| | 8:00 am - 11:30 am | M1-Additive Manufacturing(Moderators: Kal Migler and Ray Pearson)-Room S320E | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | 3D Printed Capsules for On-Site Formulations Derrick Smith, Merck | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Modification of PLA for Improved Layer-to-Layer Adhesion in 3-D Printed Parts Michael Thompson, McMaster University | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Influence of the Layer Time on the Resulting Part Properties in the Fused Deposition Modeling Process Frederick Knoop, Paderborn University - DMRC | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | EFFECTS OF POLYMER RHEOLOGY ON PREDICTED DIE SWELL AND FIBER ORIENTATION IN LARGE SCALE POLYMER COMPOSITE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING Zhaogui Wang, Baylor University | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Mechanical Properties of Reinforced Compounds for Large Format Additive Manufacturing (LFAM) Rabeh Elleithy, Lead Scientist, Additive Manufacturing and Cost Modeling, SABIC | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | THE INFLUENCE OF MELT FLOW RATE AND NOZZLE TEMPERATURE IN FUSED FILAMENT FABRICATION Nicole Hoekstra, Western Washington University | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Mechanical Properties of 3D Printed Polylactide/Microfibrillated Polyamide Composites Nahal Aliheidari, Ph.D Student, Washington State University | 8:30 am - 11:30 am | M2-Bioplastics: Biobased Polymer Structures and Analysis(Moderator: Douglas Hirt)-Room S320A | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Transamidation of corn oil side-steam product from bioethanol industry as strategy to develop sustainable polyesteramides Jean-Mathieu Pin, University of Guelph | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | NANOCELLULOSE AS A SIZING AGENT FOR GLASS FIBER TOWARDS AN ENHANCED GLASS FIBER – EPOXY INTERPHASE Joyanta Goswami, Georgia Institute of Technology | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | On the Use of High-throughput Electrospinning to Produce Optimized Packaging Films from Polyhydroxyalkanoates Jose Lagaron, IATA-CSIC | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Polycaprolactone Nanofibers Containing Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor-Encapsulated Gelatin Particles Enhance Mesenchymal Stem Cell Differentiation to Endothelial Cells and Angiogenesis of Endothelial Cells YONG-CHAO JIANG, Zhengzhou University | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Effect of shish material on the formation of Self Induced Shish-Kebab Structure Xiaofeng Wang, Zhengzhou University | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | FULLY BIOBASED DEGRADABLE PLASTIC WITH INSECTICIDE FUNCTIONALITY Cindu Annand, Iowa State University | 8:00 am - 11:30 am | M3-Engineering Properties and Structure: Innovations in Polyolefins and Plastics(Moderators: Teresa Karjala and Rajen Patel)-Room S320B | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | KEYNOTE:Innovation in Mature Markets: Understanding Global Trends across the Value Chain Key and Accelerating Development Narayan Ramesh, Dow Chemical | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | MELT-MASTICATION OF ISOTACTIC POLYPROPYLENE FOR IMPROVED THERMAL AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES Brian Cromer, R&D, Arkema | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Techniques to Measure Impact Properties of Polymers Sean Teller, Veryst Engineering | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Ways to enhance thermoelectric properties of melt mixed polypropylene-carbon nanotube composites Petra Pötschke, Scientist, IPF Dresden | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Analysis of Newly-Developed Textured PTFE Gaskets Subjected to Creep Relaxation Ali Gordon, University of Central Florida | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | COMPOSITION DEPENDENT CHARGE STORAGE AND EMI SHIELDING PERFORMANCE OF THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMER NANOCOMPOSITES CONTAINING MWNTS Shital Pawar, University of Calgary | 8:00 am - 11:30 am | M4-Extrusion: Twin Screw I(Moderator: Costas Tzoganakis)-Room S320F | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | Flow, mixing and reaction of polymer reactive blending in a twin screw extruder Cailiang Zhang, Zhejiang University | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Effect of High Speed Twin and Quad Screw Compounding on the Molecular Weight, Molecular Weight Distribution, and Mechanical Properties of Polyethylene Composites Mansour Albareeki, Ph.D Student, UMass Lowell | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF FILL RATIO, RESIN PRESSURE, RESIN TEMPERATURE OBTAINED FROM THE 2.5D HELE-SHAW MODEL IN FLOW OF COROTATING TWIN SCREW EXTRUDER Masatoshi Ohara, TOSHIBA MACHINE CO.,LTD. | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Designing and Computational Validation of Extensional Mixing Elements (EMEs) for Improved Dispersive Mixing in Extrusion Operations Vivek Pandey, Case Western Reserve University | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | CHARACTERIZATION OF STRESS IN A TWIN-SCREW EXTRUDER FOR PROCESSING AND EXTRUSION OF EXTRINSICALLY SELF-HEALING THERMOPLASTICS Connor Armstrong, University of Maryland, College Park | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | IMPROVED NANOCLAY DISPERSION IN ETHYLENE VINYL ALCOHOL VIA SUB-CRITICAL GAS-ASSISTED PROCESSING Thomas Ellingham, Ph.D Student, UW-Madison | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | NEW INVOLUTE EXTRUDER SCREW ELEMENTS FOR IMPROVED PRODUCTIVITY AND QUALITY Paul Andersen, Process Engineering Consultant, Coperion | 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Resolving Feed Issues for Specialty Compounds in the TriVolution Compounder Gonzalo Marulanda, Technical Center Manager, B&P Littleford | 8:00 am - 11:30 am | M5-Joining of Plastics and Composites(Moderator: Sergio Amancio)-Room S320H | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | Methods of Polymer Weld Quality Evaluation Miranda Marcus, Edison Welding Insititue | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Development of Molecular Diffusion Models for Ultrasonic Welding of PLA Karla Lebron, Graduate Student, Iowa State University | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | EFFECTS OF BUILD ORIENTATION AND FILL-LEVEL ON MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF FUSED DEPOSITION MODELING PLA Avraham Benatar, Associate Professor, The Ohio State University | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Correlating Ultrasonic Weld Quality with Melt layer Thickness Alex Savitski, Dukane IAS | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | UNDERSTANDING MELTDOWN DURING QUASI-SIMULTANEOUS LASER TRANSMISSION WELDING Philip Bates, Royal Military College of Canada | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | RESEARCH ON TEMPERATURE FIELD OF LASER TRANSMISSION WELDING POLYCARBONATE BASED ON 3D REAL SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY Zhong Hongqiang, soochow university | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Temperature Field And Fluid Field Simulation Of Laser Transmission Welding Polycarbonate Yan Tingpei, Soochow University | 8:00 am - 11:30 am | M6-Plastics Pipe and Fittings: Testing, Durability and Fracture of Plastic Piping Materials(Moderator:Dell Doyle)-Room S322 | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | Assessment of Polybutylene Plumbing Installations after Long-term Service Dale Edwards, Engineering Systems Inc. | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | PERFORMANCE OF PE PIPE RESINS IN CHLORINE DIOXIDE CONTAINING AQUEOUS SOLUTION Márton Bredács, Polymer Competence Center Leoben | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Quantifying Oxidative Degradation in Polyolefin Pipe by IR Spectroscopy Don Duvall, Sr. Managing Consultant, ESi | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Pipe Quick Burst Pressure Investigations of Sample Length on Two Plastics Bryan Hauger, Hauger Consulting | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | INNOVATIVE MILLIMETER WAVES TECHNOLOGY FOR MEASURING DIAMETER, OVALITY, WALL THICKNESS AND SAGGING OF LARGE PLASTIC PIPES Katja Giersch, SIKORA AG | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Effects of Primer on Mechanical Behavior of CPVC Pipe Bingjun Chen, University of Alberta | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Fracture mechanic principles for multi-layer pipe-wall design Florian Arbeiter, Montanuniversitaet Leoben | 8:00 am - 11:30 am | M7-Injection Molding: Injection Mold Technologies(Moderator: Srikanth Pilla)-Room S320D | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | Additive Manufacturing of large, temperature-controlled injection molding tools using Arc Welding and Diffusion Bonding Johannes Ullrich, Hochschule Schmalkalden | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Controlling the Local Part Properties Using a Segmented Temperature Control in Injection Molding Mauritius Schmitz, Institute of Plastics Processing (IKV) in Industry and the Skilled Crafts | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | CHARACTERIZATION OF FILLING PERFORMANCES AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF MICRO MOLDED FEATURES Jiang Jing, Zhengzhou University | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | VALVE GATE OPEN LAG TIME IN CONVENTIONAL HOT RUNNER SYSTEM Byungohk Rhee, Ajou University | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Injection molding setup by means of machine learning based on simulation and experimental data Julian Heinisch, Research Assistant, Institute of Plastics Processing (IKV) in Industry and the Skilled Crafts at RWTH Aachen University | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Study on an optical evaluation of surface adhesion in the multilayer injection molding process Byungohk Rhee, Ajou University | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Modeling of the ultrasound-assisted ejection in micro injection molding Giovanni Lucchetta, University of Padova | 8:00 am - 11:30 am | M8-Polymer Modifiers and Additives(Moderator: Robert Sherman)-Room S320G | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | New High Strength Low Density Glass Bubble Products for Ultra-lightweight Composites Stephen Amos, 3M | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | High Performance Fillers – Wide range of improvement with small particles! Péter Sebö, Head of Marketing and Market Development, Quarzwerke GmbH | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | New Insights From Tailored Dispersion of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Through the Optimization of Melt Mixing Parameters during Production of Polypropylene-Based Nanocomposites Valérie Lison, NANOCYL | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS)/Mica composites: Preparation and characterization Mohammed Alghamdi, Yanbu Industrial College | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | STATISTICAL OPTIMIZATION OF ADDITIVES FOR GLASS FILLED POLYPROPYLENE STABILIZATION Syed Hassan, R&D Engineer, A. Schulman Inc | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | A new carbon black for high jetness and easy dispersion Marc Delvaux, Cabot Corporation | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Mechanical Reinforcement with Cellulose Filaments Helen Lentzakis, Kruger | 8:00 am - 12:00 pm | M9-Technical Marketing-Polymer Processing I(Moderator: Mark Spalding)-Room S320C | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | Development of Elongational Mixing Geometries for Twin-Screw Compounding Extruders Adam Dreiblatt, CPM Extrusion Group | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Facing Compounding Challenges of the Future with the RingExtruder RE© Michael Erdmann, Head of Process Technology, Extricom Extrusion GmbH | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | TWW Micro (TM) Extruder for 3D Printing Timothy Womer, President, TWWomer & Associates | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Advanced Extrusion Control Ben Freckmann, Product Portfolio Manager, Eurotherm by Schneider Electric | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | New Extruder Design and Features Bill Kramer, US Extruders | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coperion Pelletizing Technology Update - What’s New and Why? Mike Bickley, Coperion Eberhard Dietrich, Coperion | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Energy Efficient Drying DOUG HARDY, WITTMANN BATTENFELD | 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | S-Max Series Screenless Granulator Technology Joe Golin, Wittmann-Battenfeld |
