Steve Sopher

Executive Vice President

JSP

Steve has over 35 years’ experience in the plastics field. He has worked at Raytheon, Dow/United Technologies, ARCO Chemical, and is currently the Executive Vice President at JSP.  He holds BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University in Boston, MA.  He holds 2 patents in the area of expanded polypropylene foam.  He is the author of over 30 papers and 2 book chapters in the area of polyolefin foamed plastics, and is member of ASME, ASTM, SPE, SAE and the Plastics Pioneers Association.  He is a Licensed Stationary Engineer, an ASQ Certified Quality Engineer, and is an Instructor for TMS teaching Plastics and Statistics.