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Meet the experts behind AMI Magazines


AMI Plastics launched its market- focused digital magazines for the global plastics industry nearly fi ve years ago. Our aim is to deliver the highest quality and most relevant technical informa- tion and industry analysis. In order to achieve this, we have assembled one of the most experienced and technically qualifi ed teams in the plastics magazine sector.


Technically qualifi ed – Unlike most plastics magazine editors and journal- ists, all of our editors have a relevant science or engineering degree. They also have extensive experience of covering the plastics industry, each having spent at least 20 years in this market. Expert support – Our three editors


are backed up by a highly experienced team of regular contributors, plus the


expertise of the AMI Consulting team. No other plastics magazine has direct in-house access to this level of interna- tional industry knowledge and under- standing.


Meet us in Düsseldorf – Our team will be at the K 2013 exhibition in Düsseldorf, Germany in October. Meet us on the AMI Magazine stand in the North Entrance (EN03).


Andy Beevers


OUR MAGAZINE TEAM Lou Reade


Andy Beevers is head of business publishing at AMI, responsible for launching and managing the digital


magazines business. He is also editor of


Compounding World magazine. Andy graduated in Chemical Engineering from the


University of Birmingham in the UK and subsequently trained as a journalist. He has more than 25 years of editorial and publishing experience in the international plastics sector. He was editor-in chief of European Plastics News and Asian Plastics and went on to be publishing director for these titles plus Plastics & Rubber Weekly and PRW.com. Andy has also launched, managed and chaired many international conferences in the plastics arena. Andy has attended all eight K shows since 1989.


Chris Smith Chris Smith is editor of Injection World magazine and he also oversees our special projects including magazines on Pipeline


Coating, Wind Turbine Blade Manufacture and Rigid Plastics Packaging. Chris has a degree in Materials


Science and worked in the polymer industry for several years before moving into magazine publishing. For the past 20 years he has been writing about plastics technology, including stints as technology editor on Plastics & Rubber Weekly and as editor of European Plastics News. He also has extensive experience of launching, managing and chairing international plastics industry conferences. Chris has been to six K exhibitions.


Lou Reade is editor of our two plastics extrusion titles: Film and Sheet Extrusion plus Pipe and Profi le Extrusion.


After graduating in Chemistry, he trained


as a business-to-business journalist. He has since built up more than 20 years of technical journalism experience, including eight years as technology editor and editor-in-chief of European Plastics News magazine. In addition, Lou has worked as a journalist and editor on industry magazines covering design engineering and the laboratory equipment market. Lou will be attending his sixth K show this year.


Claire Bishop Claire Bishop manages the advertisement sales for all of our magazines. She has held this role since the magazines were launched and has developed our large and loyal customer base of global advertisers. She is a highly experienced media sales specialist with more


than 10 years working in this fi eld. Claire has worked with major business-to-business publishing companies, including Emap, and with the UK’s market-leading Daily Mail newspaper. She has particular experience in advertisement sales in the industrial and construction markets. Claire is looking forward to her second K show.


Nicola Crane Nicola Crane is responsible for the design of all of our magazines, preparing them for distribution on-line and via our free apps for the iPad/iPhone and Android devices She is a very experienced magazine designer, working on a wide range of business-to-business


and consumer titles over the past 26 years.


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