AMI & Compounding World magazine held the first edition of the Compounding World Forum on December 10-11, 2013 at the Hilton Philadelphia City Avenue, in Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Conference sessions featured 21 presentations selected by Compounding World’s editorial team. They covered key strategic issues and technology developments including: global market trends; clean compounding for medical applications; metal replacement; conductive compounds; anti-counterfeiting technologies; antimicrobials; flame retardants; improving sustainability; advanced reinforcements and fillers; plus getting the most from twin-screw extruders.
Compounders in attendance included: A Schulman ● AGC Chemicals ● Albany International ● Albis ● Ampacet ● APPL Industries ● Asahi Kasei Plastics ● Ascend Performance Materials ● BASF ● Champlain Cable ● Chroma ● Citadel Plastics ● Colorant Chromatics ● Continental Compounders ● Corning Cable Systems ● Elix Polymers ● Enviroplas ● Felix Compounds ● Foster Corporation ● Heritage Plastics ● Hudson Color Concentrates ● Infinity Compounding ● Ingenia Polymers ● ITW Formex ● LTL Color Compounders ● Lubrizol Advanced Materials ● Mesa Industries ● Modern Dispersions ● Omni Plastics ● Penn Color ● PET Processors ● Plasticomp ● PMC Group ● Polymaterials ● Polymera ● PolyOne ● Polyram ● Polyvel ● PolyVisions ● Rimtec ● Roscom ● Rowa ● Sabic ● S&E Specialty Polymers ● Saco Polymers ● Southwire ● Star Thermoplastic ● Styron ● Sylvin Technologies ● Techmer PM ● Teknor Apex ● Welset ● Westchester Plastics ● and more…
Exhibitors included: Aaron Equipment ● Ametek Westchester Plastics ● Asahi Kasei Plastics ● B&P Process Equipment ● Bay Plastics Machinery ● Brabender Technologie ● Bruggemann Chemical ● CPM Century Extrusion ● CW Brabender Instruments ● Daihachi Chemical ● Eckart ● Entek Extruders ● Excalibar Minerals ● ExxonMobil ● Felix Compounds ● Fres-Co System ● Gala Industries ● ICMA San Giorgio ● Maag Automatik ● Mixaco ● Momentive ● NFM Welding Engineers ● Omya ● Parkison Technologies ● Pelletron ● PMC Polymer Products ● Polyram ● Reduction Engineering Scheer ● Roscom/Tek Tube ● Rowa, INC. ● Saint-Gobain ● Struktol ● TPEI ● Trendelkamp ● Trinity Resources ● Welset Americas ● Xtrutech
For more information on this conference, or the 2014 version of the event, please contact: Ms. Kelly Cressman, Conference Coordinator, kc@amiplastics-na.com Tel: +1 610 478 0800, Fax: +1 610 478 0900.
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