Technical Groups By Specialty

Additives and Color Europe

Advanced Energy Storage

Developement of polymer alloys and blends. Characterization, properties, applications and marketing.

Fundamental properties, experimental, characterization methods, process stimulation, relation of fundamental properties and processing behavior.

Automotive manufacturers, molders, material suppliers, tooling suppliers, technical/service suppliers.

Bioplastics

Blow molders, machinery manufacturers, resin suppliers, mold manufacturers.

All aspects of the coloration of plastics including: processing, color measurement/visual assessment, dyes/pigments, weathering and other issues.

Composite materials processing, manufacturing, and performance.

Composites Europe

Decorating and Assembly

Wire and cable, communications, electronic circuitry and components, encapsulation, coating, fiber optics.

Chemicals, filters, pigments, adhesives, paints, coating, paper, rubber, fibers, plastics.

Medical polymers, plastics, industry in the european community

European Thermoforming

Equipment, processes and instrumentation used to compound/finish polymers and blends and to shape products such as profiles, sheet and film.

Extrusion Europe

All aspects of failure mechanisms, fracture analysis and predictability including reliability.

Flexible Packaging

Advancement of technical understanding and development of injection molding processes.

All aspects of joining plastics and their composites, the science and technology underlying joining methods.

Marketing and Management

Medical Plastics

Mold manufacturers and users, CAD/CAM users and suppliers.

Nano-Micro Molding

Plastic Pipe and Fittings

Plastics Educators

Plastics Environmental

Building and Construction

Analytical instruments, manufacturers, plastic materials and additive suppliers.

Polymer Modifiers and Additives

Polymer Nanotechnology

Process Monitoring

All aspects of product design and development.

Quality and Continuous Improvement

Radiation Processing of Polymers

Rapid Design

Rotational Molding

Thermoforming

Engineering technology related including fabrication processing, structure property relationships and performance in end-use applications.

Thermoplastic Materials and Foams

Thermoset

Vinyl Plastics