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Thermoplastic Materials and Foams Division
World Headquarters:Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE)13 Church Hill Rd.Newtown, CT 06470 USAPhone: +1 203-775-0471Fax: +1 203-775-8490www.4SPE.org
CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE NovEMbER 2012
I am pleased to inform that we held a very success-ful FOAMS®2012 Conference in Barcelona, Spain in September. This is the first time the TPM&F Division has held the Conference and Foams Tutorial outside North America. We surpassed our attendance target due to an excellent techni-cal program and venue chosen for the conference. This success would not be possible without the relentless hard work of Prof. Miguel Angel Rodri-
guez-Perez, Conference Chairman. My sincere and heart felt thanks to Prof. Rodriguez-Perez and to the entire organizing committee.
The FOAMS Tutorial organized by Dr. Chul Park was well received. I would like to thank Dr. Park and his team for the job well done. The TPM&F Division is very grateful to all the sponsors and exhibitors at FOAMS®2012. Their support allows us to keep the registration cost down and support student activities. I would like to thank Theresa Healy, Communication Chair, for her support in coordinating in this effort.
Dr. Neil Witten organized the poster session at FOAMS®2012. Several students participated in the event and the winner of the best poster re-ceived a cash award of $250. Starting this year, our Division has started to offer two scholarships at the FOAMS® conference. Two scholarships were given out by Prof. Hani Naguib, Education Chair, at the Confer-ence. Dale Grove, Best Paper Chair, helped with identifying the best paper at the conference. The winner of the best paper is Dr. Stephane Costeux with The Dow Chemical Company. The title of his paper is “Nanocellular Foams from Acrylic Polymers: Experiments and Modeling.”
Dr. Klaus Hahn with BASF Corp. received Outstanding Achievement Award (OAA) during the Foams Conference from Prof. Vipin Kumar, OAA Chair. Dr. Hahn gave an excellent plenary speech that became memorable with all the attendees.
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Communications Excellence Award
Pinnacle Award
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The TPM&F Division’s Board of Directors meeting was held on September 11 in Bar-celona, Spain. Karen Hately (SPE UK) and Miguel Munoz (SPE Spain) also attended the meeting. The minutes of the meeting are pub-lished in this newsletter. The Board has con-firmed the plans to hold FOAMS®2013 Con-ference in Seattle, WA.
The by-laws of the Division have been revised by Ray Shute. Once they are approved by the Board, it will be posted on the TPM&F’s web-site. Please make sure you visit the website for this and other updates. The website address is www.spetpmf.com.
Our next Board of Directors meeting will be held on February 25, 2013 in Houston, TX during the Polyolefins Conference. We hope to see you at Polyolefins 2013 co-sponsored by the TPM&F Division. Our Division plans to hold three technical sessions. Please feel free to contact any board member or me if there are any questions or sugges-tions.
Sincerely,
Perry VadharChairman
continued from page 1Ananda (Andy) Chatterjee (2012)IngeniaPolymers Group713-296-1516 [email protected] 2013
Donna Davis (2013)ExxonMobil Chemical Co.281-834-2036 phone 281-834-2040 [email protected] SERVICE MEMBER/FELLOW,NOMINATING AWARDS CHAIR, TPC-ANTEC®2012
Dale Grove (2014)US [email protected] PAPER CHAIR
Theresa Healy (2012)Reedy International Corporation732-264-1777 phone 732-264-1189 [email protected] CHAIR
Vipin Kumar (2013)University of Washington206-543-5535 phone 206-685-8047 [email protected] ACHIEVEMENT AWARDCHAIR
Salvatore J. Monte (2013)Kenrich Petrochemicals201-823-9000 phone 201-823-0691 [email protected]
Hani Naguib (2014)University of Toronto416-978-7054 phone/[email protected] CHAIR/CHAIR-ELECT
Masahiro Ohshima (2014)Kyoto University, Dept. of Chem Eng.Kyoto, Japan 615851081 75 383 [email protected] ACTIVITIES CHAIR
Kelvin Okamoto (2013)Cereplast, Inc.Mobile: 847-271-9285Skype: [email protected] PAST CHAIRMAN
Chul B. Park (2014)University of Toronto416-978-3053 phone 416-978-0947 [email protected] CHAIR-FOAMS®2012
N.S. Ramesh (2012)Sealed Air Corporation972-522-4041 phone 972-647-1040 [email protected]
Miguel Rodriguez-Perez (2012)University of Valladolid34 983184035 phone 34 983423192 [email protected]®2012
Abdelhadi Sahnoune (2012)ExxonMobil Chemical Company281-834-2493 phone 281-834-2316 [email protected]
Henry Schirmer (2012)BBS Corporation864-579-3058 phone 864-579-2126 [email protected]
Ashutosh Sharma (2014)Flint Hill Resources316-828-8716 phone 845-489-6313 [email protected]
Raymond J. Shute (2014)CORTECH, LLC866-553-6689 X6000 [email protected] CHAIR
