Aurora Material Solutions
Dave Minardi is an experienced professional in the plastics industry, currently serving as the Purchasing Manager at Aurora Plastics, LLC since August 2019. Prior to this role, Dave held positions at Aurora Plastics as Operations Manager from October 2017 to September 2019, and at S & E Specialty Polymers as Operations/Purchasing Manager from December 2004 to September 2019. Earlier in their career, Dave worked at Gitto Global from October 1992 to December 2004, where responsibilities included production work, scheduling, and purchasing management. Dave completed education at Assabet Valley Regional Vocational High School from 1985 to 1988.
Aurora Material Solutions
Founded in 1997, Aurora Material Solutions is based in Streetsboro, Ohio and is known for providing the highest quality PVC Compounds, advanced polymers and custom plastics in the industry. The company offers a broad range of rigid and flexible PVC products – in either powder or pellet form – including industry-leading technologies in rigid cellular foam, dark weatherable capstocks, and compounds that require exacting color match specifications. In addition to PVC, Aurora Material Solutions has extended its offered polymer platforms which include TPR, TPE, CPE and TPO formulations, and flame retardant plastic compounds. Their manufacturing facilities optimize best practices and utilize the most current technologies, building a reputation for ensuring consistency and reliability in a variety of applications. Aurora Material Solutions’ facilities are ISO certified, setting the benchmark on product quality and lot-to-lot consistency in the industry. Unlike many other compounders, Aurora Material Solutions offers one of the industry’s largest product portfolios, including premium pellet capstocks, rigid PVC and flexible PVC, custom TPO, TPE, CPVC, CPE alloys, TPEs, low-smoke zero-halogen compounds, SBS & SEBS, RPVC cellular foam and purge compounds. We have one of the broadest thermoplastic product portfolios in the plastics industry. In addition, Aurora Material Solutions launched an engineered polymers division with the merger with Enviroplas, providing customers with an even broader product range that includes ABS, ASA, MABS, PBT, PC, PC/ABS Alloys, PC/ASA Alloys, PC/PBT Alloys, PC/PET Alloys, PEI and TPU composites.