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Free registration opens for US plastics industry exhibitions


Free online registration is now open for four US-based exhibitions and conferences focused on plastics compounding, extrusion, recycling, and testing. Organised by Injection World publisher AMI, the Compounding World Expo, Plastics Extrusion World Expo, Plastics Recycling World Expo, and Polymer Testing World Expo all take place at the Huntington Conven- tion Center in Cleveland, Ohio, on 4-5 November 2020. By registering in advance, visitors


will receive free admission to all four exhibitions — featuring more than 250 leading suppliers — plus free entry to


the five conference theatres hosting technical presentations, educational seminars and business debates. Attendees and exhibitors also have the option to buy tickets (just $40 each) for a networking party at the Punch Bowl Social on the evening of 4 November. “The event will provide visitors with


a great opportunity to meet and compare suppliers from around the world, as well as giving them the chance to learn from business leaders and technical experts in the confer- ence theatres,” said Rita Andrews, Head of Exhibitions at AMI. “When we ran these expos in Cleveland last year,


we attracted 4,375 visitors, making them the biggest plastics industry gathering in the USA in 2019”. The four expos will occupy the


largest halls at the state-of-the-art Huntington Convention Center in downtown Cleveland. They will feature a wide array of leading manufacturers of compounding, extrusion, recycling, and testing and analysis equipment, plus suppliers of a huge variety of polymers, additives and related services. The exhibitor line-up already includes companies such as Amut, BYK, Cardinal Recycling, Clariant, Coperion, CPM Century Extrusion, Cumberland, Davis-Standard, Dover Chemical, Dynisco, Entek, Erema, Geon, Heritage Plastics, Intertek, Konica Minolta, KraussMaffei, Leistritz, Macro, Maguire, Matsui, Milliken, Netzsch, NGR, Nord- son, Omya, PerkinElmer, PTi, Reifen- hauser, Q-Lab, SI Group, Struktol, Thermo Fisher, Vecoplan, Windmoeller & Hoelscher, and hundreds more. The five focused conference


4,375 visitors attended the first Cleveland plastics expo in 2019. The limited number of remaining booths are filling up fast. To find out more about exhibiting at any of the expos, visit https://www.ami.international/exhibitions.


theatres will feature more than 120 expert speakers over the two days, including influential representatives from leading compounders, extruders, recyclers and testing organisations. Book your free ticket for the expos and conferences, which is valid for both days of the event, HERE or visit: https://na.compoundingworldexpo.com


New larger German site for Protolabs


Following on from a previ- ous expansion at Telford, UK, Protolabs has invested €12m in a new production site for its European 3D printing centre at Putzbrunn, near Munich, with a total floor space of around 5,000 m2


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Completion of the shell is expected at the end of the


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year and employees will start to move there from the current site at Feldkirchen from May 2021 onwards. “One of our big goals is to have the production of 3D printed parts in real time,” said Daniel Cohn, the company’s Managing Director in Germany. “With


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the larger production area and the increased capacity, we are getting a lot closer to this goal.” The new site will enable


Protolabs to expand capacity by around 50% for various 3D printing technologies and prepare for the advent of new additive technologies.


Key features include a CNC processing centre with a five-axis milling machine for post-processing of 3D-print- ed parts for applications including medical devices, plus systems for automated finishing, dyeing and painting. � www.protolabs.de


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