Miscellaneous Events

American Coatings Show & Conference 2010: Preparations underway
The 2008 premiere of the American Coatings Show & Conference was a great success with 331 exhibitors, roughly 5,600 show visitors, and around 750 attendees at the conference. Now, in summer 2009, preparations are underway for the second edition of the leading trade show for the paint and coatings industry. The event will take place at the Charlotte Convention Center in Charlotte, NC. The trade show is scheduled for Tuesday, April 13th, through Thursday, April 15th, while the conference begins one day earlier and runs from Monday, April 12th, through Wednesday, April 14th, 2010. The web site for the event at www.american-coatings-show.com provides an overview and will answer any questions that exhibitors and visitors may have. It contains information on many valuable topics, including details regarding travel and housing, important exhibitor information, product presentations and sponsorship opportunities. The show management team of the American Coatings Show will provide all necessary support to make your participation a success. For additional information please call +1. 7 70. 6 18-58 30 or send an e-mail to info@american-coatings-show.com.
Exhibitors who register before Oct. 10th, 2009, will receive an early booking discount for the exhibit space.

American Coatings Conference 2010: Call for papers
The 2010 conference will once again be the perfect place for intensive networking at the highest level. A complete program covering the most current issues in the industry not only offers in-depth technical information, but plenty of opportunities for personal interaction with experts from around the world. Over the next few months, a team of experts from NPCA / FSCT and Vincentz Network will once again compile the list of presentations from all of the papers that are submitted. The call for papers is addressed both to innovative companies and to research institutions, and can now be viewed at www.american-coatings-show.com/en/conference. Abstracts can be submitted directly online through Sep. 15th, 2009.

Blowing Agents & Foaming Processes 2010 - Call for papers
iSmithers is inviting papers for the twelfth international Blowing Agents and Foaming Processes 2010 conference to be held in Cologne, Germany, 19th-20th May, 2010. If you would like to present a paper at the Blowing Agents & Foaming Processes conference please e-mail an outline of your proposed paper by 20th October 2009 to Gemma Davies (gdavies@ismithers.net). You will be allowed 30 minutes for the presentation at the conference which includes approximately 5 minutes for questions. Finished papers must be provided prior to the conference for inclusion in the pre-printed proceedings distributed free to all delegates at the event. The programme consultants will review abstracts submitted and authors will be notified of acceptance by 26th November 2009. Presenting authors at the conference will be entitled to free registration on both days including meals, refreshments and a copy of the proceedings.

COMPOSITES EUROPE 2009 with Product Demonstration Area
From a three metre high windmill to a racing car, from a resin infusion to an intelligent surface: With its special Product Demonstration Area, COMPOSITES EUROPE will again create a special visitor attraction in the autumn in Stuttgart when it will open its doors for the fourth time. Together with the exhibitors, it will once again demonstrate the potential and the innovative character of composite materials from 27th to 29th October. The special display that is being created in cooperation with the Institute of Plastics Processing (IKV) at RWTH Aachen University and the Federation for Reinforced Plastics (AVK) is focusing this year on high performance composites. The main feature will consist of composites that contain continuous reinforcing fibres, such as glass, carbon or aramide fibres. Within the exhibition, the Product Demonstration Area offers visitors demonstrations of production processes, presentations of raw materials, intermediate and end products from various application industries as well as a variety of testing procedures for composite products. Access to the Product Demonstration Area is free-of-charge for the visitors to COMPOSITES EUROPE.  

DEMAT und Gardner will organise the first-ever „amerimold" May 2010 in Cincinnati, USA
With the premiere of "amerimold", May 11th - 13th, 2010, in Cincinnati, USA, DEMAT GmbH now launches its successful concept of EuroMold in America. "amerimold" is held in co-operation with Gardner Publications and aims to be the leading exhibition for Moldmaking and Tooling, Design and Application Development in North-America. The whole world of molds and tools as well as related technologies such as Rapid Prototyping and Rapid Manufacturing will be highlighted. The agreement of co-operation between DEMAT GmbH and Gardner Publications, Inc., was announced by Dr. Eberhard Döring and Richard G. Kline at The NPE2009 in Chicago. "Having started successfully in Asia, we now are pleased to have the opportunity to bring the EuroMold concept and experience to the North American market," said Dr. Döring. "Our target is to create the most important market-place for moldmaking and tooling and for product development in North-America. Furthermore we will link together all related areas of technologies, present state-of-the-art technique and thus support product development in America most efficiently." Since 2006 DEMAT GmbH already has transferred the successful fair concept of EuroMold to foreign key markets. Promising EuroMold Pavilions have been established at RosMould (June 2th-4th, 2010 in Moscow) and at DieMold India (March 2010, 18-20 in Mumbai). DEMAT GmbH also organises the trade fair Asiamold in cooperation with Messe Frankfurt, Germany. It is the Asian sister event of EuroMold and will be held in Sep. 16th-18th, 2009 in Guangzhou, China. Gardner Publications, Inc., established in 1928, is a leading producer of publications, websites and events. Richard G. Kline, CEO of Gardner, said: "The EuroMold show has become the premier European event. We will bring this experience and more to North America with the co-operation with DEMAT GmbH."