Cast Polymer Radio

On this episode, we feature all of our conversations from day 2 at CAMX 2026 in Atlanta, GA. These include interviews with:  Matthew Hartman of Loop Technology Gil Cooper of Plataine Marcy Offner of WCI  Eimear O'Carroll of Lios  Yves Cordeau of Avient Corporation Tom Sharrock of James Cropper Daniel Neumann of ACMA  Paul Zwicklhuber of ENGEL

On this episode, we'll be featuring all of our conversations from Day 1 at CAMX 2026 in Atlanta, GA. There was a huge turnout at the show this year, bringing together over 500 exhibitors and roughly 7,000 industry professionals spanning aerospace, automotive, marine, and construction sectors. 

Graphene has been called one of the most extraordinary materials ever discovered. It's exceptionally strong, lightweight, electrically conductive, and thermally conductive. But more than a decade after capturing the world's attention, one major question remains: why hasn't it transformed manufacturing the way so many people predicted? On this episode, Brad Larschan and Kevin Wyss of Avadain join the show to discuss the past bottlenecks with graphene production and what their company is doing to change this. Avadain is an advanced-materials company commercializing patented technology for producing what it calls Large, Thin, Defect-Free, or LTDF, graphene flakes. On this episode, we'll talk about why all graphene isn't created equal, what Avadain believes it has solved on the manufacturing side, and, especially for our audience, what large-scale availability of high-quality graphene could mean for composites and advanced materials. You can learn more about their company by visiting avadaingraphene.com.

On this episode, Dr. Yasmeen S. Alfaraj discusses the next generation of thermoset composites. She is the founder and CEO of NextSet Materials, a company developing a new generation of reprocessable thermoset materials. Through NextSet Materials, Yasmeen is addressing one of the composites industry's most persistent challenges: how to recover valuable fibers and other materials from durable thermoset structures that were never designed to be taken apart. The company's technology incorporates cleavable additives into existing resin formulations, creating a controlled pathway for deconstructing the cured polymer and recovering materials for reuse—without requiring manufacturers to completely replace their established processes. We'll be discussing the chemistry behind this technology, its potential applications in aerospace, wind energy, automotive manufacturing and electronics, and what it could mean for the future of truly circular composite materials. You can learn more about the company at https://nextset.net. 

On this episode, Gus Perez of Marble-Lite joins the podcast to share how he's using Claude Code to help run his business. Marble-Lite is our featured manufacturing member in the upcoming Summer issue of Cast Polymer Connection (coming out next week).