Jed Randall

Background

About Jed Randall

Since I had the good fortune to be hired by Cargill in 1991, I have enjoyed 30+ years of experience in the growing field of biopolymers. Starting with operating a pilot plant designed to produce crude lactide monomer, I have watched the evolution of a business, and helped with the creation of a new material and market. Today NatureWorks LLC is jointly owned by Cargill and PTT Global Chemical, and is the world's largest manufacturer of polylactides, sold under the trade name Ingeo. A wide variety of applications for Ingeo have been developed and commercialized, including thermoforming, oriented films, foams, textiles, extrusion coatings, injection stretch blow molded bottles and wide variety of fibers. As a product development chemist, my primary job responsibility is to develop new properties and processes that can enable business growth.Specialties: Polymer structure / properties relationships, polymer chemistry, materials science, extrusion foam, branching, impact modification, orientation, dimensional stability, design of experiment and data analysis techniques.