| | 1:30 pm - 6:30 pm | M10-Additive Manufacturing Materials(Moderators Ray Pearson and Jason Lyons)-Room S320E | 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | 3D Printing Feedstock from Recycled Materials Nicole Zander, Research Chemist, US Army Research Laboratory | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | ASSESSING THE PERFORMANCE OF CONTINUOUSLY REINFORCED ACRYLONITRILE BUTADIENE STYRENE WITH A THERMOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTALLINE POLYMER IN FUSED FILAMENT FABRICATION Mubashir Ansari, Virginia Tech | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | High Impact Strength Polycarbonate Filament for Additive Manufacturing Sarah Grieshaber, SABIC | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Bonding Strength in Additively Manufactured Multi-Material Plastics Parts Jakob Onken, Institute of Plastics Processing at RWTH Aachen University | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Crystallization Kinetics during Materials Extrusion based Additive Manufacturing of Polycaprolactone Kalman Migler, NIST | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Processing Considerations: Cellulose Nanocrystal Thermoplastic Urethane Filament Production Jacob Fallon, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | STRUCTURE AND PROPERTY RELATIONSHIPS OF ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED POLYPHENYLENE SULFIDE WITH CARBON FIBER REINFORCEMENT Peng Liu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory | 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Strength Analysis of Fused Filament Fabricated Continuous Carbon Fiber Composite Test Samples Rogelio Herrera, University of Wisconsin - Madison | 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | IMPROVING THE ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY OF PC/ABS PRINTING FILAMENT FOR FUSED FILAMENT FABRICATION USING CARBON NANOSTRUCTURES Nicole Hoekstra, Western Washington University | 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm | RHEOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION AND QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF COMMERCIAL ABS FILAMENTS FOR FUSED DEPOSITION MODELING Adam Miller, Shawnee State University | 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm | M11-Color and Appearance(Moderator: Michael Willis)-Room S320D | 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | KEYNOTE - Global Automotive Color Trend, Popularity and Who’s Driving George Ianuzzi, Senior Sales Manager, Sandream Impact LLC | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | A review of titanium dioxide photo-activity in polypropylene Philipp Niedenzu, Chemours | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Understanding Warpage in Injection-Molded Thermoplastics; Causes and the Latest Pigmentary Solutions Breeze Briggs, Technical Specialist, Pigments., BASF Colors & Effect USA, LLC | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Extending the boundaries: Bismuth-based pigments for the plastics industry Cristina Zanzottera, Product Manager, DCC Maastricht BV | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Optimizing Color: A Pigment- and Surface-Chemistry Perspective Christopher Beier, Clariant Plastics and Coatings USA, Inc. | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | VOC Reducing Additives for Masterbatches and Final Polymer Articles Rob Lorenzini, Technology Manger , Maroon Group | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Keynote: Color Theory and Test Methods. Betty Puckerin, Global Manager, Ampacet Corporation | 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | M12-Engineering Properties and Structure: Innovations in Packaging and Plastics(Moderators: MaryAnn Jones and Joel Carr)-Room S320B | 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | EFFECT OF RESIN SELECTION ON PORE FORMATION OF POLYETHYLENE FILMS Wenyi Huang, The Dow Chemical Company | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Active packaging film to extend shelf-life of fresh poultry Ankush Gokhale, Bemis Company | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Self-Sterilizing Packaging For Medical Devices Rishabh Jain, Bemis Company | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Impact of Plastics Packaging on Life Cycle Impacts in the U.S. and Canada Substitution Analysis Emily Tipaldo, Director of Packaging & Consumer Products, American Chemistry Council | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Clear Impact Co-polymers for Thermoforming Kevin Herrington, Braskem | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Modeling film behavior in pallet unitization applications Pavan Valavala, Dow Chemical Company | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | REDUCED DENSITY POLYAMIDE 66 COMPOUNDS FOR EXTRUSION APPLICATIONS Ying Shi, A. Schulman Inc | 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STRUCTURE AND THERMAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF THERMOPLASTIC POLYESTER MATERIALS Jeffrey Jansen, The Madison Group | 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Effect of annealing on the viscoelastic behavior of poly(ether-ether-ketone) Zhiyuan Jiang, Texas A&M University | 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm | M13-Extrusion: Twin Screw II(Moderator: Michael Thompson)-Room S320F | 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | 3D Numerical Simulation of Multiphase Flow in Partially Filled Twin Screw Extruders Hossam Metwally, Principal Engineer , ANSYS Inc. | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Mechanical properties of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene nascent fibers at different screw speeds Fangke Liu, Student, Beijing Institute of Technology | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Viscosity and Dispersion Enhancements in Polyethylene Terephthalate Compounding Prakash Hadimani, AGM, STEER | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Enhancing thermal conductivity of PVDF/graphene nanocomposites by water-assisted mixing extrusion Han-xiong Huang, South China University of Technology | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | EFFECTS OF NOVEL EXTENSIONAL MIXING ELEMENTS ON FIBER LENGTH DISTRIBUTION IN COMPOSITE EXTRUSION Molin Guo, Case Western Reserve University | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDE THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITES PREPARED USING LAB SCALE EXTRUSION Joshua Orlicki, Army Research Laboratory | 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | M14-Injection Molding: Materials(Moderators: Pete Grelle and Gary Smith)-Room S320H | 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Microinjection Molding of Polypro/Graphite Composite Shengtai Zhou, University of Western Ontario | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Foaming Uniformity Control of High Weight Reduction Microcellular Injection Molded Thermoplastic Elastomer Using Gas Counter Pressure Chang Che-wei, Chung Yuan Christian University | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | MECHANICAL AND RHEOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PP/PET BLEND WITH MALEIC ANHYDRITE AND JUTE FIBRE Abul Saifullah, Lecturer , Swinburne University Of Technology | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Mechanical properties of polyamide 6/zeolite composites davoud jahani, University of Bonab | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Effects of Processing Parameters on Fiber Length Distribution and Tensile Strength of Long Glass Fiber Reinforced Nylon66 Composites Molded Parts Hsin-Shu Peng, Feng Chia University | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Evaluating the Through-Plane Conductivity of Molded Parts via Magnetic Field in the Injection Molding Process Chiu Min-Chi, Chung Yuan Christian University | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | IMPROVED PROCESSABILITY OF ULTRA-HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYETHYLENE VIA SUPERCRITICAL NITROGEN AND CARBON DIOXIDE IN INJECTION MOLDING Galip Yilmaz, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at University of Wisconsin–Madison | 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | EFFECT OF STRESS RELAXATION ON SHRINKAGE AND WARPAGE OF INJECTION MOLDED PARTS Zhiliang Fan, Senior Principal Research Engineer, Moldflow R&D Center, Autodesk | 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Studying of Viscoelasticity on Warpage Validation Chao-Tsai Huang, Assistant Professor, Tamkang University | 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm | M15-Marketing and Management-Room S322 | 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Corporate entrepreneurship: The challenges of creating a start up culture Bonnie Bachman, Professor and Faculty Fellow, Missouri University of Science and Technology | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Sustainability-Driven Innovation Bonnie Bachman, Professor and Faculty Fellow, Missouri University of Science and Technology | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Social Media Adoption for Industrial Marketing; What's Right for You Diane Wilson, Marketing Consultant, DWA | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Data Sciences and Domain Expertise Combine Forces in Transforming Strategic Industrial Marketing Bala Ambravan, Co-Founder, Gadfly Zone India Gunaranjan Pemmaraju, Co-Founder, Gadfly Zone India | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | The Third Sustainability Survey of the Plastics industry Bonnie Bachman, Professor and Faculty Fellow, Missouri University of Science and Technology Shristy Bashyal Maggie Baumann, Founder, G.H.Associates | 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Panel discussion- Innovation and Sustainability | 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | M16-New Technology Forum-4D Printing and Stimuli-responsive Materials(Moderators:Sydney Gladman and Stéphane Costeux)-Room S320G | 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | 4D Printing Enabled by Active Polymers and Composites Jerry Qi, Professor and the Woodruff Faculty Fellow , Georgia Tech | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Pixelated Polymers: Directing the Self-Assembly of Liquid Crystalline Elastomers Timothy White, Technology Advisor, Air Force Research Laboratory | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | 4D printing of Liquid crystal elastomers Taylor Ware, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Dallas | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Intelligent Polyolefin: Communication Through External Stimuli Marcia Pires, Polymer Science Researcher, Braskem | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Self-folding of Polymer Sheets Using Light Mike Dickey, Alumni Distinguished Professor, North Carolina State University | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Environmentally-triggered snap-through in soft structures Jordan Raney, Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Panel Discussion | 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Micro and Nano-Scale Surface Information Programming on Transparent Multilayer Shape Memory Films Zhenpeng Li, Case Western Reserve University | 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Architected Multiscale Polymeric Foams Md Faisal Ahmed, Florida State University | 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | M17-Rotational Molding: New Materials for Rotational Molding(Moderator: Denis Rodrigue)-Room S320A | 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | New solutions for Light Stability of PE in Rotomolding - ver. 2 - 9th Jan 2018 Enrico Costantini, Chief Technology Officer , SABO SpA | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Quality monitoring of rotational molded parts using a nondestructive technique Felipe Gomes, Ph.D Student, McMaster University | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | 3D CHARACTERIZATION AND MECHANICAL ANALYSIS OF POLYETHYLENE FOAMS PROCESSED IN RAPID ROTATIONAL FOAM MOLDING Wing Yi Pao, University of Ontario Institute of Technology | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | 3-DIMENSIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE QUALITY OF FOAM-TO-SKIN BONDING OF RAPID ROTATIONALLY FOAM MOLDED INTEGRAL-SKIN CELLULAR COMPOSITES . UTKARSH, UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | SURFACE TREATMENT OF AGAVE FIBERS AND ITS COMPATIBILIZATION WITH PLA TO PRODUCE ROTATIONAL MOLDED BIOCOMPOSITES Jorge Robledo-Ortíz, Universidad de Guadalajara | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | MECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF POLYETHYLENE/CARBON NANOFIBER COMPOSITES PREPARED BY ROTATIONAL MOLDING Milton Vazquez Lepe, Universidad de Guadalajara | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | OPTIMIZATION OF THE ROTATIONAL MOLDING PROCESSING OF AGAVE FIBER / LMDPE COMPOSITE MATERIALS Pedro Ortega-Gudiño, Researcher, Universidad de Guadalajara | 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | MORPHOLOGY AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF POLY(LACTIC ACID)/POLYETHYLENE BLENDS PRODUCED BY ROTATIONAL MOLDING Eduardo Ruiz Silva, Universidad de Guadalajara | 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | ROTATIONAL MOLDING OF HYBRID COMPOSITES BASED ON LINEAR LOW DENSITY POLYETHYLENE/GROUND TIRE RUBBER/MAPLE WOOD FIBERS Denis Rodrigue, Professor, Université Laval | 1:30 pm - 5:30 pm | M18-Technical Marketing: Polymer Processing II(Moderator: Joe Golba)-Room S320C | 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | New Overmolding TPEs in Applications with Unique Requirements Kushal Bahl, Teknor Apex Company | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Two Component Micro Molding Brian Heugh, Wittmann Battenfeld | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Synventive’s new synflow® technology allows molders greater ability than ever before to manipulate the filling of the cavities in an upgradable package. Greg Osborn, Account Manager, Synventive Molding Solutions | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Cooling-Free Valve Gating Joerg Schmidt, MHS - Mold Hotrunner Solutions Inc. | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Taking Injection Mold Cooling to the Next Level Kenneth Johnson, Founder and President, MoldCool USA | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Advancements in Fiber Laser Workstations for Plastic Welding Applications Ben Campbell, Assistant Professor of Engineering, Robert Morris University | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Innovations in plastic welding technologies: Hot Gas Welding Anthony Verdesca, Bielomatik Inc | 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Introducing STRIDE, a Collaborative Approach to Consulting and Contract R&D Debora Massouda, Science Technology and Research Institute of Delaware (STRIDE) |
