1. Susie Pfuderer Lange
423 Park Drive
Neenah, WI 54956
H: 920-729-0831
M: 920-225-9895
susie.lange@sbcglobal.net
Summary
Effective product development engineer with a broad background including management,
process engineering and quality.
Good rapport with both sales and manufacturing floor and customers. Excellent team
communication skills.
Six Sigma Training including Stage gate, Voice of the customer and Design of Experiments.
Technical expertise in solventless, solvent and wet adhesive laminating, blown film (1-7 layers),
shrink and stretch lines, tandem extrusion, 1-3 layer extrusion coaters, cast lines, oriented
polystyrene lines, flexo, roto and offset printing and thermoforming.
Highlights
 In Product Development- averaged $5-6 million new sales/year resulting in 31% of cei new sales goal.
Captured 80-90% of the business for both the Thilmany and ECP acquisition.
 In Bemis Blown Film was promoted to Manufacturing Department Manager and reduced waste 10%.
 As Duralam Quality Department Manager- set up effective department teams which eliminated the top
quality issues in each department within the year. Company was bought by Bemis.
 As Duralam Product Development, who was in charge of an acquisition of Teepak, held on to 90% of
the business and was promoted.
 As a Duralam Pouch Process Engineer- reduced the waste on pouch machine by 50% & was promoted.
 At PCA as a Product Development engineer- set up a performance guarantee which held
and allowed twin OPS lines to be upgraded for a $100K savings. Our team increased rate 300% and
reduced waste. Won role model award.
 At Alcan - received a service recognition award because as process engineer the process changes and
quality improvements in the product line increased plant sales by 20%.

2. Experience:
2008-2016 Coating Excellence International Product Development Engineer
Markets included dry mix, wet and dry chemicals, food overwrap, nonsterilized medical, and
yeast. Machines: flexo, offset, tandem and single extruders, solventless laminators.
PD for acquisition of Thilmany and ECP businesses.
2006-2008 Bemis Company, Inc. BSF Coating & Laminating Dept Manager
Managed 10 machines including 2 tandems, coaters (ext and lam), solventless and solvent.
adhesive laminators. Supervised more than 100 employees, 4 shift supervisors, material handlers, and a trainer.
2003-2006 Bemis Company, Inc Department Manager New London
Managed 18 blown machines including 1-7 layer blown lines,, 3 ICE lines, 3 stretch and 2
shrink lines. Supervised 100 employees+, 4 shift supervisors, and a trainer.
Instituted formal changeover process and team to improve changeover waste and time.
2001-2003 Bemis Company, Inc Blown Film Process Engineer New London
Followed all trials and scale ups for 18 blown lines from 1 to 7 layers.
Facilitated multiple machine start ups (stretch and ICE).
Technically responsible for all quality issue resolution and process conditions for 18 lines.
1999-2001 Bemis Company, Inc / Duralam Quality Manager
Instituted monthly management and weekly plant meetings to resolve internal and external quality issues.
Developed a new cost of quality which quantified the quality in dollars.
1997-1999 Bemis Company, Inc / Duralam Product Development
Designed 2 new structures for Jobes' Fertilizer Spikes and brought 27 items to market
on short time line. Won DuPont awards for the items. Developed hard to hold adhesive lamination for mining
industry. Performed solvent mass balances for VOC requirements.
Worked with meat, chemical, cookie, medical, and cheese markets
1995-1997 Bemis Company, Inc / Duralam Process Engineer
Reduced pouch waste by 50%. Spearheaded a company acquisition (Devro Teepak).and developed specifications
and training for 700 new items. Pouch, flexo, solvent lam, extrusion and blown film machines.
1992-1995 Stay at Home Mom (Wrote books, Finished basement, Gourmet Cooking Club)
1987-1992 Packaging Corporation of America Process & Product Development
Developed specifications for a performance guarantee for the quality requirements on
2 oriented Polystyrene lines. Increased output on twin lines by 300% with gear pump addition.
Successfully designed a repelletizing unit for OPS scrap (used die, built water bath, added heat exchanger). 5 OPS
lines, 1 3 layer Welex, thermoformers and foil formers.
1984-1987 Alcan Process Engineer
Retrofitted scanner on coaters and blown film cages on blown lines.
Also had medical, cookies, Playboy center fold, sugar, floratape and sliced meat markets.
Machines: roto, flexo, blown lines, cast, solvent laminators, tandem extrusion coater.
1979-1984 University of Wisconsin Madison BS CHE

3. References for Susie Lange:
Chris Richards
Grande Cheese
Director of Supply Chain Management
920-840-8035
(Used to work at cei.)
Robb Schaefer
Director Marketing at Bemis
(Used to work at cei.)
920-739-3841
Rick Bellile
R & D Engineer at cei
920-257-8911
Louann Mueller
VP of R & D
(Only call if not a direct competitor to cei).
920-475-4264