Richard Jorkasky II

Technical Manager Richard Jorkasky II Kobelco Stewart Bolling, Inc. 1600 Terex Rd. Hudson, OH USA 44236 Email: r.jorkasky@ksbi.com Biographical Sketch: Graduated with a BS in Chemistry from Carnegie-Mellon University. Spent the first 23 years of his career with Standard Oil of Ohio (Sohio/British Petroleum in Cleveland, Ohio, doing everything from bench top research to pilot plant scale up to product manufacturing to customer service to material processing of numerous polymeric systems. When BP moved to Chicago in 1999, he left to become the Pilot Plant/Laboratory Manager of Kobelco Stewart Bolling, Inc. (KSBI, in Hudson, Ohio) doing mostly rubber and some plastics mixing with internal mixers, production mixing for customers and consulting on mixing and mixing problems. He has 12 patents and has authored/co-authored more than 20 publications on the processing and mixing of rubber and plastics.