| | 8:00 am - 11:30 am | T1-Additive Manufacturing: New Trade Space for Additive Manufacturing(Moderators: Jack Dispenza and Ray Pearson)-Room S320E | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | KEYNOTE: New Trade Space for Additive Manufacturing Jack Dispenza | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | New Methods of Metal 3D Printing Ben Arnold, Desktop Metal | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Carbon: A Tool-Less Injection Molding Technology David Moore | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | HP Multi Jet Fusion: A Color Capable Production Technology David Woodlock, HP | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Dimensional accuracy and design tips for composite parts made by the FDM process Vittorio Jaker, Stratasys, Inc | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Markforged: Metal AM in a Plastics World Nick Sondej, HP | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Panel Discussion: New Trade Space for Additive Manufacturing | 8:00 am - 11:30 am | T2-Bioplastics: Biodegradable Polymers and End of Life(Moderator: Stephan Laske)-Room S320A | 8:00 am - 9:00 am | KEYNOTE-Bringing Agriculturally Deprived Bioproducts to Market: Challenges and Opportunities William Orts | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Study of Biodegradable Polybutylene succinate/Poly(butylene adipate-co-terephthalate) Blends Feng Wu, University of Guelph | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Biodegradation of Biodegradable and Compostable Plastics under Industrial Compost, Marine, and Anaerobic Digestion Joseph Greene, Professor and Department Chair, California State University, Chico | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Tunable Degradation of Poly(butylene succinate) by Copolymerization and Catalysts Siwen Bi, Ph.D Student, UMass Lowell | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Mechanical Behavior and Anaerobic Biodegradation of a Poly(lactic acid) blend containing a Poly(lactic acid)-co-Poly(glycolic acid) Copolymer Christopher Lewis, Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | LOW TEMPERATURE SOLUTION DEPOLYMERIZATION OF PLA John Campanelli, Zeus Industrial Products | 7:30 am - 11:30 am | T3-Composites: Processing and Properties(Moderators: Rich Caruso for Keynote and Enamul Haque)-Room S320C | 7:30 am - 8:30 am | KEYNOTE: Evolution of Thermoplastic Composites in Portable Electronics Nicholas Abbatiello, Distinguished Engineer, Dell Dirk Bonefield, Head of Marketing and Sales, Bond Laminates Stefan Seidel, Head of Research & Development, Bond Laminates | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Acoustic and Flame Retardant Light Weight Reinforced Composite Ruomiao Wang, Hanwha Azdel | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | INFLUENCE OF BONDING AGENTS ON FIBERMATRIX ADHESION AND COMPARISON OF VCF AND RCF FLEECE IN EPOXY MATRIX Jasmin Mankiewicz, Ph.D Student, University of Applied Sciences Niederrhein | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Experimental Study on Fiber Matrix Separation during Compression Molding of Fiber Reinforced Rib Structures Christoph Kuhn, Research Project Manager, Volkswagen AG | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Effects of Different Fillers on the Thermo-mechanical properties and Coefficient of Linear Thermal Expansion of Polypropylene Composites Mohamed Abdelwahab, University of Guelph | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | INLINE UV LIGHT IRRADIATION OF CELLULOSE AND GLASS FIBERS IN PULTRUSION OF THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITES Christian Kahl, University of Kassel | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | PROPERTY CHARACTERIZATION OF INJECTION MOLDED HYBRID COMPOSITES Gangjian Guo, Bradley University | 8:00 am - 11:30 am | T4-Engineering Properties and Structure: Polymer Physical Properties I(Moderators: Hoang Pham and Michail Dolgovskij)-Room S320B | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | Quantitative Characterization and Modeling of Thin Film Conformability Haiying Zhang, Research Scientist, Fracture Mechanics & Materials Durability Laboratory | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Correlation of chain dynamics to mechanical properties of high performance crosslinked systems Shaw Hsu, Professor, University of Massachusetts | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Chasing the Bottom of the Energy Landscape: Vapor Deposited Amorphous Fluorocarbons Gregory McKenna, Professor, Texas Tech University | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Realizing Resource Saving Tire through Innovative Tough Polymer Composite Katsuhiko Tsunoda, Bridgestone Corporation | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Understanding the deformation behavior of nanocomposites with discrete carbon nanotubes Clive Bosnyak, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Molecular Rebar Design LLC | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Quantitative Evaluation of Mar Visibility Resistance of Polymer Films Shuang Xiao, Ph.D Student, Texas A&M University | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Mechanical characterization of polycarbonate reinforce with woven glass fiber. OMAR SOLORZA-NICOLAS, INSTITUTO POLITECNICO NACIONAL/POLIMEROS Y COMPOSITOS S.A de C.V | 8:00 am - 11:30 am | T5-Joining of Plastics and Composites(Moderator: Phil Bates)-Room S320H | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | IMPROVEMENT ON FATIGUE PERFORMANCE OF METAL-COMPOSITE FRICTION SPOT JOINTS BASED ON THE WELD-BONDING CONCEPT Natalia Manente Andre, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | DIRECT-FRICTION RIVETING OF METAL-CFRP OVERLAP JOINTS Natascha Zocoller Borba, HZG | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | ADHESIVE FREE BONDING OF PINE BY VIBRATIONAL WELDING Curtis Covelli, Iowa State University | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF AMPLITUDE TRANSMISSION IN ULTRASONIC WELDING OF THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITES Genevieve Palardy, Louisiana State University | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Time-dependent vibration welding behavior of foam injection molded parts in consideration of various fiber reinforcements and joint types Dario Heidrich, Chemnitz University of Technology | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Infrared welding of highly filled graphite composites Martin Facklam, Institute for Plastic Processing | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | INFRARED WELDING OF CONTINUOUS GLASS FIBER-REINFORCED THERMOPLASTICS – APPROACHES TO USE THE FIBERS IN THE JOINT Marios Constantinou, Chemnitz University of Technology | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | T6-Medical Plastics/Injection Molding Joint Session: Processing of Medical Plastics(Moderator: Maureen Reitman)-Room S320F | 8:00 am - 11:30 am | KEYNOTE:Innovations in Plastics Processing for Healthcare Applications Manish Nandi, SABIC | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | KEYNOTE:New Developments and Trends in Medical Extrusion Steve Maxson, Graham Engineering | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Laser-based Processing of Polymers for Medical Applications Roger Narayan, NC State University | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Micro Molding Drug Delivery Devices to Micron Tolerances Donna Bibber, Vice President, Isometric Micro Molding, Inc. | 10:00 am - 11:30 am | PANEL:Part Process Development and Validation for Multiple Machines Matthew Therrien, RJG, Inc. Rod Brown Greg Lusardi Paul Robinson Brad Smith Ed Valley Scott Scully, Director, Corporate Molding/Tooling, Terumo Cardiovascular Group | 8:00 am - 11:30 am | T7-Plastic Pipe and Fittings: Durability & Design in Plastic Pipe and Fittings(Moderator: Vivek Rohatgi)-Room S322 | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | EXAMINING DESIGN CHANGES POTENTIALLY INFLUENCING THE LIFETIME OF ELECTROFUSION SOCKET Jan Poduska, Institute of Physics of Materials, AS CR, Brno | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Application of J-integral methods to tough pipe materials Anja Gosch, Montanuniversitaet Leoben | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Fracture Mechanical Characterization of Non-Virgin Pipe Materials Andreas Frank, Program Manager, Polymer Competence Center Leoben GmbH | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | DETERMINING CRITICAL STRESS FOR DUCTILE-BRITTLE TRANSITION OF POLYETHYLENE PIPE UNDER CREEP LOADING Ben Jar, University of Alberta | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | COMPARISON OF REAL AND SIMULATED FAILURE TIMES BASED ON THE SLOW CRACK GROWTH BEHAVIOR OF ELECTROFUSION SOCKETS MADE OF POLYETHYLENE Isabelle Berger, Polymer Competence Center Leoben | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Proposed Allowable Scratch Depth for High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE) Pipes in Safety-Related Nuclear Applications Prabhat Krishnaswamy, Emc2 | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Best Paper Award Presentation Don Duvall, Sr. Managing Consultant, ESi | 8:00 am - 11:30 am | T8-Polymer Analysis: Thermal and Aging Analysis(Moderator: Ida Chen)-Room S320D | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | KEYNOTE:Effect of Water Vapor on Thermal and Mechanical Properties of an Amphiphilic Block Copolymer Membrane Daniel Hallinan, Assistant Professor, Florida A & M University and Florida State University College of Engineering | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Thermal Investigation Between Pressure Conditioning and Thermal Annealing in Aging Studies of Glassy Thermosets Brendan Ondra, University of Massachusetts Amherst | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Observed Particle Migration During Processing of Polypropylene with Glass Beads Jose Luis Colon Quintana, UW-Madison | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | ROLE OF FUNCTIONALIZATION OF NANOCLAY PARTICLES ON DIFFUSION PROPERTIES OF COMMERCIAL GASOLINE THROUGH POLYMER MEMBRANES James Sloan, US Army Research Laboratory | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Analytical Characterization of Commercial Products: Cool Comfort Technologies for Bedding Products Praveenkumar Boopalachandran, Associate Research Scientist, Dow Chemical | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | TGA-FTIR Unleashed At Last - Introducing a Fully-Integrated, Transfer Line-Free Coupling for Evolved Gas Analysis of Polymers Bob Fidler, Marketing and Sales, NETZSCH Instruments N.A. LLC | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Polyetheretherketone (PEEK) Exposure to ZnBr2 Completion Fluids at High Temperatures and Pressures: Identification and Quantification of Small Molecular Decomposition Products Joseph Baker, Texas A&M University | 8:00 am - 11:30 am | T9-Polymer Modifiers and Additives(Moderator: Robert Sherman)-Room S320G | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | KEYNOTE: Stress-induced crystallization in Polypropylene Pierre Donaldson, Manager, R&D, Flint Hills Resources | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Nucleation of Semi-crystalline Polymers with Minerals Saied Kochesfahani, IMERYS | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Use and Utility of Metal Soaps in Polyolefins Robert Sherman, Baerlocher | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | PARTICLE ADDITIVES FOR SIMULTANEOUS ENHANCEMENT OF DEGRADATION AND TOUGHENING IN POLY(LACTIC ACID) FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING Caroline Multari, Lehigh University | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | A CHARACTERIZATION OF SOY ADDITIVES IN BIOBASED POLYETHYLENE FILMS Peter Perez, UMass Lowell | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Advanced Materials for Increasing Output and Reducing Energy Will Johnson, Ecopuro | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Smart light and energy management with acrylic glass! Péter Sebö, Head of Marketing and Market Development, Quarzwerke GmbH |
| | 1:30 pm - 6:30 pm | T10-Additive Manufacturing: Design, Test, and 3D Print for Production(Moderators: Albert McGovern and David Tucker)-Room S320E | 1:30 pm - 6:30 pm | KEYNOTE: Design, Engineer, Test, 3D Print for Production-In That Order Albert McGovern, Shure | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | 3 Your Mind: To Print or not to Print, that is the Additive Manufacturing Question Jim Allen, Vice President – North America, 3YOURMIND | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Protolabs: Designing for Industrial 3D Printing Thomas Davis, Applications Engineer, Proto Labs | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Altair: Effective Subtraction before Additive Manufacturing: The Art of leveraging Constraints Ravi Kunju, Vice President, Manufacturing Solutions, Altair | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Siemens: Best practices for design of plastic 3D printed parts Ashley Eckhoff, Siemens PLM Software | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Fathom: The Opportunity with Direct Digital Manufacturing Tomeo Wise, FATHOM | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Veryst: Ensuring Mechanical Reliability of Additively Manufactured Parts Through Testing and Simulation Mark Oliver, Veryst Engineering | 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | 3Degrees: How to Approach Material Validation for Production Parts Mike Vasquez, Founder, 3Degrees | 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Case Study: The HP Printer that Prints Itself Michael Shannon, HP | 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | T11-Applied Rheology(Moderators: Himanshu Asthana and Tieqi Li)-Room S320A | 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | KEYNOTE: The Rheological Intricacies of Soft Matter Henning Winter | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Effect of Salt Addition on Dynamic Mechanical Properties for Poly(methyl methacrylate) Masayuki Yamaguchi, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | SYNERGISTIC ABSORPTION OF MICROWAVE RADIATION IN PVDF HYBRID NANOCOMPOSITES CONTAINING MULTIWALL CARBON NANOTUBES AND FERRITE PARTICLES Uttandaraman Sundararaj, Professor, University of Calgary | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | DMA – the other side of rheology Kevin Menard, Mettler-Toledo | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | RHEOLOGY AS A TOOL TO UNDERSTAND ANTI-DRIP PROPERTIES IN FLAME RETARDANT POLYCARBONATE RESINS Manojkumar Chellamuthu, SABIC | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Nonlinear Viscoelastic Fluid Models with Fractal Time Derivative Donggang Yao, Georgia Institute of Technology | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Molecular Weight Distribution Prediction of Rheology against Gel Permeation Chromatography for Film Grade Polypropylene Hoda Bayazian, Ph.D Employee, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Paderborn University, Germany | 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | EFFECT OF MOLECULAR WEIGHT ON DYNAMICS OF LINEAR ISOTACTIC POLYPROPYLENE MELT AT VERY HIGH SHEAR RATES Martin Zatloukal, Research Professor, Tomas Bata University in Zlin | 