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PDM Main event PDM 11 brings plastics engineering and design together.


Combining an exhibition with free conference sessions, the annual Plastics Design and Moulding Exhibition and Conference (PDM11) brings together the best of British plastics engineering and design. This year the event has moved to the ExCel Centre for 18- 19 May, taking it to the heart of the London- centric design and engineering community.


“The IED is taking part in PDM11 as the showcase event for plastics design in the UK,” said Libby Brodhurst, chief executive of the Institution of Design Engineers. “We are very pleased to continue our support of the event and look forward to engaging with the wider audience the new location and associated events will bring.”


PDM is the most comprehensive plastics event in the UK and is recognised as a vibrant source of information, education and inspiration for plastics design, engineering and moulding professionals.


The two-day PDM11 conference programme is based around the core subject of design for plastics manufacture. Conference speakers already confirmed include Mike Matthews managing director of Nifco UK, who will explore injection moulding best practice and Richard Brown, operations director of the Hi-Technology Group looking at injection moulding for designers. Additional conference sessions are scheduled to address new product development and advanced injection moulding.


“Following on from the huge success of last year’s seminar, the British Plastics Federation’s Rotational Moulding Group is once again working with PDM to put on a similar session,” said Martin Spencer, Chairman of the BPF’s Rotational Moulding Group.


The BPF’s Masterbatch and Technical Compounds Group is also hosting a seminar, specially tailored for designers, on the important role of colour and additives. Plastics can be coloured to almost any shade and effect, but care and expertise is required


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to ensure that the pigments and dyes selected are suitable for use in the polymer, process and application concerned.


PDM11 is the perfect place for plastics and design professionals to network and learn. Visitors can meet representatives from every part of the UK plastics design and moulding community, including design companies, suppliers of moulding machinery, mouldmakers, polymer producers and distributors, masterbatch and additive suppliers, software companies, materials testing specialists, moulders and rapid prototyping companies. Among the many leading industry names exhibiting this year are: Agentdraw, Bayer Material Science, Brightworks, Engel, Distrupol, Plastribution, ICO Polymers and Ultra Polymers.


Exhibitor Midas Pattern Company will showcase how it recently worked with design consultancy 4D Products to provide its RIM tooling for a revolutionary new piece of medical screening equipment. Using Midas MRIM™, the company’s unique composite resin tooling system, complex mould tools can be made in very short lead-times using a blend of laminated and cast resins and incorporating areas of CNC machined aluminium and steel, if required.


To register to attend PDM11 and for more information on travelling to the ExCel Centre, London, visit www.pdmevent.com


PDM11 is co-located with a unique new event dedicated to industrial design: the Product Design + Innovation conference (www.pdesigni.com). Featuring expert speakers from brand owners and leading design consultancies, the two-day Product Design + Innovation conference will set the innovation agenda and explore opportunities for growth through themes such as sustainability and open innovation. It will look at how to communicate the value of design to business and government as well as how best to protect and maximise value from intellectual property. Covering every aspect of the business of design, the conference will also consider client relationships, examine brand owners’ strategies and explore how innovation generates growth.


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