Conferences and Meetings on Plastics, Paints and Synthetic Materials

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This international conference will cover global and local trends in PVC trade and technology, including the latest advances in a range of PVC additives, such as plasticisers, stabilisers, lubricants, impact modifiers, functional fillers, pigments, blowing agents and antimicrobials. Throughout the event, there will be plenty of networking opportunities, with a busy exhibition area and free to attend evening drinks reception.

Discover the latest global trends in PVC innovations to optimise and add value to your formulations

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The Thermoplastic Concentrates conference returns to Coral Springs, FL, for its 24th edition in Coral Springs, FL. This event brings together high caliber attendees, including senior executives, from across the global supply chain including the major concentrate production companies, to discuss new technical developments and real business insight into the successful management of companies. At last year’s event, attendees accounted for over $3.4 billion in concentrate sales, representing over 80% of the industry.

Discovering new trends for the thermoplastic concentrate industry

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The Polyethylene Films conference returns to Coral Springs, FL, for its 19th edition. The polyethylene film business continues to be one of the most dynamic and innovative in the industry, characterized by market growth, resin grade development, and product advances. This event brings together attendees from across the global supply chain to discuss business challenges and technical developments in the industry. Attendees at the conference are typically senior managers within the industry, normally representing over 15 billion lbs of film production within the North American market.

The business and technical conference for the polyethylene films industry

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The ​3rd edition of AMI's International Performance Polypropylene conference will take place on 9-10 February 2021 at the Pullman Cologne, Cologne, Germany. The two-day ​event will examine the latest advances in polypropylene resins and compounds for demanding applications. An international line-up of influential speakers will explore how improvements in the properties of polypropylene compounds are accelerating the development of new applications, including the replacement of metals and more expensive engineering plastics. Industry experts will meet to discuss market opportunities and new applications. The programme will cover developments in a variety of polypropylene resins and a wide range of filled, reinforced and elastomer-modified compounds.

Developing new formulations and applications for high-performance polypropylene compounds

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Oil & Gas Polymer Engineering Texas 2021, AMI's sixth US conference for oil and gas operators, contractors, equipment manufacturers, researchers and industry suppliers, will take place March 2-3 at the Hyatt Regency Houston. This two-day event​ will bring an expert line up of speakers together to discuss the latest developments in the use of non-metallic materials in the harsh conditions of oil and gas drilling and transportation, including new challenges arising in unconventional gas reservoirs. In addition to a packed program of high-caliber presentations, Oil & Gas Polymer Engineering Texas 2021 will provide ample networking opportunities for materials engineers and expert researchers to share case studies, learn from past experience and look to the future with the latest technologies.

Focused industry conference on qualifying and utilizing elastomers, thermoplastics, composites and coating materials in oilfield applications

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AMI's 8th Asia-Pacific international conference on markets and technology of flexible packaging, Specialty Packaging Films Asia 2021, will take place on 23 - 24 March at the Banyan Tree Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand. Expert speakers from across the packaging supply chain will share the latest market insights and developments in high value-add film solutions to balance requirements for functionality, safety, sustainability, cost efficiency and increased speed to market. Reducing environmental impact whilst retaining product quality is also key focus across Asia Pacific and beyond. Innovation in areas including film extrusion, resins, additives and adhesives are enabling optimisation of resources and widening end of life options for flexible packaging. These topics and more will be explored in depth, enabling delegates to help lead the debate on how the flexible packaging industry should innovate to support product optimisation and sustainability initiatives.

An Asia Pacific conference on markets and technology of flexible barrier packaging for retail and industrial applications

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The 3rd edition of AMI’s Breathable Films will take place on 13-14 April 2021 at the Sofitel Berlin Kurfürstendamm, Berlin, Germany. The two-day programme will bring together industry-elite speakers from the entire supply chain to evaluate and discuss the trends, challenges and opportunities facing the breathable films industry, across multiple end use applications. Driven by a growing awareness of health and hygiene, an increase in demand for premium hygiene products and massive opportunities for food contact applications, the breathable films market looks to expand steadily over the next 5 years. Having a microporous structure that is crucial for vapor transmission, breathable films have major applications in the building and construction, pharmaceutical, medical, industrial, food packaging and processing, personal care and hygiene and even clothing sectors.