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Influence of Oscillating Surfaces on the Rheological Behavior of Thermoplastic Melt Julius Geis, TU Ilmenau | 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | T12-Extrusion: Single Screw(Moderator: Paul Andersen)-Room S320F | 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | EXTRUSION PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS PROTOCOL David Kazmer, UMass Lowell | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Melting and residence time in the single screw extrusion Clemens Martin Grosskopf, Department of Plastics Technology, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | A Network-Analysis-Based Comparative Study of the Throughput Behavior in Double Wave Screw Geometries Hans-Juergen Luger, Research Assistant, Institute of Polymer Extrusion and Compounding | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | USE OF PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE PROFILE INSIDE AN EXTRUDER FOR OPTIMIZING/TROUBLESHOOTING EXTRUSION PROCESSES John W.S. Lee, LS Cable & System | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Cost Analysis for Installing New and Optimized Screws for Single-Screw Extrusion Lines Mark A. Spalding, The Dow Chemical Company | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | A Simple System Analysis for the Small Extrusion Screw and Die Jingyi Xu, Graham Engineering Corporation | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | EXAMINATION OF POWER CONSUMPTION ON MELT SPINNING: MONO AND BI-COMPONENT FIBERS Javier Vera Sorroche, UMass Lowell | 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Investigation on the effects of the processing parameters on the replication quality of micro-structures in the extrusion embossing of polycarbonate films Florian Petzinka, Research Assistant, Institute of Plastics Processing | 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | EFFECT OF SCALE UP ON THERMAL HOMOGENEITY AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN SINGLE SCREW EXTRUSION Javier Vera Sorroche, UMass Lowell | 1:30 pm - 6:30 pm | T13-Failure Analysis(Moderators: Jennifer Hoffman and Todd Menna)-Room S322 | 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | KEYNOTE:Tan Delta - The Dimensionless Property That Tells You Almost Everything You Need To Know About A Polymeric Material Michael Sepe, Michael P. Sepe, LLC | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Fractography: The Science & Art of Determining How Plastics Break Farzana Ansari, Senior Associate, Exponent | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Failure Analysis Using FT-IR and Raman Microspectroscopy Rui Chen, Thermo Fisher Scientific | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | How to use thermoanalytical methods for failure analysis Tobias Pflock, Manager of the Business Field Polymer, NETZSCH-Gerätebau | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECT OF STABILIZER SYSTEM, MEDIUM AND TEMPERATURE ON THE FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH RESISTANCE OF POLYPROPYLENE FOR A PROPER MATERIAL SELECTION Joerg Fischer, Assistant Professor, Johannes Kepler University Linz - Institute of Polymeric Materials and Testing | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | FRACTURE PROPERTIES OF HDPE EXPOSED TO CHLORINATED WATER Susan Mantell, University of Minnesota | 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Fatigue resistance and failure characterization of glass fiber reinforced PA grades Patrick R. Bradler, Institute of Polymeric Materials and Testing - Johannes Kepler University Linz | 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | RAMAN SPECTROSCOPIC DETECTION OF MICROSCOPIC STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN POLYETHYLENE DURING PHOTODEGRADATION Yusuke Hiejima, Kanazawa University | 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm | ANY BULGING OR PANELING ISSUES FOR YOUR PACKAGES? Jay Yuan, Stress Engineering Services, Inc. | 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | T14-Polymer Analysis: Innovative Methods, Morphology, Rheology and Optical Analysis(Moderator: Greg Kamykowski)-Room S320H | 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | KEYNOTE:Polyolefin Elastomers: Material Science and End Use Applications Seema Karande, Application Development Fellow , Dow Chemical | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Rheological Methods for Characterizing the Degree of Long Chain Branching in Polyethylene Terri Chen, Senior Applications Support Scientist , TA Instruments | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Crystallization Behavior of Sheared Polyamide 66 Anne Gohn, Penn State University | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Effect of HNTs dispersion in PVDF on Morphology and its formation mechanism of tensile fractured surfaces Han-xiong Huang, South China University of Technology | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | DETERMINATION OF FLAME RETARDANT MATERIALS IN PLASTICS USING A COMBINATION OF ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES Yanika Schneider, EAG | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Open-cell foaming of PP/PTFE fibrillated composites Yu Guang Chen, University of Toronto | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | CORE/SHELL STRUCTURE OF ELECTROSPUN POLYCARBONATE NANOFIBERS Yiyang Xu, Postdoctor, University of Wisconsin-Madison | 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | EFFECTS OF BIODEGRADABLE ADDITIVES ON THE NUCLEATION INTENSITY AND GROWTH RATE OF ISOTACTIC POLYPROPYLENE SPHERULITES Yousef Mubarak, The University of Jordan | 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | PELLET SHAPE CLASSIFICATION USING DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS Brenda Colegrove, The Dow Chemical Company | 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | T15-Medical Plastics: Materials and Processing for Medical Applications(Moderators: Louis Somlai and Ajay Padsalgikar)-Room S320B | 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | KEYNOTE:Opportunities and Obstacles for Plastic Primary Packaging in Drug Delivery Devices Sarah Clark, Chief Engineer and Leader of the Materials Engineering Team, Eli Lilly and Company | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Establishing Polymer Equivalency Process for Medical Device Application Shantanu Shivdekar, Boston Scientific | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | High Performance Polymers for Medical Devices Marissa Tierno, Fluortek, Inc | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | EVA Polymer as a Platform for Advanced Drug Delivery Don Loveday, Celanese | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Chemical and Thermal Analysis of the Surface Extractives of Medical Tubing of A Poly(ether-b-amide) Copolymer Using FTIR, GPC, and DSC Methods Xiaoping Guo, Abbott Laboratories | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | SMART MATERIAL SELECTION FOR QUIET, SMOOTH-SLIDING MEDICAL DEVICES INCLUDING NEW COLOR CONCEPT Bruce Mulholland, Global Color Technology Manager, Celanese | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Processing of TPUs for Medical Applications Ian Pierson, Scientist II, Materials Technology, Abbott | 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | ANTIMICROBIAL BI-LAYER CATHETERS – EXTRUSION AND PERFORMANCE Timothy Largier, Thermoplastic Development Chemist, Foster Corporation | 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Elastomeric to Engineered Thermoplastic Polyurethanes Anthony Walder, Lubrizol | 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | T16-Product Design and Development and Injection Molding Joint Session(Moderators: Lynzie Nebel and Erik Foltz)-Room S320D | 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Preventing Plastic Failure Paul Tres, Founder, ETS inc | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Panel Discussion: Wearable Electronics: Opportunities for Plastics Cherry Tom, Emerging Technologies Intelligence Manager, IEEE Standards Association Mukerrem (Miko) Cakmak, Reilly Professor of Materials Engineering & Mechanical Engineering , Purdue University Matthew Kolmes, Operations and R&D, Supreme Corporation David Rosenfeld, Technical Fellow, DuPont | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Optimizing Design and Processing for Long Fiber Thermoplastic Parts Erik Foltz, Senior Managing Engineer , The Madison Group | 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm | How Over The Wall Engineering Affects Process Capability and Process Robustness Suhas Kulkarni, President, FimmTech Inc | 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | How Poor Design Can Severely Limit Materials, Tooling and Processing Capabilities Vikram Bhargava, Author, Trainer and Consultant | 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm | THE EFFECT OF RAPID HEATING COOLING MOLDING ON POLYCARBONATE BASED MATERIAL PROPERTIES Jessica Boyer, Covestro LLC | 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | T17-Technical Marketing: Applications(Moderator: Donna Davis)-Room S320C | 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Improve the performance of your retort flexible film Sergi Salva Saez, Technical Development Manager, UBE America Inc. | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Thermally purified carbons for food contact applications – a case study on EU compliance Rijo Jacob Robin, Product Manager, Superior Graphite | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Biopolymer Compounds for Applications Requiring Marine Degradation Stanley Dudek, polymer Processing Tech, LLC | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Novel Applications of Beta Nucleated Polypropylene in Film, Thermoforming, and Injection Molding Applications Philip Jacoby, Consultant, Jacoby Polymer Consulting | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Copolyester based WPC(Wood Plastic Composites) Tae Young Kim, SK Chemicals | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Schulamid High Performance Nylon for Fuel System Applications Ying Shi, A. Schulman Inc | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Extending the Use and Properties of PVDF Polymer Jason Pomante, Arkema | 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Nanolayered Next Generation High Energy Density Capacitors for Electric Vehicles Michel Ponting, PolymerPlus LLC | 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Advances in Wear and Friction Solutions Edward Williams, SABIC | 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | T18-New Technology Forum: Wearable Technology(Moderators: Maggie Baumann and Roger Avakian)-Room S320G | 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Wearable Electronics — Overview and Standards Cherry Tom, Emerging Technologies Intelligence Manager, IEEE Standards Association | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | VOLT Smart Yarns Matthew Kolmes, Operations and R&D, Supreme Corporation | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Production of "Z" Aligned Ultra-Sensitive, Flexible and Transparent Piezoelectric Nanocomposites Mukerrem (Miko) Cakmak, Reilly Professor of Materials Engineering & Mechanical Engineering , Purdue University | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Materials Requirements for Stretchable Printed Electronics David Rosenfeld, Technical Fellow, DuPont |  | | 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm | T19-Joining of Plastics and Composites(Moderator: Miranda Marcus)-Room S320G | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Laser Welding Plastics: Rapid Prototyping to Mass Production using Quasi-simultaneous and 2D/3D Mask Welding Andrew Geiger, Manager, Laser Plastic Welding Division, Leister Technologies | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Benefits of Vibration Welding with IR Preheat John Paul Kurpiewski, Director of Global Products and Programs, Emerson - Branson | 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Dukane’s Recent Advancements in Plastic Welding Technology Alex Savitski, Dukane IAS | 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | New Plastics Joining Technologies Jason Dornbos, Marketing Communications Manager, Extol, Inc. | 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm | Ultrasonic Welding 20 kHz vs. 15 kHz - Challenges Posed by Highly Crystalline Material Dave Krysiak, Sonics & Materials |
