Whether you're a material supplier or a buyer, finding alternatives is becoming increasingly important. Companies are working to consolidate the resins that they buy, looking for lower-cost alternatives or replacing discontinued materials.

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The pricing data, trends and market commentary in the ICIS pricing plastic reports are considered to be the most important market reference published today and significant volumes of global business are concluded using ICIS pricing price assessments. Sellers and buyers trust their reports and the biggest names in the plastics industry subscribe and contribute to the information published by ICIS pricing.

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Building the perfect automobile is every design engineer's dream. But to make this a reality, every part has to perform. No compromises. No failures. That's where the plastics in the automotive industry can make the difference.

This conference will cover the following issues:

• Plastics in engine compartment / exterior and the interior of the vehicle
• Hybrid technologies for automotive plastics applications
• Smart materials: Polymers, Additives, Modifiers
• Safety, environmental challenges and legislative issues pertaining to plastics being used in automotives
• Composite plastics for greater functionality in auto parts
• Finished plastics auto parts with innovative colour effect additives
• Use of innovative plastics
• Adopting low-cost solutions in the selection of automotive plastics
• New methodologies in computer aided analysis for the automobile plastics components
• Recycling of scrap plastics in automobile and auto parts
• International chemical requirements for plastics in automobile and auto parts
• Raising the capability of small & medium size auto plastics parts manufacture
• Quality Control criterion of automotive plastics parts
• Industry associations role in promoting plastics to be used as a automobile and automotive part
• Development and application and spread for CAE technology
• How to improve the usage of plastic mould raw material
• Developing trend of plastic mould and how to choose and apply the related manufacturing equipments 
• Import and export status for plastic mould and how to improve localization 
• Frequent problem and solution for automotive plastic components.

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An essential guide to Polymer Characterisation providing a complete compendium of methodologies that have evolved for the determination of the chemical composition of polymers. This 478-page book gives an up-to-date and thorough exposition of the state-of-the-art theories and availability of instrumentation needed to effect chemical and physical analysis of polymers.

Volume 1 covers:

• Methodology used for determination of metals, non-metals & organic functional groups in polymers
  
• Determination of ratio in which different monomer units occur in polymers
  
• Supported by approximately 1200 references

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