This year’s John Kidd Award Winner is Ted Hutton, currently of Plastic Welding, LLC. Ted has been a member of ASME for more than 25 years and has worked with thermoplastic fabrication, welding, resin manufacturing, processing, and specification for more than 50 years. He has worked with Thermoplastics—and more specifically fluoropolymers starting with PenTube Plastics (Dixon Industries)—in 1962 as Chief Engineer for 3 plastics processing plants. He has been involved with ASME BPE, ASME RTP1, ASME and NPPS.
Ted also worked at LNP, later he worked at Allied Chemical (Allied Signal, Ausimont) as Technical Service and Technical Manager for Halar ECTFE. He also worked for Westlake Plastics as the Director of Technical Services for sheet linings (PVDF and ECTF, and polyolefins). Later he worked for Arkema as a Senior Development Engineer for Kynar PVDF. In addition to his current responsibilities at Plasticwelding, he works with Engiplast to provide weld and climbing drum testing for AWS B2.4m ASTM C-1146, DVS, ASME RTP1 and other standards. Ted’s efforts in promoting thermoplastics in dual laminates, standards committee work, and current thermoplastic welding and testing has been pivotal in the development, promotion, and success of Dual Laminates in North America.
(The John Kidd award is presented annually to the individual whose performance best exhibits the pursuit of excellence and integrity in the field of Dual Laminates. The individual can be a fabricator, material supplier, inventor, consultant, end user, welder, or anyone else who has been instrumental in the development, fabrication, or promotion of Dual Laminates.)