[drew1]

Went past tlant I retired from in May 2018 a week or two ago andit had engineer on the help wanted sign. it is Ascend Performance Materials in Greenwood, SC. Its product is Nylon 66, flake (used for injection molding) and yarn (staple used for stuff like tennis ball fuzz, carpet yarn, tire, and airbag yarn). When I left, the transition to increasing capacity for flake was beginning. There is a lot of heat transfer going on in the process of making nylon, using heat transfer fluids and steam, plus the actual chemical reactions, and moving of the product, pumps and valves, though the process.

The company HQ is in Houston and used to have jobs for various locations on its website. Now they have none, so I do not know of what kind of engineer. It is a privately held company that bought the nylon business from Solutia, which had been spun off from Monsanto.

If interested PM and I will get ahold of some old buddies and find out what kind of engineer. "Reliability" is a good word to put on your resume as much of the production is continuous process and a loss for 30 to 45 minutes could cause an overhaul taking a week to go though pumps, piping, and valves.