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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
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