Exploring the trends and innovations driving the breathable films industry, creating value for products across multiple end-use applications

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Discover the latest global trends in PVC innovations to optimize and add value to your formulations. The two-day program of technical and market presentations from expert speakers​ will cover global trends in PVC trade and technology, including the latest advances in a range of PVC additives, such as plasticizers, stabilizers, lubricants, impact modifiers, functional fillers, pigments, blowing agents and antimicrobials. The conference includes plenty of networking opportunities, with an exhibition area and evening drinks reception.​ In addition to the busy program of presentations, the event offers high-level networking opportunities in a focused exhibition area featuring displays from a range of suppliers.

Phone: [+1 610 478 0800];     Email: emily.nicholson@ami.international

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This conference will provide a lively and productive forum to debate the latest developments for a wide range of applications including electrical goods, construction and transportation. Sessions will provide a comprehensive view of the latest flame-retardant technologies including advances in additives, compound formulations and applications. Expert speakers are also invited to present valuable insights into regulatory developments, performance standards and testing technologies.

Phone: [+1 610 478 0800];     Email: harriet.white@ami.international

We are very proud and honored to announce the international conference Polymers 2021 - New Trends in Polymers Science: Health of the Planet, Health of the People, organized in collaboration with the MDPI open access journal Polymers. The conference will be held in Turin, Italy, on May 17–19, 2021. The purpose of the meeting is to bring together scientists from academia and industry to present leading-edge research on the advancements in polymer science and technology in all its main aspects, with a particular emphasis on those aiming to preserve and improve the health of the planet and of people, as per title. Both oral and poster contributions are welcome. The broad themes that will be addressed during the conference include synthesis, modification, and characterization of synthetic and natural polymers, polymers from green chemistry, polymer hybrids, nanocomposites, polymer biomaterials, polymers in drug delivery and tissue engineering, polymers for human health, bio-based and biodegradable polymers, polymer recycling and re-use, polymers for the environment, functional polymers, and polymers in energy, among others.

Biochemistry and Medicinal Chemistry, Toxicology,    Organic Chemistry and Polymers

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AMI's Masterbatch conference returns to Germany in May 2021 for its 33rd edition. This event is the international meeting for senior managers and decision makers in the masterbatch industry. Running since 1987, AMI’s Masterbatch conference incorporates three days of networking and industry insight attracting over 120 delegates from across the globe, including leading masterbatch producers.

The international conference and exhibition for the masterbatch industry

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Polymer Sourcing & Distribution 2021 is coming back to ​Hamburg from ​17-19 May 2021. This AMI forum, specifically created for companies involved at every stage of the European polymer supply chain usually ​attracts over 100 attendees from across the supply chain. ​The conference provides participants with an opportunity to review recent trends in sourcing options for both commodity and engineering resin grades and the implications for their business. The conference will review global trends in sourcing, logistics and distribution of polymers and their feedstock and how these impact on the plastics industry.

Disruptive forces, challenges and opportunities in global polymer sourcing & distribution

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Get your annual update on the global ​Plastic Closure industry at our reputable Plastic Closure Innovations Conference. This international conference focusses on innovation in the plastic closures industry and product delivery mechanisms for both beverages and non-beverages applications. ​The conference will bring together leading industry professionals and experts throughout the value chain.

Phone: [+44 (0)117 314 8111];     Email: ​​​Rebecca.weir@ami.international

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Delivering extruded profiles through the expert integration of skill, materials, machinery and process technology. Following your feedback, the 19th edition of Profiles is moving to Philadelphia, PA, on June 8-9, 2021. Join us to get your annual update on the entire profiles industry at our reputable Profiles US Conference. Rely on our 20+ years of bringing leading players together so you can network with your industry peers and update your expertise from the world-class conference program

Phone: [+1 610 478 0800];     Email: kelly.defino@ami.international

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Discover the latest global trends in PVC innovations to optimise and add value to your formulations. Based on the success of AMI’s long-standing PVC Formulation conference portfolio with annual events in Europe and the USA, the first edition of AMI’s PVC Formulation Asia takes place from July 21- 22 July 2021 at the Banyan Tree Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand.

PVC Formulation Asia will provide you with a technical environment to learn about and discuss developments and challenges in the PVC formulation market, giving you technical information from like-minded professionals and industry experts that can be used to meet your product development objectives. This international conference will cover global and local trends in PVC trade and technology, including the latest advances in a range of PVC additives, such as plasticisers, stabilisers, lubricants, impact modifiers, functional fillers, pigments, blowing agents and antimicrobials. Throughout the event, there will be plenty of networking opportunities, with a busy exhibition area and free to attend evening drinks reception.

