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This intensive five-day program
includes classroom instruction and plant tours.
Group lunches, welcome receptions and a dinner
facilitate maximum exposure and interaction among
the instructors and attendees.
Classroom
Instruction
Professional leaders in the thermoforming industry
teach this intensive course. With these experts,
attendees review the basic concepts of thermoforming
and expand their understanding of thermosets and
thermoplastics. The course covers heating the
sheet, forming equipment and thermoforming techniques,
design guidelines and considerations, detail part
design and essential follow-through. Costing,
purchasing specifications, cost-reduction techniques,
tooling and all-important troubleshooting receive
particular emphasis.
Who
Should Attend
Anyone considering or currently having products
thermoformed. An excellent way to gain a working
knowledge for better understanding and communication
of all aspects of the thermoforming processes.
Of great benefit in designing, engineering, tooling,
production, trimming, secondary operations, selling
and purchasing.
Plant
Tours & Career Development Center Plastics
Shop Tour
Gain insight through your expertly guided visit
of Spartech Plastics, a custom sheet extrusion
plant; Better Bath Components, a large cut-sheet
custom thermoforming plant; and Skyline Career
Development Center, a high school that offers
a superb 3-year vocational plastics program.
Texas
Theme Dinner
Don’t miss this dinner, funded by our sponsors,
in which attendees, speakers and sponsors meet
for an informal evening in Dallas. Dine at the
“Trail Dust Steakhouse,” renowned
for its broiled steaks, ribs and chicken. The
Trail Dust Steakhouse features live country bands
that add to the Texas atmosphere. Dress in your
best “cowduds” and be ready to dance
the two-step!
Symposium
Leader: William“Bill” K. McConnell,
Jr. - Biography
McConnell
Co., Inc. P O Box 11512, Fort Worth, TX 76110,
Telephone (817) 926-8287
Email: billmc@thermoforming.com
Plant
Tours March 6, 2007
Spartech
Plastics
Larry Brooks, Operations
Manager
840 North Great Southwest Parkway
Arlington, TX 76011
Telephone: (800) 477-4338
Telephone: (817) 640-0621
Email: larry.brooks@spartech.com
Spartech Plastics is the custom
thermoplastic sheet and rolled stock extrusion
division of Spartech Corporation. The division’s
25 strategically located North American plants,
which are capable of extruding nearly all available
thermoplastic materials, make it one of the leading
producers of rigid sheet and rolled stock in the
world. Spartech's plant in Arlington, Texas, maintains
four extrusion lines with tri-extrusion capabilities.
These lines have the latest in computer technology,
and three of them can extrude sheet up to 120”
wide. Spartech's overall emphasis on quality and
services led them to their current market leadership
position, and they welcome the opportunity for
you to tour their facility.
Skyline
Career Development Center
Ann Bernhardt, Head Instructor
Leslie Williams, Principal
7777 Forney Rd.
Dallas, TX 75227
Telephone: (972) 502-3565
Email: abernhardt@dallasisd.org
The Skyline Career Development
Center of the Dallas Independent School District
offers high school students an in-depth, hands-on
3 or 4 year program in plastics technology. According
to Bill McConnell, this is the most advanced and
best equipped high school plastics shop in the
country.
The shop includes industrial grade thermoformers,
molding machines, an extruder, and fabricating,
decorating, and material testing equipment. Students
are encouraged to explore and experiment with
different processes, materials, and design solutions.
Kinro
Composites (Better
Bath Components)
Roscoe Osteen, Plant Manager
Billy Mann, Production Manager
Bill Mitchell, VP Operations-Kinro
100 Mushroom Road
Waxahachie, TX 75165
Telephone: (972) 937-2002
E-mail: rosteen@kinro.net
In the thermoforming business
since 1979, Kinro Composites is and nationally
recognized for its Better Bath Components product
line of thermoformed bath and kitchen products
marketed to the manufactured housing, modular
housing, and RV industries. Other thermoformed
products produced by Kinro Composites include
kayaks, exterior components for travel trailers,
spas, and material handling and storage trays.
The 200,000 square-foot plant in Waxahachie, Texas,
maintains 9 rotary thermoformers, 1 single-station
thermoformer, and 5 Thermwood CNC trim machines.
Additional processes include a robotic spray system
for composite rigidizing.
Kinro Composites continues to advance the development
of larger heavy-gage thermoformed parts. Its newest
3-station rotary machine built by AVT in Gladwin,
Michigan, with mold capacity of 10 foot x 25 x
six-foot depth provides opportunities for large
parts such as front, rear, and top sections for
RVs; large truck bed liners; agricultural and
heavy equipment components and boat hulls and
decks.
Kinro Composites’ technical experience and
large-part thermoforming capabilities were demonstrated
by earning the People’s Choice Award at
the 2003 Thermoforming Conference with its entry
of an 18-foot pleasure boat assembled by Four
Winds.
