Day 1 — SPE Extrusion Minitec

• Opening remarks: Phil Shoemaker, Polymer Center
• Twin Screw Extruder Compounding and Metering Difficult Materials: Paul Andersen, Coperion
• Selecting the Optimum Single Screw Extruder Screw Design: John Christiano, Davis-Standard
• Mechanisms of Devolatilization in a Twin Screw Extruder: Paul Martin, JSW
• What’s in Your Single Screw Extruder Barrel?: John Perdikoulius, Compuplast
• Die Design Parameters for Blown Film: Karen Xiao, Celgard
• Processing of PET in Tube Configurations on a Single Screw Extruder: Steve Schick, Teel Plastics
• Die Design Basis for Sheet and Cast Film: Olivier Catherine, Cloeren
• Processing Heat and Shear Sensitive Formulations on a Twin Screw Extruder: Charlie Martin, Leistritz
• Tour of Polymers Center and Extruder Demonstrations
• Interactive Co-Rotating Twin Screw Design/Assembly Session

Breaks, lunch and handout materials are included.

Day 2 — PET and PLA Extrusion Technology

• Opening Remarks: Phil Shoemaker, Polymer Center
• Global View of R-PET: Tim Koppenrath, Technip Zimmer
• New Single Screw Technologies for PLA and PET: Tim Womer, TWW Associates
• Comparative Melt Rheology of PET and PLA: Eldridge Mount, Emmount Industries
• Engineering Your Process for Optimum Output and Quality When Extruding PLA (Ingeo): Jim Nangeroni, Nature Works
• Pumps and Filtration for PET and PLA: Pablo Vaca, Maag
• Plant Integration: a 4.0 Perspective: Joe Dziedzic, AEC/ACS
• Control of Transesterification and Transamidation Mechanisms in Condensation Polymers with Supramolecular Recognition: Joe Webster, Stabililization Technologies
• Continuous Filtration for Sheet Production: Paul Hueter, Ettlinger
• Processing undried PET and PLA using Gneuss Processing Technology: Monika Gneuss, Gneuss
• Opportunities for Improved PET Processing and Performance through Direct Extrusion: Sabine Schoenfeld, Coperion
• PET and the Circular Economy: Stefan Deiss, Technip Zimmer

Breaks, lunch and handout materials are included.