Join PVC chemists and other experts from around the world at this targeted conference. The first speakers have been announced, download the programme highlights.

Phone: [+44 (0) 117 314 8111];     Email: emily.nicholson@ami.international

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Maximizing crop yields with an effective use of silage, mulch and greenhouse films to feed the growing global population. New for 2021! The first edition of Agricultural Film US will take place at the San Diego Mission Bay Resort (California) on August 17-18, 2021. Benefit directly from AMI’s twelve years of expertise in running Europe’s must attend Agricultural Film conference as we bring this exclusive networking opportunity – and our agricultural plastics industry expertise - to the American region for the first time. This inaugural event provides a unique forum for the agricultural film industry from across the US, Canada, Latin America and beyond to debate technical and market trends of this challenging industry, whilst networking with key players and experts.

Phone: [+1 610 478 0800];     Email: rocio.martinez@ami.international

It is our great pleasure to announce that the Second International Symposium on Dyes & Pigments (ISDP) will be held in Sitges, Barcelona from 5-8 September 2021. The aim of this second ISDP symposium is to provide a single focus to bring together researchers from across the scientific disciplines which create and utilize chromophores and fluorophores, to promote communication across these different disciplines and to provide a platform for the presentation of new work.

Theme 1: Modern Chromophores and their Applications Theme 2: Sensor Systems Theme 3: Dyes for Biomedical Applications Theme 4: Traditional Dyes & Pigments

ACPOC has a single-session format with scheduling reminiscent of a Gordon Conference. The unique setting of the medieval college provides an unrivalled environment for academic discourse.

Presentations on latest advances in corrosion protection by organic coatings, including topics on pretreatments and inhibitors

Electrochemistry, Electrolysis and Corrosion,    Metallurgy and Materials Science

UDSMM Laboratory, University of Littoral-Côte d’Opale, France

The ISyDMA conference is an international event focused on recent developments in dielectric materials and their applications. It is aimed at PhD students, post-docs, researchers and engineers from public and private research organizations concerned with innovations in advanced dielectric materials for biomedical, biotechnological and industrial applications. The conference is aimed at materials specialists, physicists, chemists, biologists and engineers engaged in fundamental and applied research on dielectric materials and their innovative applications. ISyDMA is open to a large scientific community since it brings together between 150 and 200 researchers and industrialists of 20 to 25 different nationalities. This is the 6th edition, the previous having taken place in Kenitra and Rabat (Morocco) in 2016, in Bucharest (Romania) in 2017, in Beni-Mellal (Morocco) in 2018, in Amman (Jordan) in 2019 and in virtual in 2020 due to the current health context.

IsyDMA’6 will be organized as conferences, oral communications and poster sessions. Oral presentations will be grouped by thematic session beginning with invited lectures proposed by the scientific committee or chosen among the submitted papers. The works presented during the meeting will be published in an international scientific journal.

Given the current situation at COVID-19, in the event of travel restrictions prohibiting the physical presence of authors, the ISyDMA’6 organizing committee will ensure the promotion and dissemination of the authors research works. Video presentations will then be accepted as an alternative presentation. Information will be updated regularly on the conference website.

Due to the success of the ISyDMA’3 Pre-Conference: First Moroccan Spring School on Advanced Materials, in Marrakech, Morocco from 15 to 17 April 2018, and the ISyDMA’4 Pre-Conference School in Irbid, Jordan, from 30 April – 1 May, 2019, we proudly present our call for the ISyDMA’6 Pre-Conference: International Summer School on Advanced Materials for Energy (ISSAME), which will be held from 13 to 14 September 2021 in Saint-Omer, France . The scope of this Summer School is to familiarize students with the state of the art in advanced materials for energy. The target audience for the Pre-Conference School is graduate students and junior researchers (PhD students, postdocs).

