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ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN SAMARA, RUSSIA Please share your input before 20 July 2007. It is important the EPDA annual conferences continue to have a healthy participation from the membership, and we are interested in your thoughts on visiting Samara, Russia in 2009. The Board will update the membership on the results of the survey after they are compiled. Click here to share your thoughts. Thank you for your prompt response. A MESSAGE FROM THE COMMUNICATIONS
COMMITTEE Many thanks for playing an active and engaged role at EPDA. It was nice to meet so many of you in Torino. As we want to increase the group of members and also to distribute our ideas, we want to encourage you again to send contact names and e-mail addresses of those you think should receive this e-newsletter to our Secretary Sabine Reinhold at sreinhold@epda.com. Please be informed that no member of the Board, EPDA or IAPD is allowed to see this information so you can be sure that your contacts are in the best hands. Many thanks for your assistance in increasing the recipients of this newsletter. Yours sincerely, Hans Winterleitner
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EPDA members are invited to submit news on their company and products for publication in EPDA’s E-Update newsletter. News may be submitted in any language, to be translated by EPDA staff, and may include photographs. Please e-mail news (in a Microsoft Word document or as text in an e-mail) to epda@epda.com. Please note that submissions may be edited for length and clarity. GUARNIFLON OFFERS NEW PROMOTIONAL LEAFLET |
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Articles reporting on plastic
products are prepared from information furnished by PERSPEX® FROST AURORA GOES
DOWN WELL AT BAR Using 3 mm thick Perspex® Frost Aurora in violet, Janus created a fabulous seating area for this trendy city centre bar whose centre piece is shaped rings above the seats which, when illuminated give a luminous halo effect. Buskers Bar opened in March 2007 and has been acclaimed since it opened as the place to be and be seen — helped in no small measure by the stunning interior design. For more information, visit www.perspexdistribution.com.GEVACRIL® CAST TUBES ILLUMINATE
ART PROJECT Illuminated from the inside with a blue light system, the cast acrylic tubes diffuse a bright, smooth blue-coloured light throughout the whole surface of the acrylic installation, creating a picturesque atmosphere which reminds viewers of the blue water that once filled the Art-Deco basins until 1981. A mix of modern dance and complementary disciplines like music, video and light make up this extraordinary project, which involved many international artists and has already been viewed by hundreds of visitors. More information is available at www.gevacril.com. |
| NEWS from the Industry |
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OVER 3,000 EXHIBITORS REGISTERED
FOR K 2007 To date, more than 63 percent of the exhibitors are from countries other than Germany. With 453 companies, Italy is the leading foreign exhibitor nation, followed by China with 152 exhibitors, Taiwan with 131 companies and the United States with 127 companies as well as Great Britain with 112 exhibitors and Switzerland with 101 firms. A preliminary list of exhibitors can be found online at www.k-online.de.NEW PVF COLUMN IN THE “GLOBAL
PLASTICS LETTER” NEW REPORT SHOWS POLYMER DISTRIBUTION
GROWTH IN EUROPE OUTPACING MARKET GROWTH
RATES European polymer
distributors sold more than 4 million tonnes of po These findings are revealed in a new in-depth study on the market
from AMI For more information on the “Polymer Distribution in Europe: Preparing for the Future” study, please contact Kerry Satterthwaite at +44 (0)117.924.9442 or ks@amiplastics.com. |
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For a list of all events, please visit www.epda.com/industry.cfm 51st IAPD ANNUAL CONVENTION K 2007 An EPDA member reception will be held on the evening of 30 October 2007. Please mark your calendars. More details will follow at a later date. EPDA Exhibitors:
Add your name to the list by e-mailing epda@epda.com. |
Guarniflon Spa has introduced a new six-page leaflet. It is a useful
tool that summarizes the wide production range of this Italian producer.
The highlights are on the high performance PTFE based compounds,
where some very special products are more and more required by the
most sophisticated markets and applications. It also includes sections
dedicated to special sealing products called Calfim and SC, both
intended for a wide range of applications and offering particular
performances depending on the type of compounds used. The last part
of the leaflet displays the international network of Guarniflon Group,
a comprehensive organization made by six foreign sister companies
coordinated by the headquarters in Italy.
Perspex® from
Lucite® acrylic sheet was used by leading interior contractor
and designer Janus Contracts Ltd. to create an illuminated
seating area at Buskers bar in Temple Bar, Dublin. 
High
quality GEVACRIL® cast acrylic tubes were used for an experimental
light-art project at the Alte Hallenbad, an Art-Deco indoor swimming
pool no longer in use in Heidelberg, Germany.
lyolefins, styrenics
and selected engineering polymers in 2006, representing 13 percent
of the total European market for these polymers. |
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