| | 8:00 am - 11:30 am | W1-Alloys and Blends: Morphology, Compatibilization and Performance of Polymer Blends(Moderator: Rubinder Kaur Lakhman)-Room S320D | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | Semiconductive LLDPE Power Cable Insulation Shield Jason Zhang, Lead Engineer , General Cable | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Structure-property Relationships of Microporous Membranes Produced by Biaxial Orientation of Compatibilized PP/Nylon 6 Blends Jingxing Feng, Ph.D Student, Case Western Reserve University | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Investigation of Droplet Behavior Under Real Mixing Conditions Oguz Celik, Research Assistant, Institut für Kunststofftechnik – University of Stuttgart | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Influence of processing and formulation on the properties of PP-PET-blends Christoph Burgstaller, Managing Director and Head of R&D, TCKT | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Nylon 12/PMMA/San Alloys for Translucent Medical Catheters Timothy Largier, Thermoplastic Development Chemist, Foster Corporation | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Design of Extensional Flow Static Mixers for Blending of Ternary Nanoparticle-Polymer-Polymer Blends Rakesh Gupta, Berry Professor and Chair of Chemical Engineering, West Virginia University | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | KEYNOTE:Bio-polymer Alloys and Blends: Past, Present and Future Roger Avakian, Fellow, PolyOne | 8:00 am - 11:30 am | W2-Automotive: Materials Development(Moderator: Matt Carroll)-Room S320E | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | Innovations in Automotive Plastics “Materials and Processes" Suresh Shah, Delphi -Retired | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Reflections on Evolution and Growth of TPOs. Mark Barrera, Senior Project Engineer, Asahi Kasei Plastics NA, Inc. | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Low Birefringent Cellulose Acetate Propionates for Plastic Display Lens Covers Laura Weaver, Plastics Application Development, Eastman Chemical | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Introduction to the usage of thermally conductive compounds in automotive lighting Paula Kruger, Application Development Engineer, DSM | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | New resin for liquid cooled modules in electric vehicle battery packs (EVBPs) Rudy Gorny, Senior Principal Scientist, Covestro LLC | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Improving long term corrosion resistance in electronic applications Josh McIlvaine, Manager, Automotive Electronics Business, DuPont | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Advances in Hydrolysis resistance PBT resins for electronic applications including connectors and HEV components Dave Spritzer, DuPont | 8:00 am - 11:30 am | W3-Bioplastics: Processing, Blends and Composites(Moderator: Margaret Sobkowicz-Kline)-Room S320A | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | PHYSICAL FOAMING USING HIGH PRESSURE GAS SATURATION FOR BIOPOLYMER APPLICATIONS. Juan Fernando Campuzano Vallejo, Mechanical Engineer, ICIPC (Instituto de Capacitación e Investigación del Plástico y del Caucho) | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | STUDY OF BIOCOMPATIBILIZER FOR NEW RENEWABLE BLENDS OF POLYPROPYLENE CARBONATE AND POLYBUTYLENE SUCCINATE Barbara Calderon, Umass Lowell | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Mechanical Properties and Effects of Microfibrillation of 100 % Biomass Sisal-PLA Composite Hiroyuki Nishimura, Kyoto Institute of Technology | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Synthesis of high hardness polyester resin for powder coatings JUNSEOP IM, SAMYANG CORPORATION | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | EFFECTS OF MOLDING CONDITIONS ON MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF DIRECT INJECTION MOLDED PLA/WOOD-FIBER COMPOSITES Gangjian Guo, Bradley University | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Hierarchical Micro/Nanostructures of Poly (lactic acid) Scaffolds for Medical Applications Shujie Yan, Visiting Student, University of Wisconsin-Madison | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | WHEAT PROTEIN AS A PARTICIPANT IN THE SULFUR-CURING OF ISOPRENE RUBBER Barbara DeButts, Virginia Tech | 8:00 am - 10:30 am | W4-Blow Molding(Moderator: Ken Carter)-Room S320H | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | DEVELOPMENT OF A RAPID THERMAL CYCLING BLOW MOLDING TECHNOLOGY AND MOLD HEATING SYSTEM OPTIMIZATION Cheng-Long Xiao, University of South China | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Simulative preform optimization for improved topload behavior of PET-bottles manufactured in the two stage stretch blow molding process Benjamin Twardowski, Research Associate , IKV Aachen | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | PET Advancements in Extrusion Blow Molding Scott Steele, SWS Consluting, LLC | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | A SIMULATION FRAMEWORK FOR BLOW-MOLDING: A PRELIMINARY CASE STUDY ON INJECTION STRETCH BLOW MOLDING FOR BULB COVERS Raghavendra Janiwarad, SABIC | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF SHRINKAGE AND WARPAGE DEFORMATION OF AN INTERMITTENT-EXTRUSION BLOW MOLDED PART: VALIDATION CASE STUDY Zohir Benrabah, National Research Council Canada | 8:00 am - 11:30 am | W5-Engineering Properties and Structure: Polymer Physical Properties II(Moderators: Gerry Billovits and Paul Hans)-Room S320B | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | Foam Structure and Thermal Comfort in Polyurethane Mattress Foams Douglas Brune, The Dow Chemical Company | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | PREDICTION OF FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS CONSIDERING LOCAL FIBER LENGTH AND ORIENTATION Fabian Willems, Institut für Kunststofftechnik | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Practical Simulation of Liquid Crystal Polymer Directionality During Processing Anthony Sullivan, Tufts University | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Crystallization mechanism of Polyvinylidene Fluoride via non-isothermal crystallization and supercritical CO2 processing Ji Eun Lee, York University | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Macromolecular Spectroscopy for Determining Mechanical Properties of Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) Ahmed Anwer, University of Toronto | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | FLOW PROBLEMS THAT COULD ARISE FROM ADDING BIOMASS MATERIALS TO PLASTICS Carrie Hartford, Senior Project Engineer, Jenike & Johanson | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | ROTOMOLDING PROCESSES FOR POLY(ARYL KETONES) AND OTHER HIGH TEMPERATURE POLYMERS Manuel Garcia-Leiner, Exponent | 8:00 am - 11:30 am | W6-Extrusion: General(Moderator: Kevin Laux)-Room S320F | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | FURTHER IMPROVEMENTS IN PROCESSING OF SEMI-CRYSTALLINE AND AMORPHOUS POLYMERS FOR THERMOFORMING SHEET IN MULTIPLE NIP SYSTEMS Peter Rieg, battenfeld-cincinnati | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | EFFECT OF DIE EXIT STRESS STATE, DEBORAH NUMBER AND EXTENSIONAL RHEOLOGY ON NECK-IN PHENOMENON Martin Zatloukal, Research Professor, Tomas Bata University in Zlin | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | MICRO-LAYERED TUBING AND PIPES VIA MULTI-LAYER CO-EXTRUSION Tyler Schneider, Case Western Reserve University | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | ROLE OF INTERFACIAL CRYSTALLIZATION IN DESIGNING POLYOLEFIN BLENDS FROM MIXED STREAM RECYCLE FEEDS Alex Jordan, University of Minnesota | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | EVALUATION OF THERMOPLASTIC POLYURETHANE (TPU) RESINS AS POSSIBLE SUBSTITUES OF CURRENT RESINS FOR ESCALATOR HANDRAILS Qingping Guo, EHC Canada | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | PRELIMINARY STUDY OF BIREFRINGENCE DISTRIBUTION IN BLOWN FILM Jin Wang, The Dow Chemical Company | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | ENERGY GAP METHOD (EGM) APPLIED TO IMPROVE EXTRUSION ENERGY PERFORMANCE: SUCCESSFUL CASE STUDIES Juan Carlos Ortiz Pimienta, ICIPC-Instituto de Capacitación e Investigación del Plástico y del Caucho | 8:00 am - 11:30 am | W7-Thermoplastic Materials and Foams: Frontiers(Moderator: Maxwell Wingert)-Room S320G | 8:00 am - 9:00 am | Thermoplastic Foam; 1930-2020 Shau-Tarng Lee | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Auxetic Foam Sensor with Silver Nanowire Md Faisal Ahmed, Florida State University | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Poly(Vinylidene Fluoride)/ Graphene Nanoplatelets Composites with Microcellular Structure to Enhance Electromagnetic Shielding Properties Biao Zhao, University of Toronto | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | ENHANCING ELECTROMAGNETIC SHIELDING PERFORMANCE OF PVDF/MWCNT COMPOSITES THROUGH FOAMING Chenyinxia Zuo, Student, University of Toronto | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Piezoelectric Foams with High Thermal Stability and Flexibility Zhe Liu, Florida State University | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Resorcinol Formaldehyde Aerogel Nano-network Structural Assembly and its Thermal Properties Correlation Mohammed Alshrah, University of Toronto | 8:00 am - 12:00 pm | W8-Technical Marketing: Additives(Moderator: Joe Golba)-Room S320C | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | A novel synergist for halogen free flame retardants Amit Paul, Paxymer | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | New technology for improving halogen free flame retardant performance in polymer application Ido Offenbach, Evonik | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | New Generation Flame Retardants Based on Ionic Liquids Yanjie "Jeff" Xu, Founder, Inovia Materials LLC | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Novel Approach to Controlled Migration of Antifog Additives in Multilayer Packaging Films Michal Schreiber, Product Manager, Packaging Application, Tosaf | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Novel Dispersants Enabled by Natural Oil Metathesis Frederyk Ngantung, Elevance Renewable Sciences | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Advances in Thermal Stability Bradley Sparks, Ascend Performance Materials | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | TUBALL™ SINGLE WALL CARBON NANOTUBES FOR THERMOPLASTICS Maus Christian, Product Development Leader, OCSIAL | 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Surface Enhancement via Polypropylene Metallic Compounds Tanmay Pathak, R&D Engineer, A. Schulman | 8:00 am - 10:00 am | W9-Flexible Packaging: Film Sealing and Barrier(Moderator: Lora Liang)-Room S322 | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | KEYNOTE-Rethinking Machine Direction Sealing Michael Pilolli, D.R. Joseph, Inc. | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | KEYNOTE:Heat Transfer Modelling in Multilayer Films used for Flexible Packaging Dan Ward, Technical Service Specialist, NOVA Chemicals | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Thermo-Rheological Modeling and Simulation of Heat Sealing Process for Multi-Layer Flexible Packaging Applications Vinod Kumar Konaganti, NOVA Chemicals Coroporation | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Barrier Materials Having Layer-Like Morphology for Packaging Use:Extruded Film and Oriented Film Guojun Zhang, A. Schulman inc | 10:00 am - 11:30 am | W10-Thermoplastics Elastomers(Moderator: Mukul Kaushik)-Room S322 | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | KEYNOTE: SHIFTING MARKETPLACE DYNAMICS AND POSITIONING TPEs FOR FUTURE PROFITABILITY,DIVERSIFICATION AND GROWTH Robert Eller, President, Robert Eller Associates LLC | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | ELASTIC RECOVERY AND ACTUATION IN POLYOLEFIN THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMERS Barbara DeButts, Virginia Tech | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | From Recycled Tires to Plastic Parts: Micronized Recycled Rubbers in Thermoplasitc Polyolefins Haikun Xu, R&D, Entech, Inc |
| | 1:30 pm - 7:00 pm | W11-Additive Manufacturing: Simulation, Materials and Processes(Moderators: Rabeh Elleithy and Ray Pearson)-Room S320E | 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | A closed form solution for predicting final part strength of fused deposition modeling Steven Devlin, Extension Business and Communities Development Program Senior Director and Assistant Dean for Industrial Engagement, University of Missouri | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | 3D PRINTING PROCESS SIMULATIONS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS Prasad Dasappa, SABIC | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Characterization and mechanical behavior of SLS processed PA11/CB nanocomposites Gabrielle Esposito, Graduate Student, Lehigh University | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Process impact of Elliptic Smoothness and Powder Shape Factors on Additive Manufacturing with Laser Sintering Marc Vetterli, inspire ag icams | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Fundamental Characterization of CLIP 3D Printed Materials Danielle Grolman, United Technologies Research Center | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | 3D Printed Tooling Solutions Venkatesha N, SABIC | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Investigation of A Novel Additive Manufacturing Technique “4D-RheoPrinting” For the Manufacture of Enhanced Polymeric Products Alaauldeen Duhduh, Ph.D Student, Lehigh University | 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Critical Capillary Number in a Hyperbolic Converging Nozzle for Polymer Based Additive Manufacturing Aditya Sangli, University of Maryland, College Park | 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Material selection, testing and validation of additively manufactured components Johannes Wiener, Montanuniversitaet Leoben | 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm | 3D Printed Metal Tool for Efficient Injection Molding Venkatesha N, SABIC | 6:30 pm - 7:00 pm | Investigation of Selective Laser Sintering Parameters on the Tensile Properties of Polyamide-11 Gabrielle Esposito, Graduate Student, Lehigh University | 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | W12-Applied Rheology(Moderators: Kurt Koppi and Qian Qin)-Room S320A | 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | KEYNOTE: Rheology of Polymer Nanocomposites Avraam I. Isayev, The University of Akron | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Modification of rheological and crystallization properties of high performance polymers for thermoplastic composite applications Sarah Morgan, U. Southern Mississippi | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Investigation on the Viscosity Characterization of the Glass Mat Thermoplastics (GMT) in Compression Molding System | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Visualization of the flow paths in a tangential internal mixer to optimize the mixing behavior Annika Lipski, Institute of Plastics Processing in Industry and the Crafts at the Aachen University of Technology | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | The Effects of Metal Stearates on the Rheological Properties of Powder Injection Molding Feedstocks and Resulting Molded Green Parts Michael Shone, UMass Lowell | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Root Cause Analysis of Polyolefin-Based Wire and Cable Formulation Die Build-Up Kurt Koppi, Sr. Research Scientist, Dow | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | RHEOLOGICAL METHOD DEVELOPMENT: POLYMER DESIGNS FOR BLOW-MOLDED, AUTOMOTIVE SEATBACKS Mary Ann Jones, Senior Research Scientist, The Dow Chemical Company | 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | THE IMPORTANCE OF HOW ONLINE RHEOMETERS ACCURATELY INDICATE MELT FLOW RATE IN AN EXTRUDER Catherine Lindquist, Dynisco | 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | A Mechanistic Model for Nanocavity Filling Donggang Yao, Georgia