Jeff Opitz has led his company, CeraMaterials, into great growth covering both services offered and quality of the service. Over the past six years, he has positioned the company as an integral supply chain management, sourcing and materials supplier for a wide range of products and services critical to his heat treat customers. This customer-centric approach is one of his most acclaimed qualities, providing unique technical solutions and adapting to his customers' needs, admired by both his employees and business colleagues.

He serves his clients and his customers as a knowledgeable leader and mentor, personally and professionally, and is willing to ask questions to provide real-life solutions to resolve customer issues and problems. Jeff's hand in turning CeraMaterials into a timely, customer-first, and affordable service is widely recognized by his nominators, having changed CeraMaterials into a more progressive company with value-added services and support.

Additionally, Jeff has expanded the audience-reach of customers, improved product performance for clients on numerous occasions, and been a key provider of materials for lab testing in Georgia Tech and MIT, enabling research teams to build thermal systems that were previously believed to be impossible.

Nominated by: Alumag Industrial; americarb; Armstrong Material Solutions, LLC; CCTC; CeraMaterials; Becker Brothers Graphite Corp.; CeraGraphiSolutions; The Duffy Company; Gasbarre, CI Hayes Division; Graphel Corporation; Hardline Heat Treating; Insulation Specialties; IVAC Group; Keylon Thermal Consulting; Linde PLC, PG Technologies, LLC division; Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Caleb Amy and Mehdi Pishahang as submittors Mineral Seal Corporation; Morgan Advanced Materials; Mt. Savage Specialty Refractories; Neftec Corporation; Nutec Bickley; Parker Hannifin, Exotic Metals Forming Division; PTI Thermal Solutions; Unitherm International; ZarTech