Frederick Deans
Advisor – Composites and Industrial Applications
Mr. Deans has more than 40 years of sales/marketing, technical service, manufacturing, business development and business management experience at companies such as General Electric and Pittsburgh Plate Glass (PPG), working in the automotive, architectural and industrial market segments. He is an expert in product evaluation, processing, production, product engineering and in coordinating new product introductions. Among his many accomplishments are his work engineering the development of an automotive glass-forming process, introducing monolithic tempered privacy glass for sport-utility vehicles (SUVs); development of the first unidirectional GMT composites for new-generation automotive bumper systems; and managing a next-generation long-fiber thermoplastic composite development (D-LFT) for underhood (IFES, underbody shields) and off-road vehicle load floors. He is a current member of the Board of Directors of the Society of Plastics Engineers’ (SPE’s) Automotive and Composites Divisions, past chair of the SPE Automotive Composites Conference & Exhibition (ACCE), and an SPE Honored Service Member.
