Natural Resources >> CEO Interviews >> January 7, 2002

Carl Horowitz – Polymer Research Corporation Of America (proa)

CARL HOROWITZ is President, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Polymer Research Corporation of America since 1963. He graduated from Columbia University in New York and obtained a BS degree in Chemical Engineering in 1950. He did postgraduate studies at Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn, New York, where he obtained an MS degree in Chemistry in 1961. He was employed from 1951-1963 at Yardney Electric Corp., New York, NY, and worked himself up to a position of company Vice President. He has 30 patents in the fields of Polymers and Storage Batteries. He belongs to American Chemical Society and American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He has received two John C. Vaaler Awards (1965 and 1972) and Pollution Engineering Award (1979). Profile
TWST: Could you give us a quick summary and overview of Polymer Research

Corporation of America?

Dr. Horowitz: Polymer Research Corporation of America has a process

called chemical grafting.