| |  7:00 am - 8:30 am | Monday Speaker's Breakfast -- Salon 10 | | 8:00 am - 8:15 am | Welcome and Announcements (Salons A and B)
Conference Chair: Chuck Crosby | | 8:15 am - 12:00 pm | Plenary Session: Current Trends in Markets, Technology and Investments (Salons A and B)
Moderator: Tom Walsh | | 8:15 am - 9:00 am | Global Polyethylene: Issues and Trends
Nick Vafiadis, Global Business Lead: Polyolefins and Plastics, IHS | | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Overview of Polyolefin Industry – Asia/India
Ajay Shah, President – Polymer & Cracker, Reliance Industries, Inc. | | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Polyolefins Technology for the New Millennium
Randall Wu, Vice President, Marketing and Sales, INEOS | | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Morning Break -- Sponsored by Croda | | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Recent Development of Polyolefin Technology
Jinliang Qiao, Chief Scientist and VP Res. Inst., SINOPEC | | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Innovation as Growth Driver – a European Perspective
Maurits van Tol, Vice President Innovation & Technology, Borealis Group | | 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | PE and PP Market Update
James Ray, Senior Consultant, ICIS |
| | | | 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch -- Sponsored by Omya | Student Poster Judging | | Innovation, Strategies and Case Studies (Salon A)
Moderator: Teresa Jurgens-Kowal | Catalyst and Process Advances I (Salon B)
Moderators: Fernando Cevallos-Candau and Aaron Rhee | | 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Innovative Polyolefin Based Natural Fiber Filled Alloy Composition for 3D Printing
Robert Joyce, President, Innovative Plastics and Molding Inc | Using DOE to Optimize ICPs Polymerization Recipes
Moisés Werlang, PP Product Development Engineer, Braskem | | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Fashion Innovation: Printing as a Driver
Gwendolyn Hustvedt, Associate Professor, Texas State University | Recent Developments in Silica Supported Silyl Chromate Based Ethylene Polymerization Catalysts
Kevin Cann, Director, Kevin Cann Polyolefin Consulting Sevices | | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Synthesis of Polyolefin Vinyl Terminated Macromonomers, Their Properties, and Utility
Patrick Brant, Chief Polymer Science Advisor, Global Chemical Research, ExxonMobil Chemical | PP Catalyst Advances to Enable Low Content of Volatile Organic Compounds
Manu Rego, Polyolefins Products and Analytical Science R&D Leader, GRACE | | 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Afternoon Break -- Sponsored by BASF | | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Bridged Metallocenes as Cancer Therapeutics
Mark Hlavinka, Team Leader, Exploratory Catalysts, Chevron Phillips Chemical | Designed Synthesis of Polyethylenes of Novel Chain Architectures with Pd-diimine Catalysis
Zhibin Ye, Professor of Chemical Engineering and a Canada Research Chair, Bharti School of Engineering of Laurentian University | | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | The Case for On-Demand Peer Learning
Raja Subramanian, VP and Head of Energy and Natural Resource Practice, GLG | Non-Single Site Metallocenes
Roger Kuhlman, Catalyst Chemist, Univation Technologies | | 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Disruptive, Open, and Lean. A Primer on Innovation Buzzwords
Teresa Jurgens-Kowal, Global NP Solutions | Recent Advances of Metallocene Polypropylenes by LG Chem: From Catalysts to Products
Sang-Jin Jeon, General Manager / Project Leader , LG Chemical Ltd. | | 5:30 pm - 6:00 PM | | Polyolefin Trends: A Licensor’s Perspective
Harald Schliepe, Mechanical Engineer, CB&I | | 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm | Reception -- Sponsored by PMC Biogenics |
| | | | | | 7:00 am - 8:30 am | Tuesday Speaker's Breakfast -- Salon 10 | | Advances in Polyolefin Stabilization I (Salon A)
Moderator: Thoi Ho | Catalyst and Process Advances II (Salon B)
Moderators: Fernando Cevallos-Candau and Aaron Rhee | Applications in Building and Construction (Salon C)
Moderator: Lei Rao | Polylolefins and Sustainability (Salon D)
Moderator: Dana Gier | | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | Polymer Stabilization – A Journey Through Weathering Methods, UV & Thermal Stabilization Solutions
Rob Lorenzini, Cytec Industries | Fundamentals of Twin-Screw Compounding Scale Up: The Bump in the Road Between Develoment and Commercialization
Paul Andersen, Director of Process Technology, Coperion Corporation | Dispersion of Polypropylene in Ethylenic Polymers to Enhance Sag-Resistance of Power Cable Insulation Compounds
Bharat Chaudhary, Principal Research Scientist, The Dow Chemical Company | Thermally Stable Biobased Additives for Polyolefin Compounds
Bob Montgomery, Genarex | | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | A High Performance Stabilizer for Improved Performance Features of Polyolefins
