Scientist Mark A. Spalding, Inclosia Solutions, won the Best Paper Award in the Society of Plastic Engineers' (SPE) Extrusion Division at ANTEC 2006. The reference for the paper is:

Spalding, M.A., Campbell, G.A., Carlson, F., and Nazrisdoust, K., “The Effect of Barrel Diameter and Rotation on the Numerical Simulation of Single-Screw Extruders,” SPE-ANTEC Tech. Papers, 52, 792 (2006).

Other authors on the paper are from Clarkson University.  With this award, researchers from Dow have won the Best Paper Award 11 times since 1990. Past winners in Extrusion include Joe Dooley, Steve Chum, Seema Karande, Joe Huang, Steve Jenkins, John Naumovitz, Phil Wagner (retired), Joe Powers (retired), Kun Sup Hyun (retired), Ravi Ramanathan, Ravi Shanker, Steven Jons, Dave Headley, Walter Schrenk (retired), Kevin Hughes, Tom McCullough (retired), and Beverly Stout.