Nilesh Savargaonkar
Principal, Customer Application Development Engineer
ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Co.
Education:
- Ph. D. in Chemical Engineering, Iowa State University (1996)
Work Experience:
- Primary expertise in flexible food packaging
- Application development and product development in food packaging space
- Supported small, medium and large customers in the flexible packaging industry
- ExxonMobil Chemical Company: 7 years, Global customer application development; Areas of focus–Food packaging, Meat and Cheese packaging (barrier films), all PE packaging, metallocene LLDPE and HDPE resin developments, MDO-PE and BOPE film applications.
- Printpack Inc.: 2 yrs, Product development; Area of focus – shelf-stable food products
- Dow Chemical: 8 yrs, Technical service and development; Areas of focus– Lamination films, Meat and Cheese packaging, Structure-property relationships of LLDPE-LDPE blends, etc.
- Ampacet Corporation: 10 yrs, Various roles including product development, customer technical support and lab manager, Areas of focus– Additive developments for flexible food pkg.
Patents:
- 27 patent applications
- 12 granted patents