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SOCIETY OF PLASTICS ENGINEERS

NEW YORKSECTIONNEWSLETTER “. . . to promote the scientific and

engineering knowledge relating to Plastics.”VOLUME 63, NO. 1, SEPTEMBER 2009

— IN THIS ISSUE —Presidents Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Officers, Directors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Sponsor Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Letter from the Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Program Preview - Social Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3BOD Minutes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4BCC Student Chapter News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6June 2009 Council Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-8Golf Outing Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-10SPE International News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Sponsors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-12

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DISCLAIMER: “Neither the Section nor the Society of Plastics Engineers is responsible for the views expressed by individualcontributors either in articles published in the Section publication or in presentations of discussions at Section meetings.”

As we start another year at the New York Sectionof The Society of Plastics Engineers I have a simplemessage for all our members. Get involved andhelp the SPE in New York stay alive and thrive.

Without the support and involvement of ourmembers I do not know how long the New YorkSection of the SPE can remain viable. Our mainpurpose is to promote the plastics industry andeducation for those interested in working in theplastics industry.

Please come out to our Social Networking meet-ing in September and see what the SPE has tooffer you and those you know who may be inter-ested in a career in plastics.

WE NEED YOUR INVOLVEMENT!

Thank you very much.Raymond M. Schneider

2009-2010 PresidentNew York Section

OFFICERS 2009-2010PresidentRAYMOND SCHNEIDERRMS Design Inc. Tel:516-857-2871e-mail: [email protected]

Vice PresidentBARBARA GENET Tel: 718-328-5224Pulse Plastic Products, Inc. Fax: 718-617-2024e-mail: [email protected]

TreasurerBARBARA GENET Tel: 718-328-5224Pulse Plastic Products, Inc. Fax: 718-617-2024e-mail: [email protected]

SecretaryADAM WINSTON Tel:914-273-0125Atlantic Polymers Inc. Fax: 914-273-0126e-mail: [email protected]

CouncilorGARY SPALTER Tel: 718-378-2656GS Polymers. Fax: 718-378-7611e-mail: [email protected]

Past PresidentADAM WINSTON Tel:914-273-0125Atlantic Polymers Inc. Fax: 914-273-0126e-mail: [email protected]

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SPE-NY SECTION -- LET'S TALK!

Our Section, like the manufacturing industry, is at a crossroad -- we want and need tohear from YOU. Things are changing and we have to find a way to change with them.Our old Section structure is no longer working. Can you help us come up with astructure that will help our members? Do you have questions that SPE can help withsolving? Do you have ideas that could help our industry here in New York?Would you be interested in a special topic to be discussed or a special speaker ata meeting?

We need and want to know how to help each other. Please come to the socialnetworking gathering on Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 at Willy Parkers AmericanBar and Grill and help us try to brainstorm ways to save the plastics industry in theNew York area and help the SPE New York Section survive.

We can't do it alone. WE NEED YOUR HELP AND SUPPORT.

Barbara GenetEditor, New York Section Newsletter

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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

SOCIAL NETWORKING FOR PEOPLE IN PLASTICS

Working, hardly working or not working at all.Why not try SOCIAL NETWORKING???

The Old Fashion WaySPE members and non-members welcome.

This type of meeting has never been done here before. Let's give it a chance! Our September Meeting is one of Social Networking.

We plan to meet at Willy Parkers American Bar and GrillAt 71 Hillside Avenue, Williston Park, LI, NY 11561 on

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 at 6:00 PMNO CHARGE FOR ADMISSION. FREE HOT WINGS. CASH BAR

NO SPEAKERS, NO HIDDEN AGENDA. Let's just gather together and see what happens.

Bring your colleagues and associates and let's put our heads togetherand come up with a way to save our industry and the New York Section SPE.

See you at the Bar!

