Tentative list of speakers for 2021 Society of Plastics Engineers CAD RETEC®

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Speaker

Title

Company

Andy Francis

UV-C Durability Testing of Plastics

Q-Lab

Andrew Yankosky

Sun Chemical

Pigment Lightfastness – A Comparison of Fluorescent Bulb (Fluorescent Deluxe Daylight) and Light Emitting Diode Array (LED) Exposure

Brent Johnson

Milliken Co.

Understanding and Improving Color

Bonnie Piro

Sudarshan

Mica: Technology Impacts on Color Design for Plastics

Mark Ryan

Shepherd Color

3D Printing Filaments: Effect of Pigmentation on Printing and Final Properties

Joe Fay

BASF

Maintaining Outdoor Plastics Appearance: HALS, UVA’s or Both? Or Nothing?

Thomas R. Maier

Monolith

The New Plasma Black: Performance and Environmental Benefit

Fang Wang

BASF Colors & Effects

Pigment Dispersion Quality Assessment and Application Suitability Analysis

Tom Vetterly

Interspersal

Concerning the Environmental Health and Safety of Hindered Amine Light Stabilizers Based Upon Piperidinyl Esters

Eric Andrews

Colour Synthesis Solutions

AP(2020): Evaluating Variables Contributing to Impurities in Coloured PET

Kevin Lucero

EMD Group

High Quality Specialty Effect Pigments for Plastic Applications

Alex Capuz

Ferro

Leveraging Pigments’ NIR Reflecting Properties to Overcome the Challenge of Sorting Recyclable Black Plastics

TBD

Silberline

TBD

UBQ Materials

Dereck Schaefer

From Trash to Gold: How a New Bio-Plastic Is Paving the Way for a More Sustainable Economy

Keynote Speakers

Sustainability for Colors, Doreen Becker, Ampacet Corporation
Color and Appearance, Mike Willis, CAD Education Committee Chair
Iron Oxide Pigment Processing and Its Impact on the Resulting Color in Plastics, Chuck Hoover, Cathay Industries