Subject: SPE Carolinas Golf Outing
Date & Time:May 21st, at Northstone Country Club in Huntersville
The events for SPE Carolinas 2011-2012 season is nearing an end, our last event will be our annual SPE Carolinas Golf Outing. We look forward to seeing everyone for this very enjoyable occasion and enjoy a day of golf festivities.
Directions to the Northstone Country Club are included in the following attachment - Northstone CC Directions
Wanted: A Few Good Leaders
Your Carolinas Section SPE board of directors is recruiting new board members and committee chairs. Additionally we need a Councilor to represent our Section at the SPE International level. All Section members are qualified and encouraged to participate in our local section’s management and leadership. You can do this by attending board meetings normally held prior to our regular section meetings. Meetings are typically on the second Monday of the month running September through May. There is one planning session in July. Aside from the positions of president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer, there are jobs relating to setting up of technical and networking programs, educational activities, membership, website maintenance, communications, golf and social events. All you need is a couple of hours per month to participate. Your benefit will be the opportunity to learn more about the plastics industry in the Carolinas, network with plastics professionals and promote educational programs encouraging young students to enter our industry.
Please contact Sue Booth (sbooth@teknorapex.com) or any board member for more information.
Local SPE Carolinas Member and friend , Richard Curtis Hollowell, 75 passed away on Friday March 9th, 2012. Read more....
SPE Carolinas Presentation on Recycling
On Monday, March 12th Peter Suttoni provided SPE members with an excellent presentation on HDPE recycling at the Polymers Center of Excellence. Following the presentation, members were invited to Mr. Suttoni’s recycling facility – Engineered Recycling Company, LLC (ERC) for a tour of his facility and manufacturing processes which include shredding, grinding, aspirating, drying, extrusion, testing and packaging.
Mr Suttoni's tour gave all members much better insight into how the typcial recycled resins that they use are produced to ensure consistent quality when used in their processses. ERC has an annual capacity to produce 50.0MM lbs of pellets for use in many blowmolding, injection molding, extrusion, and thermoforming applications. ERC is now the largest processor of HMW HDPE in North America and has a large and growing capacity of fractional melt HDPE.
On behalf of all members we thank Mr. Suttoni for the his time, effort in enabling us to get a better understanding of the plastics recycling business.
 Dear Member, we need you! Yes YOU … to help me do my job working to support our members and to grow our numbers. Each of you values SPE for its advantages it brings to you. Who better to ask to represent what we do, than you? Please take a few moments every time you see a colleague and ask him or her to join us. You know it is not expensive and at a time when professional and social networking is rapidly becoming the norm, the greater the numbers, the greater the benefits for all. Read more...
SPE has partnered with Connex International, a global conferencing provider, to bring audio and web conferencing solutions to SPE members at discounted rates. Connex services can be used all over the world twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. Read more...
SPE Plastics Industry Update - Multibriefs
BASF building better cars through chemistry
Torque News
When the North American International Auto Show kicks off, a 4,500 square-foot exhibit by BASF will showcase products like all plastic wheels, plastics so heat resistant they can be used in engine parts and other wonders of their surprisingly effective application of chemistry to the production of better, lighter cars
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Personal Connection Still Important in Hunt for Job.
Charlotte Observer
I've heard the complaints. Yousend out hundredsof resumethrough job boards and other resources. None turn into an interview. If you question
job seekers who recently landed work, I think you'll fmd many of them
went · beyond the resume and made some type of per" connection. Yes, we start 2012 again emphasizing the . importance networking, and a way to make a face-to-face impact on the person you're trying to impress. Read more...
IDEAS GET BOOST at POLYMERS CENTER
http://www.polymers-center.org Many established NC firms find help spotting trends, developing and
manufacturing new products and tweaking existing ones at the Polymers Center of
Excellence.
"Do you have an idea that needs to be turned into a new
material, a new product, or a new way to do things?" the center's website asks.
With help from the center's staff, "Your idea can become physical reality."
The Polymers Center of Excellence is the ultimate hands-on learning lab for
people who know plastics. Inside its one-story building in University Research
Park are modern labs and equipment for testing and making plastic materials and
manufacturing sample products.
The center also has large meeting rooms for
the many classes and seminars it hosts. Read more... |