Directions to Willy Parkers American Bar and Grill71 Hillside Ave • Williston Park, NY, 11591 • (516) 750-8125

LIE OR NORTHERN STATE PKWY TO WILLIS AVE SOUTH (TOWARD MINEOLA)MAKE A LEFT ON HILLSIDE AVE (JUST AFTER ST. AIDANS CHURCH)

WILLY PARKERS IS LOCATED 500' ON RIGHT SIDE OF HILLSIDE AVE.

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SPE New York SectionBOARD of DIRECTORS MEETINGheld on Wednesday July 22nd, 2009Willy Parkers - Williston Park NY

PRESENT: Levine, Ray Schneider, Gary Spalter, Barbara GenetGUEST: Judy BlumbergEXCUSED: Adam Winston

Meeting called to order by Raymond Schneider at 6:53 PM. Motion was made by Barbara to accept the minutes of the May 6th Board meeting asdistributed. Seconded by Stu, motion carried.

COMMITTEE REPORTS:

THE NEXT BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING TO BE HELD WILL BE ANNOUNCED AT A FUTURE DATE.

Visit the SPE web site at http://www.4spe.org/communities/sections/s14.php for more details

PROGRAM - There was an extensive discussion on what wewere going to do for the September meeting. After muchdiscussion it was decided that we would try a social network-ing meeting on Wednesday, September 9th at Willy Parkers.No speakers, no specific topics. We will just have a gettogether to brainstorm and see if we can come up with ideason how to revitalize the New York Section. Gary will work ona postcard to send out in August as a teaser. Barbara will usethe golf outing list as well as the membership list to send outthese postcards. Barbara will work up an e-blast in Augustand then again in September with the newsletter.

HOUSE - Judy Blumberg: Judy will talk to the managementabout having Hot Wings or some kind of finger food available.There will be a cash bar that evening.

COUNCILOR REPORT - Barbara Genet: Barbara reportedthe Council meeting was held in Chicago on June 21st priorto ANTEC and NPE. There will be a complete summaryreport in the September newsletter. At the 1st Council meet-ing bylaws were passed allowing electronic participation atcouncil meetings including voting. I personally was not infavor of this as I do not think it has been sufficiently testedand there are still glitches that have not been worked out yet.Susan Oderwald reported that the SPE headquartersbuilding in Brookfield had been sold and headquarters will bemoving to Newton, CT at the end of June after ANTEC andNPE. Overall membership as of June 1, 2009 is down to16,039 members.

NEWSLETTER / SPONSORSHIP - Barbara Genet: Wehave lost several sponsors for the newsletter. Barbara willsend out invoices for sponsors and hopefully we will not loseany further advertisers. We still have a problem with one oflast year's advertisers and Ray has agreed to speak withthem about this.

MEMBERSHIP - Stu Levine: Stu was unable to download areport for the month of June.

EDUCATION / PUBLIC INTEREST - Barbara Genet: Barbarastill has not gotten word on the winner of the InternationalEssay Contest for 2009. She asked Gary as councilor to con-tact Gail Bristol at headquarters to find out if they have decid-ed on a winner yet and if they have gotten the funding for acontest for 2010.

GOLF OUTING - Gary Spalter: Our Golf Outing was a hugesuccess, especially in current economic times and we oweour Golf Committee kudos for a job well done. We ended upwith 68 golfers and a surplus of several thousand dollars.

We have tentatively set June 8th, 2010 as a date for the nextGolf Outing with Clearview Golf Course.

OLD BUSINESS: Adam is recovering from back surgery andis feeling better every day. We sent him a fruit basket to helpspeed his recovery. Barbara will fill in for Adam in hisabsence. Hurry and get well and come back soon Adam.

NEW BUSINESS: None

There being no further business Stu made a motion toadjourn the meeting.

Seconded by Gary the meeting was adjourned at 8:35 PM

Respectfully submitted,Barbara Genet for

Adam Winston, Secretary

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BBRROONNXX CCOOMMMMUUNNIITTYY CCOOLLLLEEGGEESSTTUUDDEENNTT CCHHAAPPTTEERR NNEEWWSS

The students at Bronx Community College have been very busy duringthe month of June and the summer session has proven very exciting forthe students. Below you will find two articles about things that havebeen happening for the students in the SPE Student Chapter.

