Inductee
Year
Contributions

Wallace H Carothers

1990

For pioneering melt spinning technology and condensation polymerization

Georg Menges

1990

Founder of the Computer-Aided Engineering in Injection Molding and inventor of Pin-Barrel

Gerhard Schenkel

1991

Pioneer of screw extrusion Engineering and Technology

Charles Goodyear

1992

Inventor of vulcanization and pioneer in rubber technology including blow molding

Zehev Tadmor

1992

Inventor if the disk pack processor and pioneering researcher in screw extrusion technology

Paul Leistritz

1993

Pioneer of intermeshing counter-rotating screw pumps, extruders and kneading machines

Paul Pfleiderer

1993

Inventor of the first practical commercial batch mixer and the continuous mixer

Richard M. Griffith

1994

Pioneer of Polymer Processing Analysis and Inventor of In-Mold coating

Susumu Kase

1996

Pioneer of Engineering Simulation of fiber and film processing and stability

Tatsuki Matsuo

1996

Pioneer of Engineering Simulations of Fiber and Film processing and stability

Leslie E. Soderquist

1997

Pioneer of Modern Tire Curing Machines, Inventor of the “Big-O-Matic Press”

Robert Hanning

1999

Pioneer of Injection Molding Technology