PPG Fiber Glass Researcher Recognized by Peers with Best Paper Award

PPG Industries’ fiber glass business announced that Dr. Jacob Anderson, PPG senior research and development engineer, has been named a winner of the Dr. Jackie Rehkopf Best Paper Award for the Society of Plastics Engineers 15th annual SPE Automotive Composites Conference & Exhibition (ACCE), Sept. 9-11 at The Diamond Banquet & Conference Center at the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi, Michigan.

Anderson’s paper received the third-highest average rating by conference peer reviewers in a field of 70 contenders and will be honored for excellence in technical writing during SPE ACCE opening ceremonies. Anderson and Dr. Ryan P. Emerson, both based at the PPG Fiber Glass Science and Technology Center in Shelby, North Carolina, co-authored a paper entitled Effect of Processing Technique on the Mechanical Performance of Glass Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastics, which Anderson will present Sept. 10 at 11:30 a.m. as part of the conference’s Advances in Thermoplastic Composites session.

“In the present work, thermoplastic bulk molding compound (BMC) was investigated to determine its mechanical performance relative to granulated long-fiber thermoplastic (GLFT) and continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastic tape (CFRT),” he said. “This was achieved by using injection and compression molding to fabricate thermoplastic composite parts from GLFT, CFRT and BMC. Versus the GLFT specimen, the BMC material was shown to exhibit improvements in flexural and impact performance of 100 percent and 20 percent, respectively, results of which will be described during the presentation.”

The SPE Automotive and Composites Divisions jointly sponsor the annual Automotive Composites Conference & Exhibition (ACCE) – the world’s leading automotive composites forum, which attracts speakers, exhibitors and attendees from the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. The conference’s Best Paper Awards honor Dr. Jackie Rehkopf, a long-time SPE ACCE committee member, session organizer, two-times technical program co-chair and long-time automotive-composites industry researcher. For more information about the event, visit http://speautomotive.com/comp.htm.

PPG Fiber Glass is a global manufacturer of reinforcement materials for thermoset and thermoplastic composite applications with manufacturing and research facilities in the United States, Europe and Asia. It serves the transportation, energy, infrastructure and consumer markets, as well as electronic circuit board and specialty yarn markets.