Dr. Petra Pötschke and her two fellow researchers, Mr. Tobias Villmowand Mr. Andreas Göldel visited the BCC student chapter in the Chem-istry Department on Tuesday June 30th and gave a presentation ontheir research on nanocomposites. They also visited with PresidentWilliams and spoke about international collaborative work on polymersand possible 3 month internships for our BCC students in Germany.

Dr. Petra Pötschke is a world renowned scientist in the field and hasbeen invited to many conferences. She studied mechanical processengineering Dresden University of Technology in Germany andcompleted her PhD in 1988. Her research was focused on the rheologicalbehavior of solid materials under different strain deformations. Since1988, she has worked as a scientist in the Department of PolymerReactions and Blends at Leibniz Institute of Polymer ResearchDresden, Germany. Her main research interest is in the field of multi-component polymer based materials, which covers a wide range ofmaterials such as immiscible polymer blends, blends withhyper-branched polymers, thermoplastic polyurethanes and carbonnanotube-polymer composites. In 2000/2001 she worked with Prof.Donald R. Paul at the University of Texas at Austin (Texas, USA) at theChemical Engineering Department on multiphase blend systems, whichwas supported by the grant scheme of the Max-Kade Foundation, NewYork. Since then she has focused on carbon nanotube filled compos-ites. She is currently the head of the research group "Composites andblends containing carbon nanofillers" at Leibniz Institute of PolymerResearch Dresden.

For more information please see:http://www.ipfdd.de/Dr-Petra-Poetschke.130.0.html?&L=0

Some of the student comments below:

Student Stacy-Ann NeilSome outstanding mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes

are, high strength steel wires with a Kevlar of about 49 fibers

including E-glass fibers.Carbon nanotubes are tiny particles which is about 1-10 nanometer

in diameter and 10 micrometers in length.These nanotubes can only be seen through a transmission electron

microscope. It is so small that the earth is compared to the size of afootball.

One yarn of carbon nanotubes with 1mm thickness could hold theweight of about 20 cars.

Some expected advantages include electrical conductivity andimprovement in wear and friction properties.

Student Kashori McneillDr. Petra Potschke gave the class a brief insight on a material called

Carbon Nanotubes (CNT). What I found most interesting about this material is its

strength and versatility. These CNTs are 1-10nm in diameter. They are so small they can

only be seen by using an Electron Transmisson Microscope, yet theyare 100x stronger than high strength steel. At 1mm in thickness theycan hold 20 cars.

The versatility in CNTs include being incorporated in sporting goods,car parts such as fuel lines and body panels of cars.

Its amazing how something so small and very light in weight can beso durable, stable, strong and versatile. I really appreciate Dr. PetraPotschke and her team's research. It will only help to better our future.

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My adventures at ANTEC and NPEBy Ada Diallo-BBolly

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The trip to ANTEC and NPE event in Chicago was one ofthe nice college experiences I have had at Bronx CommunityCollege. The adventure started when I took a chemistry class.It was an unexpected benefit of being a member of SPE. I getto attend Society of Plastic Engineers conferences.

This time I went to Chicago to attend the planned StudentActivities this year at ANTEC, the word's largest plasticsevent. I left New York very early in the morning and arrived inChicago around 8 am local time. I was the only participantfrom BCC, so I traveled by myself from New York. When Igot to the hotel, there were different presentations, but I wasnot signed in for any presentation that morning so I took abus tour of downtownChicago.

On Monday, I went toseveral presentationsand to the NPE exposi-tion with my professor,Dr. Vicki Flaris.

One of the presenta-tions I attended waschemistry based on cornsugar (Iowa corn). Theresearch was done by aprofessor and PHD stu-

dents at New Jersey Institute of Technology and it focused on corn-derivedchemistries. Corn based chemicals are attractive because they are generallyregarded as safe; are renewable resource and can be made readily availableat competitive pricing. Interest is focused on isosorbide which offers molecu-lar geometry and chemical functionality compatible with many existing com-mercial chemistries.

