TRFA announces technical presentations for annual meeting.
Press Release Summary:
From September 13-15, TRFA 2009 Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA, will feature 17 Technical Paper presentations, including 7 presentations focused on composites and tooling. Essential to meeting association's objective of being premier forum to interact and exchange knowledge among formulators and suppliers, papers are chosen for technical content, timeliness of subject, and relevance to TRFA members and industry.
Original Press Release:
TRFA Announces 2009 Technical Presentations on Composites and Tooling
Glen Ellyn, IL - The Thermoset Resin Formulators Association (TRFA) is pleased to announce that its 2009 Annual Meeting, September 13-15, at the Sheraton Station Square in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, will feature a total of seventeen Technical Paper presentations, including seven presentations focused on composites and tooling.
The technical presentations focused on composites & tooling chemistries are:
o Next Generation Fire-Retardant Prepreg Formulation for Mass Transportation Applications, Paul Spencer, Gurit
UK.
o Formulation of a Novel Structural Prepreg System for Wind Energy Blade
Construction, Yves Didier-Carter, Gurit UK.
o Novel Toughened High Performance Vinyl Ester Resins, Gerhard Bohme, Hexion Specialty Chemicals.
o Two New Products, XTA-770 and XTA-796, as Alternatives to AEP and Accelerator 399, for Acceleration of Epoxy Resin Polymerization, Bruce Burton, Huntsman Corporation.
o High Temperature Epoxies Enhanced by Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane (POSS)
Molecules, Bruce X. Fu, Hybrid Plastics.
o Behavior of Solid, Core-Shell-Rubber Nanospheres, Singly Dispersed in Thermoset Composites, Sean Walsh, Kaneka Texas.
o Opportunities for Thermoset Resin in Wind Energy Market, Sanjay Mazumdar,
Lucintel.
At the heart of every TRFA Annual Meeting, the Technical Paper Presentations are essential to meeting one of the association's key objectives, which is to be "the premier forum to interact and exchange knowledge among formulators and suppliers." Technical Papers are chosen for their technical content, the timeliness of the subject, and relevance to TRFA members and the industry.
In addition to this substantial schedule of technical presentations, TRFA's Annual Meeting also includes the meetings of its Market Focused Committees, a Regulatory Affairs Report, the 2009 Tabletop Showcase, and a General Business Session, as well as unmatched opportunities for informal networking with industry peers. Registration is now open for this annual event. Complete meeting information including fax-in or online registration, online hotel reservations, technical paper abstracts and a table top exhibitor contract is available at www.trfa.org/meeting.
TRFA is comprised
of thermoset formulators and fabricators, raw material suppliers, distributors, equipment manufacturers, manufacturer sales representatives of materials or equipment, importers of raw materials or processing or other equipment, consulting firms and
academic institutions serving industries which include adhesives, coatings, civil engineering applications, electrical laminates, composites, tooling, castings and moldings. To learn more about TRFA, please visit the website at www.trfa.org or
contact the association at (630) 942-6596.
Contact: Janet Arden, publications editor, janeta@cmservices.com, (630) 942-6596
