Extrusion, die design, processing, thermoforming, blow molding, and rotational molding.
Polymer processing, injection molding, extrusion screw design, vented barrel injection molding, process control, proces modeling and analysis, process otimization, new process development, and plastics process machinery design.
Professor Stephen Orroth is a senior member of the Plastics Engineering Department and is in charge of the Processing and Testing facilities at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Professor Orroth has extensive research experience in the area of processing and process design as well as testing.