Lukas Stirnemann (2012)Sulzer Chemtech USA Inc.918-445-6643 phone 918-445-6670 [email protected]
Perry Vadhar (2013)Sealed Air Corporation864-433-2086 phone 864-433-2560 [email protected]
Xiaoxi Wang (2014)Boeing Company425-404-1253 [email protected] /COMMUNICATION CHAIR
Maxwell Wingert (2013)Procter & Gamble513.634.2832 [email protected]
Neil Witten (2014)Crosslink Technical Consulting Ltd.+44 (0) 7592 113795 phone732-264-1189 [email protected] ACTIVITIES CHAIR
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CoMMuNICAtIoN CHAIR REPoRt by Theresa Healy
WebsiteIf you have not done so already, please visit our new website at www.spetpmf.com
A few things I would like to keep updated for our website are:
- EDUCATION TAB: We would like to include the upcom-ing webinar series and information/updates regarding any-thing related to education for our Division. I will get this in-formation from Hani as soon as it becomes available.
-CONFERENCES: Once the FOAMS conference is over, I will update this area and promote the Polyolefins Conference in February.
-TOOLS: We are hoping to have the editorial tools to update the website by October so we can make the necessary changes ourselves to keep the website refreshed and updated with the latest information to our members.
-LINKED IN SITE: We have an SPE TPM&F site. As of 9/10/12, we have 364 members and growing. Please feel
to post any technical questions or discussions related to ther-moplastic materials and/or foams. These discussions help bring ideas and solutions to users. We can use this site to pro-mote our conferences as well as provide a resource for those people looking for advice in these technical areas.
-MEDIA: Please send me your photos from the FOAMS® conference so I can have them uploaded to the site. Any press releases, editorial articles, and other news should also be sent to me so we can get this into the site as well.
www.SPETPMF.com
EduCAtIoN CHAIR REPoRt by Hani Naguib
1. The TPMF Divi-sion education pro-gram is supporting student activities during ANTEC® 2012 which includes platinum sponsor-ship for the student receptions.
2. The TPMF Division has sponsored stu-dent scholarships (two students at PO2012).
3. Suggested plan for FOAMS® 2012: TPMF to support two student scholarships during FOAMS® 2012.
4. Suggested plan for new Webinar series: the Division is interested in organizing some specialized webinar series in state of the art areas in the plastics field, we would like to have volunteers from the board members and industry for conducting webinar se-ries in 2012 in the area of sustainability, bio based thermoplastics.
5. Suggested plan for more educational activities:
i) providing schools with some educational plastics videos and samples ii) starting a youth outreach program for high school students during our board Topcon conferences; iii) provide travel scholarship to university students to attend our Topcon conferences.
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At the last Council meeting, the Operational Planning Committee (OPC) presented the idea of establishing one set of standardized requirements for an SPE group to maintain active group status and attain rebate eligibility. For the last 4 months the OPC has been developing those requirements. After much thought and deliberation, we have developed a matrix to detail the results. One important guiding principle was to simplify both the active group requirements and the rebate requirements. The committee also had a greater ex-pectation for groups to act for the benefit of their members. Our proposal raises minimum expectations for SPE affiliated groups to those roughly equivalent to the current rebate eligibility requirements. However, we are recommending other changes; these are high-
lighted in yellow on the matrix spreadsheet. In addition, some cells have notes (put your cursor on the small red arrow in the right corner of a cell) which are included to indicate the current group requirements.
Please take note of these proposed changes: 1) We have suggested reducing the number of officers for a Section or Division from six to four (Chair or Presi-dent, Secretary, Treasury, Membership Chair), and no one person can hold more than one of these positions per leadership year.
2) Today basic membership dues for regular members (i.e. excluding students) to belong to the Society include the cost of joining the Society and the cost (the group membership fee) of joining two (2) additional affiliate groups. We suggest that it be made explicit in the by-laws and/or policies that differential dues rates to join the Society for different parts of the world are allowed. Procedures must be put in place to restrict membership and/or benefits so that everyone does not join the Society through the cheapest region in the world.
