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massPlastics
Oct. 25-26  - Fitchburg, MA

massPlastics™ conclu-ded last week with great success. More than 300 exhibitors and over 6,000 attendees from around
the country came to meet in North Central Massa-chusetts, origin of the plastics industry. mass-Plastics collaborates with Economic Development and State agencies to promote awareness of the plastics industry, develop initiatives for industry growth on a global scale and to encourage both private and public invest-ment in future plastics technologies and manu-facturing.


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Fabtech 2006
Oct 31-Nov 2 - Atlanta, GA

The FABTECH Internation-al & AWS Welding Show is the largest event in North America dedicated to showcasing a full spec-trum of metal forming, fabricating, tube & pipe, and welding equipment and technology.


EuroMold 2006
Nov 29 - Dec 2 -
Frankfurt, Germany

The 13th EuroMold, the world-wide leading trade fair for Moldmaking and Tooling, Design and Application Development will take place this year. As the international meet-ing point of the industrial sector, it presents products and services, technology and impulses for tomorrow's markets.


Plastics News China Forum 2006
Nov 14-15 - Rosemont, IL

The Plastics News China Forum 2006 is designed to provide plastics indus-try executives & managers with current information and key insights into suc-ceeding in China - wheth-er their aim is to manufac-ture there for export or to serve the booming domestic China market.


COMING SOON


Bioplastics Processing Conference
Dec 5-6 - Charlotte, NC


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Fight Hidden Corrosion in Stainless-Steel Molds 

By Ed Severson 

Recipe for mold failure

How can a mold made of stainless steel crack from corrosion when corrosion resistance is the main purpose for using the stainless mold steel? This type of corrosive attack is not due directly to the mold-ing operation or any-thing occurring at the surface of the mold. The attack originates inside the tool—specifi-cally in the water lines.
 

                   
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BOOK OF THE
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Harry Levinson on the Psychology of Leadership (Harvard Business Review Facebook) 
 


Faster technologies, tougher competition,
and an uncertain economy have made success more elusive--and the workplace environment more stressful--than ever.
To keep up, employees have felt increasingly compelled to spend more of their waking hours at the office. How can individuals balance daunting career demands and personal and family needs?
How can managers
lead employees in a business environment where work and person-alities invariably conflict? Dr. Hal Levinson, a groundbreaking medical researcher, has explored these difficult questions for decades. This
timely Harvard Business Review Paperback
book marshals more than a dozen of Levinson's most insightful writings on work-life issues.

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full Book Review