Europe's leading conference for the plastics additives and compounding industry is now in its fifteenth year. This year saw cutting edge case studies on plastic additives, performance, processing and applications. Whether you're an additive supplier, compounder, manufacturer or end user of polymer materials, these proceedings provide an ideal opportunity to keep informed of quickly changing technical and market developments in the global plastics industry.

Additives suppliers, material producers, compounders and end users can no longer rely on year on year growth. Instead profitability and survival will depend on judicious use of polymer additives and their efficient incorporation into the end product whilst observing strict regulatory control.  In these challenging economic times the main theme of the conference was soundly based economic plastic additive technology.

This is your opportunity to keep informed about the additive and compounding industry in an uncertain market and stay one stay ahead of the competition.

Technical Papers:

SESSION 1: THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT

Paper 1: Business outlook for plastics: including a review for Central Europe

Kalman Wappel, ECEBD Ltd, Hungary

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SESSION 2: COMPOUNDING

Paper 2: Twin screw extruders with high volume and maximum specific torque for the compounding industry

Michael Thummert & Marjia Zovko, LEISTRITZ Extrusionstechnik GmbH, Germany

Paper 3: Advances in small scale processing equipment for polymers and additives

Bernd Jakob, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Germany

SESSION 3: PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT

Paper 4: Polymer innovations for masterbatch producers--masterbatch carriers for ABS

Dr Karlheinz Hausmann, DuPont Packaging and Industrial Polymers, Switzerland

Paper 5: Additives for photo-cross-linking of polyolefins physico-chemical approach

Dr Boris Gorelik, MOBIChem Scientific Engineering Ltd, Israel

Paper 6: POSS dispersants and flow aids for high performance plastics

Dr Paul Wheeler, Hybrid Plastics Inc, USA

SESSION 4: COMPATIBILISATION

Paper 7: Reactive compatibilisation of PVC/ABS blends via insitu-polymerisation of thermoplastic polyurethane

Pegah M Hosseinpour, Dr J Morshedian, Mr M Barkikani & H Azizi, Iran Polymer and Petrochemical Institute, Iran

Paper 8: Compatibilisation of SAN/EPDM blends with particle-in-particle morphology via reactive processing

Mona Taheri, Dr Jalil Morshedian, Dr H.A Khonakdar Iran Polymer and Petrochemical

Institute, Iran

SESSION 5: ANTISTATICS

Paper 9: A new permanent antistatic additive

Dr Perrine Babin & Dr F Malet, Arkema, France

Paper 10: ENTIRA™ Antistat - a novel permanent antistatic additive for polyolefines

Dr Karlheinz Hausmann, DuPont Packaging and Industrial Polymers, Switzerland

SESSION 6: ADDITIVES ANALYSIS

Paper 11: Additive selection in food contact and medical materials

John Sidwell, Sidwell Consulting & Analytical Services Ltd, UK

SESSION 7: FLAME RETARDANTS

Paper 12: Progress with nanocomposites as a new flame retardant system

Dr Guenter Beyer, Kabelwerk Eupen AG, Germany

Paper 13: Developments in flame retardancy of epoxy resins by using new reactive halogen-free curing agent

Dr Ewa Kicko-Walczak, Industrial Chemistry Research Institute, Poland

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SESSION 8: ENVIRONMENTAL

Paper 14: Developments and applications in oxo-biodegradable additive materials

Emyr Peregrine, Symphony Environmental Technologies PLC, UK

SESSION 9: MICROFINE ADDITIVE TECHNOLOGY

Paper 15: Ultrafine talcs for low temperature high impact PP compounds

Jérôme Crépin-Leblond & Saied Kochesfahani, Rio Tinto Minerals, France

Paper 16: Fluorinated micropowder additives for tribological improvement of engineering polymers compound with an eye on environmental aspect on re-valuable fluoropolymer waste

Dr Ing Claudio Cattivelli, HEROFLON Srl, Italy