But, as a non-expert, I foundthe expositionto be more excit-ing and colorfulthan the pre-sentations. It was the biggest ex-position I had everseen. Our first stop was Battenfeld booth.

After this we visited many other booths and inter-esting sights at NPE. I had an amazing time and lookforward to other conferences with SPE.

This trip was possible thanks to the generous sup-port of the SPE New York Section and the StudentActivities Committee at SPE International.

In front of the TrumpTower on Sunday June 21, 2009.

At the center of the exposition

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TO: THE COUNCILThis summary is intended to help you review the highlights of the Coun-cil Meetings held in Chicago on June 21, 2009.

ANTECAttendance in Chicago at ANTEC was 1312 with the combined ANTECat NPE total reaching 44,000. A total of 66 registrants attended eightSociety seminars.

Incoming President Paul Andersen's SPE mantra is: "Seize the Opportu-nity." The full text of his speech is available on the SPE Council extranetsite. See link below:http://extranet.4spe.org/council/index.php?dir=2009.06%20Coun-cil%20(Chicago).

An edited version will appear as an editorial in the July/August issue ofPlastic's Engineering magazine.

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE COUNCIL FLOORIN MEMORIAMCouncil observed a moment of Silence in honor of long time CouncilorElliot Weinberg and 1956 SPE President Jerry Formo.

BYLAWS & POLICIESBylaws 6.2.2 and 6.2.3 pertaining to Council Meeting Times and Places,and Quorums at Council Meetings were approved as distributed. Thechanges were effective immediately to allow electronic participation at theCouncil meeting.Bylaws 5.1, 5.3 and 5.4 pertaining to Annual Meetings, Special BusinessMeetings and Quorums at those meeting were approved as distributed.The changes were effective immediately to allow electronic participationat the Annual Meeting and Special Business Meeting. Bylaw 14.7 pertaining to Participation and Voting was approved as dis-tributed. Bylaw 14.7 allows electronic participation for Society-level com-mittee meetings. It also states that if the committee votes via a paper orelectronic ballot, the identity of the voter relative to his/her vote may notbe identifiable to any SPE member.Council approved the following previously read and published Bylaw andPolicy changes: 6.1.3 pertaining to Council to take effect at the end of themeeting; 7.1 pertaining to Officers of the Society; 7.5.5 pertaining to theStaggering of Terms; 14.7.1.1 pertaining to the Executive CommitteeMembership. Council approved as amended Policy 022 pertaining toVice Presidential Transition. The amendment allows this transition tobegin in 2009-2010. Council approved changes to Bylaws 4.3.12 and 4.3.13 pertaining toelection of Fellows of the Society and Honored Service Members. Sincethis was a first reading, these changes will be published in Plastics Engi-neering and read again at the next Council meeting for final approval.The amendments allow Special Interest Groups to nominate Fellows andHonored Service Members. Policy 012 pertaining to Disciplinary Review was approved as distributed. The full text of these Bylaws and Policies can be found on the SPE Coun-cil meeting extranet.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR REPORT & STAFF UPDATESPE staff continues to work through a host of new projects and initiativesto keep SPE current and competitive in the information marketplace.Details on these projects can be found in the Staff Report documentlocated on the extranet. See link below: http://extranet.4spe.org/council/index.php?dir=2009.06%20Coun-cil%20(Chicago).Some highlights from the report are:STAFF RESTRUCTURINGSPE underwent a planned staff restructuring in the first quarter of 2009.Overall full-time staff was reduced from 26 in early 2008 to 15 as of thiswriting.BUILDING SALEThe SPE headquarters building sale closed on June 30, 2009. SPEmoved its offices into roughly 3,700 square feet in Newtown, CT. At thepresent time, SPE's PO Box and phone numbers will not change.GENERAL FINANCIAL CONDITIONIncomes have stabilized somewhat, but at a very depressed level. Reg-istrations for events, book sales and seminars have all been hit hard inthe first quarter of this year. Membership likewise is continuing to decline.SPE is more reliant on its contracted publishing revenues and incomesfrom NPE in 2009. OVERALL MEMBERSHIPOverall membership as of June 1, 2009, is 16,039. Membership acquisi-tion numbers continue to trail 2008 rates due to budget challenges atSPE and the continuing global economic situation, which is particularlyacute in many of the industries SPE serves.CORPORATE AFFILIATE PROGRAMThe Corporate Outreach Committee worked last year to develop a pro-gram to provide companies with an exclusive opportunity to gain recog-nition within the plastics industry through the Society. The Corporate Affil-iate Program is being officially announced at [email protected] ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIAThis online knowledge-sharing site for plastics and polymers is nearingcompletion by SPE staff, and will become a valuable addition to the SPEwebsite this year. TECHNICAL VOLUMES PROGRAMTwo of the most important publishers of technical volumes on the subjectsof plastics and polymers, Hanser and Wiley, have joined forces with SPEto rejuvenate this program that provides royalty income to SPE every yearin exchange for encouraging SPE members to publish new volumes. PLASTICS RESEARCH ONLINE (SPE PRO)SPE has contracted with Form & Content, a producer of online technicalarticles, to provide new articles each week for the SPE website on keyareas of interest within plastics technology and polymer science. INTEGRATED MARKETING PLANAll departments of SPE staff have worked together this year to contributeto a fully integrated marketing plan for membership, conferences andevents, publications and SPE store products in an effort to coordinate ourlimited staff and financial resources and to achieve maximum combinedresults.

