Purpose & Review
This tutorial will provide practical information that will help you enhance your technical capability in foaming. It will help you develop new blowing agents to meet the growing challenges, design foam products that meet customer’s needs, improve effectiveness of your foam R&D and processing projects. The attendee will also receive updated key references on plastic foams.
Who should attend?
This tutorial is intended for a range of companies and individuals involved in thermoplastic foam development, production, and applications: R&D scientists and engineers, formulation scientists, process engineers, quality engineers and application engineers from thermoplastic foam production and manufacturing companies. Chemists and chemical engineers involved in development of foaming grade resins and blowing agents. Foaming equipment manufacturing: design engineers, project engineers, and rheology specialists. Development engineers and research scientists working on new foam developments. Foam users and application specialists.
Tutorial Program
Monday 9th October
8:00 am registration begins
8:30 am bus shuttle (starts at Arvena hotel)
9:00 am Fundamentals and Foaming Technology - Prof. Chul B. Park (University of Toronto)
1.Foam Structures
2.Foaming Agents
3.Fundamentals of Foaming (Cell Nucleation and Growth)
4.Extrusion Foaming
5.Foam Injection Molding
6.Bead Foaming
1:00 pm Lunch
2:00 pm Sustainable Foams – Prof. Hani E. Naguib (University of Toronto)
7.Biofoams: processing and properties
8.Nanocomposite Foams: processing and properties
9.Multifunctional Foams: Acoustic, Conductive, Functionally Graded and Aerogels
6:00 pm bus shuttle (going to Arvena hotel)
Tuesday 10th October
8:30 am bus shuttle (starts at Arvena hotel)
9:00 am Nanofoams – Dr. Stéphane Costeux (Dow Chemicals)
10.Challenges to achieve very high cell density
11.Materials and processes
12.Properties of Nanofoams
1:00 pm Lunch
2:00 pm tour to “Neue Materialien Bayreuth GmbH”
foam injection moulding
bead foam technology
foam extrusion
6:00 pm Brewery tour and beer tasting
When and Where
Tutorial starts at 9:00 AM Monday, October 9 and ends at 12:00 PM Tuesday, October 10, 2017
University of Bayreuth
Universitätsstraße 30 (building FAN B)
Bayreuth, 95447, GERMANY
Tel: (+49) (0) 921 55 7471
Stephane Costeux Dow Chemical | |
Hani Naguib University of Toronto | |
Chul Park University of Toronto | |