3) We propose a flat group membership fee of $15.00 be established to join any Section or Division regardless of which region of the world the group is organized and/or where the member resides. Sections organized in regions where differential dues are permitted may be allowed to have lower membership fees. If the fee is allocated ac-cording to our proposal, $14.00 per member would pass through to the group ($0.50 will go to a fund for start-up groups, and $0.50 to a fund for struggling groups). In the existing rebate system, Sections receive $13.33/member on average and Divisions $4.52/member on average. In addition, the tiered system (the first member is worth more in rebates than the last) will disappear. This change would increase the total membership fee by $10 because each membership currently includes membership in two groups.
4) Rebates would become a group membership fee that passes directly through to your group on a quarterly basis. In other words, at the end of each quarter the amount of money coming to your group from Headquarters is based on the number of members that joined or renewed with your group during that quarter.
5) We have suggested that SIGs be recognized in the by-laws as permanent groups rather than temporary groups. There are a number of small requirements for SIGS that would change as a consequence of this recognition of permanence.
6) Each Section/Division/SIG must communicate with its membership at least twice a year electronically or other-wise, hold Officer meetings at least twice a year and publish minutes from the meeting, and hold and/or contribute to a minimum of one meeting/technical program/networking opportunity per year.
7) For Sections or Divisions with less than 100 members, attendance at Council becomes optional. Approximately half of the total number of Sections/Divisions have less than 100 members (mostly Sections). Presumably, this change would also require a change in the by-laws and/or policies regarding the definition of quorum.
8) For a Section/Division to remain active, the minimum group size is 30. For SIGs, the number is 10. The OPC believes that 30 is the minimum number of members required to support the proposed level of group activity.
9) Although this is not a change, a 2-year period is required to move a group from active to inactive status. Just to be clear, we do not propose changing the mechanism for deactivation, only the criteria.
Respectfully submitted, Ashutosh H. Sharma
tPM&f CouNCILoR’S REPoRt September 10, 2012
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foAMS® 2012 REPoRtBy Miguel Angel Rodríguez -Pérez
The FOAMS®2012 conference took place in Hotel Porta Fira in Barcelona, Spain, from September 10th to Septem-ber 13th, 2012.
The FOAMS®2012 Tutorial on September 10 and 11 was chaired by Prof. Chul Park. The instructors were Chul Park, S.T. Lee and Hani Naguib. Attendance was 27, most of them coming from European companies.
The TopCon FOAMS®2012 conference was organized on September 12 and 13th. The total number of attendees was 131, 70% coming from Europe, 27% from America and 3% from Asia. The number of papers presented was 40, including 1 plenary talk. The figures regarding the num-ber of papers per area and per institution are included in the following tables for the last three years. The number of papers increased significantly in 2012 and also the num-ber of papers presented from Europe. It is also interesting to point out that the participation from industry has been maintained in the last three years.
The plenary talk, was given by Dr. Hahn from BASF, he also received the OOA from our Division. The speech given by Dr. Hahn was excellent.
The quality of the papers was in general high and well received from the attendees. The best paper winner was Stephane Costeux from Dow Chemical for his work on nanocellular foams.
Ten students participated in the poster session of this year. This number also increased over previous years. The poster award winner was Samuel Pardo Alonso from CellMat Lab of the University of Valladolid (Spain).
The conference was sponsored by 12 companies with a total income of $17,000 . The list of sponsors are:
Gold: BASF, HONEYWELL, TOTAL, SULZER
Exhibitors: ABN, CELLMAT, KENRICH, TOLSA, QUANTACHROME and GAMMA MECCANICA
Coffee Break: REPSOL, DOW.
An exhibitors area was organized where most of the above mentioned companies showed their products.
For the first time, the TPM&F Division offered scholarships during the Foams Conference. Two students from the EU region were selected and awarded the scholarship.
A positive cash balance of about $20,000 is anticipated from FOAMS®2012.
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Area (number) /year 2010 2011 2012America 8 13 13Europe 9 8 24
Asia 1 4 3Total 18 25 40
Type of institution (number)/year
2010 2011 2012
Industry 8 11 23Academia 10 14 14
Total 18 25 40
Percentage of papers.Area (%)/year 2010 2011 2012
America 44,4 52,0 32,5Europe 50,0 32,0 60,0
Asia 5,6 16,0 7,5
Type of institution (%) /year
2010 2011 2012
Industry 44,4 44,0 42,5Academia 55,6 56,0 57,5
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2012 tPM&f outStANdING ACHIEvEMENt AwARd
dR. KLAuS HAHN
The 2012 TPM&F Out-standing Achievement Award was presented to Dr. Klaus Hahn, Vice President, Polymer Re-searchFoams, BASF SE Engineering on Sept. 12, 2012 at the SPE 10th International FOAMS® 2012 Conference, Bar-celona, Spain. Dr. Hahn gave the keynote address
to the conference gaving the audience insight into many of his inventions that have been commer-cialized.