JUNE 2009 COUNCIL SUMMARY

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JUNE 2009 COUNCIL SUMMARYCONTINUED FROM PAGE 5

PLASTICS ENGINEERING WEBSITEWiley and Sons, Inc. has taken over the publishing responsibilities forSPE's Plastics Engineering magazine, and intends to develop an all-newweb presence for the publication at www.plasticsengineering.com.

ANTEC™@NPE2009TECHNICAL PROGRAMA total of 124 sessions comprising approximately 710+ papers andkeynotes will be presented. Sixty-four commercial papers will be pre-sented, nearly double the number of papers in this category last year. ANTEC® 2010ANTEC will be held at the Orlando World Center Marriott Resort andConvention Center in Orlando, Florida, May 16-20. Wiley has agreed inprinciple to sell ANTEC 2010 exhibition space; negotiations are under-way.

EUROTEC™This inaugural conference was postponed in January because of con-cerns about the global economy. Negotiations with several hotels inBarcelona, Spain, are underway, and the new dates are October 3-7,2011. These new dates were selected to place EUROTEC in Barcelonaduring the same week as the annual Equiplas show. TOPCONSFour TopCons were conducted during the first quarter 2009. They were:International Polyolefins Conference™ co-located with FlexPackCon®,Thermoset, GPEC®, and the Polymer Nanocomposites TopCon. Atten-dance fell slightly against 2008 figures at Polyolefins, Thermoset andPolymer Nanocomposites, and attendance increased 13% for GPEC. VIRTUAL CONFERENCESPE's first virtual conference on failure analysis and prevention was post-poned because of low registration. The event has been repositioned asa Virtual Processors Conference, and will be held October 1-2, 2009. E-LIVE® WEBINARSThese presentations performed moderately well through Q1 and Q2, gar-nering $38,400 in sales to date. This compares unfavorably (down from$44K) with the same period in 2008. Attendance has ranged from 4 to42. FINANCIAL UPDATETreasurer Barbara Arnold-Feret provided an update summarizing the2008 year-end audit as well as results so far for 2009. SPE has completed a renegotiation with Wiley Publishers for PlasticsEngineering which will help to make it more cost neutral to the Society forthe next two years. The savings generated under the new arrangementwill begin to hit SPE's books in June.

