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April 2001
No Section Meeting
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One particularly interesting point was the inroads Polypropylene resin is making into applications that before have been limited to styrenics and engineering materials like ABS, HIPS, PVC and even PC. The advantages PP provides with its versatility and low cost have driven many OEM's and other users to adopt it.
After lunch, the group had a choice of 14 different, excellent sessions, designed to cover issues of interest to a wide variety of plastics people: product and part designers, equipment maintenance staff, mold designers and builders, and managers. The list of subjects included the following: the new ANSI Molding Machine Safety Regulations; Designing with Composite Materials; Injection Molding Metals; How to Design For The Use of Adhesives In Your Product; Rapid Prototyping Methods; Design of Hot Runner Nozzles; How to Design for
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Injection Molding of Composites; Keeping Your Cool--A Discussion of Water Cooling Systems; Using Cavity Pressure Sensors to Control Your IM Process; New, Hybrid-type Molding Machines; Negotiating the Price of A Molding Machine; IM Robotic Systems and the End Of Arm Tooling that goes with them, and a very well attended session on Micro-Cellular Molding, a coming trend in technology.
Virtually everyone who attended agreed that it was very full, very informative day, and well worth the price (approximately $100, including lunch, break refreshments, and parking). The only real complaint was the often heard "There were too many sessions to choose from! I wanted to go to two at the same time." The committee has heard these concerns and will certainly consider them when we plan next year's TechFair 2002.
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