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Johan Pluyter

Pluyter Consulting, LLC

 

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First name
Johan
Last name
Pluyter
Organization
Pluyter Consulting, LLC
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Contact information

City
Eureka
State or Province
California
Zip Code
95502
Country
United States
Phone
(848) 459-6643
 

Specialties and Services

Fields of Expertise
  • Analytical
  • Colloids
  • Competitive Intelligence
  • Green Chemistry
  • High Performance Liquid Chromatography
  • Literature and Patent Searches
  • Materials
  • Measurement and Instrumentation
  • Nanotechnology
  • Patents
  • Pigments and Inks
  • Polymers
  • Product Development
  • Project Management
  • Research and Development
  • Separations and Purification
  • Soaps and Surfactants
  • Spectroscopy
  • Synthesis
  • Technology Transfer
Other Fields of Expertise
Claim support and performance assessment of consumer products.
Controlled release of fragrances and flavors.
Microencapsulation.
Fragrance performance in products.
Malodor control.
Cleaning of fabrics and surfaces (including dish).
Hair and skin care
Rheology.
Surface property measurements
Summary
Pluyter Consulting LLC provides assistance in innovation, its planning and technical problem solving and innovation enabling of product development for small, medium and large companies. Consumer Packaged Goods companies as well as their ingredient suppliers are among its customers.
Key Consulting Areas:
- Claim support and performance assessment of consumer products
- Business development for new product launches and technology introduction in new and existing products
- IP and competitive analysis
- Fragrance, flavor, agriculture and other actives controlled release (encapsulation)
- Fragrance performance
- Personal care (fixatives, shampoo, conditioners, personal wash)
- Detergents (fabric and dish) and surface cleaners
- Any area where colloids, surfactants and polymers are key ingredients
Services
New Product Concept to Market Strategy:
Work with marketing and business development to design new product concepts and performance benefits using sound technology options and directions

Competitive Analysis:
- Analysis of competitor product activity, claims and strategy
- IP landscape analysis
- Consumer product performance and claims benchmarking
- Consumer product analysis

External Partnerships:
- Initiate and set up external partnerships between companies, Universities and Institutes
- Find and connect existing ingredient or new technology suppliers to your technology, product and procurement teams
- Work with you and your external partners to develop innovative technology solutions for novel performance benefits

Product Performance Understanding:
- Identify what makes your product perform and not perform
- Use this knowledge to design new and/or improved performance benefits
- Provide information for claim substantiation
- Use in troubleshooting product quality issues

Specific Technology Support:
- Encapsulation / Targeted Delivery
- Fragrance Performance in Consumer Products
- Materials for malodor control
- Polymer synthesis/design and surface modification
- Colloid and surfactants selection and optimization
- Formulation Strategy
- Rheology of Dispersions, Solutions, Gels, Solids. Texture understanding.
- Performance and analytical test method development
- Structure/formulation-property-performance correlation
 

Additional Information

Experience
PLUYTER CONSULTING, LLC.
President, May 2018 - Present
Providing guidance and assistance in identifying and developing technologies as well as intellectual property for new product benefits. Our aim is to help you launch proprietary new products with a competitive edge and superior cost/benefit ratios for the consumer.
Currently working with various consumer packaged goods product and ingredient producers.
Consulting areas:
- New Product Concept to Market Strategy: design new product concepts and performance benefits using new technologies
- Provide Innovation Guidance for a Variety of Industries
- Specialized Technology Support
- Product Performance Understanding and Claim Support

S.C. JOHNSON & SON, INC.
Research Director, 2017-2018
Global RD&E, Home Cleaning
- Science and technology planning and short-/long-term roadmap creation alongside global product, claims, and marketing teams.
- Capital and technology budget management.
- Scientific guidance to develop claims support documentation.
- Ingredient harmonization and performance-based specification setting.

INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES (IFF)
Senior Research Fellow, 2002-2017
Delivery & Material Technology
- Fragrance and flavor delivery systems innovation and product development.
- Developed novel microencapsulation chemistries and processes.
- Completed and lead safety assessment of new polymer shell technologies for microencapsulation.
- Lead the development of novel microcapsule deposition technologies in order to maximize microcapsule deposition on fabrics, hair and
skin from rinse-off consumer products.
- Development of malodor counteracting technologies based on malodor adsorption/absorption and covalent reactions.

NATIONAL STARCH & CHEMICAL COMPANY (under Unilever and later ICI)
Senior Research Associate, 1995-2002
Synthetic Polymer Research.
- Structure-Property-Performance correlation.
- External partnership creation and management.
- Methodologies: rheology, thermal analysis, surface science, GPC-MALLS, HPLC, GLC, molecular and mesoscale modeling, informatics.
- Product fields: hair care, skin care, cosmetics, adhesives, paper making, building materials, electronic materials.
- Performance Improvement Examples: low VOC hair fixative, hair conditioner and skin care polymers; adhesives with improved wet tack
for very high speed coating applications; complex polyelectrolyte coacervates for improved wet strength for paper making; novel
polymer additives for rheology and strength improvements of cement tile adhesives.
More Experience
PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY
Product Development Manager, 1991-1994
- Auto and liquid Dish: Launched first auto-dish product on European mainland, novel enzyme/surfactant systems for improved cleaning.
- Fabric Softeners: Stable and low viscosity super concentrated fabric softeners, color care (fixatives and dye transfer inhibition),
enzymatic systems.
- Liquid and Powder Detergents: Readily soluble high density granular detergents, novel dye transfer inhibition technologies, novel
bleach catalysts for cleaning and color care.
Education
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Ph.D., Physical and Polymer Chemistry, 1991

SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY, San Diego, California
M.S., Analytical and Organic Chemistry, 1987

HOGESCHOOL EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands
B.S., Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, 1983
Patents
GRANTED PATENTS

Malodor Counteractants
US 9,126,890. Low volatile reactive malodor counteractives and methods of use thereof
US 9,061,965. Low volatile reactive malodor counteractives and methods of use thereof

Fragrance Microcapsules, Capsule Deposition, Fragrance Controlled Release
US 9,610,228. Terpolymer-coated polymer encapsulated active material
US 9,347,023. Dispersed capsules in lyotropic or lyotropic liquid crystal surfactant phases for enhanced capsule deposition
US 7,632,789. Encapsulated fragrance chemicals
US 7,585,824. Encapsulated fragrance chemicals
US 7,491,687. Encapsulated materials
US 7,491,685. Encapsulated fragrance chemicals
US 7,294,612. Encapsulated fragrance chemicals
US 7,196,049. Encapsulated fragrance chemicals
US 7,122,512. Encapsulated fragrance chemicals
US 7,119,057. Encapsulated fragrance chemicals
US 7,105,064. Particulate fragrance deposition on surfaces and malodour elimination from surfaces

Fragrance Ingredients
US 8,415,391. 3.2.1-bicyclo-octene and -octane compounds
US 8,399,522. 3.2.1-bicyclo-octane compounds

Rheology Modifying Polymers and Polymer-Surfactant Formulations
US 7,105,153. Thickener-rheology modifier system for personal care compositions
US 6,447,803. Thickener-rheology modifier system for personal care compositions

Fabric Softeners
US 6,008,184. Block copolymers for improved viscosity stability in concentrated fabric softeners
US 5,616,553. Fabric conditioning compositions
US 5,599,786. Cellulase fabric-conditioning compositions

Powder Detergents
US 5,814,596. Structured detergent pastes and a method for manufacturing detergent particles from such pastes

Auto-Dish Detergents
US 5,772,786. Detergent composition comprising lime soap dispersant and lipase enzymes
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