SPE FOUNDATION UPDATEGail Bristol reported on the financial health of the SPE Foundation. TheSPE Foundation awarded $138,500 in scholarships to 33 students in2008. Foundation grants totaling $16,700 were made in 2008. At their April2009 meeting, the Foundation Board approved two new grants totaling

$5,306 for Rochester Institute of Technology and Georgia Southern Uni-versity. RIT's grant will help cover the development of a biodegradabilitytesting laboratory. The Georgia Southern grant will cover the purchase oftraining materials for their composites program.

COMMITTEE MEETINGSFourteen committees met prior to the Council meetings:

• ANTEC Operating Committee• Bylaws & Policy Committee• Communications Committee• Corporate Outreach Committee• Conference Committee• Divisions Committee• Education Awards Committee• Executive Committee• Finance Committee• Geographic Initiatives Committee• New Technology Committee• Sections Committee • SPE Foundation Executive Committee• Student Activities Committee

RECOGNITIONSOutgoing President Bill O'Connell thanked his Executive Committee fortheir hard work.Incoming President Paul Andersen introduced his Executive Committee.New Executive Committee Vice Presidents are: Russell Broome andBrent Strong. Vijay Boolani is the 2009-2010 Secretary and James Griff-ing is the 2009-2010 Treasurer.

CONTRIBUTIONS, DONATIONS AND PRESENTATIONSIt is with grateful appreciation that the Society acknowledges the follow-ing contributions and donations by its Sections, Divisions and members:

South Texas Councilor Donna Davis and Don Witenhafer presented theSociety with $18,655.85 representing the Society's portion of the pro-ceeds from the Polylolefins conference.

Pittsburgh Section Councilor Dick Cameron presented the Foundationwith $5,000 for their scholarship fund.

NEXT COUNCIL MEETINGThe next meeting of the Council is scheduled for October 24, 2009, inSouthbury, Connecticut.

Respectfully submitted,

Barbara GenetOutgoing Councilor

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GOLF OUTINGGOLF OUTINGOur Members Came through Again

in spite of the difficult economic times we are struggling with.

The New York Section held its Annual Golf Outing at Clearview Golf Course on Tuesday,June 9th, 2008.

The club was really great and the weather cooperated. Everyone enjoyed playing at apristine golf club and was glad the rain stopped long enough to get in our day of golf. Thanksto Alan Backelman, Stuart Levine, Gary Spalter and Adam Winston for working so hard tomake this event such a great success.

THE FOLLOWING ARE OUR GOLF CHAMPIONS:Everyone in the New York Section who played golf with us was a winner. The winning four-some was from Pulse Plastic Products, Inc. The 2nd place group was from The AnthonyRoss Group. The winner of the longest drive was Joel Geller from AT&T Mobility. Closest tothe pins was taken by Mark Gustin of Amco, Jay Dupignac from the Ross group, JonathanLoew of Design Display Group and Andrew Bullaro who played with Sanitation Salvage Corp.The winner of the $1,000 Cash Raffle Prize was Tom Zimmerman from Marval Plastics whowas unable to attend this years outing. The 32" Flat Screen TV was won by Mark Gustin ofAmco Plastics and there were also a multitude of door prizes given away after dinner.

Through the hard work and efforts of our Golf Committee ALAN BACKELMAN, STUART LEVINE,GARY SPALTER, and ADAM WINSTON we raised thousands of dollars which will be used to help the New YorkSection perform its mission to provide technical education and scholarships to members of the plastics industry

in the New York area. Thanks also to Judy Blumberg and Barbara Genet who are always workingbehind the scenes to make things run smoothly.

A special thanks to all the sponsors of tees and greens and to STUART LEVINE and JUDYBLUMBERG for their efforts in obtaining such great sponsorship. Thanks also to LOUISMONTELEONE FIBRES for sponsoring the Hole-in-One insurance for the Outing. Special men-tion goes to Anthony Ross for the great golf clubs he donated, POLYONE Corp. for their donationof AMEX gift cards, Clearview Golf Course for donating a foursome, MARCHEM NORTHEAST fortheir golf balls and hats, Mamma Maria Ristorante for their Gift Certificate, Green Keepers for theGolf Ball Line Markers. Once again, PAUL GURBATRI of COLONIE PLASTICS made the outingspecial by bringing his whole gang of golfers to join us once again and it was great to see theladies participate. THANKS PAUL. Most of all thanks to all of you who supported us by get-ting in your reservations and payments early so that we could make sure that we would have asuccessful event.

