SPE South Texas Section   The Extruder Newsletter

November 2017

The Society of Plastic Engineers

Table of Contents

President’s Message

Steve King

Dear SPE-STX Members,

The Society of Plastics, South Texas Chapter continues to work hard to bring many activities to our members. One such event will be hosted by Mr. Tim Roberts of Phillips 66 on November 8, 2017. There will be no cost to our members as lunch will be provided by our host. Space is limited so please register soon.

We continue to build on various activities and will need many volunteers to ensure the spring activities will be a success. Please know these events are only made possible by the many volunteers. Check out our website at www.spe-stx.org for details on the various activities such as the Polyolefins Conference or the spring STX Student Support Golf Tournament. Both events are a significant contributor to the financial support we provide for many young professionals and educational institutions throughout Texas.

We are also working with other chapters and associations to expand our reach. For example we recently offered support to the Rio Grande Valley Chapter. If you are interested in knowing more please feel free to reach out to me.

Best regards,
Steve King



In The News



Seminar with lunch provided at Phillips 66

When: Wednesday, November 8, 11:30 a.m. –1:00 p.m.
Speaker: Timothy Roberts–Executive Vice-President, Marketing & Commercial for Phillips 66
Where: Phillips 66, 2331 City West Blvd. Houston, TX 77042

Next Breakfast Bunch Meeting

When: November 7, 2017
Where: I-Hop, 6508 Washington Ave., 77077, 7:00 AM (map)
Breakfast Bunch Meetings - The first Tuesday of each month all year.

 


 

Vinyltec Conference was held in October

Vinyltec Training Day was attended by over 45 people. There were about 200 attendees at the Vinyltec Conference.

Kevin Alexander and Iman Bahran from SPE section attended the convention. Kevin attended the exhibition while Iman helped them with their Board of Director meetings.

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http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2073302&trk=hb_side_g

Join the South Texas Section of the Society of Plastics Engineers on LinkedIn. Click on the above link and you will be directed to group page. LinkedIn serves as another communication tool for SPE-STX.

LinkedIn is a free web site for professional networking with over 300 million members in over 200 countries and territories.

LinkedIn enables discussions and networking between SPE-STX members and those related to the plastics industry. LinkedIn compliments the current SPE-STX web and membership to LinkedIn is free.

News Highlight
LinkedIn SPE-STX group currently has over 375 members as of 2014. To date, the tool has been used primarily to promote and discuss SPE-STX meetings.

Members are also notified of meetings from board members plus email blasts sent by SPE International.

As always, both the monthly newsletter and SPE-STX web site are the leading sources of information on SPE-STX activities.

Octoberfest Co-meeting between SPE-South Texas Section and ASM International was held at St. Arnold Brewery

David Hanson introduced Leslie C. Herbst, Community Relations & Events Manager for Port Houston, at the co-meeting last month with ASM.

 

Plastics Information: Check It Out

Houston Public LibraryThe Houston Public Library on McKinney has resources on plastics and polymers. Check out their catalog at http://catalog.houstonlibrary.org. If you are not near the McKinney location, you can arrange to pick up your books at your local branch.

The Fondren Library at Rice University has the most complete collection of books on plastics and polymers. This is also a prime resource for patent and trademark information, as well as other US Government documents. You cannot check out books there unless you join Fondren Library [$50], but you can arrange for books to be sent to your library by inter-library loan. Use their catalog at http://library.rice.edu/.

The next best place to browse is at the MD Anderson Library at the University of Houston central campus. South Texas Section has donated many plastics books to this library. If you plan ahead, you can get a TexShare library card from a library where you are a member, which will allow you to check out books from any U of H library. Their catalog is at http://www.library.uh.edu/.

South Texas SPE 2017-2018 Board Meeting

Meeting Minutes
October 16, 2017

Attendees: Kevin Alexander, Pete Lauzon, Tom Walsh, Bill Diecks, Ed Bourbonais, Janell Helton, Iman Bahrani, Chuck Crosby

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Program Calendar

Date
Event Title
Event Specifics
Topic
Location
Time
November 8 Seminar and lunch at Phillips 66 Overview of Phillips 66 and historical context around the price of crude and NGLs

Ethylene and Propane

Hurricane Harvey Impact

2331 City West Blvd. Houston, TX 77042 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
December Holiday Social TBD Social TBD TBD
February 26-28 International Polyolefins Conference 2018: Abundant Supply = Opportunities and Challenges Polyolefins Hilton Houston North, Houston, Texas All Day
April Annual Golf Outing Social Fundraiser TBD TBD

Section Officers

President
Steve King
Solvay
(713) 598-2327
Steve.King@Solvay.com

President Elect
Dell Doyle
Dow Chemical
(940) 636-1509
Condelldoyle@yahoo.com

Kevin Alexander
KWA-Tech, Inc.
(281) 701-7792
Kevin@kwatech.com

Vice President
Iman Bahrani
Omya, Inc.
(281) 802-5392
iman.bahrani@omya.com

Secretary Ryan Reese
Dover Chemical
(330) 343-7711
rreese@doverchem.com

Treasurer
Peter Lauzon
Peal Processing
(832) 486-3418
pete@pealprocessing.com

Committee Chairpersons

Awards Committee Chair – Kevin Alexander
KWA-Tech, Inc.
(281) 701-7792
Kevin@kwatech.com

Golf Outing – Ryan Reese
Dover Chemical
(330) 343-7711
rreese@doverchem.com

Education Committee Chair – David Hansen
SBC Consulting
(281) 346-0143
david.hansen47@yahoo.com

Housing – Ryan Reese
Dover Chemical
(330) 343-7711
rreese@doverchem.com

Membership Committe Co-Chairs
Chuck Crosby
Braskem Americas
(713) 469-2394
Charles.crosby@braskem.com
Tom Walsh
Walsh Consulting Services
(281) 493-2344
t.s.walsh@earthlink.net

Newsletter –Iman Bahrani
Omya, Inc.
(713) 681-5217
iman.bahrani@omya.com

Technical Program – Dell Doyle
Dow Chemical
(940) 636-1509
Condelldoyle@yahoo.com

Young Professional Chair

Polyolefins 2017 Chair – Robert C. Portnoy
Portnoy Technical Services LLC
(713) 829-8799
rportnoy@portnoytechnicalservices.com

Board Members

Steve King
Solvay
(713) 598-2327
Steve.King@Solvay.com

Kevin Alexander
KWA-Tech, Inc.
(281) 701-7792
Kevin@kwatech.com

Iman Bahrani
Omya, Inc.
(713) 681-5217
iman.bahrani@omya.com

Bill Diecks
Retired
281-381-1264;
bill.diecks@comcast.net

Terry Vermaas
Kisuma Americas, Inc.
(832) 460-5133
tvermaas.aic@swbell.net

David Hansen
SBC Consulting
(281) 346-0143
david.hansen47@yahoo.com

David Grice
C&K Plastics
(281) 352-6761
dgrice@candkplastics.com

Dell Doyle
Dow Chemical
(940) 636-1509
Condelldoyle@yahoo.com

Ashley Raines
281-913.8122
ashley.raines@EGCcomponents.com

Tom Walsh
Walsh Consulting Services, Inc.
(281) 493-2344
t.s.walsh@earthlink.net

Web Content/Section Coordinator

Janell Helton
Houston, TX 77084
713-503-6729
jdhelton@comcast.net