Umberto Catignani

Umberto training at Engel's injection molding facility
Umberto F. Catignani, President of Orbital Plastics Consulting, Inc.
  • Over 29 Years of Hands-on Injection Molding Experience
  • Expert Witness
  • Installed & Debugged Over 100 Injection Molding Machines and Over 500 Molds
  • Proficient with Engel, Husky, Krauss-Maffei, Arburg, Battenfeld, Sumitomo, Nissei, Van Dorn, DeMag, Toshiba, Mitsubishi and Toyo machines and controllers
  • Past Owner & Instructor Paulson School of Molding RJG Master Molder I & II Certified & Systematic Molding I
  • Intimate knowledge of Priamus, Kistler & RJG (CP & CT Sensors) processing methodologies
  • Conducted numerous webinars on Injection Molding Processing via IDES
  • Past Instructor for SPI Learning Network
  • Past employers: IBM, GM, Delphi, Husky, Steel Profitability Consulting
  • Past President of Southern Section of SPE (Society of Plastics Engineers)
  • Past member of the Plastics Technology Advisory Board for West Georgia Technical College
  • The University of Akron, MS – Polymer Engineering, Summa cum Laude
  • University of Cincinnati, BS – Materials Engineering, Magna cum Laude