandising.
Jun 04, 2021•50 min•Season 3Ep. 3
On this episode of PlastChicks – The Voices of Resin - Lynzie Nebel and Mercedes Landazuri host Heather McDougall, Visionary Entrepreneur and Educator for Planet Allies and CEO of Bogobrush. They discuss eco-empowerment, global sustainability, climate anxiety and dealing with the hype and fear around plastics to shift to things that are working.
May 07, 2021•34 min•Season 3Ep. 2
On this episode of PlastChicks – The Voices of Resin - Lynzie Nebel and Mercedes Landazuri host Jonathan Quinn, e-Commerce Packaging & Specialty Shrink Market Manager, NOVA Chemicals. They discuss his journey in the plastics industry, flexible packaging community outreach and post-COVID trends and implications
Apr 02, 2021•26 min•Season 3Ep. 1
On this episode of PlastChicks – The Voices of Resin - Lynzie Nebel and Mercedes Landazuri host Justina Sanchez, Product Safety Engineer, TÜV SÜD America, during Plastics in Electronics: The Virtual Edition. They discuss the path to an engineering career, women in engineering and product development. Watch the YouTube video.
Mar 05, 2021•32 min•Season 2Ep. 10
On this episode of PlastChicks – The Voices of Resin - Lynzie Nebel and Mercedes Landazuri host George Staniulis, Vice President, AGS Technology, during Innovations in Chemical and Mechanical Recycling: The Virtual Edition. They discuss plastics recycling and the plastics recycling marketplace. Watch the YouTube video .
Feb 05, 2021•29 min•Season 2Ep. 9
On this episode of PlastChicks – The Voices of Resin - Lynzie Nebel and Mercedes Landazuri host Adam Reinitz, Offering Management Consultant, Chemours Titanium Technologies, during CAD RETEC® 2020. They discuss getting into the plastics industry and polymer applications. Watch the YouTube video .
Jan 01, 2021•46 min•Season 2Ep. 8
On this episode of PlastChicks – The Voices of Resin - Lynzie Nebel and Mercedes Landazuri host Annette Lund, Vice President of Diversified Plastics, Inc., during Plastics in Medical Manufacturing: The Virtual Edition. They discuss a career in plastics manufacturing, the medical industry, education and mentoring. Watch the YouTube video.
Dec 04, 2020•45 min•Season 2Ep. 7
On this episode of PlastChicks – The Voices of Resin - Lynzie Nebel and Mercedes Landazuri host William Kanistras, Production Manager, Sonoma Pacific Distribution, during Plastics in Cannabis Packaging: The Virtual Edition. They discuss Cannabis production and regulation. Watch the YouTube video .
Nov 06, 2020•26 min•Season 2Ep. 6
On this episode of PlastChicks – The Voices of Resin - Lynzie Nebel and Mercedes Landazuri host Dr. Pavani Cherukupally, Reseach Associate at Imperial College London, during Plastics in Clean Water: The Virtual Edition. They discuss her journey in polymer research and her current project in reclaiming Canadian oil industry wastewater. Watch the YouTube video .
Oct 02, 2020•29 min•Season 2Ep. 5