Dr. Klaus Hahn received his Ph.D in 1976 from the University of Marburg, Germany. Since then, he has been working over 35 years for BASF in the following positions: Research Manager, Prod-uct Development Manager for EPS, Head of R&D Thermoplastic Foams, Research Director - Poly-mer Research Foams, and Vice President - Poly-mer Research Foams. He received the BASF SE Innovation Award in 2000. Dr. Hahn has invented a number of innovative foam products such as Neopor, Epor, and Basotect, to name a few. According to the Patent Depart-ment of BASF, Dr. Hahn has 272 issued patents to his credit, and 10 more patents are currently in progress. BASF’s leadership in the world foam market is basically due to Dr. Hahn’s innovations.
The Thermoplastic Materials and Foams Division of the Society of Plastics Engineers is pleased to honor Dr. Hahn for his lifelong dedication to the foam industry and his outstanding achievements as a scientist and innovator.
submitted by: Vipin Kumar
NEwSLEttER/CoMMuNICAtIoN
CHAIR REPoRt
by Xiaoxi Wang
Four issues of newsletters are planned for the 2012/2013 fiscal year. October/November 2012 January/February 2013 April/May 2013 June/July 2013
The newsletters will be focused on the following events.
FOAMS® Conference: 09/10-09/13/2012Polyolefins Conference: 02/24-02/27/2013ANTEC® 2013: 04/22-04/24/2013BOD meetingsSPE Council meetings
Sponsorship on SPE TPM&F newslettersSponsorship size allocations (1 year, 4 issues):
BC size: 3.500” wide x 2” high $5001/4 page size: 3.875” wide x 5” high $9001/2 page size: 7.750” wide x 5” high $1,500
SPE Communications Excellence Award (applica-tion deadline is 12/30/2012). Newsletter (at least 2 issues). Website: Innovative communication tools (LinkedIn). Generational Reach in Communica-tion (public outreach programs etc.). Successful Use of Two-Way Modes of Communication: Best Prac-tices, Branding and Communications Guidelines.
There are three levels of awards shown below.
The requirements are:
1) Communications Leader: full-range of achieve-ments .
2) Notable Achiever: excel in one or to areas.
3) Special Recognition: achievement or differenti-ated performance at the discretion of the review committee.
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General view of the conference room Miguel and Perry (awards ceremony)
PHoto HIGHLIGHtS of ouR LASt MEEtING ANd foAMS® CoNfERENCEPHotoGRAPHEd by PERRy vAdHAR ANd SALvAtoRE MoNtE
Poster Session
Sponsor Plaque- BASF
Scholarship ceremony
Stephane Costeux Best Paper Award Honor
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tREASuRER’S REPoRt
September 11, 2012Financial Summary:1) Ending FY11-12 Division balance is $138,502.67, down by $11,267.85 from the previous year end balance of $149,770.52. a) The loss was a smaller loss than budgeted for, largely due to the fact that we d i d under spend some categories and did not spend anything against the webinar or the Outstanding Achievement Award budget. Of the $11,267.85 loss, $10,034.30 were expenses for FOAMS® 2012 that we will be reimbursed for.2) The FY12-13 proposed budget is shown below. We will vote on this budget at our Board meeting this week.
3) Our investment account managed by Constitutional Advisory Group opened on May 4, 2012. 4) Per my vision for the treasury as shared on March 29, I would like to supplement our actively managed investment account with some CDs. I plan to begin purchasing some CDs in the coming months.
Investment Account Update: Between May 4 and June 30, the account value dropped 0.9% from $115,000 to $114,013.53. As of September 7, the investment account value is $118,213.51.
TPM&F Financials:
Respectfully submitted by:Maxwell J. Wingert
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MEMbERSHIP CHAIR REPoRt – AjIt RANAdE
Our Division’s active mem-ber count as of June 22, 2012 is 896. We added 30 members since June of 2012.
I have submitted an official request to SPE to extract the names and contact informa-tion for all the members we had over last two years. I will be reviewing the list and com-
paring it with our current members. The goal is to con-tact the members we have lost and bring them back to SPE.
