The latest issue of Rubber Review is now available online
Bangkok, Thailand – The June 10th issue of Rubber Review is now available online. In this issue we have a conversation with Conversation with Joe Walker, Owner, Elastomer Technologies, LLC, USA and Retired “Global Technology Director”, Freudenberg Sealing Technologies, USA.
Here’s the first question we asked him: Joe, your career spans over four decades and touches nearly every aspect of rubber science – from material formulation to defense programs and industry training. Can you take us back to how it all began? What sparked your interest in rubber and elastomers, and how did you transition from chemistry into such a technically diverse and applied field?
JOE: When I was studying in college, I had this vision of what a chemist was and would visualize myself in a laboratory surrounded by blubbing flasks and humming chart recorders, working on … who knows what. Then I had the opportunity to get to know some of my chemistry professors. They had industrial chemistry experience and brought me back to reality by telling me that the process of discovery was as much a market-driven process as it was and intellectual one.