Tom Walsh
Partner at Plastic Pipeline Integrity, LLC
- Role
- President at Walsh Consulting Services
- Location
- Houston, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Tom Walsh
Over my career, I have worked in R&D, Technical Services, R&D Management, Product Development, Applications Development, Marketing, Sales, Business Management, Trade Associations, Failure Analysis, Expert Witness, and commercial and technical consulting. Over the past 25 years, Walsh Consulting Services, Inc. and now Plastic Pipeline Integrity, LLC have completed over 300 projects for a wide variety of North American and International clients. In 2018 I was elected Chairman of the American Society for Testing and Materials Committee F36,\"Underground Infrastructure\" for a 2nd term. Previously I served three terms as Chairman of ASTM Committee F17,\"Plastic Piping Systems.\" From 2013 to 2017 I served as Vice Chairman of Sub Committee 15,\"Fiberglass and Thermoplastic Tubulars\" of the American Petroleum Institute). In 2016 I completed my second term as a Board of Directors member of the Composite Repair Users Group (CRUG). I have received the Award of Merit from ASTM and am a Fellow of ASTM. As Executive Director of the Plastics Pipe Institute from 1993 to 1996, I represented the plastic piping industry with regulatory agencies, trade, and standards organizations in N. America and Internationally. I also developed marketing programs for PE piping products and re-organized the operations of PPI and the Hydrostatic Stress Board. While with Solvay Polymers (now Solvay Advanced Materials), I managed the commercial introduction of engineering plastics product lines into North America. I was responsible for the development and commercialization of polypropylene (PP) film, blow-molding, sheet extrusion & thermoforming, medical and automotive grades; also polyethylene (PE) pipe and fittings and sheet extrusion and thermoforming lines. Sales of PE pipe grades that I developed now exceed 6 billion lbs and $4 B in value. Additionally, I have managed technical services and product development groups for injection molding, rotomolding and fiber materials.
Experience
President
May 1996 — Present · Houston, TX, US
Walsh Consulting Services provides strategic business and market analysis as well as failure analysis, expert witness and technical consulting in plastics applications. Walsh Consulting has a broad in-depth industrial background in R&D, product development, technical services, application development, sales, failure analysis, standards development, product approvals, regulatory relations, government relations, marketing, market development, business development, as well as business unit and trade association management. Walsh Consulting has experience and knowledge over a broad range of plastics including polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), polyvinyl chloride (PVC), fluoropolymers (PVDF), engineering thermoplastics, thermoplastic alloys, and filled and reinforced compounds. I have experience in polymer processing including injection molding, blow molding, shhet extrusion, film extrusion, pipe extrusion, fibers, strapping, thermoforming, compression molding and rotational molding. Walsh Consulting provides internationally recognized expert consulting in the areas of plastic piping materials, plastic pipe testing, and long term durability of plastics.
Education
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Organic Chemistry
1971 — 1979
Boston College
BS, Chemistry
1964 — 1968
US Army Military Police School
MP, Police
1969 — 1969
Vincentian Institute
New York State Regents Diploma, College Preparatory
1960 — 1964
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