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McMaster Chemical Engineering Prof. John Vlachopoulos FCAE talks polymer science after 48 years

John Vlachopoulos has been immersed in polymer science for 48 years, but he feels science still has lots to offer to the plastics industry.

Vlachopoulos is professor emeritus in the department of chemical engineering at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, where in 1987 he formed the Centre for Advanced Polymer Processing and Design. He joined the university in 1968 when he parlayed a background in computer science and the Apollo space program into studies in polymer processing and rheology…

Read more at the Plastic News website: http://www.plasticsnews.com/article/20170427/NEWS/170429912/vlachopoulos-plastics-still-benefit-from-new-research

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