Po 2013 REPoRt - ANANdA CHAttERjEETPMF Liaison with PO Committee
For Polyolefins (PO) 2013 Conference the TPMF Divi-sion is organizing three ses-sions. This is the first year when TPMF will contribute three sessions, thus raising our share percentage of PO revenue. Donna Davis is de-veloping a session on Ad-vances in PO copolymers and
new resins. Prof Cris Schwartz (Iowa State Univ.) is developing a session on PO haptics and soft polyole-fins. Ananda Chatterjee is developing a session on Ad-vances in Nanotechnology of Polyolefins. So far good progress has been made in identifying speakers. Five commitments have been received for the nanotechnol-ogy session. Three papers have been committed for the copolymers/new resin session, and two papers for the haptics session.
Abstract was due October 15, 2012; Papers are due November 15, and final Presentation is due December 15. If anyone in the Board wants to recommend good speakers for these sessions, please advise me, Donna or Cris, [email protected]. It is suggested that our TPMF website also be used to solicit papers for PO 2013.
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Board Meeting
Perry and Miguel
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FOAMS® 2012 REPORT — MIGUEL PEREZ/ SAL MONTE/THERESA HEALY/CHUL PARKReport on the technical programPapers: 39 Papers +1 plenary talk 37 Papers Received & incl. in the proceedings (USBs) 125 USBs produced, lower than the number of participants (131 participants).Numbers per area: Europe: 24 papers, 60% America: 13 papers, 32,5% Asia: 3, 7.5%Numbers per type of institution: Academia: 23, or 57.5% Industry: 17, or 42.5%Evolution in the last three years1.2.Best Paper ReviewFive papers already selected for the best papers award com-petition. Suggested reviewers for selecting the best paper award are Perry, Neil, Chul, Vipin and Hani.1.3. Plenary talk and OAASmall dinner planned for 15 to honor Dr. Hahn. This will be on Sept. 12 at around 8:30 p.m. Place Hotel (La Vela). Dr. Hahn will receive a certificate and a check of $1000 during the OAA ceremony.1.4. AttendeesThe final number of attendees to the conference is 131.Numbers per area: Europe: 92, 70.23%, America: 35, 26.72%, and Asia: 4; 3.05%1.5. Folders.A folder containing the USB (technical program), a pen, a notebook, the conference program, the list of participants and some information about Barcelona will be suppliedto attendees.2. Report on the Tutorial 27 attendees to the tutorial this year continued on page 12
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tHERMoPLAStIC MAtERIALS ANd foAMS dIvISIoN boARd MEEtING MINutESMeeting Date: September 11, 2012
Location: Barcelona, SpainATTENDANCEAttending the BOD meeting: Perry Vadhar, Miguel Rodriguez-Perez, Miguel Munoz, Sal Monte, Erika Monte, Vipin Kumar, Hani Naguib, Chul Park, Masahiro Ohshima, Gary Wilkes, Karen Hately, and Neil Witten. Joined by phone: N.S. Ramesh, Andy Chatterjee, Theresa Healy, Max Wingert, Xiaoxi Wang, Ashu Sharma, and Ray Shute
CHAIR REPORT — PERRY VADHARThank you to all for their efforts for FOAMS and a special thank you to Miguel Rodriguez-Perez for putting on a well attended conference. Perry provided thank you gifts to both Miguel and Theresa for their efforts in the conference. This is the first time this conference has been held outside of North America. Perry mentioned that his term will expire in June 2013 and we need to nominate a Chair-Elect by ANTEC®2013.
SECRETARY’S REPORT — LUKAS STIRNEMANNLukas was not in attendance so the minutes from the last meeting still need to be approved.
3. Sponsors 12 sponsors for the conference:GOLD: BASF, HONEYWELL, TOTAL, SULZER: $8000EXHIBITORS: ABN, CELLMAT, KENRICH, TOLSA, QUANTACHROME and GAMMA MECCANICA: $6000COFFEE BREAK: REPSOL, DOW: $3000TOTAL INCOME: $170004. Payments, incomes, etc.