Ryoji Soma, Sumitomo Chemical | Performance of a Counter-Rotating Continuous Mixer for Bi-modal High Density Polyethylene
Sekiyama Kazuhide, Kobe Steel | Strain Hardening Modulus and Natural Draw Ratio for Polyethylene Pressure Piping Applications
Bryan Hauger, President, Bryan Hauger Consulting, Inc. | Polypropylene Based Olefin Block Copolymers as Compatibilizers for Polyethylene and Polypropylene
Yushan Hu, Senior Research Scientist, Dow Chemical Company | | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Regulatory Challenges Associated with Innovation
Hayder Zahalka, Addivant | Recent Technologies to Improve the Counter Rotating Twin Screw Mixer
Satoshi Takami, Area Sales Manager, The Japan Steel Works, LTD. | Solid State Die Drawing of Polypropylene Composites-From the Laboratory to the Building Materials Marketplace
Kevin Nichols, Research Director, Eovations, LLC | Sustainability: The Many Paths Forward
Stanley Dudek | | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | | Manufacturing Excellence in Production of High Performance Ziegler Natta Catalysts
C. P. Cheng | | | | 9:30 am - 10:30 am | Morning Break -- Sponsored by Ingenia | | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Advanced Radical Generators as Efficient Flame Retardants
Rudolf Pfaendner, Division Director, Plastics, Fraunhofer Institute of Structural Durability and System Reliability LBF | Efficient Use of Indirect Heat Transfer For Degassing PE Pellets
Farah Skold, VP, Product Development, Solex Thermal | Borealis Borlink™ – Step change Wire and Cable Innovation Towards Sustainable Power Supply
Sandeep Tyagi, Borealis Group | Sustainability of Polyethylene
Thomas Nosker, Principal Investigator, Center for Advanced Materials via Immiscible Polymer Processing at Rutgers University | | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Novel Effect Additives for Polyolefins; Alternative Approaches to Static Dissipation, Crystallization and Controlled Rheology
Rick King, Senior Technical Manager, Plastic Additives Business Unit, BASF | Advances in Phthalate-Free Spherical ZN PP Catalysts
Ling Yang | Oxidative Stabilization of Cross-Linked Polyethylene for Wire and Cable Applications
Marty Paisner, Vanderbilt Chemicals | “Caps-On” for Polyolefin Recycling Along with PET Bottles
Jaime Camara, Director General, PetStar | | 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Residual Stability: Evaluating Polymer Stability under Real-Life Conditions
Niall Marshall, Technical Director, Everspring Middle East | Understanding and Improving Activation Efficiency of Metallocene Catalysts for Olefin Polymerization
Matt Thorn, Albemarle | TPO in Roofing Applications
Li-Ying Tammy Yang, Sr. Principal Scientist, GAF | Getting Maximum Value From Plastic Scrap
Grant Gilmore, Business Development Manager, Butler MacDonald |
| | | | | | 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch -- Sponsored by Omya | | 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Student Poster Judging | | Advances in Polyolefin Stabilization and Modifiers (Salon A)
Moderator: Rick King | Advances in Characterization and Properties (Salon B)
Moderator: Willem DeGroot | Innovative Reinforcements of Polyolefins (Salon C)
Moderator: Dan Berg | Recent Advances in Fibers and Nonwovens (Salon D)
Moderator: Michel Daumerie | | 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Meeting the Challenges of the High End Stabilization of Polyethylene
John Mara, Songwon | Multidimensional High-Temperature Liquid Chromatography
Robert Brüll, Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability and System Reliability | New Development of Bentonite Nanoclay and Use as Additives in Plastics
Tie Lan, General Manager , Nanocor, LLC | Polyolefins in Nonwovens: Development History and Future Needs
David Jackson, Sr. Research Technical Leader, Global Nonwovens Enterprise, Kimberly Clark Corp | | 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Enhance Value for Polyolefins With Specialty Additives
Hartmut Siebert, Business Development Manager - Polyolefin Additives, Clariant International Ltd | Novel High-Resolution GPC Column
Mark Jordi, President, Jordi Labs | New Developments in Talc and Cellulose Fiber Reinforced Polypropylene Compounds for Automotive Interior Weight Savings
Vive Apte, Manager of Polyolefins Research and Development, Asahi Kasei Plastics North America, Inc. | Challenges Facing the Global Nonwovens Industry 2016 and Beyond
Karen McIntyre, Editor, Nonwovens Industry | | 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | New Methodology for Evaluating Mar Damage in TPO Systems
Hung-Jue Sue, Plastics Technology Industrial Consortium, Texas A&M University | Bottom Up Approaches to Improved Polyolefin Measurements
Sara Orski, Polymers & Complex Fluids Group, NIST | Magnetic Polyolefin Matrix Nanocomposites with Multi-Functionalities
Zhanhu Guo, Associate Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville | Recent Trends in Fibers and Nonwovens
