Dale Brosius is Executive Vice President and Chief Commercialization Officer for the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI), focused on composites technologies for more energy efficient vehicles, wind turbines and compressed gas storage. He is also a consultant to the composites industry since 1999, having completed numerous market studies, assisted in strategic planning, and aided companies in merger and acquisition activities across multiple market elements of the composites supply chain.

Brosius has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and an M.B.A. and over 35 years of industrial experience in the composites industry. As a manufacturing engineer for Dow Chemical, he was responsible for a 400,000mt propylene oxide and 80,000mt propylene glycol plant. This was followed by marketing responsibilities for automotive composites in Detroit, where he led development of low density SMC, carbon fiber drive shafts, pickup truck boxes, leaf springs and infused primary structures made from thermoset resins. Subsequently, at Fiberite and Cytec, he led numerous activities related to high performance carbon fiber prepreg-based components for aerospace and industrial markets, and managed molding compound businesses in the U.S. and France, leading the acquisition of the French subsidiary.

Mr. Brosius has been involved in the production of class A carbon fiber components for a U.S. OEM, and development work with automotive and aerospace OEMs in Europe, Japan and the U.S. Prior to joining IACMI, he spent 10 years with Australia-based Quickstep Technologies, setting up demonstration sites in the U.K., Germany and the U.S. for Quickstep’s innovative out-of-autoclave curing technology. He has intimate knowledge of all composite processes, from injection molding to textile preforming to autoclave, as well as glass and carbon fibers and a wide range of thermoset and thermoplastic polymers. He is the former chair of the Thermoset and Composites Divisions of the Society of Plastics Engineers, an SPE Honored Service Member and four years as chair of SPE’s Automotive Composites Conference and Exhibition. He has authored and presented numerous technical papers for conferences in the U.S., Europe, Japan and Australia, and is the author of over 150 articles and editorials for High Performance Composites, Composites Technology and Composites World magazines.