Turn page for booking details ➤ PR OFILES 2016
Tuesday, June 28, 2016 8:00
9:00 Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Registration and welcome coffee Opening announcements
SESSION 1 - PROFILE BUILDING: MARKET DEVELOPMENTS 9:10
9:40
uPVC window profiles in commercial application Mr. Helmut Grohschaedl, VP Sales & Marketing, REHAU, United States
Recycling as a sustainability practice in the North American vinyl industry Mr. Richard Krock, Vice President, Regulatory and Technical Affairs, THE VINYL INSTITUTE, United States
10:10
LEED v4: Market transformation in action Ms. Sara Cederberg, Technical Director, LEED, U.S. GREEN BUILDING COUNCIL, United States
10:40-11:10 Coffee break
SESSION 2 - MAKING THE RIGHT IMPRESSION: FOCUS ON COLOR AND APPEARANCE
11:10 Advancements in dark colored weatherable polymer capstock materials Mr. Matthew R. Kuwatch, Vice President, Marketing & Business Development, AURORA PLASTICS, INC., United States
11:40
Color, design and market trends in residential outdoor products Mr. George Gehringer, Owner/Creative Director, METAPHOR LLC, United States
12:10 Next generation PMMA based profile lamination films Mr. David Harris, Product Manager – Exterior, AMERICAN RENOLIT CORP., United States
12:40-2:10 Lunch SESSION 3 - OUT TO THE TEST: ANALYZING PROFILE PERFORMANCE 2:10
Accelerated weathering of vinyl and composites – new technologies driving faster more accurate results Mr. Matthew McGreer, Product Manager, and Mr. Scott Zimmerman, Global Sales Manager, ATLAS MATERIAL TESTING TECHNOLOGY, LLC, United States
2:40
Identify and characterize meaningful scratch & mar testing for composite decking surfaces Mr. Rick Keatley, Product Development, AMERICHEM, INC., United States
2:40
SESSION 4 - BACK TO NATURE: WPCS AND RENEWABLE REINFORCEMENTS 3:10
Rheological and performance evaluation of styrene based wood plastic composites Dr. Karl Englund, Associate Research Faculty, WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY – COMPOSITE MATERIALS & BUSINESS CENTER, United States
3:40-4:10 Coffee break 4:10
4:40
Leading the composite world with new technologies Mr. Michael Sloup, President, RESYSTA NORTH AMERICA, INC., United States
Advanced natural fiber thermo plastics filler technologies Mr. Heath Van Eaton, President, WYOCOMP, United States
5:10 Wood PVC composites in India – opportunities and challenges Ms. Aruna Kumari, General Manager, RELIANCE INDUSTRIES Ltd., India
5:40-7:10 Cocktail reception AMI reserves the right to alter the program without notice.
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3:10 3:30
8:30 Welcome coffee 9:00
Opening announcements
SESSION 5 - TAILORING PROPERTIES: ADDITIVES AND FORMULATIONS FOR PVC PROFILES
9:10
Chemical blowing agent selection, polymer melt strength, and cellular PVC Mr. Kevin Yocca, Technical Service and Development Engineer, ARKEMA, INC., United States
9:40 10:10
How to create a calcium-zinc stabilizer for window profiles Dr. Michael Schiller, Founder & Owner, HMS CONCEPT e.U., Austria
Comparison of grafted copolymer and suspension PVC with external acrylic impact modifier Mr. Marc Klostermann, Technical Manager, VESTOLIT GmbH, Germany
10:40-11:10 Coffee break 11:10
Biobased PHA copolymers as multifunctional additives for rigid and semi-rigid building materials Mr. Mansoor Akhthar Basheer, Manager, Applications Development, METABOLIX, United States
11:40
Smoke suppression of rigid PVC Mr. David Reece, Technology Manager – Thermoplastics, HUBER ENGINEERED MATERIALS, United States
12:10 Developments in impact modification of PVC substrate for coextruded building materials Mr. Robert Smith, Sr. Engineer – ACR/Plastics Additives, ARKEMA, INC., United States
12:40-1:40 Lunch
SESSION 6 - EXCELLING AT EXTRUSION: ADVANCES IN PROFILE PRODUCTION
1:40
Technical case study on profile extrusion – from 12-up to wide profile Mr. Anthony Georges, President, AMUT NORTH AMERICA, INC., Canada
2:10
Cost savings through the use of high efficiency extruders & energy efficient downstream equipment Mr. Gary Feldscher, Sales Manager of Profile Equipment, BATTENFELD-CINCINNATI US, United States
Extrusion of TPE sealing profiles Mr. Noah Grade, Pilot Plant Manager, KRAUSS MAFFEI CORP., United States
Conference wrap up and questions Conference ends
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