FOAMS® 2012: PAYMENTS SPE SPAIN TOTAL 43,397PAYMENTS SPE USA Payments TOTAL 5,872INCOMES in SPE SPAIN RECEIVED: SEED MONEY 10000 BASF GOLD SPONSOR 2000 HONEYWELL GOLD SPONSOR 2000 REPSOL COFFEE BREAK SPONSOR 1500 ABN EXHIBITOR 1000 CELLMAT EXHIBITOR 1000 TOLSA EXHIBITOR 1000 SEED MONEY 14000 TOLSA SPEAKER 150 ATTENDEES FROM CHOVA 1828.75 OTHERS ATTENDEES 320TOTAL 34,798
TOTAL INCOMES IN SPE (Based on 9/11/12 Data: 61,000CURRENT SITUATION (balance: INCOMES-EXPENSES-SEED MONEY) 22,528MONEY NEEDED BY SPE SPAIN TO COVER PAY-MENTS 8,598The table includes all the payments (the ones to the home already done and the rest of expenses) and the incomes in SPE-Spain and SPE-HQ. The main conclusion of this cost analysis is that the conference will finish with a positive eco-nomic balance of around $22,000. Another aspect to take into account is that due to a significant increase of the num-
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ber of participants in the last weeks and as consequence the increase in expenses for SPE Spain (hotel and folders). SPE-Spain Section will not have enough money to pay all the ex-penses. Spain Section needs another wire transfer of $9,500 which Lauren should be able to do.5. Poster Session10 posters will be presented. Abstract of 4 posters included in USBs. Full papers of 6 posters included in USBs.Neil is in charge of organizing the evaluation of posters to select the best poster. Awards & certificates will be given out on the second day of the lunch.6. Sponsor poster boards and plaquesPosters boards and plaques for sponsors prepared.7. CertificatesCertificates for tutorial participants printed and given to the attendeesCertificates for conference participants (speakers, posters presenters, organizing committee) printed.8. ScholarshipFour applicants for the scholarships.Camilo Zuñiga, Ester Laguna, Belen Notario and Nat-thapong Chuapon.Two selected: Camilo Zuñiga and Ester Laguna. They will receive a check of $500 each.
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD CHAIR RE-PORT — VIPIN KUMARThis award will be presented to Dr. Hahn. Thank you to Chul Park for making this nomination. Vipin requested Max to cancel the $1,000 check and SPE in Spain will pay in Euros. All of the travel expenses for Dr. Hahn have been paid by BASF.
FOAMS® 2012 — BEST PAPER-DALE GROVE The written part of the best paper award has been complet-ed. Dale sends his thanks to Perry, Ramesh, and Max for their participation. Perry has the results along with the grid necessary to judge the papers in Barcelona.
FOAMS® 2012 BUDGET — MAX/MIGUEL MUNOZ. This was already presented in the FOAMS® report above.
PLANS FOR FOAMS® 2013 IN SEATTLE — XIAOXI WANG/VIPIN KUMARentative dates for the FOAMS 2013 Conference in Seattle are 9/9-9/13. Xiaoxi will investigate the hotels in the area.
PO 2013 TOPCON REPORT — ANDY CHATTERJEE /DONNA DAVISTPM&F Division will have three sessions. This is the first year for this which will raise the percentage of PO revenue. Donna Davis is developing a session on “Advances in PO Copolymers and New Resins”. Professor Cris Schwartz
(Iowa State University) is developing his session on PO hap-tics behavior and soft polyolefins. Cris has been recruited to expand the coverage of the PO topics. Ananda Chatterjee is developing a session on “Advances in Nanotechnology of Polyolefins.” So far, good progress has been made in identify-ing speakers. If anyone on the board wants to recommend good speakers for these sessions, please advise Andy, Don-na, or [email protected]. Speakers should be com-mitted by e-mail by October 15th, written papers are due November 15th, and powerpoints are due December 15th. They will upload the abstracts/papers to website between Nov-Dec. We need to publicize this request for papers on our TPM&F website. Theresa will have this written up for the website for promotional purposes.
COMMUNICATION CHAIR REPORT — THERESA HEALY A few things I would like to keep updated for our website are: - EDUcATIon TAb: We would like to include the up-coming webinar series and information/updates regarding anything related to education for our division. I will get this information from Hani as soon as it becomes available.-conFEREncES: Once the FOAMS® conference is over, I will update this area and promote the Polyolefins Confer-ence in February. -ToolS: We are hoping to have the editorial tools to up-date the website by October so we can make the necessary changes ourselves to keep the website refreshed and updated with the latest information to our members.-lInKED In SITE: We have an SPE TPM&F site. As of 9/10/12, we have 364 members and growing. Please feel to post any technical questions or discussions related to ther-moplastic materials and/or foams. These discussions help bring ideas and solutions to users. We can use this site to promote our conferences as well as provide a resource for those people looking for advice in these technical areas.-MEDIA: Please send me your photos from the FOAMS® conference so I can have them uploaded to the site. Any press releases, editorial articles, and other news should also be sent to me so we can get this into the site as well.DRoP box: Kelvin Okamoto had started a TPM&F drop box account for us so we could use this for places that we only want our Board members to see (i.e.; financial account status, fund status, etc…). We still have this account in place.