Institute of Technology | 1:30 pm - 7:00 pm | W13-Composites: Modelling, Numerical Studies and Long Fiber Composites(Moderator: Alex Kravchenko) -Room S320D | 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Fundamental Understanding of Tribological Behavior of Multiphase Polymeric Systems using FEM Modeling Mohammad Hossain, Texas A&M University-Kingsville | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION ON MOLDEX3D FIBER ORIENTATION PREDICTION IN HIGH FIBER CONCENTRATIONS Venny Yang, President, CoreTech System (Moldex3D) Co., Ltd. | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | High Confidence Performance Predictions for Hybrid Thermoplastic Composite Applications Subhransu Mohapatra, Staff Scientist, SABIC Research & Technology Pvt Ltd | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | In-Situ Synthesis of Poly(Ethylene Terephthalate) Graphene Nanocomposites Vahid Shabafrooz, Oklahoma State University | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Draping behavior of Uni-directional tape laminates – Experimental and Numerical Studies Sandeep Kulkarni, SABIC | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | VIRTUAL CHARACTERIZATION OF PREPREG PLATELET LENGTH EFFECT ON TENSILE PROPERTIES OF COUPONS WITH STOCHASTIC MORPHOLOGY Sergey Kravchenko, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Composites Manufacturing & Simulation Center | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Geometrical Effects on Fiber Micro-structure Variations and the Influences on Long Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastics (FRT) Parts Chao-Tsai Huang, Assistant Professor, Tamkang University | 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | AN INVESTIGATION OF RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF POLYPROPYLENE SINGLE-POLYMER COMPOSITES Mingxing Yu, Beijng Institute of Technology | 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Suppression of necking in LLDPE/SEPS rubber bilayer laminates Sachin Velankar, University of Pittsburgh, Chemical Engineering Dept | 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm | Synergistic Reinforcing and Toughening High Density Polyethylene by introducing Dynamic Shear Force Field and Ultrahigh Molecular Weight Polyethylene Tong Liu, South China University of Technology | 6:30 pm - 7:00 pm | Effects of Extruder Screw Configuration on Thermal Properties of Glass Fiber Reinforced Polyamide 6 Composites Throughout the Direct Long-Fiber-Reinforced Thermoplastics Process Takashi Kuboki, University of Western Ontario | 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | W14-Engineering Properties and Structure: Physical Properties of Polymers III(Moderators: Luyi Sun and Pavan Valavala)-Room S320B | 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Thermal conductivity enhancement through stretching of polyethylene-graphene nanocomposites Brian Grady, Director, School of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering, University of Oklahoma | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | PROCESSING PARAMETERS EFFECT ON BARRIER PROPERTIES OF NITRILE BASED NANOCOMPOSITE MEMBRANE Mohamed Zemzem, Ph.D Student, École de Technologie Supérieure | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Characterization of Scratch Behaviors of Multilayer Automotive Coatings for Various Scratch Conditions sung wook moon, Korea university | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Biomimetic Nanocoatings with Exceptional Mechanical, Barrier, and Flame Retardant Properties from Large Scale One-Step Co-assembly Luyi Sun, Associate Professor, University of Connecticut | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Architecture of micro- and nano-layer structure and its functional propertes of polymers Shaoyun GUO, polymer research institute of sichuan university | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | EXPLOITING CAPILLARY FORCES IN FILLED PLASTICS: ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE PLASTICS BY BONDING COPPER FILLER WITH MOLTEN SOLDER Derrick Amoabeng, Ph.D Candidate, University of Pittsburgh, Chemical Engineering Dept | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Microcapillary Film Membranes based on Polyvinylidene Fluoride Gerald Billovits, The Dow Chemical Company | 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Numerical Modelling of Complex Parison and Sheet Formation in Blow Molding Processes using BlowView Software Zohir Benrabah, National Research Council Canada | 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | How Polymer Rheology Impacts the Extrusion Blow Molding Process David Kababik, Technical Service and Development , The Dow Chemical Company | 1:30 pm - 5:30 pm | W15-Extrusion: Modeling(Moderator: Sid Carson)-Room S320F | 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Unified Simulation of Extrudate Distortion Due to Non-uniform Exit Velocity and Cooling Shrinkage Mahesh Gupta, President, Plastic Flow | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | MODELING OF A SIMPLE NUMERICAL CALCULATION METHODOLOGY TO IMPLEMENT CROSS FLOWS IN EXTRUSION DIE DESIGN BASED ON NETWORK THEORY Bianka Jacobkersting, University of Paderborn | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Modelling the Contamination Behavior of Polymer Melt Filters and Pressure Loss Simulations of Filtration Media Volker Schöppner, Paderborn University | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Experimental study on the melt encapsulation: An analysis of die pressure and rearrangement effects Christian Hopmann, Institute of Plastics Processing (IKV) in Industry and the Skilled Crafts at RWTH Aachen University | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | THE EFFECT OF CHANNEL CURVATURE ON THE FLOW RATE AND VISCOUS DISSIPATION OF POWER-LAW FLUIDS Wolfgang Roland, Ph.D Student, Institut of Polymer Extrusion and Compounding | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | A HEURISTIC MODEL FOR PREDICTING THREE-DIMENSIONAL NON-NEWTONIAN FLOWS IN METERING CHANNELS Christian Marschik, Institute of Polymer Extrusion and Compounding | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | MODELING THE OPERATING PERFORMANCE OF MELT FILTRATION IN POLYMER RECYCLING Sophie Pachner, Institute of Polymer Extrusion and Compounding | 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Optimizing Fluted Mixers John Perdikoulias, President, Compuplast International Inc. | 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | W16-Injection Molding: Processing-Quality Control and Analysis(Moderators: Adam Kramshuster and Tom Turng)-Room S320H | 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Automatic Anomaly Detection and Root Cause Analysis for Holistic Process Monitoring and Control in Injection Molding Alexander Schulze Struchtrup, University of Duisburg-Essen | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Inflation Behavior of Preforms in the Special Injection Molding Process GITBlow Combining Gas Assisted Injection Molding and Blow Molding Björn Landgräber, Paderborn University | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | EFFECT OF INJECTION MOLDING CONDITION ON MOLD ADHESION DURING THERMOPLASTIC POLYURETHANE INJECTION MOLDING Jian-Yu Chen, Feng Chia University | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | STABILIZATION OF BMC INJECTION MOLDING BY PROCESS CONTROL MEASURES Nicolina Topic, KraussMaffei Technologies GmbH | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | ZERO DEFECT MANUFACTURING IN INJECTION COMPRESSION MOLDING OF POLYMER FRESNEL LENSES Dario Loaldi, Technical University of Denmark | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | 3D SURFACE CHARACTERIZATION OF ETCHED, INJECTION MOLDED PARTS BEFORE A FOLLOW UP ELECTROPLATING PROCESS Jens P. Siepmann, University of Duisburg-Essen | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Multilayer Injection Molding of Thick-Walled Optics Using Dynamic Mold Tempering and Optimized Layer Thickness Distribution Malte Röbig, Institue of Plastics Processing (IKV) in Industry and the Skilled Crafts at RWTH Aachen University | 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | USING MAGNETO-ARCHIMEDES LEVITATION FOR NON-INVASIVE CHARACTERIZATION OF INJECTION MOLDED PARTS Peng Zhao, Associate Professor, Zhejiang University | 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Verification of Numerical and practical approach in implementing PVT Properties of Polymer to control to control shrinkage quality of molded Tzu-Hsiang Wei, Ph.D Student, Chung Yuan Christian University | 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | W17-Medical Plastics: Materials and Processing for Medical Applications(Moderators: Vipul Dave and Amin Sedighiamiri)-Room S322 | 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | KEYNOTE:Medical Tubing Process Optimization with Simulation John Perdikoulias, President, Compuplast International Inc. | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | SYSTEMS ENGINEERING FOR MEDICAL DEVICE DEVELOPMENT: APPLICATION TO INSULIN PUMPS Marc Horner, ANSYS,Inc. | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Effects of the Biological Environment on Thermoplastic Polyurethanes Ajay Padsalgikar, Senior Principal Scientist, Abbott | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Accounting for Differences in Modulus and Stress Relaxation Behavior in Plastics Undergoing Chemical Resistance Testing Mark Yeager, Field Engineering Manager, Covestro LLC | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Degradation Products of Medical Devices in Complex Biological Environments: Risk Assessment Strategies Adam Kozak, Cambridge Polymer Group | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | ACCELERATED AGING OF MEDICAL-GRADE RESINS: Q10 FACTORS AND MATERIAL AGING MODELS Rob Klein, Stress Engineering Services | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Engineered Polymer Surfaces for Superior Performance in Pharmaceutical Applications Steve Banko, Director of Healthcare , Inhance Technologies | 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Assisted Extrusion of Graphene Nanofiller Reinforced Polymers for Biomedical Applications Austin Coffey, Senior Member of Lecturing Staff & Principal Investigator , Waterford Institute of Technology | 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | The regulation of micro-super-hydrophobic silicone rubber to the behavior of human lens epithelial cells Liuxueying Zhong, State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzho | 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | W18-Technical Marketing: Polymer Analysis(Moderator: Mark Spalding)-Room S320C | 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Laboratory Weathering for Plastics Andy Francis, Weathering and Corrosion Projects Manager, Q-Lab | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | ACCELERATED WEATHERING INSIGHTS INTO ASA POLYMER UV RESISTANCE: Xenon vs QUV vs Florida and Arizona Steven Blazey, A. Schulman, Inc. | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | The Importance of How Online Rheometers Accurately Indicate Melt Flow Rate in an Extruder Catherine Lindquist, Dynisco | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Characterization of Cure of Polymeric Material by Dielectric Analysis (DEA) Yanxi Zhang, Technical Sales Support, NETZSCH INSTRUMENTS NORTH AMERICA, LLC | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Optical Metrology for Stress Determination Steven Danyluk, Polaritek Systems, Inc. | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Leveraging Advanced Edge Analytics for Improved Fault Detection in Discrete Manufacturing Processes Andrew Wilson, Product Marketing Specialist, MKS Instruments, Inc | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | The New Discovery DMA850 from TA Instruments Greg Kamykowski, SPE | 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | 3D Line Confocal Imaging: New High-Resolution Sensor Technology for Challenging Online & Offline Plastic Measurement Applications Juha Saily, Technical Sales and Marketing Professional, FocalSpec, Inc. | 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | 75% of ERP Fail - How to avoid it Pierre Maillet, President, CyFrame | 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm | W19-New Technology Forum: Safety and Sustainability in Construction(Moderator: Mark Barger)-Room S320G | 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Towards a Lightweight Ontology: Carbon to Building Mark Goulthorpe, Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Achieving International Building Code Recognition of Polymeric Building Materials: Fire Performance Requirements Nicholas Dempsey, Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Designing for fire safety – considerations for product development Christine Lukas, Product Stewardship & Fire Safety , Dow Chemical Services | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Toward Intelligent Design of Fire-safe Polymeric Products Stanislav Stoliarov, University of Maryland | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Reinforced Polymer Composites for Civil Infrastructure Hota Gangarao, Maurice A. & JoAnn Wadsworth Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, West Virginia University | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Panel: Safety and sustainability in Construction: Challenges and Opportunities for Plastics | 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm | W20-Building and Infastructure(Moderator:Eugene Yang)-S320G | 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm | KEYNOTE: Design Knock-Down Factors on Polymer Composites Under Harsh Environments Hota Gangarao, Maurice A. & JoAnn Wadsworth Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, West Virginia University | 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Film Technologies for Advancing Building SkinFeatures Sebastian Zehentmaier, Application Engineering Specialist, 3M | 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm | CORROSION INHIBITION MODEL FOR ALUMINIUM BY SODIUM CABOXY METHYL CELLULOSE (POLYMER) IN ACIDIC SOLUTION Macdenis Egbuhuzor, Technologist in Charge of Process Laboratory, University of Nigeria nsukka |  | |  | |
