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Dr. Donald V. Rosato is internationally recognized as a leader in plastics technology, business, and marketing. Serves as President of PlastiSource, Inc. a prototype manufacturing, technology development, and marketing advisory firm, located in Concord, Massachusetts, USA.
He has extensive technical and marketing, plastic industry business experience from laboratory testing, through production to marketing, having worked for Northrop Grumman, Owens-Illinois/Graham, DuPont/Conoco, Celanese/Ticona, and Borg Warner/G.E. Plastics.
Dr. Rosato has authored or edited numerous papers, including articles published in the Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Engineering, and major books, including the Concise Encyclopedia of Plastics, Injection Molding Handbook, Plastic Product Material and Process Selection Handbook, Reinforced Plastics Handbook, Extruding Plastics: Practical Processing Handbook, Blow Molding Handbook, Designing with Plastics and Advanced Composites, Plastics Processing Data Handbook, and Plastics Institute of America Plastics Engineering, Manufacturing and Data Handbook.
He has developed numerous patents within the polymer related industries, is a participating member of many trade and industry groups, such as SPE, SPI, PIA, CPPIA and SAMPE. Among many accolades, has been named Engineer of the Year by the Society of Plastics Engineers.
He received his BS in Chemistry from Boston College, MBA at Northeastern University, M.S. Plastics Engineering from University of Massachusetts Lowell, and Ph.D. Business Administration at University of California, Berkeley.