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SPEC SHEET : SPE CLEVELAND NEWSLETTER [email protected] EDITOR: CRAIG POTTER
S P E C S H E E TS P E C S H E E TS O C I E T Y O F P L A S T I C S E N G I N E E R S C L E V E L A N D S E C T I O N
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LOCATION:
The Galaxy Restaurant 201 Park Center Dr, Wadsworth, OH. Pricing: $30 members $30 non-members $25 retirees $10 students
AGENDA:5:30pm: Hors D’oeuvres/social time 6:10pm: Dinner6:45pm: Firestone Madrigals 7:10pm: Speaker
RESERVATIONS:Please submit your reservation by noon on Wednesday, December 5 to [email protected] or call Gary Taylor at 330-419-4380. Be sure to in-clude your company affiliation and any dietary restrictions.
BOARD MEETING:December Cleveland Section Board conference call:
Monday, December 17, 2018 5:00 – 6:30 pm
Call-in details to be provided by Todd Waddle
Reminder: January 2019 Program and Board meeting – January 14, 2019
SPE PROGRAM – MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2018
Our December 10 program will be hosted by the Akron Section and held at The Galaxy Restaurant at 201 Park Center Dr, Wadsworth, OH.
Dr. Brian Grady, President of the SPE, will provide the presentation - “SPE: The Past, The Present and The Future”. Past Presidents of the Akron Section
will be recognized and honored. As has become our tradition, the Firestone Madrigal Singers will provide entertainment. The nearby Holiday Inn is offering a special rate of $100 for the evening.
HOLIDAY PARTY WITH SPE PRESIDENT AND FIRESTONE MADRIGAL SINGERS
*New members free
SPEC SHEET : SPE CLEVELAND NEWSLETTER [email protected] EDITOR: CRAIG POTTER
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Akron SPE Holiday and 60th Anniversary Celebration
Monday,December 10Galaxy BanquetCenter in Wadsworth
SPE: The Past, The Present and the Future
Dr. Brian P. GradyPresident, SPE-Inspiring Plastics ProfessionalsDouglas and Hilda Bourne Chair in Chemical EngineeringDirector, School of Chemical, Biological and Materials Eng.Director, Institute for Applied Surfactant ResearchUniversity of Oklahoma
Featuring the Firestone Madrigal Singers
We will honor and recognize past Presidents of the Akron Section
Meeting Information
Member and/or guest $30Retired $25Student $10New Member - first meeting Free
Hors D’oeuvre and Social 5:30 p.m.Dinner 6:10 p.m.Firestone Madrigals 6:45 p.m.Speaker 7:10 p.m.
Reservations must be in by noon onWed., Dec. 5 and can be made toGary Taylor at 330-419-4380 [email protected] sure to include your company affiliation and dietary restrictions.
The Holiday Inn is offering a special rate of $100 for the evening stay – reference the Galaxy Event Rate.
SPEC SHEET : SPE CLEVELAND NEWSLETTER [email protected] EDITOR: CRAIG POTTER
DIRECTIONS TO THE GALAXY RESTAURANT
The Galaxy Restaurant 201 Park Center Dr, Wadsworth, OH.
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGESPE CLEVELAND - DECEMBER
I would like to take this opportunity to wish all our Cleveland SPE members warm wishes for a safe, happy and loving Holiday Season with friends and family and I very much hope to see many of you at our upcoming Christmas Party at the Galaxy Restaurant in Wadsworth, OH on December 10th.
I would also like to thank all of our Board Members for their hard work and dedication to the section this past year, with a particular expression of gratitude to our Past President, Ron Raleigh. We made great progress last year under his stewardship. Thanks Ron.
Being that this is the Holiday Season and we are all imbued with a sense of good cheer and generosity, I would like to announce that Cleveland SPE has creat-ed a separate Education/Scholarship fund to help us
finance our scholarship programs and as it grows, we will be able to finance additional plastic educational programs.
We have opened a special account with initial dona-tions and I hope that many of you will consider making a donation to fund this worthy program. Please contact me as Education Chairman or John Sovis as Treasurer to make a contribution. We will provide a contribution box at our future meetings.
Happy Holidays to all and I hope to see you on Decem-ber 10th in Wadsworth.
DENNIS MEADE President SPE Cleveland
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CALL FOR NEW BOARD MEMBERS
CALL FOR PAPERS
As a member of the Cleveland Section, please consider volunteering for a board position. Several positions are available depending on your interest. The work of the board is critical and relies on technical, commercial, industrial or academic leaders like yourself to achieve our mission. In addition, the expe-riences gained are invaluable. Please contact the Communication Chair at [email protected] for details.
May Conference John Carroll University
SPE Cleveland has been offered a presentation session at the Microscopy Society of Northeast Ohio’s annual May conference. The conference will be conducted on John Carroll University’s pic-turesque campus in University Heights OH on May 22, 2019.
The conference gathers stakeholders from local universities, businesses and technical societies to-gether to present and exhibit in the fields of chem-istry, spectroscopy, microscopy and more.
The main topics for our session will be Plastics and
Polymers, but can include any subject within those fields, though it may be best to focus on analytical methods.
We are asking for 3 or 4 presentations from our members or your companies to make up a full speaker session at the event. If you, or someone at your company or facility have a topic, project or presentation you would like to present, please reach out to our Communications Chair at [email protected] for registration information.
We appreciate your consideration of presenting at the event and hope that you can help us build an informative and beneficial session.
