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IN BRIEF


ANTEC 2006 – Wrap-up

ANTEC (Annual Technical Conference), sponsored by the Society of Plastics Engineers, was held May 8 -10, in Charlotte, NC.  More than 2,000 people attended the event, which had 76 exhibitors and 462 speakers presenting 640 technical papers.  High-lights included technical seminars on Blow Mold-ing and Injection Molding by such industry experts as Norman C. Lee, Robert Beard, William Frizelle, William Tobin and Lawrence Schmidt. 


SPI Machinery, Molders & Moldmakers Divisions
2006 Spring Business Conference
– Wrap-up

May 7-10 - Naples, FL

This year’s conference was well attended with 107 people taking in sessions that covered the global and domestic out-look for the plastics indus-try. SPI announced that the next Spring Business Conference will be held May 6-9, 2007, at JW Marriott Starr Pass Resort and Spa in Tucson, AZ. 


NPE 2006 : By Far the Largest Int'l Plastics Exposition in 2006

THE INTERNATIONAL PLASTICS SHOW-CASE, will take place from June 19 - 23, at Chicago’s McCormick Place exposition center and will be the largest interna-tional plastics show of the year. The triennial show will be the 25th NPE since 1946. At least 2,000 companies are expected to exhibit, one-third of them coming directly from outside the U.S.A.

Special pre-registration rates are offered through 6-15.  Click here to sign up.


COMING SOON


ProPak China 2006

July 11-13

Shanghai, China


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Unprecedented shifts in the age distribution and diversity of the global labour pool are underway  

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