Ohio University alum John Bozzelli ’72M , reports Plastics Machinery magazine.
Bozzelli an M.S. in Chemistry from the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University.
John Bozzelli
For John Bozzelli, owner of Injection Molding Solutions, getting the basics right has always been fundamental to the injection molding process. He has long been a passionate advocate for competitiveness in North American plastics manufacturing. In addition, for the last 20-plus years, he has taught practical techniques for bringing science and technology into the molding process.
Bozzelli graduated from Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio, in 1968, with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry. His studies were interrupted when he was drafted in 1969 for deployment in Vietnam with the U.S. Army. He served in a company that, by his description, was used as bait, walking up and down trails until the soldiers were ambushed. He lasted 65 days before being severely wounded by a B-40 rocket. Bozzelli describes that experience as the signature event that drives his life.
“I should never have survived,” he said. After being discharged with a Purple Heart and Silver Star, Bozzelli earned a master’s degree in chemistry from Ohio University, Athens, in 1972….
How would you like to be remembered?
Bozzelli: That I brought a little bit of the science and technology to the forefront and tried to push science into our processing; that I took the processor’s view in bringing in the science and technology; that I elevated the appreciation for those skilled tradesmen who run injection molding machines. Finally, I brought more respect for the importance of manufacturing within our society.
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