COMMUNICATION EXCELLENCE AWARD — THERESA HEALYTheresa will work with Xiaoxi and Perry on reviewing the guidelines and helping to work towards this goal.
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TREASURER’S REPORT — MAX WINGERT Financial Summary:Ending FY11-12 division balance is $138,502.67, down by $11,267.85 from the previous year end balance of $149,770.52. The loss was a smaller loss than budgeted for, largely due to the fact that we did under spent some categories and did not spend anything against the webinar or the Outstand-ing Achievement Award budget. Of the $11,267.85 loss, $10,034.30 were expenses for FOAMS® 2012 that we will be reimbursed for.The FY12-13 proposed budget is shown below. We will vote on this budget at our board meeting this week.Our investment account managed by Constitutional Advi-sory Group opened on May 4, 2012. Per my vision for the treasury as shared on March 29, I would like to supplement our actively managed investment account with some CDs. I plan to begin purchasing some CDs in the coming months.Investment Account Update:Between May 4 and June 30, the account value dropped 0.9% from $115,000 to $114,013.53. A full report of holdings and performance May 4 to June 30 is included here: As of Sept 7, the investment account value is $118,213.51. A full report of holdings and performance May 4 to June 30 is included.Proposed Budget-Max had proposed that we purchase some CDs from the bank at about a 1% return. There was a vote to approve the budget and a motion was carried to approve the budget. There was discussion about purchasing some CDs. A motion was approved to authorize Max to use any amount of money he has available in the balance account for his investments.
EDUCATION CHAIR — HANI NAGUIB The TPMF Division education program would like to con-tinue the support for the student activities during ANTEC® 2013 which includes platinum sponsorship for the student receptions. The TPMF Division education program is providing two students scholarships during Foams 2012 for the equivalent of USD 500 each. 5 Nominations were received by the con-ference chair and two students were selected based on their academic records and publications. Suggested plan for new Webinar series: the division is plan-ning to organize a specialized webinar series in the area of sustainability, bio based thermoplastics. Vipin Kumar has kindly volunteered from the board members for conduct-ing one webinar series in 2012, and we are looking for two more volunteers to schedule the webinar by October 2012 or January 2013 before the Polyolefins.Other plans for educational activities: I) providing schools with some educational plastics videos and samples ii) start-
ing a youth outreach program for high school students dur-ing our board Topcon conferences. I am in contact with the SPE headquarter to assess the models they have for such ac-tivities and how we can contribute.TPM&F Division will present two scholarships at the Poly-olefins and these will be chosen and supported by the SPE Texas Section on the first day of the Polyolefins Conference. MEMBERSHIP CHAIR REPORT — AJIT RANADEWe have lost several members in last 2 years. Current count is 850 members. Ajit made suggestions to find new members. 1) Draft a personal letter to past members and ask them to renew their membership 2) Use the website to launch a mar-keting campaign. 3) Announce membership benefits such as job postings on the SPE’s website.
NEWSLETTER CHAIR REPORT — XIAOXI WANGFour issues of newsletters are planned for the 2012/2013 fiscal year: Late September/Early October 2012 (after FOAMS® TopCon) Late January/Early February 2013 (before PO TopCon) Early March 2013 (after Polyolefin TopCon; before ANTEC®) Early May 2013 (after ANTEC®; before FOAMS® TopCon)The newsletters will be focused on the following events.FOAMS® Conference: 09/10-09/13/2012. Polyolefins Conference: 02/24-02/27/2013, ANTEC® 2013: 04/22-04/24/2013. BOD meetings, SPE Council meetingsAdvertisements on newsletters:Sponsorship size allocations (1 year, 4 issues):BC size: 3.500” wide x 2” high $5001/4 page size: 3.875” wide x 5” high $9001/2 page size: 7.750” wide x 5” high $1,500SPE Communications Excellence Award (application deadline 12/30/2012)Newsletter (at least 2 issues)WebsiteInnovative communication tools (LinkedIn)Generational Reach in Communication (public outreach programs etc.)Successful Use of Two-Way Modes of CommunicationBest PracticesBranding and Communications GuidelinesThere are three levels of awards showing below. The requirements are:A) Communications Leader: full range of achievementsB) Notable Achiever: excel in 1 or 2 areasC) Special Recognition: achievement or differentiated per-formance at the discretion of the review committee.
