Ron Knowlton entered the plastics industry as a “Technical Engineer” at Grant and Roth Plastics, working for Merrill, Ivy and Rod Roth in Hillsboro, Oregon. After 10 years at Grant and Roth Plastics and then another 10 years at Quality Plastics as a Senior Accounts Manager, he changed roles and worked 5 years as a Senior Supplier quality engineer at InFocus Corporation. The InFocus opportunity included responsibilities for injection molding, Magnesium casting, thixo-molding and other commodities and the business travel included assessments of factories all over North America and Asia. Then syncing back up with Rod Roth for the past 14 years at R&D Plastics as VP Business Development. R&D Plastics is pleased to host and sponsor an annual tour of Portland factories each year for 40-45 Engineering Students and provides three scholarships offered each year to students in the Plastics Engineering program in the names of Merrill, Ivy and Rod Roth.