Terence Cooper

Specific projects have included:

• Assessing the technology base, helping raise investment funding, planning and setting up R&D and market development programs and facilities and hiring personnel, and serving as R&D Director and Business Development Director for a UK-based start-up company specializing in biodegradable and water-soluble plastics.
• Formulation, applications and market development for a US-based manufacturer of water-soluble plastics.
• Formulation, applications and market development for a UK-based supplier of biodegradable and compostable plastics.
• Formulation, manufacturing, applications and market development for a US-based supplier of biobased, biodegradable and compostable plastics and their component materials.
• Formulation and process development for a UK-based start-up company specializing in high-strength water-soluble plastics.
• Development of bioplastic-based and recyclate-based “green” high-performance film materials for a US home appliance company
• Technical and applications development, and market analysis, for a range of non-toxic biobased plasticizers derived from new chemistry with a US-based start-up company.
• Technical, economic, market and feedstock analysis and projections for biobased chemicals, monomers and polymers for a US Industrial Bioeconomy project.
• Advising on new developments in materials, particularly renewable, biobased and biodegradable plastics, for three UK-based packaging design companies.
• Expert witness in two US trade secret-related lawsuits concerning biodegradable plastics and additives.
• Scientific Advisory Board member for the Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance (US) to develop processes to convert softwood waste to biofuels, biobased chemicals and polymers.
• USDA grant review panel member for development of sustainable biomass feedstock supply chains for production of biofuels, chemicals, and value-added biobased products.
• Designing, performing and authoring three extensive technology research studies on future trends in flexible packaging, sustainable packaging and recycling and recovery of plastic packaging.
• Serving on the advisory board and R&D management team and helping raise investment funding for a US-based start-up company developing new processes for recycling municipal solid waste, fly ash and tires, and products made from the recyclates.
• Setting up and managing R&D facilities, programs and product development, helping raise investment funds and acting as Chief Technology Officer for a Japanese-based start-up company specializing in high-performance optical polymer products and display systems.
• Serving on the management team for a US-Japanese joint venture in Japan.
• Developing US market data, contacts and market development plan for a Japanese epoxy resin producer.
• Managing R&D, technical service and manufacturing support worldwide for a 20 million lb/year functional oligomer product.
• Setting up and managing a worldwide quality/technical service support function for styrene manufacturing and marketing for a US manufacturer.
• Reorganizing R&D, technical service, and QC functions, integrating them with sales and manufacturing, and R&D program planning for a US UV-curable printing ink manufacturer.
• Evaluating the technology base for a US producer of dipped latex elastomeric products.
• Developing improved curable fluxing adhesives for printed circuit boards for a US electronics materials company.
• Developing improved optical coatings for a US medical diagnostic nanoprobe start-up company.
• Evaluating present manufacturing processes and composite products and designing improved epoxy-composites and adhesives for acoustic applications for a US ultrasonics company.
• Developing novel surfactant systems for storage stabilization of polymerase chain reaction systems for DNA cloning with a US biotechnology company.
• Materials selection, systems development and R&D planning for new alkaline fuel cell designs for a UK start-up company.
• Consulting on coatings technology, developments and markets for a US Merger and Acquisitions specialist.
• Surveying polychloroprene latex technology and markets for a Japanese elastomer producer.
• Technology and market studies on hydrogen infrastructure and by-product production, flame retardants, carbon nanotubes, and REACH legislation for a UK/Japan-based consultancy.
• Evaluating novel European antimicrobial polymer technology for a potential VC investor.
• Organizing and chairing a series of seminars to promote, and identify plastics converters to operate in a new Saudi Arabian petrochemical complex conversion industrial park.