Engineering Plastics Background Charlie Ragland has sales, marketing, business development, business management, and compound development experience with leading engineering plastics companies including Owens-Corning Fiberglas, GE Plastics, BFGoodrich/The Geon Company, and AlliedSignal Plastics.  His market development experience encompasses more than 60 distinct applications in 20 end use markets including transportation, construction, building materials, computer, business equipment, electrical, telecommunications, medical, military, aerospace, fluid handling.    He participated in groundbreaking work with IBM in developing a program to recycle computer monitors, developing a recycle content compound.  He understands design for disassembly and the issues with differing materials, labels, and coatings. Engineering Materials His engineering plastics experience covers a wide range of materials used in injection molding and extrusion: Nylon compounds, alloys, blends Lexan, Noryl, Valox, Ultem, ABS, FRABS, PC/ABS, PVC/ABS, PS, FRPS, PP Recycled materials (PC monitors to recycled content PVC compounds) PVC compounds, alloys, blends Additives: glass, nanocomposites (eg., nano clay), talc, impact modifiers, flame retardants, UV stabilizers, high heat additives, color Compound formulation Product Development/Commercialization His product development experience with engineering materials includes PVC compounds Compounds formulated to compete with FRPS, FRABS, PC/ABS, PVC/ABS, and PC in business equipment housing applications. Specialty compounds: static dissipative PVC, medical grade compounds, high heat compounds, glass filled compounds, flexible vinyl compounds, transparent/high impact compounds. Post industrial recycle content compounds Nylon compounds Thin-wall/high-flow materials to compete with PC/ABS in cell phones, laptops, and other hand held devices. Filled and unfilled formulations utilizing a range of additives including glass, nano-composites (nanoclay), and mineral.