Jim Landry

Inventor, NSL8

President, Thermal Mitigation Technologies, LLC

 

Prior to his breakthrough research leading to NSL8, Jim Landry developed expertise in the field of advanced composite materials with several high level leadership positions within government and the private sector. After years of cultivating his knowledge, building strong business relationships and honing his training, he invented NSL8 and launched Thermal Mitigation Technologies, LLC.

 

Initially designed for subsea applications, it wasn’t until a military officer asked to shoot the NSL8 coating that Landry realized the dynamic potential of his new product. NSL8 caught that bullet. Since that day, many applications have been successfully tested and additional research continues to move forward.  To learn more about NSL8 and the potential it has in your industry, contact Thermal Mitigation Technologies for a discovery meeting.

 

 

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Career Accomplishments

-- In 2001 he became the first Director of Advanced Composite Materials for the Louisiana Department of Economic Development based in Baton Rouge, LA. 

-- Responsible for networking the activities of Business, Academia, and Government to foster economic growth in the states’ economy in the area of advanced materials.

-- During the early years of his tenure there, his department generated nearly $25 million in new investment in his first year, growing to more than $157 million in his second. 

 

Academic Development

-- Co-hosted the Louisiana Materials Conference in New Orleans where all Advanced Material research centers throughout the state along with a host of private companies meet to discuss latest technology available through the universities to benefit private industry. 

-- Served as the Project monitor for the National Center for Advanced Manufacturing (NASA) for four years,

-- Assembled all of the Polymer Science research and development centers at Louisiana Universities and grouped them into one consortium called APTEC, approved by the State legislature.

 

Government Focused Projects

-- Drafted and gained approval for the “Project Equity Fund” to provide access to capital to existing Louisiana companies. 

-- Introduced the Transportation Equalization Act to reduce the taxes of corporations that locate to the state and ship products oversee as well as domestically out of Louisiana. 

-- Drafted modification of the “Use” tax on customer owned molds used in the plastic molding industry.  This saved a tremendous amount of work leaving the state (CSP).

 

 Consulting Contracts

-- Worked with Alcan Aluminum of Canada to develop an oil field related application for a new metal matrix composite material that incorporated silicon carbide particles in aluminum to give it the strength of cast iron at the weight of aluminum, meeting with all of the major gas compressor manufacturers and the larger gas compressor packages in the US. 

-- Worked with ICO, the second largest ID pipe coater in the world, helping to introduce a new thermal spray process to the oil and gas market and open a new market as an approved vendor to do corrosion control coatings for Cameron in Louisiana.