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Welcome to the homepage of Phantom Plastics™
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As of February 1st 2011 Dr. DeArmitt has taken a full-time position as CTO of Applied Minerals Inc. headquartered in New York City. He is now dedicated to his new role of developing and commercializing applications for Halloysite in plastics, coatings and multitudinous other fields.
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| To learn more about Chris's recorded plastic training web seminars please visit www.plastictraining.com |
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For assistance with plastic related problems contact Joe Webster at Stabilization Technologies:
www.stabilization-technologies.com
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| Chris studied his Bachelor’s, Master’s and D.Phil. at Sussex University in the UK. |
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| After a post-doc at the KTH in Stockholm, he went to work as Manager of the Polymeric Materials Group at the Institute for Surface Chemistry working on composites, fillers and additives. |
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| Next Chris moved to Electrolux, the World’s largest manufacturer of household appliances to work at their headquarters as Senior Project Manager. He co-ordinated a team to optimise and formulate plastics used in large tonnage (>50 000 tons / year). The main focus was on filled polyolefins but also many other topics such as scratch resistance, Lotus Effect surfaces, thermochromic pigments and new antioxidants. |
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Subsequently, Chris moved from Sweden to Germany to become Global Product Development Manager for Specialty Polymers at BASF’s headquarters in Ludwigshafen Germany. Many new patented products and processes were developed. Polymers included PS, HIPS, SAN, ABS, ASA, MABS and SBS.
Chris is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a Chartered Chemist. He has published book chapters, given courses, organized and chaired conferences and has held many invited lectures. To date he has over 40 encyclopedia chapters, book chapters, papers, articles and patents.
His primary areas of research are polymers, composites, fillers, antioxidants and surface modification. He enjoys innovating and has a record of implementing new processes and making new products in record time.
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| Chris worked as Chief Scientist for Hybrid Plastics, enhancing thermoplastics, thermosets and coatings using polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes. This corporate level role included co-ordinating R&D, Product Development and Marketing. |
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In 2007, 2009 and again in 2010, he received Innocentive open innovation cash awards for solving tough industrial problems against worldwide competition. Total winnings to date approach $50 000.
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Phantom Plastics™ was founded in 2009 to provide consultancy services including new materials development and problem solving.
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