Next year's Golf Outing is already in the works. Mark you calendar for Tuesday, June 8th, 2010and watch for further updates. We may have some surprises in store.

Judy Blumberg& Gary Spalter

Gary Spalter

Gary Spalter & Lou Monteleone

Gary Spalter & Adam Winston Jonathan Loew & Alan Backelman

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A.J. TUCK COMPANYANTHONY ROSSAMCO PLASTIC MATERIALS INC.AT&T MOBILITYATLANTIC POLYMERSAZTEC TOOLC & N PACKAGING INC.CHILDREN'S CORNERCLEARVIEW GOLF COURSEDESIGN DISPLAY GROUPDESIGNS FOR VISION

2009 GOLF OUTING SPONSORS2009 GOLF OUTING SPONSORSGARDINER PLASTICS INC.GREEN KEEPERS, INC.GS POLYMERS INCHB ATHLETIC INC.LINLI COLORLOUIS MONTELEONE FIBRES LTD.MAMMA MARIA RISTORANTEMARC RADIN, P.C. CPAMARVIN HALPERN PLASTICSMASTER MOLDING INC.NICOS POLYMERS GROUP

Laura Arzeno& Louie Passi

Matt Isreal& Joel Geller

Jay Dupignac,Closest to Pin& Alan Backelman

NISSEI AMERICAPOLYONE CORPORATIONPREMIER PLASTICS SYSTEMSPROCESS COOLING SYSTEMSPROPLAST PRODUCTS INC.PULSE PLASTIC PRODUCTS, INC.ROSE FENCESCALES INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES INC.SCS INSURANCE AGENCY INC. T & A TOOL & MOLDING INC.VALLEY POLYMERS

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SPE INTERNASPE INTERNATIONAL NEWSTIONAL NEWSSPE Headquarters has moved to a new location.

Our address is now 13 Church Hill Rd, Newtown, CT 06470, USA.

The Society of Plastics Engineers is home to nearly 20,000 plastics profes-sionals in more than 70 countries around the world. SPE is the "go to" resource forplastics technical information.

The Society of Plastics Engineers is pleased to announce that it will introduceseveral new technical benefits for its members by year's end.

The first is an online technical resource providing weekly feeds of technicalarticles. This new service is called SPE Plastics Research Online (SPE PRO);details recent breakthroughs in research and development. SPE is partnering withWiley Publishers and Form and Content Media on this new service.

SPE is likewise pleased to announce its new Online Plastics Encyclopedia. Thisprogram has been two years in development and will allow SPE members and thepublic to search all the latest U.S. patents and journal articles on hundreds ofdifferent topics. The encyclopedia is an online knowledge sharing site where SPEmembers can interact to discuss the latest technical information on polymerscience and new plastics technologies.

SPE's Online Technical Library, an extensive database of technical paperspresented at past conferences including ANTEC, will undergo some changesincluding enhanced navigation and search capabilities. A new web portal willprovide access to archives of Plastics Engineering articles and additionaltechnical information.

Finally, SPE has expanded its partnership with Wiley Interscience to redesign anew website for Plastics Engineering magazine - SPE's flagship publication.Access to SPE's online technical library, the new encyclopedia, and archivedcopies of articles produced by SPE PRO will all be available from the new site.

"SPE is committed to bringing new technical content and benefits to its membership,even in this difficult economic climate," says Susan Oderwald, SPE's ExecutiveDirector. "SPE recognizes that to attract and retain a more globally andgenerationally diverse membership, we must continue to provide leadingtechnical content in ways that are easily accessed online." For more information,please visit www.4spe.org

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