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My Favorite Science Podcasts

Posted by David Roisum on November 6, 2010
Listening to podcasts on your mp3 player, or in my case the iPhone gen 4, is a great way to make driving, exercising, working in the garden etc pass more enjoyably, quickly and productively.  As a very long time consumer of audio products (including books on tape), I thought I would share some ...

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Roll-to-Roll Vacuum Deposition of Barrier Coatings

Posted by David Roisum on September 17, 2010
Roll-to-Roll Vacuum Deposition of Barrier Coatings
A new book by one of AIMCAL's favorite blogmasters, Dr. Charlie Bishop, is hot off the press. Heck, its even got "roll" in the title so we better take notice. Roll-to-Roll Vacuum Deposition of Barrier Coatings presents a practical guide to provide any reader with the basic information to help them...

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Dr. David Roisum

Dr. Roisum is a well-known authority in the area of web handling and converting. He has authored seven books, including Winding, Rollers and Web-Handling and has coauthored or edited several others. He was a technical editor for Converting Magazine with a monthly column entitled "Web Works." An accomplished professional speaker and instructor, Roisum has been praised for his skill at translating highly technical information into a common sense practical reference. Dave has been honored by TAPPI with their Finishing & Converting Division Award, Thomas W. Busch Prize and Finest Faculty awards and is a TAPPI Fellow. Dave received his Ph.D. from the Web Handling Research Center where he later became an Industrial Advisory Board member.

Dave has worked for the Beloit Corporation as a designer of winding machinery and later as a manager of research, and for Kimberly-Clark as a converting expert serving all business units. He is now a principal of Finishing Technologies Inc., providing consulting services to more than 300 clients who convert or manufacture: paper, film, foil, nonwovens, textiles and many other materials. He has accumulated much practical experience working in nearly 1,000 plants over the course of more than three decades.