Mr. Ronald L. Amey '74

Ronald Amey is a Research Fellow (retired) in the Specialty Materials

group of INVISTA S.a r.l., a wholly-owned Koch Industries (Wichita, KS)

company.

 

Ron’s nearly 40-year research career in chemistry at E.I. DuPont de

Nemours & Co., Inc. and INVISTA spans a wide range of specialty

chemicals, materials, and end-product applications. His work as project

and team leader led to the development and commercialization of a novel

biocide for use in marine-antifouling paints, new intermediates for synthetic

musk compounds in fragrances, and a family of specialty amines used for

curing and cross-linking epoxy coatings, paints, and composites. He is the

inventor/co-inventor on twelve U.S. patents and the recipient of two DuPont

Co. Corporate Marketing Excellence awards for his product and application

development work with downstream customers.

 

Ron received his BS degree in Chemistry from Lehigh University in 1974

and a PhD in Organic Chemistry from the University of Illinois Urbana-

Champaign in 1979.

 

He and his wife Gail, a retired IT System Analyst for DXC Technologies

Inc., are active in the Philadelphia Zoo and international travel programs

focused on animal conservation.