SPE Automotive awards Kevin Pageau with Lifetime Achievement

Danbury CT – The Automotive Division of the Society of Plastics Engineers names Kevin N. Pageau, owner and president of International Marketing Alliance (IMA, Glendale, Calif., U.S.) the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award winner.

For more than 40 years, Pageau has led key advancements in the automotive industry including being an early pioneer in the application of computer-aided engineering (CAE) technologies — Pageau reportedly ran GE Plastics’ first 3D finite element moldflow analysis, and provided technical analysis of numerous leading edge applications at GE. He also developed warp analysis tools, where the melt flow angle for each element was calculated and used to predict fiber orientation in glass-filled materials. This led to additional roles at GE as project engineer, business development specialist and business development manager. As director of enginering at Plastics Engineering & Technical Services (PETS), he developed proprietary methods, computer programs and algorithms to optimize the analysis of hot and cold runner systems for complex automotive molds, as well as implementing some of the first commercial “mold cooling” analysis projects.

Pageau will be presented with the SPE Automotive Div. Lifetime Achievement award at the 52nd annual SPE Automotive Innovation Awards Gala at Burton Manor in Livonia, Michigan, on Nov. 8, 2023