SPE South Texas Section   The Extruder Newsletter

September 2017

The Society of Plastic Engineers

Table of Contents

Addivant

President’s Message

Steve King

Dear SPE-STX Members,

Many new and exciting changes are taking place for The Society of Plastics Engineers – South Texas Section. We have started off with a new board of directors. Technical and social activities for the coming months have been set up. Continuously planning for many of our scholarship fund raising events, such as the Polyolefin Conference, are underway.

One big change this year is the redesign of our website. Hopefully you find it user friendly and full of helpful information. We would like to hear from you on how the new website is working and any suggestions for improvement.

Please take time to review the upcoming events.

We also wanted to let you know there are plenty of opportunities for many volunteers and would like to invite you to support a great organization by getting involved. The SPE-STX section is a great way to network, learn, and support your fellow colleagues. We hope to see you soon at one of our many events.

Best regards,
Steve King

Arkema



In The News


 


Vinyltec 2017

When: October 11-12, 2017
The Vinyl Plastics Division and the South Texas Section are co-sponsoring Vinlytec 2017-New and Novel Materials and Processes to Solve Problems
Additional information Click here to register
Where: Marriott Plaza San Antonio
555 S. Alamo Street San Antonio, TX 78205 – (map)

Next Breakfast Bunch Meeting

When: September 5, 2017
Where: I-Hop, 6508 Washington Ave., 77077, 7:00 AM (map)
Breakfast Bunch Meetings - The first Tuesday of each month all year.


 

BASF

 

Astros vs White Sox Fall Kickoff Event will be Wednesday, September 20

Please join the Society of Plastics Engineers South Texas Section for our Fall Kickoff event. Bring you friends and family to the fall kickoff event on September 20 to see the Astros vs the White Sox ballgame at Minute Maid Park.

Game time is 7:10 p.m. Ticket includes one club level seat and a $15 voucher for stadium food. And as a bonus--It's Dollar Hot Dog Night at the park!

Cost

$25 for members
$35 for non-member

Please register by September 10

Click here to register for the Fall kickoff event.

(Ticket delivery instructions will be sent out via email the week of the September 13.)

Baoding Lucky Chemicals

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.

Brabender Technologie

BYK

Seasonal Closing Meeting was held at Cafe Express

The program featured updates about the Educational Programs which was presented by our new Vice President, Iman Bahrani.

Unfortunately all of the students that were involved in these programs were unable to attend. However our guest speaker, Mike Mullins, from A&M, spoke about the Polymer Programs and SPE Student Chapter at A&M.


 

 

Carter Day

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/.

Brabender CWB

South Texas SPE 2017-2018 Board Meeting

Meeting Minutes
July, 2017

Dover

A novel high-performance biobased polyamide

Fredrick Nzioka Mutua, Tingting Yang, Yuanbo Gao, and Yong He

Abstract

Poly(pentamethylene oxamide) exhibits excellent mechanical, thermal, and water absorption properties, and is suitable for the fabrication of plastics, as well as parts in the automobile and electronics industries.

Read more.

 

DuPont


Program Calendar

Date
Event Title
Event Specifics
Topic
Location
Time
09/20/17 SPE-STX Fall Kickoff Event Astros vs White Sox Social Minute Maid Park
501 Crawford St, Houston, TX 77002
7:10 p.m.
10/03/17 Octoberfest Co-meeting with ASM   Social St. Arnold Brewery  
10/10-12/17 Vinyltec The Vinyl Plastics Division and the South Texas Section are co-sponsoring Vinlytec 2017 New and Novel Materials and Processes to Solve Problems Marriott Plaza San Antonio
555 S. Alamo Street San Antonio, TX 78205 – (map)
All day
11/17 Technical talk TBD   TBD TBD
12/17 Holiday Social TBD Social TBD TBD

ENTEK

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