TRFA will feature keynote by wind energy expert.
Press Release Summary:
Scheduled for Sept 13-15, TRFA 2009 Annual Meeting will include keynote by John R. Dunlop, Senior Technical Outreach Engineer for American Wind Energy Association. Event will also include meetings of Market Focused Committees, Regulatory Affairs Report, 2009 Tabletop Showcase, and General Business Session, as well as opportunities for informal networking with industry peers. Three of 17 Technical Paper Presentations will focus on relationship between thermoset resins and wind energy.
Original Press Release:
TRFA Will Feature Keynote by Wind Energy Expert
Glen Ellyn, IL-The Thermoset Resin Formulators Association (TRFA) will welcome John R. Dunlop, Senior Technical Outreach Engineer for the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), as its keynote speaker at the association's 2009 Annual Meeting, September 13-15, at the Sheraton Station Square in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dunlop's keynote is scheduled for Monday, September 14 from 7:45 to 8:30 a.m.
Thermoset resins play a significant role in the development of wind energy equipment and offer a growing marketplace for thermoset resin formulators. Three of the seventeen Technical Paper Presentations scheduled for the meeting also focus on the relationship between thermoset resins and wind energy. They are: "Formulation of a Novel Structural PrePreg System for Wind Energy Blade Construction" by Yves Didier-Carter, Gurit UK; "Opportunities for Thermoset Resin in the Wind Energy Market" by Norman Timmins and Sanjay Mazumdar, Lucintel; and "Advances in Epoxy Technology for Windmill Blade Composite Fabrication," by Rajesh Turakhia, Dow Chemical Company.
Dunlop provides wind energy technical, educational and policy support to technical audiences out of his office in Minneapolis. He also manages AWEA's wind energy standards program. He has been with AWEA since 1993, and collaborated with AWEA while serving as a renewable energy program manager for the Minnesota state energy office for fifteen years. Dunlop has degrees in physics and mechanical engineering, and is a licensed professional engineer.
TRFA's 2009 Annual Meeting includes Technical Paper presentations, 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 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.
