Max Carroll:  

Married, one son who now lives in Atlanta. After I graduated from Auburn (Mechanical Engineer), I came here to Kingsport, TN (NE corner of state) and worked of Eastman Chemical Company. (It used to be part of Eastman Kodak). Kingsport's population, including suburbs, is about 90,000, so we have many good "big town" things without many bad "big town" things. We're in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains, so it's a beautiful area. I worked in a Lab that was used to do experimental work with various plastics which Eastman produces. The one that I worked with the last 16 years of my career was the polyester that's used to make soft drink bottles. We didn't make bottles to sell, we only produced the polyester and sold it to bottle producers. At one time, Eastman was the world's largest producer of that plastic. Billoins (yes billions) of pounds per year. And we produced many other types of plastics, all of which were sold primarily in rail car quantities. In other words.... a whole lots of plastics...Expand for more