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Fabtech 2006
Oct 31-Nov 2 - Atlanta,GA
More than 21,000 attend-ees from around the world visited the FAB-TECH International & AWS Welding Show to
evaluate, purchase and explore innovative tech-nologies. A total number of
873 companies exhi-bited at the 2006 event, taking over 300,000 net square
feet of exhibit space.
Plastics News China Forum 2006
Nov 14-15 -Rosemont, IL
Plastics News’ first China Forum drew more than 125 participants
and prompted some vigorous discussion among the 13 speakers and a diverse,
mostly
C-level audience that included processors, OEMs, suppliers,lawyers and consultants. The opening-day panel featured four speakers
with nearly
100 years of China experience. They discussed strategies for entering and
succeeding in China, and sparked active debate
on Harris & Moure’s
chinalawblog.com
Web site. Other speakers addressed resin markets, key HR issues, China vs.
India comparisons, and more. The need for cultural understanding, clear communication and extreme levels of due diligence underscored nearly all
the presenta-tions (which
are available at
www.plasticsnews.com
PREVIEW
Bioplastics Processing Conference
Dec 5-6 - Charlotte, NC
This first time event is
particularly relevant due to the recent technology advances for polymer
compounds that are derived from “environ-mentally friendly” renew-able
resources, such as corn and soy.
COMING
SOON
Pharmapack 2007
Jan 24-25, 2007
Cite des Sciences et de l'Industrie, Paris
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Evaluating Mold
Repair Skills
By Steve Johnson
Mold maintenance is
not a job at the fore-front of industrial trade groups. Electri-cians,
machinists, plumbers, welders, etc. all can take structured courses
that allow the grad-uate to enter the workforce being comfortable with
best practice methods and having an under-standing of related codes
that govern what they do, as well as certification that they indeed
took and passed the course. Experienced mold repair technicians will
quite often be required to cross over into these other fields as they
per-form daily tasks on molds throughout the world.
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