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 7:00 am - 8:15 am | Registration & Continental Breakfast |
| 8:10 am - 8:15 am | Opening Remarks
Gary Kogowski, Conference Chair, Ravago Holdings Americas |
| 8:15 am - 8:30 am | Conference Executive Chair
Ankil Shah, General Manager, Materials Engineering Department, Toyota Motors North America |
| 8:30 am - 8:35 am | Technical Program
Sandra McClelland, Conference Technical Co-Chair, Solvay Specialty Polymers |
| 8:35 am - 9:05 am | KEYNOTE: North America Powertrain Outlook: What’s Under the Hood as We Drive toward an Autonomous Future?
Kevin Riddell, Manager, NA Powertrain, LMC Automotive |
| 9:20 am - 11:45 am | I. Materials | II. Injection Molding and Materials | III. 3D Printing and Materials |
| 9:20 am - 9:45 am | Durethan® Polyamide 6 Solutions for Oil Circuit Applications
Dan Knapp, Application Development Engineer, Lanxess | A Fatigue Life Prediction Tool for Unfilled Polymers
Amir Kian Shojaei, Mechanical Engineering Consultant, DuPont Performance Materials | Big Area Additive Manufacturing for Automotive Rapid Prototyping
Zeke Sudbury, Process Development Engineer and Sales Engineer, Cincinnati Incorporated |
| 9:45 am - 10:10 am | Increasing Performance of Impact-Modified Polyamides for Automotive Under-The-Hood Applications
Ashok Adur, Global Commercial Development Director, Plastics, Vertellus | Introduction to Thermally Conductive Compounds Requiring Heat Dissipation
Paula Kruger, Application Development Engineer, DSM Engineering Plastics | HP 3D Printing Technology for Prototype and Production Applications
David Tucker, Vertical Market Development, HP |
| 10:10 am - 10:35 am | Recycled Carbon Fiber Reinforced Recycled PA Composites for Automotive Applications
Omar Faruk, Adjunct Professor, University of Toronto | Advances in Electrically Neutral Products
Ryan Hersarling, Global Marketing Manager, Ascend Performance Materials | Current and Future Uses of Additive Manufacturing Technologies for Automotive Applications
Stephen Hanna, Vice President: Global Materials Sales & Marketing, 3D Systems |
| 10:35 am - 10:55 am | Break |
| 10:55 am - 11:20 am | Toughened Polyphthalamide Using Statistical Experimental Design
Ying Shi, R&D Engineer, A. Schulman Inc | Experimental Verification on MOLDEX 3D Fiber Orientation Prediction in Injection Molded Tensile Bar and Ribbed Plates
Srikar Vallury, Moldex 3D North America | New High Performance Materials for 3D Printing with Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF)
Greg Costantino, Business Development Manager, DSM Engineering Plastics – Americas |
| 11:20 am - 11:45 am | High Performance Polyamide 9T and Applications for Automotive Parts and Electronics
Ron Rose, Kuraray America | Reducing Rotational Friction Torque and Improving Fuel Efficiency
Bill Burnham, Business Development Manager, Powertrain, DSM Engineering Plastics | BASF Drives Additive Manufacturing Solutions to Enable Functional Parts and Production
Kara Noack, Senior Business Development Manager – 3D Printing, BASF |
| 11:55 am - 12:40 pm | Lunch |
| 12:45 pm - 1:15 pm | KEYNOTE: GHG Standards for Light-duty Vehicles: Review of EPA’s Technical Assessment and the Role of Engineering Plastics for Mass Reduction
Kevin Bolon, Engineer, US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Transportation and Air Quality, Assessment and Standards Division |
| 1:20 pm - 4:50 pm | IV. Materials | V. Injection Molding and Materials | VI. 3D Printing and Materials |
| 1:20 pm - 1:45 pm | Duracon: A Grease-Less POM Solution
Takanori Ueda, R&D Manager, Polyplastics, Inc | Enabling Lightweighting: Bonding Dissimilar Materials with Plasma Surface Conditioning
Andy Stecher, President/CEO, Plasmatreat | Benefits of Using Stereolithography (SLA) for 3D Printing Automotive Applications
Scott Nordlund, DSM Functional Materials |
| 1:45 pm - 2:10 pm | High Performance Long Glass Fiber Polymers: Introducing a new Light-Weighting Technology Enabler
Brian Baleno, Global Automotive Business Manager, Solvay Specialty Polymers | Pressure Loss: Is Simulation More Accurate Than Shop Floor Data
Jason Travitz, Senior Injection Molding Process Instructor, AIM Institute | Manufacturing of High Temperature Composite Tooling with Big Area Additive Manufacturing
Zeke Sudbury, Process Development Engineer and Sales Engineer, Cincinnati Incorporated |
| 2:10 pm - 2:35 pm | Future Trends in High Performance Materials for Thermal Management Modules
Volker Plehn, Director Business Development, Toray Resin Company | Development of an Inline Plasma Treatment during the Injection Molding Process for High Adhesive Strengths
Timo Nordmeyer, University of Paderborn | Thermal Black Filled Thermoplastics for Automotive Applications
Mihaela Mihai, National Research Council of Canada |
| 2:35 pm - 3:00 pm | Break |
| 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | KEYNOTE: The Successful Path to Implementing Lightweight Composites on Future Automotive Platforms
Mark Voss, Engineering Group Manager: Body Structures Advanced Composites, General Motors |
| 3:35 pm - 4:00 pm | Near Net Molding of Ultra-Long Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastic Composites
Sean Reymond, Chief Technology Officer, Impact Composites | Back Injection of Metal Surfaces
William Asmann, North American Account Manager, Nolax, Inc | Chemical Stress Resistance of Amorphous Polymers
Tom Pickett, General Motors |
| 4:00 pm - 4:25 pm | A New Generation of Composite Thermoplastics for Light Weight Automotive Applications
John Fialka, P.E. Manager – Business Development Automotive, INEOS Styrolution America, LLC | Reducing the Cost of Injection-Molding Recycled
George Staniulis, Principal and Vice-President of Business Development, AGS Technology Inc. | High Temperature Copolyester Elastomers for Vacuum Brake Tubing (VBTs)
Paul Moruzi, Business Development Manager, DSM Engineering Plastics |
| 4:25 pm - 4:50 pm | New ASA alloys for high gloss deep color exterior applications with enhanced weathering performance
Samar Teli, Senior Manager, Lotte Advanced Materials USA, INC | Crystalline Morphology in Injection Molded PA66-Carbon Fiber Composites and Its Effect on Impact Failures as Studied With ESEM
Anne Gohn, Research Associate, Penn State-Erie | Considerations for Selecting the Best 3D Printing/Additive Manufacturing Process
Fadi Abro, Senior Manager, Stratasys Direct Manufacturing |
| 4:50 pm - 6:30 pm | Networking Reception: Sponsored By SPE Detroit Section, Automotive Division & Injection Molding Division |
