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Plastics Regulations 2017 | event preview


AMI’s second Polymer Testing & Analysis


conference takes place in April, presenting an opportunity for plastics materials


specialists to learn more about the latest characterisation and testing innovations


Polymer testing in the spotlight


Polymer testing and analysis underpins successful plastics product development and processing. And, as the market demands new plastics products that are smaller, smarter, stronger and safer, so the challenges for materials suppliers, designers and specifiers grow. Organised by Pipe and Profile Extrusion magazine’s parent company AMI, Polymer Testing & Analysis 2017 offers materials specialists the opportunity to discover and debate the latest innovations in polymer testing, characterisation and analysis. The first Polymer Testing & Analysis event in 2016


was a great success, attracting an international audience of 100 delegates from over 20 countries. This second edition will take place in Cologne in Germany on 4-5 April and will once again focus on the latest developments in the area of testing, characterisation and analysis of polymer materials and products. This article previews the conference. Polymer Testing & Analysis 2017 opens with a session


on fire testing. Dr Renate Messing, Research Engineer at the independent testing centre UL International TTC will present a paper focusing on microscale combustion calorimetry – a new approach to assessing the flamma-


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bility characteristics of polymeric materials. This will be followed by Dr Günter Beyer, Lab Manager at Kabelwerk Eupen in Belgium, who will address the topic of quantifi- cation of flame retardancy of polymer composites by classification numbers/indexes from cone calorimeter testing.


The second session features Dr Michail Kalloudis,


Head of Polymer Science at plastic testing experts Impact Solutions, who will discuss the analysis of plastic failure to reveal the mode and the cause. Dr Iakovos Vittorias, Head of Polymer Physics & Charac- terisation, R&D at Basell Polyolefine LyondellBasell, will discuss efficient prediction of environmental stress cracking resistance in HDPE using the full notch creep test. Dr Pik Leung Tang, Applications Scientist at Agilent Technologies, will speak about fast non-de- structive handheld FTIR spectroscopic analysis of polymers and statistical modelling of chemical and physical changes over time during UV ageing chamber experiments. The conference’s third session provides an opportu-


nity for delegates to find out more about advances in polymer analysis. Dirk Wissmann, Senior Product


February 2017 | COMPOUNDING WORLD 61


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