Chair of ISyDMA'6;     Phone: [+33 3 21 46 57 83];     Email: isydma6@univ-littoral.fr

Section 1 : Dielectric materials for electronics and photonics Section 2 : Applications of insulators Section 3 : Dielectric devices for biotechnological and industrial applications Section 4 : Emerging materials and devices

Condensed Matter Physics and Materials,    Organic Chemistry and Polymers

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Maximising crop yields with an effective use of silage, mulch and greenhouse films to feed the growing global population. The ​13th edition of AMI's Agricultural Film conference will t​ake place on 20th to 22nd September 20​21 at the Word Trade Center Barcelona, Spain. Targeted at the EMEA region, this ​three-day ​conference will bring together agricultural and horticultural cover specifiers, raw material and film manufacturers, professional researchers and educational institutions, cooperatives, growers, distributors, machinery manufacturers, agronomists and associations including public and private bodies involved in agriculture to provide a forum and a networking platform with professionals active in this challenging industry and global food supply in general.

Phone: [+44 (0)117 314 8111];     Email: rocio.martinez@ami.international

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The 13th edition of PVC Formulation will take place from 27-29 September 2021 at the Maritim Hotel Cologne, Germany. This is the only international, annual conference that covers global trends in PVC trade, advances in recipes and compounding, technical developments in a wide range of PVC additives, such as plasticisers, stabilizers, lubricants, impact modifiers, functional fillers, pigments, blowing agents and antimicrobials.

Discover the latest global trends in PVC innovations to optimise and add value to your formulations

Organic Chemistry and Polymers,    Chemical Engineering

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AMI is delighted to announce the launch of Biax Film 2021, the only global conference dedicated exclusively to the bi-oriented film industry. This unique forum for the entire BOPP, BOPET, BOPA and BOPE supply chain gives delegates the opportunity to discover the latest developments in raw materials, production techniques and film formulations for biax film manufacture and gain unrivalled insight into key market trends and the opportunities these present for future growth.

Connecting the global bi-oriented film supply chain to deliver future material solutions

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Exploring trends and technical developments in the Asia Pacific industry

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InterPACK is the premier international conference for exchange of state-of-the-art knowledge in research, development, manufacturing, and applications of electronics packaging and heterogeneous integration. It is the flagship conference of the ASME Electronic and Photonic Packaging Division (EPPD).

InterPACK is a systems-focused conference covering topics on Heterogeneous Integration, Servers of the Future, Edge and Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, Flexible and Wearable Electronics, Photonics and Optics, Power Electronics, Energy Conversion and Storage, and Autonomous, Hybrid and Electric Vehicles.

Electronic Engineering,    Microtechnology, Nanotechnology

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ARABPLAST – the Region’s No. 1 Trade Show for Plastics, Petrochemicals, Packaging & Rubber Industry will attract global industry players with a aim to reinforce brand image & forge international alliances. The 15th Edition in 2021 will offer international & regional exhibitors a common ground to showcase their products, revolutionary innovations, processes & practical solutions, advanced analytics & cutting edge technologies as well as commercial & operational capabilities. Expected to be attended by over 900 exhibitors from 35 worldwide country, it is the right place to network with industry peers to share intelligence.

Phone: [+97143406888];     Email: Rasheed@alfajer.net

Trade Shows and Exhibitions,    Petrochemistry and Petrochemical Industry

It is our pleasure to invite you to the 3rd Coatings and Interfaces Conference (CIC2021). Following the two very successful electronic editions of this conference series, we are pleased to announce that CIC2021 will hold its 3rd edition on a face-to-face format, allowing attendees to actively engage in discussions about the latest findings in the field. The conference will be held in Florence, Italy, a renowned heritage site and home to thousands of surface finishing companies. The event will take place on 24–26 November 2021. The impact of coatings and interfaces in technology is growing at an unprecedented pace. Energy, sustainable mobility, pollution control, critical raw materials, preservation of cultural heritage, control of materials degradation, food safety, and health science are all challenges that critically depend on our capability to engineer surfaces. The aim of the CIC2021 is to give scientists and professionals a unique opportunity to keep up with this quickly evolving field, by providing a comprehensive overview of the latest findings regarding the fundamentals and application of coatings and interfaces.

-Coatings for mitigation of corrosion, wear, and erosion; -Bioactive coatings, surfaces, and interfaces; -Advances in coating deposition and surface functionalization; -Coatings for food packaging and preservation; -Coatings and interfaces in cultural heritage preservation and restoration.

Diese Veranstaltung bietet die optimale Plattform für einen fachlichen Austausch für Forscher, Autohersteller und deren Lieferanten aus der Stahl-, Aluminium-, Kunststoff-, Öl-, Vorbehandlungs-, und Lackbranche.

Electrochemistry, Electrolysis and Corrosion,    Automotive Engineering, Roads and Railways