Technical Sales Presentations program

Discover the new products and services of key composite companies (Booth X18).

These interactive 30-minute presentations will allow you to discuss with the speakers and initiate new business contacts. The presentations promote technological advances in the international composite industry.

Find out the program of this 2012 session:

Tuesday, March 27^th

10.00am - Flax and Hemp Fibres: a natural solution for the composite industry 

Prof. Ignaas Verpoest, Professor at the Department Metallurgy and Materials Engineering (KU Leuven, Belgium) and President of the European Scientific Committee of CELC (Belgium)

CELC’s European scientific committee

10.30am - INNOFIBER® Specialty Glass Compositions – Expanding the Performance Boundaries of Traditional Fiber Glass Reinforcements

Ms. Cheryl Richards, Global Business Development Manager for Energy and Infrastructure Markets (USA)

PPG Fiber Glass

11.00am - Integrated Composites Production Program offered by Mikrosam

Mr. Samoil Samak, vice President (Macedonia)

Mikrosam

11.30am - Russian Carbon Market: today and tomorrow

Sergey Pavlov, Marketing Director (Russia)

Holding Company Composite

12.00pm - Regulatory concerns regarding room temperature curing of UP resins?

Timothy Pepper, Director of Technology (USA)

Ashland Performance Materials

12.30pm - High Performance Crestapol 1250LV Resin Technology in Carbon Fibre Composite Applications

Gavin Creech - Senior Applications Engineer, Research & Development (United Kingdom)

Scott Bader Co Ltd

1.00pm - Real-Time Control for Continuous GRP Pipes Production

Mr. Aleksander Pahor, Project Manager (Slovenia)

Technobell Limited

1.30pm - Reinforcement of composite materials and adhesives with carbon nano tubes using a genetic engineered protein (SP1)

Mr. Amnon Wolf, PhD (Israel)

Fulcrum SP Materials Ltd

2.00pm - Multifunctional Composites - Electrical, Thermal and Mechanical Behavior

Mr. R. Lee Pfaffle , Business Development Leader (USA)

Owens Corning

2.30pm - Energy Efficiency in the Carbon Fiber Conversion Process

Mr. Robert Blackmon, Vice President of Integrated Processes (USA)

Harper International

Wednesday, March 28^th

10.00am - Infusion Epoxy System for Carbon Fiber Composites

Mr. Aaron Haung, Deputy Section Manager of Wind Energy Department (Taiwan)

Swancor

10.30am - Braided Metal-Composite structures enabling true hybrid lightweight designs

Mr. Herwig Kirchberger, Head of Composite Division & Business Development (Austria)

Teufelberger GmbH

11.00am - The Benefits of Elastomeric Tooling for Your Large Integrated Composite Structure Applications

Mr. Alan Hiken, Vice President of Engineering & Technology (USA) 

Rubbercraft

11.30am - Global Food and Drinking Water Regulations are changing.  Owens Corning is ready.  Are you?

Mr. Freddy Dethier, Director EHS & Product Compliance (Belgium)

Mr. Bryan Minges, Marketing Leader (USA)

Owens Corning

12.00pm - Pliogrip (TM) structural adhesives - high performance bonds for lightweight vehicles

Michael J. Barker, Research Fello (USA)

Ashland Performance Materials

12.30pm - Cobalt Free! And you?

Mr. Thomas Wegman, Marketing Manager DSM Composite Resins (Netherlands)

DSM

1.00pm - Natural Aligned Fibres and Textiles for Use in Structural Composite Applications

Ms. Inma Roig, Main Responsible for the technical work in AIMPLAS for NATEX (Spain)

Natex

1.30pm - Innovations for Advanced Materials Processing:  Research to Commercialization

Mr. Steve Atkiss – CTO Despatch Carbon Fiber (Scotland)

Mr. Chris Rollag – General Manager Despatch Thermal Technology (USA)

Despatch Industries

2.00pm - Successful machining of composite and stacked materials

Mr. Mohamed Hammadi, European Application Specialist – Composites (French)

Sandvik Coromant

2.30pm - Nouryact™ Cobalt-free accelerators: The next generation in thermoset curing technology

Mr. Roel Zuijderduin, Technical Sales Manager Thermoset (Netherlands)

AkzoNobel

3.00pm - From the Freezer to the Autoclave and Beyond: IR/RF Technology Enhances Multi-Dimensional Optimization of Composite Part Fabrication

Mr Avner Ben-Bassat, President & CEO

Plataine Inc., Production Optimization Solutions (USA)

3.30pm - PlySim Analysis Services – A Fresh Range of Composite Structural Design and Analysis Services in a Wide Range of Markets.

Mr. Malcolm Wadia, Director (United Kingdom)

PlySim Analysis Services

4.00pm - Composites solution for electrical shielding EMI-RFI

Dr. Mauro Maggioni, Doctor (Italia)

Dr. Alessandro Soliani (Italia)

Lamiflex SPA

4.30pm - Very fast curing HexPly M77 epoxy prepreg resin system

Mr. Sylvain Delalande, Product Manager for industrial markets (France)

Hexcel

Thursday, March 29^th

11.00am - MetecoRock; Low cost - high temperature Tooling material

Mr. Risto Kallinen, Engineering Manager (Finland)

Meteco Oy

11.30am - A study comparing electric, oil, and pressurized water heating for composite molding

Kip Petrykowski, Business Development Manager (USA)

Single Temperiertechnik GmbH

2.00pm - Recent Advances on C-Ply NCF

Mr. Michel Cognet, General Manager (France)   

Mr. Philippe Sanial, Director of Research (France)

Chomarat

2.30pm - Introduction of Composites App for iPad

Mr. Thierry Massard, President of Thick Composites (France)

Mr. Roland Harry (France)

CEA & Thick Composites