8:25 am - 8:30 am | Introduction |
8:30 am - 9:00 am | Global TPEs: New Technology, Regional Market Shifts and Commoditization Robert Eller, Robert Eller Associates, LLC |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Selection and Application of Antimicrobial Additives in Thermoplastic Compounds Jeffrey Trogolo, Sciessent |
9:30 am - 10:00 am | Soft, Processable SEBS Polymers for Compounds Prashar Davé, TSRC Global |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Break |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Bonding Solutions for Styrenic TPE Medical Tubing Kevin Cai, Teknor Apex |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | Elucidating and Controlling the Morphologies of Charged Thermoplastic Elastomers Rich Spontak, North Carolina State University |
11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Small Angle X-Ray Scattering to Measure the Effects of Different Strain During Tensile Testing of TPU Alex Sokolowski, BASF |
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch |
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | Keynote: M&A for Thermoplastic Elastomers Deborah Douglas, The Douglas Group |
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Top 16 3D Printing Stories of 2016 Sarah Goehrke, 3Dprint.com |
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Thermoplastic Polyurethanes for Fused Deposition Modeling Jake McDonough, Fenner |
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Additive Manufacturing of Soft Parts from Thermoplastic Elastomers Edmond Richer, Southern Methodist University |
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Break |
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | UV-Absorbent Lignin-Based Multi-Arm Star Thermoplastic Elastomers Chuanbing Tang, University of South Carolina |
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Sustainable Thermoplastic Elastomers from Terpene- Derived Monomers Marc Hillmyer, University of Minnesota |
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Thermoplastic Elastomers from Multifunctional Biomonomers Eric Cochran, Iowa State University |
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | How can bioplastics be part of the transition to more sustainable plastic use in the global economy? Libby Bernick, TruCost PLC |
8:30 am - 9:00 am | Market Applications for TPE Multishot Molding and the Tooling Technologies to Enable Success John Berg, MGS Manufacturing |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Fundamentals of Twin-Screw Compounding: Scale Up - The Bump in the Road Between Development and Commercialization Paul Andersen, Coperion |
9:30 am - 10:00 am | A 3 Dimensional Single Screw Compounder For Elastomers, TPO And Nanoscale Particulate Keith Luker, Randcastle |
10:00 am - 11:00 am | Break and Poster Session |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | The Use of Next Generation Design of Experiments Software for Discovery and Scale Up Nina Visconti, Quantisweb |
11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Manufacturing Polypropylene (PP)/Waste EPDM Thermoplastic Elastomers using Ultrasonically Aided Extrusion Avraam Isayev, The University of Akron |
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch |
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | Rocket Science to 3D Entrepreneur; An Account of Transitions Matthew Fiedler, re:3D |
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Thermoplastic Elastomer Compounds for Consumer Electronics and Wearables Allen Donn, Kraiburg TPE |
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Design and Operational Challenges of Wearable Drug Delivery Systems Hossam Metwally, Ansys Inc. |
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Co-extruded Multilayer Shape Memory Materials: Smart Layered Systems Eric Baer, Case Western Reserve University |
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Application of Engineering Plastics in Wearable Technologies Eric Teoh, DSM |