Paul Tatarka
Market Development
TOPAS Advanced Polymers, Inc
7300 Turfway Road
Florence,
KY
USA
41042
Email:
paul.tatarka@topas-us.com
Biographical Sketch: Paul D. Tatarka is in Market Development for TOPAS Advanced Polymers, Inc., based in Florence, Kentucky. In this role, he is responsible for promoting TOPAS® cyclic olefin copolymers in flexible packaging applications. In his twenty-five year career in the polymer material and packaging industries, he has developed and commercialized new copolymers, food and medical packaging films. He holds eleven US patents, covering impact modified propylene graft copolymers; biodegradable starch ester thermoplastics, puncture resistant heat shrinkable meat packaging films and thermoforming films. He holds Master of Science in Plastics Engineering and Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering, both from the University of Lowell and MBA in Finance from Farleigh Dickinson University.
Papers:
47
Elastomeric Cyclic Olefin Copolymers