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ANTEC 2007 & Plastics Encounter

May 6 – 10- Duke Energy Convention Center, Cincinnati, OH

Co-located this year, Plastics News’ Plastic Encounter Trade Show and the SPE’s ANTEC closed on May 10th with a total recorded attendance of 3,546. More than 225 companies exhibited. The next combined event will be held on May 4 - 8, 2008, in Milwaukee, WI.

Chinaplas 2007

May 21 - 24 - Guangzhou, Pashou, China

Asia's largest interna-tional exhibition for the plastics & rubber Industries opened this month with 1,580 exhibitors meeting with an expected 60,000 buyers and attendees at press time. See the event website for further updates.


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ISTMA 12th World Conference

June 11-13 - Joensuu, Finland

2007 ISTMA World Conference will take place in Joensuu, Finland, organized by the Finish ISTMA association (The Technology Industries of Finland). The theme of the 2007 Conference is “The Special Tooling Industry - Meeting the Demands of Globalisation”.

Plastec East 2007

June 12-14-New York, NY

At PLASTEC East you can effectively and efficiently see, compare, and evaluate the complete range of product and service resources for the plastics processing industry.

MD&M East Exposition and Conference

June 12 – 14 - Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York, NY

The total resource for medical product development professionals. 


COMING SOON


ProPak China 2007

July 10-12

Shanghai, China


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Molders Offer a Moving Target for Moldmakers to Adjust To

Understanding the Effect of Pressure in the Cavity 

By Gary Chastain, Consultant/Trainer at RJG, Inc. 

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Know-How: The 8 Skills That Separ-ate People Who Perform from Those Who Don't

By Ram Charan

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In Know-How, Ram Charan, coauthor of the bestseller Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done, gives readers a bold new approach to understanding leadership. Charan suggests that when it comes to choosing our business leaders, we don't recognize the crucial difference between the appearance of leadership and the actual ability to run a business.

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