Timothy W. Womer
Chief Technology Officer at Xaloy
Tim Womer is a recognized authority in plastics technology and machinery with a brilliant career spanning more than 25 years. He has designed over 8,000 screws that have been used in all areas of single-screw plastication, such as extrusion, blow molding and injection molding. Numerous patents have been issued on his inventions in screws, screw mixers and other products. He also has extensive expertise, knowledge and experience in heat transfer rolls used in the plastic sheet and paper laminating fields.
Tim joined Xaloy with this company’s acquisition of New Castle Industries in 2003. Earlier he served in leadership positions in engineering, research and development at Spirex Corporation, Conair, Inc. and NRM Corporation. For three years he was an independent consultant in plastics process engineering with major clients engaged in extrusion, blow molding and injection molding.
Tim started his career in the plastics industry in 1974 as a machinist at NCI. He spent four and a half years working on the shop floor operating various pieces of machine shop equipment, which included lathes, mills, and cylindrical grinders. He has hands-on working knowledge of the chrome plating process and various methods of welding, which include TIG, MIG and PTA. He was promoted from the shop floor to an engineering draftsman and returned to college in 1978 to complete his mechanical engineering degree at Youngstown State University.
Tim Womer has presented many lectures for both colleges and businesses around the world in the area of screw design and plastic processing, in both extrusion and injection molding. He has presented technical papers at four annual technical conferences (ANTEC) of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) and at conferences organized by the Wire Association and TAPPI (Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industries).
Tim served as president of SPE from May 2006 until May 2007 and will continue to serve on the Executive Committee SPE until May 2009. He is a “Fellow of the Society” in SPE’s Extrusion Division.
Since 1995, Tim has also served on the Executive Committee of the SPI / NPE Show Committee as chair of the Conference and Seminar Committee for both NPE (National Plastics Exhibition) and Plastics USA, which are sponsored by the Society of Plastics Industry (SPI). He has also acted as the liaison between SPE and SPI in the area of conferencing.
