Dr Gregory Arzoumanidis

Principal Consltant, Oakwood Consulting, Inc.

Gregory G. Arzoumanidis (BS/MS Aristotle U. Thessaloniki, Greece 1959; PhD Inorg. Chem., U. Stuttgart, Germany 1964; MIT postdoc 1964-66; MBA UConn 1980) has been a polyolefin catalyst and process chemist since 1973. He has considerable experience with a major catalyst manufacturing company, and has been doing Polypropylene catalyst research for a leading PP producer, Amoco Chemical, now part of Ineos. He has been the leader for the development and commercialization of the Amoco CD catalyst for PP, receiving a company award for his invention. The catalyst is being used now by two dozen plants around the world. He worked at Argonne National Laboratory where he developed a catalytic pyrolysis process for plastics recycling. He has 26 US patents, 32 publications, and presented numerous seminars in polyolefins.


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