Work Experience
Hall &Brown Tool Co. Ltd Sheffield. England
Toolmaker
Time out: Back- packed to Eilat, Israel through North Africa to work at the Timna Copper Mines and on an archeological site.
Travelled back through Eastern Europe to Hamburg to begin work in German hospitals at the same time studying German at college.
Raleigh Cycles, Cycle Design Dept. Nottingham. England
British Consulate General Düsseldorf (translator)
THE INSTITUTE OF LINGUISTS 1971
H.J. Peters Import – Export Co, Düsseldorf, Germany (translating and interpreting)
HEK GmbH, Lübeck, Germany, a sister company of Mining and Chemical Products, London, England. Duties, to introduce new and rapid mould making techniques to German manufacturers.
Concurrent directorships:
Director (Prokurist): MCP-HEK GmbH, Lübeck, Germany
Vice President: MCP Systems, Fairfield, CT, USA
Director: MCP Ltd, Stone, England
Responsibilities for MCP Group product decissions
Technical input
worldwide sales and marketing of the following processes :
- MCP 70 Technology:originally a manual process used practically in all hospitals in Europe and later an automated process for realizing exact radiotherapy shields, driven from patient related CT data.
- Fusible core technology:developing the use of low melting metal alloys to produce complex, internally undercut thermoplastic components for increasing efficiency in high performance engine inlet manifolds.
- Metal spray mould technology: used for producing rapid large moulds for polyurethane, aircraft and automotive composite carbon body parts and more importantly for quick mould making for injection moulded plastic parts.
- Vacuum casting: for producing quick, accurate plastic and metal prototypes: up to 98% cost and time saving when utilizing 3-D printed models, initiating a worldwide revolution in creativity and speed in automotive design and development.
- 2001: Introduction of the first CAD driven, pure metal 3-D printer (SLM) Selective Laser Melting for high cost and time reductions for producing dental and orthopedic implants and complex industrial parts in stainless steel, titanium, gold and aluminium.
- Joint patent holder for: “Method and Device for Making Moulds and Tools ( WO/1998/015372)“. For producing quick and accurate Nylon PA 6 parts using silicone rubber moulds.
- Leading participant in the EU sponsored project “Brite Euram Rapitool BRE20325”. Aims: to utilize 3-D printed Stereolithography models to develop rapid mould production techniques. MCP achieved excellent results among 7 other participants using MCP´s wholly recycle-able low melt alloys to realize 250 polyproplene mouldings in 3 days from a 3-D model.
- International speakeron 3 D driven rapid product realization, generative and additive manufacturing processes.
- Organizer, participantat numerous international trade shows and congresses: Kunststoffe Düsseldorf: NPEChicago: Hannover Fair and at Fraunhofer and 3 –D User Group Conferences.
- For 25 years acontributor of editorials, press reports, press releases to German and English language trade magazines. All publications available on request.
Travel experiences
October 1964 Sheffield
Through a Sunday newspaper I got an invitation to work on an Archeological site in Israel. At that time hitch- hiking was by far the cheapest way to get arround , so I back- packed from Sheffield through Belgium, Luxemburg, France , Spain to Gibralter. There I met an American, John and we decided
to cross North Africa together . The route across North Africa to get to Cairo is long ! You need to cross to Ceuta on the African mainland and then pass through Maroco , Algeria, Tunisia, Lybia and finally Kairo. We both had a problem on the Tunisien/Lybien border. They told us to go to the Lybian Consulat – in Tunis ,1400 Km there and back, and get visas to enter Lybia. This took us 3 days over a weekend using taxis , busses and hitch-hiking ! On arriving in Cairo we made a 500 Km trip to visit Luxor ,Valley of the Kings , 3000 years old and to absorb everything needs a full week. John, my American friend had allready planned to carry on to S.Africa and I took a boat ( deck class) from Alexandria to Beriut. Getting from Beriut to Jerusalem is a relative short one day trip through Syria. In Jerusalem I met a German guy, Henning from Hamburg who also wanted to cross into Israel to find work. I remenber that we donated blood to get money , but not before they had checked our religion to make sure we are not Jewisch!! It was cold and Christmas time in Jerusalem so we hitch-hiked 400 Km to Akaba on the Red Sea. We met 6 young sailors from East Germany. They were very freindly and they invited us to their boat to enjoy New Years Eve. Akaba is only 7 Km from Elat/Israel where Henning and I wanted to work. However there is no gateway crossing to Eilat. So we had to hitch-hike back to Jerusalem , cross into Israel to hitch-hike back to Elat - only 7 Km from Akaba !!. Once in Israel we found jobs. One in the Timna copper mines and Henning on a Desalinationplant at the harbour .The work was relativly easy and we got a good lunch after each shift. The weather is acceptable in the winter but in the sommer , it is practically impossible to work at all. Luckily a German professor was looking for young people to work on an Archeological site . Henning and I joined and the work was very interesting and the pay , the food and the logings in the kibutz was great. We remained in Elat from Christmas to March after which we where on our way to Haifa to get a boat to Istanbul. Haifa nach Istanbul ist eine 3 Day Trip with a stop in Izmir. Iststanbul is extremely interesting but after 4 days we needed to push on to Bulgaria , Rumania , Bukarest and Hungary . All these Cities are beatiful ,having never been bombed. We finally arrived in Austria ( Viena) also extremely interesting. Henning had a friend in Düssedorf, Germany who was kind enough to put us up for several days. Ron decided to remain in Hamburg for a while . Unfortunately at that time, 1965, it was only possible to work in a Hotel , on a Farm or in a hospital.
Henning made a few calls to hospitals and Ron got a job.
Trip : October. 1964 – Juni 1965 / 14.000 Km
Absolutely no incident during the whole trip.
Ron met his wife Heidi in the hospital he was working in.
Beno Rothenberg : Valley of the Biblical Copper Mines
Interviews and publications
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RP / NGZ : Ron explains to the Düsseldorf local newspaper ( circulation 600.000) reporter the advantages of the vacuum casting process combined with 3-D printing to produce high quality prototype parts , literally within hours.
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Industrie Anzeiger ( circulation 35.000 ) trade magazine. In this interview article Ron talks about the different aspects of producing high quality prototype parts for the very demanding automotive industry in Germany.
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Maschine und Werkzeug: ( circulation 30.000) trade magazine. Ron explains his company´s completely new and rapid process for producing metal castings through the lost wax process combining 3-D printed models and vacuum casting for producing the required high quality wax models.