Eunkyoung Shim, Assistant Research Professor, Textile Materials, North Carolina State University | | 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Exhibitor Celebration -- Sponsored by Baerlocher and Ribelin | | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | “New North American” Talc Products for Polyolefins
Maziyar Bolourchi, Polymer Application, Lab Manager, Imerys North America | Fully-Automated Intrinsic Viscosity Measurement in Polyolefins
Pilar Del Hierro, Polymer Char | Vehicle Indoor Air Quality in Automotive
Laura Shereda, Asahi Kasei Plastics, North America | New Styrenic Block Copolymers for Elastic Nonwoven Applications
John Flood, Sr. Staff Research Scientist, Kraton Polymers | | 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Surface Modification of Fillers and Reinforcements for Improved Performance in Polypropylene Compounds
Christoph Burgstaller, Managing Director and Head of R&D, Transfercenter für Kunststofftechnik | Monitoring the Durability of Polyolefins by Imaging Techniques – the Key to Structure-Property Relationships
Tobias Schuster, Scientific Assistant, LBF Fraunhofer | New SEBS Polymers for High Melt Flow
Yonghua Zhou, Senior Scientist, Kraton Polymers | Recent Advances in Melt Blown Polyolefin Nonwovens
Gajanan Bhat, Professor - Materials Science and Engineering, Director – UT Nonwovens Research Laboratory, University of Tennessee, Knoxville | | 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Creating Value in Polyolefins Through Performance Additives
Keith Keller, R&D Manager, Plastic Additives, Milliken Chemical | Observation of the Tear Behavior of Polyethylene Blown Films Using High-Speed Essential Work of Fracture Tests
Byoung-Ho Choi, Professor, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Korea University | Opportunities for Lightweight Reinforced Polyolefins Utilizing Mixed-Morphology Clays
Dan Berg, Market Manager of Thermoplastics Additives NAFTA , BYK Additives | CETI: A Unique Place for Innovation
Anne Gonthier, R&D Engineer, CETI | | 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | | | | The Revolutionary Fibers and Textiles Manufacturing Innovation Institute
Terry Creasy, Associate Professor, Texas A&M University | | Dinner On your Own |
| | | | | 7:00 am - 8:30 am | Wednesday Speaker's Breakfast -- Salon 10 | | Innovative Polyolefin Stabilizers (Salon A)
Moderator: John Osby | Advances in Film and Flexible Packaging (Salon B)
Moderator: Luyi Sun | Foams and High Melt-Strength Polymers (Salon C)
Moderator: Ananda Chatterjee | | 8:00 am - 8:30 am | Balancing the Properties and Performance of Polyolefin Stabilizer Packages
Mick Jakupca, Director of Research and Development, Dover Chemical | Antifog Performance with Slip Additives
Anthony Chang, Senior Project Engineer , Techmer PM | A New and Unique High Melt Strength Polypropylene
Leonardo Cortes, Product Development, Total Petrochemical and Refining | | 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Advanced Antioxidant Technology for XLPE Insulated Power Cables
Takahiro Horikoshi, Polymer Additives R&D Laboratory, ADEKA Corporation | Effect of Polyolefins Molecular Structure on Their Films Seal Characteristics
Abdellah Ajji, Chemical Engineering Department, Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal | Use a Crystal-Nucleating Agent as a Bubble-Nucleating Agent for Preparing High Expansion Microcellular Polypropylene Foams by Injection Molding
Masahiro Ohshima, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Kyoto University | | 9:00 am - 9:30 am | New Synergistic GRAS Stabilizer for Polyolefins
Robert Sherman, Baerlocher | Nanocoatings on Flexible Films for Superior Barrier, Mechanical, and Flame-retardant Properties
Luyi Sun, Inst. of Mat'l. Science, University of Connecticut | Light-Weighting with Bimodal HDPE
Sarah Southmayd, INEOS | | 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Morning Break -- Sponsored by Cytec | | 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Discoloration in Polyolefins; Causes, Effects on Applications and Remedies
Joseph Fay, BASF | Successes and Challenges in the Development of Active Packaging
Cynthia Ebner, Senior Research Fellow, Sealed Air Corporation | Sports Surfaces Underlayment Impact Management using Expanded Polyolefin Particle Foam
Steve Sopher, Technical Director, JSP | | 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Controlled Life Plastic Packaging- oxidative degradation
Nivaldo Bosio, Symphony Environmental Ltd. | Food-Contact Compliance at the Speed of Innovation
Mitch Cheeseman, Managing Director Environmental and Life Sciences, StepToe | The Effect of Resin Choice on Polyolefin Foam Performance
Todd Hogan, Packaging and Specialty Plastics, The Dow Chemical Company | | 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Panel Discussion on Current Issues in Additives | Water Barrier Properties of Chitin-Polypropylene Nanocomposite Films
Aaron Guan, Founder, Director and General Manager, BOCO Technology | Improved Formula Dispersion Creates Finer Cell Structures
Peter Schroeck, President and CEO, Reedy Chemical Foam |
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