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Arthur
Buckel has spent thirty-six years overall in the job
shop world of manufacturing. Twenty-eight years were
spent operating his own companies in technical management
with twenty years of that time in a custom thermoforming
plant.
Art founded Specialty Manufacturing Inc. in San Diego,
California, in 1972. By the mid-1980’s SMI had
become one of the country’s most sophisticated
thermoforming and fabrication companies.
Art has organized, written, promoted, and presented numerous
seminars on thermoforming technology and production procedures;
tooling; and acquainting customers, engineers, and designers
with the advantages of thermoforming. He has lectured
at numerous university polymer programs. He has been
active many years on the Board of the Thermoforming Division
of the Society of Plastics Engineers.
Since selling Specialty Manufacturing in 1990, Art has
been as Associate Consultant with McConnell Co., Inc.
He has worked with many companies world wide in thermoforming
problem solving, plant analysis, parts troubleshooting,
in-plant personnel training, new facilities layout, and
designs and new product and tooling development. He has
worked on numerous legal cases in research and expert
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