ANTEC to Feature Decorating and Assembly Programming ANTEC®, to be held May 23-25 in Indianapolis, Indiana, will feature a half-day of SPE Decorating & Assembly Division programming on Tuesday, May 24. ANTEC, produced by the Society of Plastics Engineers, is the largest, most respected and well-known technical conference in the plastics industry. Each event boasts … [Read more...] about Association News
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Letter from the Chairman A new year has arrived, bringing with it many opportunities. One thing we do not often look at is the scope of technologies and disciplines that make up plastic decoration. As I mentioned in the last association news, we serve many industries and access many technologies to produce parts and products for our customers. As a result, it is of critical … [Read more...] about Association News
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Letter from the Chair In a recent article in this magazine, Ed Crutchley, an author and expert in technology innovation in plastics decoration, made several good points. One is the size of the plastics industry - third largest in the US - and another is the variety and fragmentation of the knowledge base that supports the decoration and assembly of plastics. That fragmentation … [Read more...] about Association News
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Letter from the Chair The question recently was posed: what is plastic decoration? That actually is a very good question and, with the advances in materials and technology, becoming an even more important question. Plastic decoration is a very large umbrella covering a broad range of differing technologies for manipulating plastic. I have always defined plastic decoration as … [Read more...] about Association News
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Letter from the Chair It has been an exciting year. Advances in decoration and assembly technologies continue to provide solutions to more and more complex design problems. Smart materials have resulted in coatings that are not only decorative, but also functional and responsive to environmental changes. Nano technology has enabled in-mold circuitry, and quantum dots have … [Read more...] about Association News