The Color and Appearance Division of SPE strives to educate, train, inform and provide professional interaction opportunities to the global community involved in visual performance and aesthetics of plastics

Countdown to SPE CAD RETEC®!

North America's Premier Event for Coloring of Plastics

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EVENTS

CAD RETEC® 2024

Sailing Away with Color

September 23-25, 2024

Tampa Marriott Water Street

Tampa, FL

Conference Chairs

Alex Propsapio, Chairman

Mark Tyler, Vice Chair

Technical Program Chair

TJ Stubbs

Call for Papers! Abstracts due February 2024

Contacts

CAD RETEC® 2024 Chair

CAD RETEC® 2024 Technical Program Chair

2024 CAD BOD Elections

Elections are closed for the 2024-2027 CAD Board of Directors and Councilor positions

Directors and Councilor will be announced soon.

Elections Portal 2024

ANTEC® 2024

Marriott St. Louis Grand

St. Louis, MO

March 4 – 7

Technical Program Chair

Alex Prosapio

2024 ANTEC Page

NEWS

SPE CAD Scholarships Applications

Applications for the 2024-2025 Academic year are no longer being accepted.

Congratulations to this year’s Scholarship recipients!

Grant Becker

Daniel Hollman

Caleb Tucker

Sage Briggs

Anastasia Valenti

Sheva Vo

Emilie Claeson

Kamdyn DePew

Brooklyn Finnegan

Lenore Wright

William Hays

The Society of Plastics Engineers Color and Appearance Division has scholarships available for qualified individuals.

Five of the scholarships have been dedicated to Five remarkable people in our industry.

The endowment fund for the scholarships is the brainchild of one of SPECAD’s past presidents, Gary Beebe.

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CAD BOD Elections

Congratulations to newly elected Board of Directors for the 2024 – 2027 term

Bruce Mulholland
Earl Balthazar
Josh Jacobs
Jack Ladson
Cheryl Treat
Brian Coleman
Mercedes Landazuri
Onur Ege Onar

Congratulations to newly elected Councilor for the 2024 – 2027 term

Doreen Becker

RESOURCES

PAST CONFERENCES – CAD RETEC®

Access copies of conference papers given at previous CAD RETEC® events (Attendees Only)

CAD RETEC® Archive Papers

PHOTO GALLERIES

View pictures of past CAD events

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Latest CADNEWS® Issues Published

The SPE Foundation offers numerous scholarships to students who have demonstrated or expressed an interest in the plastics industry.

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Fall BOD Meeting

Marriott Tampa Waterfront

Tampa, FL

September 26, 2024

Board meetings are open to all SPE members.

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