| | 8:00 am - 11:00 am | TH1-Electrical & Electronic and Advanced Energy(Moderator: Wei Zhao)-Room S320A | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | One-step Electrochemical Treatment of Metal Inserts for Tight Polymer-Metal Hybrid Applications Tobias Kleffel, Institute of Polymer Technology | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Effects of processing variables on crystallization phases of P(VDF-TrFE-CFE) thin films hao pan, Umass-lowell | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | NEW TRANSPARENT HIGH HEAT POLYCARBONATE COPOLYMER RESINS FOR THERMO-OPTICAL APPLICATIONS Mark van der Mee, SABIC | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | High Temperature Dielectric Film Matthew Niemeyer, Chief Scientist, SABIC | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | HIGHLY FILLED BIOCHAR/ULTRA-HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYETHYLENE/LINEAR LOW DENSITY POLYETHYLENE COMPOSITES FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE SHIELDING Suiyi Li, Visiting Scholar, UW-Madison | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Thermoelectric Properties of Open Cellular Polymer Templates Coated With 1D and 2D Carbon-Based Nanoparticles Siu Ning (Sunny) Leung, York University | 8:00 am - 11:30 am | TH2-Automotive: Design & Applications(Moderator: Norm Kakarala)-Room S320E | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | KEYNOTE-Intelligent Automotive Design with Plastics Jeff Helms, Celanese | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Innovations in Automotive Plastics “Applications” Suresh Shah, Delphi -Retired | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Chemical Resistance of PMMA, ASA and ASA+PC for Automotive Exterior Trim Applications Tom Pickett, SPE Automotive | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Recycled and Waste Materials in Selected Automotive Applications Karnik Tarverdi, Director of Extrusion Technology, Brunel University London | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Hybrid Pedestrian-Safe Solution for the Automotive Industry Dinesh Munjurulimana, SABIC | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | AERODYNAMIC OPTIMIZATION OF A DAY-CAB FAIRING carlos pereira, SABIC | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Computational Modeling of Impedance Tube and Validation for Tuning the Acoustic Transmission Loss of Polymeric Materials Vasudev Nilajkar, SABIC | 7:30 am - 11:30 am | TH3-Composites: Processing and Properties, Natural and Biobased Composites(Moderators: John Busel and Richie Anfinsen)-Room S320D | 7:30 am - 8:00 am | Damange Induced Surface Texturing of Short Fiber PDMS Composite Materials Navid Namdari, Ph.D Student, University of Toledo | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | The influence of hygrothermal aging on the material properties of endless fiber-reinforced thermoplastics Matthias Huettner, Paderborn University | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | INFLUENCE OF THE FIBER-MATRIX-INTERACTION ON THE FRACTURE BEHAVIOR OF REGENERATED CELLULOSE FIBER REINFORCED POLYPROPYLENE Jan-Christoph Zarges, University of Kassel | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Effect of Freeze-Drying on the Morphology of Dried Cellulose Nanocrystals (CNCs) and Tensile Properties of Poly(lactic) Acid-CNC Composites Nicole Stark, USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Lab | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Effects of Tris(nonylphenyl) Phostite on Mechanical Property of Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyhexanoate) Takashi Kuboki, University of Western Ontario | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Potential of Biocarbon as Reinforcement for PBT in Automotive Applications Boon Peng Chang, University of Guelph | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | CRYSTALLIZATION BEHAVIOR OF POLY(LACTIC ACID) COMPOSITE NANOFIBERS BY ANNEALING Jian-hua Hou, Zhengzhou University | 7:30 am - 11:30 am | TH4-Composites: Composites Industrial Session(Moderators: Rich Caruso, Steve Bassetti and Jim Griffing)-Room S321 | 7:30 am - 8:15 am | KEYNOTE: An Overview of the NIST FIBERS Roadmap -- Mapping the Course to Advance Composites Manufacturing in the U.S. Jim Sherwood, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, UMass Lowell | 8:15 am - 8:30 am | Questions, Discussions and SPE CD Awards | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Stiffer is Better: The Case for Carbon Fiber Filled Thermoplastics Philip Schell, Executive Vice President, Carbon Fiber , Zoltek | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | A Novel High Performance Chopped Strand Glass Fiber for Reinforcing Polypropylene - ThermoFlow® 641 Derek Bristol, Research Associate, Johns Manville | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | BioComposites: Design, Testing, and Engineering Trey Riddle, CEO, Sunstrand LLC | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Fundamentals and emerging technologies of fiber sizing and interfacial adhesion Steve Bassetti, Group Marketing Director, Michelman | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | An Introduction to Mafic and Basalt Fiber Jeff Thompson, Head of Sales and Marketing , Mafic | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Affordable recycled carbon fiber for additive manufacturing (3D printing) and automotive thermoplastics Andrew Maxey, CEO, Vartega | 8:00 am - 11:00 am | TH5-Decorating and Assembly(Moderator: Chris DeMell)-Room S322 | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | Digital Printing Technologies for Plastics – Focus on Color Inkjet and Laser Marking Scott Sabreen, The Sabreen Group | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Robotic use in Pad Printing Micah Swett, Diversified Printing Techniques | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Digital Inkjet for Direct to Object Printing Ben Adner, InkCups | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Applications for low energy ebeam curing technology in consumer product flexible packaging applications Anthony Carignano, eBeam Technologies | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | CARBON BLACK SELECTION FOR SUCCESSFUL THROUGH TRANSMISSION LASER WELDING AND JOINING Scott Sabreen, The Sabreen Group Avraham Benatar, Associate Professor, The Ohio State University | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | EFFECTS OF SURFACE TREATMENT ON HARD TO BOND PLASTICS Matthew Miner, Henkel | 8:00 am - 11:30 am | TH6-Flexible Packaging: Film Manufacturing, Treatment and Performance(Moderator: David Constant)-Room S320B | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | KEYNOTE-All Encompassing Extrusion Technology for Producing a Wide Spectrum of Simultaneously Bioriented Films Adolfo Edgar, Kuhne Anlagenbau GmbH | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | KEYNOTE:Transportation and Storage Film Tom Stalun, Sr. Market Development Manager for Flexible Packaging, Sabic | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | KEYNOTE:New Surface Treatment Protocol Discovery for Extrusion Coating Rory Wolf, Business Unit Manager, ITW Pillar Technologies | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Changeover time for a lab-scale blown film line Christopher Thurber, Senior Engineer, The Dow Chemical Company | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Biaxially Oriented Polyethylene (BOPE) Films Fabricated via Tenter Frame Process and Applications Thereof Lin Yijian, Dow | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Biaxially Oriented Barrier Film (BOPP) with Nanostructured Additives Krishnamurthy Jayaraman, Professor and a Withrow Distinguished Scholar, Michigan State University | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Method to measure oxygen permeance in sealed flexible packaging Alejandro Serna, ICIPC | 8:00 am - 11:30 am | TH7-Injection Molding: Simulations(Moderator: David Okonski)-Room S320H | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | DEFORMATION AND STRESS PREDICTION OF INJECTION MOLDED COMPONENTS AFTER BEING MOUNTED INTO DESIGNED POSITION Zhiliang Fan, Senior Principal Research Engineer, Moldflow R&D Center, Autodesk | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | MOLDFLOW OPTIMIZATION OF MICRO-CAVITIES FILLING DURING INJECTION MOLDING PROCESS John Coulter, Lehigh univeristy | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | DEEP LEARNING ON CAE BASED ON THE INTEGRATION OF THE TAGUCHI METHOD AND NEURAL NETWORK Yu-Wei Chen, Postdoctoral Researcher, Chung Yuan Christian University | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | How to use CAE to Diagnose the Under-performance Problem of the Existed Machine in Injection Molding to Face Automation Challenge Chao-Tsai Huang, Assistant Professor, Tamkang University | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Using New Anisotropic Rotational Diffusion Model To Improve Prediction of Short Fibers In Thermoplastic Injection Molding Alexander Bakharev, Autodesk | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Empirical Modeling and Simulation of the microstructure replication in injection molding Torben Fischer, Chief Engineer and Deputy Director , Institute of Plastics Processing (IKV) at RWTH Aachen University | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Simulation Study of Injection Compression Moulding Process for a 0.6mm Thin Polymeric Microfluidic Chip Ge Chen, Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology | 8:00 am - 11:30 am | TH8-Mold Technologies Session(Moderator: Brenda Clark)-Room S320F | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | KEYNOTE: The Evolving and Involving Role of the Toolmaker John Berg, Director of Marketing, Sussex IM | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | PLENARY:Research Credits for the Plastics Industry Michael Devereux, CPA, Mueller Prost CPAs + Business Advisors | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | EFFECT OF DIFFERENT MOLD COATINGS ON FLOW RESISTANCE IN THIN-WALL INJECTION MOLDING OF POLYSTYRENE PARTS Marco Sorgato, Researcher in Micro Manufacturing Engineering, University of Padova | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | HD Plastics™: Roctool Material Characterizations Steven Verschaeve, Vice President of Business Development, Roctool | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Standardized Components Economically in Large Molds Brenda Clark, Hasco | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Advantages of CT Scanning for Industrial Applications Melissa Butrie, Business Development, 3D ProScan | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Change Molds for Efficient Customer Development / Prototype Tom Worcester, Managing Director of Sales, Meusburger USA | 8:00 am - 11:30 am | TH9-Thermoplastic Materials and Foams: Fundamentals(Moderator:Anson Wong)-Room S320G | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | Effect of foam density on elastomeric nanocomposite foams based on polyisoprene rubber Ali Vahidifar, Assistant Professor, University of Bonab | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Effect of Soft Segments and Nucleation Agents on the Properties of Thermoplastic Polyurethane Foam Shu-Kai Yeh, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Bubble Growth in High-Pressure Foam Injection Molding Chongda Wang, University of Toronto | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | STRAIN HARDENING OF LINEAR POLYMER ENHANCED BY HEAT SHRINKING FIBERS Sundong Kim, University of Vermont | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | IN-SITU VISUALIZATION OF CRYSTAL NUCLEATION AND GROWTH BEHAVIORS OF POLYLACTIC-ACID (PLA) UNDER HIGH PRESSURE CO2 sandra romero, UVM | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | In-situ PP/PET nano-fibrillated composites: the effect of viscosity ratio on fibrillation and foaming behavior Chongxiang Zhao, University of Toronto | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Modeling of Cell Growth Effects on the Percolation Threshold of Rod-like Fillers in Conductive Polymer Composite Foams Chul Park, University of Toronto | 8:00 am - 12:00 pm | TH10-Technical Marketing: Materials I(Moderator: Joe Golba)-Room S320C | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | Impact PP Copolymers for Home Appliance Applications Timothy Farrell, SABIC | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | THERMOPLASTIC HEATSINK SOLUTION FOR LED LUMINAIRE Remesh Kuzhikkali, Lead Scientist, SABIC | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Wearable Insulin Pumps: Design and Everyday Use Performance Prediction Hossam Metwally, Principal Engineer , ANSYS Inc. | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | A novel design of functionalized Organo-Modified Siloxanes for surface treatment of particles and fillers Ido Offenbach, Evonik | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Automotive Lightweighting with Reduced Density Polyamide Blends Ying Shi, A. Schulman Inc | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | XENOYtm ENH2900 for high chemical resistance & Non-Br/Cl FR applications Emily He, SABIC | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Rheology and Big Data Tim Haake, GOETTFERT | 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Realistic Simulation solutions using FEA for Design, Optimization, and fabrication of Plastics Arindam Chakraborty, VP of Advanced Engineering, Virtual Integrated Analytics Solutions |
