 7:00 am - 8:15 am | Registration/Continental Breakfast | ||
| 8:15 am - 8:40 am | Opening Remarks Auditorium Gary Kogowski, Conference Chair, Ravago Holdings Americas David Compeau, Conference Executive Chair, FCA, U.S. LLC | ||
| 8:40 am - 8:50 am | Technical Program Overview Sandra McClelland, Conference Technical Co-Chair, Solvay Specialty Polymers | ||
| 8:50 am - 9:20 am | KEYNOTE: Accelerate the future use of Engineered Plastics David Compeau, Conference Executive Chair, FCA, U.S. LLC | ||
| I.Materials Salon ABC | II. Lightweighting Salon D | III.Enabling Technologies Dennison Salon |
| 9:35 am - 10:00 am | Material Solutions for Turbo-Charged Engine Applications Stephen Mok, Program Manager, DuPont Performance Materials | Polymotor 2: Development of All-Plastic Engine Brian Stern, Senior Technical Development Engineer, Solvay Specialty Polymers | New optimized PC/ABS solutions for high quality painted exterior components Steve Rogers, Senior Research Scientist, Trinseo Automotive |
| 10:00 am - 10:25 am | Automotive Lightweighting and reduced Density Nylons Ying Shi, R&D Engineer , A. Schulman | Lightweight components for Automotive Applications Scott Bykowski, Manager, R&D North America, ContiTech Vibration Control | Efficient Assembly and Joining: Reversible Bonded Joints Using Nano-Ferromagnetic Particles Mahmoodul Haq, Assistant Professor, MSU |
| 10:25 am - 10:50 am | Break | ||
| 10:50 am - 11:15 am | Durethan® XTS: Next Generation of High Heat PA6 and PA66 Grades Jose Chirino, Technical Director, High Performance Materials, Lanxess Corporation | Carbon Composite Grille Opening Reinforcement Gari Schalte, Engineering Manager, Front End Systems, Magna Exteriors | Vehicle Lightweighting and Improved Crashworthiness - Plastic/Metal Solutions for BIW Dhanendra Nagwanshi, Senior Business, Automotive Body and Chassis, SABIC |
| 11:15 am - 11:40 am | New Polyamides for High Heat Applications Bernd Henkelmann, Application Development Manager Automotive, EMS-Grivory America | Recycled Nylon for Air Intake Manifolds Jim Vanderveen, Advanced Product Development, Mahle Filter Systems | DURACON H140AR can be Applied for any Application that Requires High Acid Resistance Takanori Ueda, R&D Manager, Polyplastics USA, Inc. |
| 12:00 pm - 12:45 pm | Lunch | ||
| 12:50 pm - 1:20 pm | KEYNOTE:Structural composites opportunities and challenges Dr. Saad Abouzahr, Head of Organic Materials Engineering, FCA U.S. LLC, Materials Engineering Group | ||
| IV. Materials Salon ABC | V. Injection Molding Salon D | VI. 3D Printing Dennison Salon |
| 1:25 pm - 1:55 pm | Introduction of Super High Heat Stable LeonaTM PA66/GF Kaz Hashimoto, Technical Director of Engineering, Asahi Kasei | How Processing is Affecting the Performance of Your Injection Molded Part Erik Foltz, Senior Managing Engineer , The Madison Group | Workshop: 3D Printing of Engineered Thermoplastics Carol Barry, Professor, Plastics Engineering, UMass-Lowell Chris Hansen, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, UMass-Lowell David Kazmer, Professor, Plastics Engineering, Univ. Mass. Lowell Nese Orbey, Professor, Chemical Engineering, UMass-Lowell |
| 1:55 pm - 2:20 pm | Enhanced Hydrolysis & Thermal Resistant PA66 for Automotive Engine Cooling Applications Ryan Hensarling, Automotive Technology Leader, Ascend Performance Materials | Creating Internal Geometries in Injection Molded Parts Using Water Soluble Polyvinyl Alcohol (PVOH) Inserts Jason McNulty, Senior Molding Engineer, 3M Corporate Research | |
| 2:20 pm - 2:45 pm | Growth of Biobased Engineering Polymers in Automotive Rick Bell, Development Manager, DuPont Performance Materials | Mapping the Injection Molding Behavior of Plastics John Beaumont, President, Beaumont Technologies | |
| 2:45 pm - 3:00 pm | Break-Sponsored by UMass Lowell No location | ||
| 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | KEYNOTE: Using Global Megatrends at GM No location Richard Holman, Senior Manager, Global Foresight and Trends, General Motors | ||
| 3:35 pm - 4:00 pm | Controlled Aesthetics in Thermoplastics through use of Polymeric Additives Kevin Yocca, Technical Service and Development Engineer, Arkema | Aluminum Tooling - An Industry Game Changer David Okonski, Staff Research Engineer, General Motors Research and Development Center Brian Parent, President & CEO , DRS Industries, Inc. | Workshop: 3D Printing of Engineered Thermoplastics Carol Barry, Professor, Plastics Engineering, UMass-Lowell Chris Hansen, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, UMass-Lowell David Kazmer, Professor, Plastics Engineering, Univ. Mass. Lowell Nese Orbey, Professor, Chemical Engineering, UMass-Lowell |
| 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | New Exciting Developments with Branched Polyamides for Automotive Applications Ashok Adur, Global Commercial Development Director, Vertellus | Solving the Mystery of Melt Temperature Michael Durina, President, MD Plastics, Inc. | |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Networking Reception: Sponsored by SPE Detroit Section, Injection Molding Division, & Automotive Division | ||