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PROGRAM HOST –
JIM MADERITZPlant Manger, Twinsburg Facility Quality Synthetic Rubber
Strengthened by a merger with Lexington Rubber in 2012, QSR’s skilled workforce offers customers a unique combination of technical expertise, advanced manufac-turing practices and something seldom available from rubber companies—product development.
Engineers know they can rely on QSR’s engineer-ing, research, development and technical expertise to meet all their needs for products requiring a high level of engineering due to material proper-ties, temperature requirements and tight toleranc-es. In fact, the majority of insulator and connector seal material for products QSR manufactures is internally compounded from proprietary formula-tions.
QSR principal product lines include:
• Connector seals used in electrical connectors and wire harnesses to protect connections from harmful elements like oil, water, salt and dust
• Insulators for automotive ignition systems to seal and insulate terminals on the spark plug and distributor
QSR invited our sections to tour their facility for our November program. Their facility is quite large, well organized and very clean. Their prima-ry manufacturing process is compression molded plastic articles of small to medium sizes from an internally-produced silicone rubber compound. In-jection molding is also used but to a lesser extent. The inherent number of process steps – molding, cleaning, over-molding, coating, etc – requires a very sophisticated material flow control system.
QSR staff was on hand to explain their processes, business, applications and materials and to answer any questions. In spite of a very busy work sched-ule, their people were able to accommodate us in their work areas. We thank QSR for the opportunity.
NOVEMBER 12, 2018 TECHNICAL PROGRAM
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NOVEMBER TECHNICAL PROGRAM ATTENDEES
Host: Rik Keeley, Technical Program
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leveland Section
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ATTENDEES (ALL VIA TELECONFERENCE): D. Crist (House), J.Sovis (Treasurer), B. Opalko (Secretary), D. Meade (Presi-dent, Education), C. Potter (Communications / Sponsors), J. Blayne (Councilor), L. Nie (Membership), M. Ghosh
NEW BUSINESS:D. Meade proposed hosting a 3-D Printing TOPCON to the members. In the CLE section, there are developers, users and filament makers. Board member T. Waddle is currently focused on this technology. Members agreed to move for-ward, maybe targeting 2020.The Extrusion Div. wants to have a 1-day TOPCON in the 2nd half of 2019. R. Raleigh, J. Blayne and C. Potter will be the point people.
TREASURER:J. Sovis circulated the amended budget, and members ap-proved it. He will meet with Huntington Bank on options for the proposed CLE Section SPE Endowment Fund. We are confirmed to be a 510(c)(3) organization.
COMMUNICATIONS:C. Potter needs to have the minutes within 5 days of the meeting in order to get the Newsletter out on time. Mem-bers agreed on a teleconference Board meeting at 5PM on 12-17-18.
COUNCILOR:J. Blayne noted that the next meeting is 12-13-18.
HOUSE: 26 attendees for tonight’s tour of Quality Synthetic Rubber.
MEMBERSHIP:Li Nie noted that the membership total stands at 153, with 6 to 7 members new or renewed. Members agree that we need to contact delinquent members. L. Nie will review PPA questionnaire from D. Meade, and modify it for our uses. Members agreed that we should use Survey Monkey or MailChimp. Target date of January 2019.
EDUCATION: The Dean of Engineering at LCCC is asking for employment data in the Lorain County area for those in plastics. D. Me-ade will meet with her in January 2019. Terra Technical Col-lege contacted D. Meade about support, since the Firelands section was disbanded. Members had no recommendations.
FUTURE PROGRAMS: R. Keeley will meet with his counterpart in the Akron section to coordinate programs in late 2019. The following compa-nies were contacted for future programs: Smart Shape, Au-tomation Plastics, Cobra. Other prospective tours: Notting-ham Spirk (must be an afternoon tour), Thogus, Technology House. The Akron Education Night is on 4-8-19, and mem-bers agree that this is a good event to attend.
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2018-2019 PROGRAM SCHEDULE:
UPCOMING SPE EVENTS
DATE TOPIC TITLE COMPANY LOCATION
12/10/18 Holiday Party Madrigal Singers Wadsworth
1/14/19 ACESS Akron
2/19/19 Plant tour Thermoset Molding Mar-Bal Mentor
3/11/19 TBD Extrusion Event After-market Suppliers Akron
4/8/19 Education Night Magnet presentation Akron
5/13/19 Education Awards Science Fair Award winners Cleveland
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2018 – 2019 SPE CLEVELAND SECTION OFFICERS AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PRESIDENT Dennis Meade Chroma Colors [email protected]
PAST PRESIDENT Ron Raleigh BYK Additives & Instruments [email protected]
COUNCILOR Jerry Blayne Professional Polymer Technical Services, LLC [email protected]
TREASURER John Sovis [email protected]
SECRETARY Robert Opalko Biothane Coated Webbing [email protected]
HOUSE Dan Crist Component Mfg. and Design [email protected]
EDUCATION / STUDENTS Dennis Meade Chroma Colors [email protected]
AWARDS Dennis Meade Chroma Colors [email protected]
MEMBERSHIP Li Nie Lubrizol [email protected]
WEBSITE/NEWSLETTER Craig Potter PlastExt, LLC [email protected]
ADVERTISING Craig Potter PlastExt, LLC [email protected]
TECHNICAL PROGRAMS Rik Keeley Quality Synthetic Rubber [email protected]
Guojun Zhang A Schulman [email protected]
Todd Waddle MHolland [email protected]
Monoj Ghosh Sherwin-Williams [email protected]