| | 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | TH11-Automotive: Process & Simulations(Moderator: Tom Pickett)-Room S320E | 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | CONNECTING RHEOLOGY OF POLYOLEFIN ELASTOMERS TO DISPERSION IN A POLYPROPYLENE MATRIX VIA MODELING AND EXPERIMENTS WITH SIMPLE FLOW FIELDS Jeff Munro, Dow Chemical | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | CORE-BACK TECHNOLOGY FOR AUTOMOTIVE BODY INTERIOR APPLICATIONS steve McClintock, SABIC | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | DYNAMIC WATER PENETRATION PREDICTION FOR PUSH-BACK PROCESS IN WATER-ASSISTED INJECTION MOLDING Venny Yang, President, CoreTech System (Moldex3D) Co., Ltd. | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | How plastics helps to conquer the new challenges of vehicle electrification Werner Posch, Draexlmaier Group | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Development of Low Emission Polyolefin Composites for Automotive Interiors Tanmay Pathak, R&D Engineer, A. Schulman | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Effect of Grain Pattern and Talc Content on Scratch and Mar Behaviors of Textured Thermoplastic Olefins Shuoran Du, Texas A & M University | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Vehicle Lightweighting and Improved Crashworthiness - Plastics and Hybrid Solutions Fred Chang, Automotive Structures Project Leader, SABIC | 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | A NOVEL GLASS FILLER REINFORECED COMPOUND FOR AUTOMOTIVE INTERIOR PARTS Cheolhee Park, GS Caltex | 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Bumper to Bumper - Removing Contaminants from Molded Plastic Parts with Dry Ice Steve Wilson, Director, Global Business Development – Plastics, Rubber & Composites , Cold Jet, LLC | 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm | TH12-Composites: Nanocomposites(Moderator: Derrick Amoabeng)- Room S320F | 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION AND WATER APPLICATION OF MICROCELLULAR INJECTION MOLDED PPgMA/MMT NANOCOMPOSITES Shyh-Shin Hwang, Professor, Chien-hsin University of Science and Technology | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | PREPARATION OF POLYPROPYLENE SINGLE-POLYMER COMPOSITES WITH GRAPHENE NANOPLATELETS BY FILM-STACKING Mingwang Shao, Student, Beijing Institute of Technology | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | ISOLATING THE EFFECT OF POLYMER-FILLER INTERACTION ON POLYMER COMPOSITE PROPERTY ENHANCEMENT: THE EXAMPLE OF POLYPROPYLENE/HALLOYSITE HYBRIDS Tong Wei, Northwestern University | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES ON FLOW AND WARPAGE DURING RESIN TRANSFER MOLDING PROCESS Sejin Han, Autodesk | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | High Fracture Resistance, Filler Adhesion and Dispersion in Epoxy Carbon Nanofiber Composites Muhammad Anwer, University of Toronto | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | DEVELOPING ULTRASONIC PROCESSING OF CNT NANOPAPER/SOLVENTLESS EPOXY PREPREG Dan Zhang, The Ohio State University | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | IN SITU VITAMIN C REDUCTION OF GRAPHENE OXIDE FOR PREPARING FLEXIBLE TPU NANOCOMPOSITES WITH HIGH DIELECTRIC PERMITTIVITY Han-xiong Huang, South China University of Technology | 1:30 pm - 5:30 pm | TH13-Injection Molding: Molding Industry Technologies(Moderators: Chad Ulven and RayMcKee)-Room S320H | 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Flowcon Plus, Digital Water flow Regulator Edgar Sanchez, Wittmann Battenfeld | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Induction Heat Cool With SABIC Resins: AN Intro to High definition Plastics Jos van Gisbergen, SABIC | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Get The Wear Out Steve Wilson, Director, Global Business Development – Plastics, Rubber & Composites , Cold Jet, LLC | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Regional Sales Manager- Robots and Automation Robert Arsenault, Wittmann Battenfeld | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Injection Molding: 3D-Printed Molds vs. Metal Tooling Jeff Schipper, Director of Special Operations, Proto Labs | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | “Smart Factories”: The Future of Plastics Production with 4.0 Connectivity & Condition Monitoring System (CMS) Markus Klaus, Divisional Manager, Injection Molding Machines, Wittmann Battenfeld | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | IMPROVING ACCURACY OF MOLD FILLING SIMULATIONS WITH EXPERIMENTAL DATA FROM FAST SCANNING CHIP CALORIMETRY Anne Gohn, Penn State University | 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | INJECTION MOLDING PARTS WITH INTEGRATED ALL-INKJET PRINTED STRAIN GAUGE FOR CONDITION MONITORING Thomas Mitterlehner, Researcher and PhD Student, Johannes Kepler University Linz | 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm | TH14-Non-Halogen Flame Retardant(Moderators: Rubinder Lakhman, Roger Avakian & Tim Reilly-Room S322 | 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | New Technology in Non-halogen Flame Retardants: Oxyimides Rudolf Pfaendner, Division Director Plastics, Fraunhofer Institute | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Approaches to the Commercialization of NHFR Technologies: A European Perspective Maryline Desseix, Leader, Non-Halogen Flame Retardant Technology Platform, PolyOne | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Reduced Flammability Polyurethane Foams Gordon Nelson, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Florida Institute of Technology | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Towards a Carbon to Building Concept: The Material and Assembly Challenges Mark Goulthorpe, Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Achieving International Building Code Recognition of Polymeric Building Materials: Challenges for Material and Assemble Designers Nicholas Dempsey, Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Flame Retardants in Consumer Products: Overview and Perspective on the Proposed CPSC Ban Jared Schwartz, Exponent Inc. Andrew Worthen, Exponent | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Development & Commercialization of NHFR Technologies Nicholas Dempsey, Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Maryline Desseix, Leader, Non-Halogen Flame Retardant Technology Platform, PolyOne Mark Goulthorpe, Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Gordon Nelson, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Florida Institute of Technology Rudolf Pfaendner, Division Director Plastics, Fraunhofer Institute Jared Schwartz, Exponent Inc. Andrew Worthen, Exponent | 1:30 pm - 6:30 pm | TH15-Product Design and Development(Moderators: Pavan Valavala and Mohan Shanmugan)-Room S320D | 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | MODELING DOMING DEFLECTION OF CAPS & CLOSURES WITH FINITE ELEMENT METHOD Wenbo Xu, Dow Chemical | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | QUASI-STATIC, NON-LINEAR, EXPLICIT FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF SMALL PET BOTTLES Naser Imran Hossain, Niagara Bottling | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Design for manufacturability – 3D-CAD design methodology for spiral milled polymer processing tools Phil Hungenberg, Universität Duisburg-Essen | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Knowledge-based Product Planning and Designing of Injection-molded Parts Rene Andrae, University of Duisburg-Essen | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | INFLUENCE OF THERMAL TREATMENT ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITES OBTAINED BY LARGE-FORMAT 3D PRINTING PROCESS Miguel A. Hidalgo Salazar, Professor, Universidad Autónoma de Occidente | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Yes, You Can Break Certain Design Rules and Still Have a Successful Product - a Logical Look at the Implications Vikram Bhargava, Author, Trainer and Consultant | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Polypropylene/ Polyvinylidene fluoride Fibrous Water/Fuel Filters Produced by a Unique Multilayer Co-Extrusion Process Cong Zhang, Case Western Reserve University | 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Technical Evaluation of Loctite HY4060GY: The Ideal Replacement for Traditional 2K 5-Minute Epoxies Matthew Miner, Henkel | 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | | 1:30 pm - 6:30 pm | TH17-Thermoplastic Materials and Foams(Moderator: Donna Davis)-Room S320G | 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | INFLUENCE OF THE COMPOUNDING PROCESS PARAMETERS ON THE DISPERSION AND MATERIAL PROPERTIES OF GRAPHENE-BASED PP COMPOSITES USING A TWIN-SCREW EXTRUDER UNDER INDUSTRY RELATED CONDITIONS Maximilian Adamy, IKV Aachen | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Open-cell foaming of PP/PTFE fibrillated composites Yuhui Qiao, Mr | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | AN APPLICANTION OF THERMOPLASTIC POLYURETHANE FOAMING IN HANDRAIL EXTRUSION Qingping Guo, EHC Canada | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Flexural Testing of PET-NanoFiber and PP Foamed Composites Lun Howe Mark, University of Toronto | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Protected biofilm growth in macroporous polyvinilidene fluoride carriers for biological organic removal from municipal wastewater Pardis Ghahramani, York University | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Impact Management and Protection for Playing Surfaces using Expanded Polyolefin Particle Foam – New Materials and Designs Steven Sopher, Technical Director, JSP International | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | ULTA-LOW DENSITY FOAMS OF NANOCRYSTALLINE CELLULOSE REINFORCED WITH POLYVINYLE ALCOHOL Nahal Aliheidari, Ph.D Student, Washington State University | 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | A System for Visualizing and Measuring Stress of Plastic Flows Under Shear Conditions Taylor Ducharme, University of Vermont | 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Mining the Value from Oil Sands Tailings Ponds Pavani Cherukupally, University of Toronto | 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm | Highly Viscous Polyamides Made of Cast Polyamide 6 Recyclates Benjamino Rocco Formisano, Research Associate, Institut für Kunststofftechnik - University of Stuttgart | 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm | TH18-Vinyl Plastics: Additives and Testing(Moderator: John Scott)/Thermoset Split Session-Room S320B | 1:030 pm - 2:00 pm | Copolyesters as Heat Distortion Temperature Modifiers in Rigid PVC Robert Young, Principal Scientist, Eastman Chemical Co | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Heat stabilising flexible PVC with layered double hydroxide derivatives Dan Molefe, University | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Temperature Control in Accelerated Laboratory Weathering Testing of Plastics Andy Francis, Weathering and Corrosion Projects Manager, Q-Lab | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | A New Method to Determine TF and Clash Berg Stiffness (ASTM D1043), Using a Rotational Rheometer Greg Kamykowski, SPE | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | INNOVATIVE AND USEFUL CHARACTERISTIC VALUES FOR THE PRO-CESSING OF THERMOSETTING MOLDING COMPOUNDS Thomas Scheffler, TU Chemnitz - Professur Kunststoffe | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | SIMULATION OF MOLD FILLING CHARATERIZATION OF PHENOLIC INJECTION MOLDING COMPOUNDS WITH SLIP BOUNDARY CONDITION Ngoc Tu Tran, TU Chemnitz | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | FABRICATION OF SYNERGISTIC FLAME-RETARDANT UNSATURATED POLYESTER RESIN BASED ON AMMONIUM POLYPHOSPHATE AND ALUMINUM HYDROXIDE Xingxing Shi, South china university of technology | 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | NON-ISOCYANATE POLYURETHANE NETWORKS CAN BE MELT-REPROCESSED WITH FULL PROPERTY RECOVERY ASSOCIATED WITH CROSS-LINK DENSITY: THE CASE OF POLYHYDROXYURETHANE NETWORKS John Torkelson, Northwestern University | 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Frontally Polymerizable Gels for Double-Network High-Performance Resin Systems Matthew Lampe, University of Massachusetts Amherst | 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | TH19-Technical Marketing-Materials II(Moderator: Mark Spalding)-Room S320C | 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | New Developmental Copolyester Katherine Hofmann, Eastman Chemical Company | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | SABIC THERMOCOMPTM HIGH MODULUS DUCTILE (HMD) PORTFOLIO Emily He, SABIC | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Nylon6,6 rich Co- and Terpolymers: How Tuning Thermal Behavior Enhances Functionality and Enables New Applicaiton Spaces Jacob Ray, Ascend Performance Materials | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | A new grade of High melt strength polystyrene for the xps foam market Ted Harris, Total Petrochemicals and Refining USA, Inc. | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Tailor-Made UHMWPE by High Shear Polymer Modification Binay Patel, Co-Founder and NSF/ASEE Research Fellow, Zzyzx Polymers, LLC | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Radilon XTreme: high-temperature polyamides robert zappa, Radici Plastics USA | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Low Emission Compounds - Automotive Specifications & Applications Tanmay Pathak, R&D Engineer, A. Schulman | 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Enhancement of Protective Packaging Films with Cyclic Olefin Copolymers (COC) Paul Tatarka, Market Development, TOPAS Advanced Polymers, Inc. | 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Biodegradable PHA for Use in Fashion Textiles Anne Schauer-Gimenez, Vice President of Customer Engagement and Co-Founder, Mango Materials | 1:30 pm - 5:30 pm | TH21: Mix(Moderator: Brad Guilani)-Room S320A | 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Influence of gas-counter pressure on the foaming behavior and the cell morphology of flexible polyurethane foam Daniel Schneider, Institute of Plastic Processing at RWTH Aachen University | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Wave ConveyingTM Systems Doug Brewster, Conveying Product Manager, Conair | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | NEW GENERATION HDPE FOR PRESSURIZED APPLICATIONS – BEYOND PE100 Jonathan Rabiei Tabriz, Global Marketing Manager, Segment Utilities , SABIC Petrochemicals | 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | SABIC solutions for personal hygiene applications: industry trends and SABIC offerings, and developments Jelena Bozovic-Vukic, SABIC | 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Kepital H100 Jim DiVita, KEP Americas | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Super High Flow Valox for Connectors Kenneth Thiel, SABIC | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Volumetric to Gravimetric Conversion Riley Wittmann, UW Stout | 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Stylight - New Material Solution for Lightweight Design Brian Haggart, INEOS Styrolution |
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