Kinro Composites is certified ISO 9001-2000 with
emphasis on customer satisfaction and continuous
improvement. Knowledge of their markets’
needs, innovative product design, superb quality,
and ongoing customer support has led to Kinro
Composites’ number-one position in their
markets.
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General
Information:
Location:
Crowne Plaza
Dallas Market Center Hotel
7050 Stemmons Freeway
Dallas, TX 75247 USA
Tel: +1 214 630 8500
Fax: +1 214 630 9486
Time
Schedule
Check-in/Registration
Sunday, March 4 - 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Monday, March 5 - 7:00 am to 8:30 am
Welcome
Receptions
Sunday, March 4 - 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Monday, March 5 - 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Symposium Hours
Monday, March 5 - 8:30
am to 5:00 pm
Tuesday, March 6 - 8:30 am to 9:30 am
Plant tours: 9:45 am to 5:30 pm
Dinner at the Trail Dust Steakhouse:
6:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Wednesday, March 7 - 8:30 am to 5:00 pm
Thursday, March 8 - 8:30 am to 5:00 pm
Friday, March 9 - 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 pm
Departures should be scheduled
to allow for the 1:00 p.m. ending time on Friday.
Suggested Attire
Casual business
attire is appropriate. Please be prepared for
moderate temperature variation in the seminar
room.
Hotel
Accommodations
Attendees are responsible for making hotel reservations.
A limited number of rooms have been set aside
for SPE attendees at the Crowne Plaza, Dallas
Market Center for the evenings of March 4 through
March 8. The room rate is $99 plus 15% tax, and
also includes a full buffet breakfast each morning
in the Bristol Bar & Grill. Check-in time
is 3:00 p.m.; check-out time is 1:00 p.m.
To make reservations, call
the Crowne Plaza, Dallas Market Center at (214)
630-8500. You must indicate that you are with
the "Society of Plastics Engineers"
to obtain this special room rate. After SPE’s
room block has been filled, rooms will be on a
space and rate available basis only. Please make
your reservations soon after you register for
the program.
Transportation
Discount shuttle, taxi
and limousine services provide transportation
to and from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport,
located 12 miles from the hotel. The Crowne Plaza
offers complimentary transportation to and from
Love Field Airport. Approximately 375 free parking
spaces are also available at the Crowne Plaza.
Driving
Directions: North on I35 E, Exit 433B.
Crowne Plaza is on right just before Mockingbird
Lane. South on I35 E, Exit 432B. U-turn under
freeway & stay on the access road, hotel is
on right.
Area Airport Information:
Dallas Love Field (DAL )- Distance: 2 MI/ 3.22
KM W, Complimentary Airport Shuttle, Time by taxi:
7 min. DFW Internatnl (DFW) - Distance: 12 MI/
19.31 KM N, Time by taxi: 20 min.
Alt. Transportation:
Yellow Checker Shuttle.
Fees
& Registration:
| Registration
Fees |
Advanced
before 2/16/07
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Registration
as of 2/16/07 |
| SPE
Member |
$1225 |
$1325 |
| New/Renewing
SPE Member |
$1340 |
$1440 |
| Nonmember |
$1585 |
$1585 |
REGISTRATION
Register by phone:
Call SPE at (203) 740-5403.
Register by fax:
Complete the registration form, include payment
and fax to (203) 775-8490, Attn: Seminars.
Register on-line: Onsite
only
Register by mail:
Complete the registration form, include your payment
and mail to: Attn: Seminars, SPE, 14 Fairfield
Drive, P O Box 403, Brookfield, CT 06804-0403.
Please make sure the registration form is mailed
with enough time to be received and processed
at SPE.
If you have any questions, please contact our
Customer Relations Department at (203) 740-5403.
All forms of registration must include payment.
Otherwise, the registration will not be processed.
SPE does not accept company purchase orders. Checks
should be made payable to “SPE Seminars”
in U.S. funds.
Registration Fees
Registration fees cover classroom instruction,
course materials, transportation for plant tours,
lunches, refreshment breaks, the welcome reception
on Sunday and Monday, and the dinner Tuesday evening
at the Trail Dust Steak House. Fees do not include
hotel accommodations.
All forms of registration are considered binding
and subject to all cancellation policies. Check
your confirmation to verify that you are registered
for the seminar/program requested. If you do not
receive a written confirmation prior to attending,
please call (203) 740-5403 to verify your registration.
Refunds and Cancellations
Cancellations are subject
to a $100 processing fee. Cancellations must be
received at SPE Headquarters prior to the program.
No refunds will be granted after February 23,
2007. Substitutes may be sent in place of the
registrant with prior notification to SPE.
REGISTRATION IS LIMITED
TO 60 ATTENDEES AND IS ON A FIRST COME, FIRST
SERVED BASIS. EARLY REGISTRATION IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
SINCE THIS IS A SELLOUT PROGRAM EVERY YEAR!
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