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December
12, 2007
UMass
Lowell – Wannalancit Mill
1st Floor
Conference Room, 600 Suffolk Street
Lowell, Massachusetts 01854 |
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Advance registration $125 (on or before Nov. 30, 2007)
Later registration $150 (after Nov. 30 and on-site)
Lunch and reception is included
Space is limited at this event.
Registrations are accepted on a first come, first served basis. No refunds,
no exceptions. Substitutions may be made at any time.
Corporate sponsors:
These
companies will staff tabletop displays to provide the
opportunity to meet and discuss the wide-ranging extrusion
technologies that they offer.AEC - Water treatment systems
Alpine American - Blown film processing
equipment
American
Kuhne - Single screw extruders
and systems
Brabender - Feeders and material handling equipment
Colortronic - Feeders and material handling equipment
Cumberland - Size reduction and
related equipment
Davis-Standard - Single and twin screw extrusion
systems
Dynisco - Pressure and temperature sensors
and
analytical instruments
ECM Plastics - Custom compounding and
color
masterbatch supplier
Extrusion Dies Industries - Dies and feedblocks
Foster Corp. - Full service material solutions company
Gneuss - Polymer filtration systems
Guill Tools - Extrusion tooling for tube, wire, pipe and profile
Leistritz - Twin screw extruders and systems
Maguire Products - Material management systems
Plastics Technology Magazine - Publication to the
plastics industry
Reduction Engineering - Pelletizers and systems
Scheer Bay - Pelletizers and systems
Trendelkamp - Filtration devices and auxiliary equipment
Wayne Machine - Single and twin screw extrusion
systems
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SPE
EXTRUSION “MINITEC 2007” AGENDA
Registration – 8:00 AM • Opening Remarks-
8:30 AM |
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An
Overview of Plastics Engineering at UMass Lowell
Bob
Malloy, UMass Lowell |
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Auxiliary
Equipment Developments for Extrusion
Keith
Larson, Colortronic North America |
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Kinematics of Solids
Conveying in a Single
Screw Extruder, Stephen Derezinski, Extruder Tech
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Guidelines
for Compounding on Twin Screw Extruders
Dan
Mielcarek, Coperion |
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Top
10 Common Extrusion Process Problems and How
to Solve Them - Ed Steward, American Kuhne |
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Causes
and Reduction of Shark Skinning
David Bigio,
University of Maryland |
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How to
Set-Up an Extrusion Experimental Design
John Wagner, Crescent Associates
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LUNCH |
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Extruders
and Screw Design for High Tolerance Medical
Tubing -
John Christiano, Davis-Standard |
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Advances
in Twin Screw Extrusion Applications
and Design -
Stuart Kapp, Leistritz |
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Latest
Developments in Multi-Layer Blown Film
Processing -
David Nunes, Alpine American |
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3:15
PM -
Tour of UMass Lowell process laboratory & facilities |
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4:45 PM RECEPTION |
