Roy Carter MSc FIM CEng

Specialities

Materials and Design

Additives &property modification
Analysis
Materials and equipment selection
Highly filled materials
Pastes and doughs
Rheology

Processing

Dies and die design
Gas assisted moulding
Health and safety and training
Injection moulding
Mixing and compounding
Process instrumentation and control
Profile and sheet extrusion

Secondary Operations

Testing
Inline and on line testing and control

Commercial

Marketing and market research
Strategic planning and forecasting
Technology transfer and licensing

Markets

Automotive
 Biomedical
 General products
 Packaging

Other Skills

Authoring
Benchmarking
Bespoke computer software
Literature and patent search
Project management
Special equipment
Training
Translation
Trouble shooting

Personal Profile

 

Roy Carter qualified in Polymer Chemistry and Plastics and Rubber Technology. After spells in the paint manufacturing and injection moulding industries, he was for some 15 years a research scientist at the UK Ministry of Defence’s Propellants, Explosives and Materials Establishment at Waltham Abbey, Essex. Here, he patented a novel polyurethane system, founded a unique research laboratory to study the processing characteristics of some unusual highly filled, plasticised polymer systems and used the rheological data obtained to redesign production processes using modern technology. He also improved testing techniques and introduced instrumentation and control to several production processes. He left when the site was closed, having become Project Manager of one of the biggest projects seen on the Waltham Abbey site, and having achieved acknowledgement as a World Leader in his field.

He co-designed and patented a novel, environmentally friendly, melt pressure transducer, which was manufactured and sold worldwide under licence. Founding his own company, Carter Baker Enterprises, with a colleague, he introduced several new and improved testing instruments onto the market. Polymer Laboratories in Loughborough acquired this company in 1991, and then Rheometric Scientific in turn acquired Polymer Laboratories. Mr Carter continued to look after his own products and also on-line rheometers in the European Market.

After a period as the UK Business Manager for Schenck GmbH of Darmstadt, being responsible the sales and marketing of a range of electronic condition monitoring instrumentation, he was Managing Director of Magna Projects and Instruments in 1996 to 2001, and he founded Celsum Technologies Ltd, of which he is MD, in 2001.

Mr Carter has been at various times both Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the British Society of Rheology, of which he remains a Member. He is also a Member of the US Society of Rheology and of the American Institute of Physics, is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials and a Chartered Engineer. He is Chairman of the Industrial Advisory Group on Polymer Processing and of the Polymer Testing Club, and sits as Technical Expert on a British Standards committee responsible for formulating National and International Standards for materials testing. Mr Carter, was a key member of the WebPro project team, funded by the ICT Carrier Programme, developing at Exeter Advanced Technologies a system of monitoring an injection-moulding machine over the Internet, facilitating such operational options as Lights-Out Working. He has been an active consultant since 1992, and has some 100 publications in the technical field.

Company Profile - Celsum Technologies Ltd

Celsum Technologies Ltd is a dynamic company geared to designing and marketing a variety of advanced testing equipment, mainly in the rheological field; distributing and systems integration of a range of advanced digital process monitoring instruments; and, of course, offering technical and managerial consultancy services backed by the ability to design and supply hardware and software to solve particular problems effectively.  Celsum also markets a wide range of electronic equipment and testing instruments.

 Current projects and products include:

 

 Contact Address

Celsum Technologies Ltd

The Innovation Centre, De Montfort University, 49 Oxford Street, Leicester LE1 5XY, UK 

Tel:     +44-(0)116 207 8807

Fax:    +44-(0)870 120 9370

Email: roy@celsum.com

Web:   www.celsum.com