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Lately we've been fortunate to feature several experts in many recent webinar presentations. Topics have covered injection molding, extrusion, cost reduction, and many events around plastic materials and their applications. You can view a full list here including many recorded events. Further down in this newsletter, you'll find information on how your company can present webinars with us.

- The IDES Team


Be Our Guest at NPE (For Free!)

We'd like to extend a special VIP invitation to you and your colleagues to be our guests at NPE.

Your Free VIP Ticket will include admission to exhibits, specialty pavilions, technology theaters and shuttle services.

Reserve Your VIP Ticket Today!

We'll be in the West Hall at Booth #128031 and hope you'll stop by and say 'hello.' See you in Chicago!

NPE 2009


Maximizing Profits in Injection Molding Industry

Authoritative new book addresses budgeting and costing

The most authoritative book published to date on this subject, Budgeting, Costing, and Estimating for the Injection Molding Industry addresses these topics head on and explains in detail all the stages involved from budgeting to final estimate. Read an excerpt here.

This book is ideal as a handout to your customers. As the key theme is maximizing profits through the control of costs, significant emphasis is placed on understanding costing and estimating models. This work, published by iSmithers Rapra Publishing will be of considerable value to production and financial managers in the plastics industry.

Order copies for your customers today!

And if you are interested in bulk quantities with your logo printed on the cover, contact Jack Bashian at jbashian@smithersmail.com or 330-762-7989.

Budgeting, Costing, and Estimating for the Injection Molding Industry


Pocket Specs for Injection Molding

Pocket Specs for Injection Molding provides you with a compact guide for the injection molding of thermoplastic and thermoset materials. Data are provided for thousands of individual grades of molding materials from 260 manufacturers. The data provided in the tables are intended to give you the basic information for determining regrind levels, material drying temperatures and times, and initial machine settings for injection pressure, barrel heats, and mold temperature. Additional physical property data include specific gravity, shrink data, melt flow, and processing temperature ranges.

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Pocket Specs for Injection Molding


How to Reach People Not Attending NPE

Thousands of people who would have attended NPE in year's past won't be in Chicago this summer. Here's how you can reach them!

IDES webinars are a great and economical way to introduce people to new technologies and expertise that they'll miss at NPE 2009.

Over 4,500 people this year have registered for webinars hosted with us. We handle all of the infrastructure, promotion and lead delivery - you provide the expert to deliver a presentation to a large targeted audience online from the comfort of their own office.

To learn more and reserve your webinar presentation, call Josh Dorrell at 800-788-4668 or 307-742-9227 x220 (dorrellj@ides.com).

How to Reach People Not Attending NPE


The Plastics Marketplace™ Updates

Did you know that you can receive an email that will alert you to the latest additions to the marketplace? It takes just seconds to sign up and best of all, it’s free! Sign up for the alerts.

You can also list materials that you have available. These resins can be prime, reprocessed, regrind, widespec or scrap. We have a number of suppliers and compounders of prime material that have had success in moving their inventory. It is fast, easy and also free of charge. Learn how to submit your materials.

Recent listings in the Marketplace include:

Item # Family Description Form
lbs
$/lb
12-1779 Acrylic (PMMA) Acrylite 8N Clear Elutriated Regrind  REGRIND
20,000
$0.70
88-1781 Nylon 66 DUPONT 70G13HS1L-RAL5024 LT BLUE SC77603 VIRGIN
146
$1.20
88-1782 Nylon 66 DUPONT 70G13 HS1L RAL 3003 RED - S-54507 VIRGIN
1,032
$1.20
88-1783 Nylon 66 LNP RFL 4216 HS BK8-115 30% LONG GLASS, HS, BLACK VIRGIN
229
$3.50
88-1784 PEI SABIC ULTEM 2310-1000 NAT, 30% GLASS FILLED, NATUR... REGRIND
14,312
$1.90
88-1780 PET DSM AV2-370B NAT, 35% GLASS FILLED REGRIND
24,534
$0.20
88-1785 Nylon 66 DUPONT ZYTEL 5060 BKB085 - 43% GLASS FILLED, .5 CA... VIRGIN
7,932
$0.95
88-1786 PC+PBT MRC NAXALOY 793A3GF10-UV-GY923, 10% GLASS FILLED, ... VIRGIN
1,316
$1.00
97-1790 HDPE HDPE Palltes.The large pallets weight 26lbs,and th... SCRAP
10,804
$0.10
197-1791 PPO Noryl PX1005-701 PRIME
20,000
$2.09
197-1792 PPO Noryl N225X-701 PRIME
10,000
$2.13
197-1788 PPO Noryl GFN3-701S - Black PRIME
20,000
$2.28
197-1789 PPO Noryl GFN3-780S - Gray PRIME
20,000
$2.28
89-1787 TPO (POE) TPO unpainted regrind black. Ongoing supply REGRIND
40,000
$0.25
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Plastics Webinars & Training

Topic Date (EDT) / GMT -4 Presented by
Inter-Material Bonding with TPEs May 28 2:00 pm ExxonMobil Chemical
Introduction to Prospector May 29 11:00 am Ann Redgate, IDES
Introduction to Prospector May 29 3:30 pm Ann Redgate, IDES
Introduction to Prospector June 5 11:00 am Ann Redgate, IDES
Introduction to Prospector June 5 3:30 pm Ann Redgate, IDES
Introduction to Prospector June 12 11:00 am Ann Redgate, IDES
Introduction to Prospector June 19 11:00 am Ann Redgate, IDES
Introduction to Prospector June 19 3:30 pm Ann Redgate, IDES
Introduction to Prospector June 26 11:00 am Ann Redgate, IDES
Extrusion at NPE 2009 July 7 11:00 am Allan Griff
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