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REVISION OF TPM&F BY-LAWS — RAY SHUTERay shared the revised by-laws for the TPM&F Division. The board members should review and send their input to Ray. Currently, we have a full board and one in the waiting.
COUNCILOR CHAIR REPORT — ASHU SHARMAAt the last Council meeting, the Operational Planning Committee (OPC) presented the idea of establishing one set of standardized requirements for an SPE group to maintain active group status and attain rebate eligibility. For the last 4 months the OPC has been developing those requirements. After much thought and deliberation, we have developed a matrix to detail the results. One important guiding principle was to simplify both the active group requirements and the rebate requirements. The committee also had a greater ex-pectation for groups to act for the benefit of their members. Our proposal raises minimum expectations for SPE affili-ated groups to those roughly equivalent to the current rebate eligibility requirements. Please take note of these proposed changes: 1) We have suggested reducing the number of officers for a Section or Division from six to four (Chair or President, Sec-retary, Treasury, Membership Chair), and no one person can hold more than one of these positions per leadership year.2) Today basic membership dues for regular members (i.e. excluding students) to belong to the Society include the cost of joining the Society and the cost (the group membership fee) of joining two (2) additional affiliate groups. We sug-gest that it be made explicit in the by-laws and/or policies that differential dues rates to join the Society for different parts of the world are allowed. Procedures must be put in place to restrict membership and/or benefits so that every-one does not join the Society through the cheapest region in the world. 3) We propose a flat group membership fee of $15.00 be es-tablished to join any Section or Division regardless of which region of the world the group is organized and/or where the member resides. Sections organized in regions where dif-ferential dues are permitted may be allowed to have lower membership fees. If the fee is allocated according to our proposal, $14.00 per member would pass through to the group ($0.50 will go to a fund for start-up groups, and $0.50 to a fund for struggling groups). In the existing rebate sys-tem, Sections receive $13.33/member on average and Di-visions $4.52/member on average. In addition, the tiered system (the first member is worth more in rebates than the last) will disappear. This change would increase the total membership fee by $10 because each membership currently includes membership in two groups.4) Rebates would become a group membership fee that passes directly through to your group on a quarterly basis. In other words, at the end of each quarter the amount of money coming to your group from Headquarters is based
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on the number of members that joined or renewed with your group during that quarter.5) We have suggested that SIGs be recognized in the by-laws as permanent groups rather than temporary groups. There are a number of small requirements for SIGS that would change as a consequence of this recognition of permanence.6) Each Section/Division/SIG must communicate with its membership at least twice a year electronically or other-wise, hold Officer meetings at least twice a year and publish minutes from the meeting, and hold and/or contribute to a minimum of one meeting/technical program/networking opportunity per year.7) For Sections or Divisions with less than 100 members, attendance at Council becomes optional. Approximately half of the total number of Sections/Divisions has less than 100 members currently (mostly Sections). Presumably, this change would also require a change in the by-laws and/or policies regarding the definition of quorum.8) For a Section/Division to remain active, the minimum group size is 30. For SIGs, the number is 10. The OPC be-lieves that 30 is the minimum number of members required to support the proposed level of group activity.9) Although this is not a change, a 2 year period is required to move a group from active to inactive status. Just to be clear, we do not propose changing the mechanism for deac-tivation, only the criteria.
MEMBERSHIP CHAIR REPORT-AJIT RANADE TPM&F division active members as of 6/22/12: 896We added 30 members since June of 2012. I have submitted official request to SPE to extract names and contact infor-mation of all the members we had over last 2 years. I will be reviewing the list and compare with our current members.The goal is to contact the members we have lost and bring them back to SPE.
INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES REPORT-MASAHIRO OHSHIMA & NEIL WITTENProf, Ohshima recommended having an SPE in China for the future. More discussion needs to be made on this topic as we need to have an established SPE chapter in China. In December, there will be a mini-ANTEC® in India. We have the FOAMS® 2012 in Barcelona for the first time.
INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES REPORT — MASAHIRO OHSHIMA & NEIL WITTENThere will be a BOD meeting on June 22 to accommodate overseas members for a short meeting for their board input.
Next Board Meeting on Monday, February 25, 2013 in Houston, TX. Meeting adjourned at 2:20pm.
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