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The Newsletter of the Akron Section of the Society of Plastics EngineersOur 58th Year of Education and Service to the Plastics Industry

Dec. 2016, Jan. 9 – Joint meeting with ACESS: ColorJar

Newsletter ContentsMeeting Announcement 1Meeting Location Map 2January Meeting Preview 3Advertiser Index 5Councilor’s Corner 6Flight 7Technical Questions on Plastics 7TOPCON sponsors

Gold – Kuraray America 8Premier – Struktol 9

October meeting highlights 10Board meeting minutes 11Akron SPE Past Presidents 16Join the Board 16Job Openings Posted 162016-2017 Program 17Akron Section Board Members 17SPE Educational Foundation 18Who Can Help You at SPE 19Member Benefits Guide 21Insertion Order form – 2016-17 23SPE Membership Application 24

Holiday Gathering

Monday, December 5, 20165:30 p.m.

The Taverne of Richfield3960 Broadview RoadRichfield, Ohio 44286

Come join your friends and fellow plastics engineers at our Christmas Social Meeting. This year we will again meet at the Taverne of Richfield. The Taverne is an historic inn that once served as a stage coach stop. It is nicely decorated and is a great backdrop for our dinner and gathering. The Madrigal Singers from Firestone High School are back this year. They always put on a festive performance. Spouses are encouraged to join and we will have a gift drawing at the end of the evening.

Sign up early as there is a limit to the attendance.

FirestoneHigh School

Madrigal Singers

Costs, Schedules, Reservations

Member and/or guest $30Retired $25Student $10New Member - first meeting Free

Social / Networking / Bar 5:30 p.m.Dinner 6:00 p.m.Madrigal Singers 6:45 p.m.

Earlier deadline -Reservations must be in by noon onMonday, Nov. 28 and can be made toGary Taylor at 330-419-4380 [email protected]

Please be sure to include thecompany affiliation of each attendeeincluding dietary restrictions.

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The Firestone High School Madrigal Singers

The Madrigal Singers are one of six choral ensembles taught at the Akron School of the Arts at Firestone High School. This ensemble consists of advanced singers who excel in sight-reading, vocal technique and musicianship. They are chosen based on academic and character references and perform all a’ cappella literature without an adult director.

The Madrigal Singers have represented Akron at local, state and national level professional conferences, as well a private functions including weddings and funerals.

The director, Mr. Chad Pitman, is a graduate of Baldwin Wallace University. He has received numerous awards for outstanding work in music education/performance and been invited to serve as guest conductor for many school and community choral ensembles in northeast Ohio.

The Madrigal Singers have been performing at Akron SPE holiday gatherings for many years. Join us on December 5 at the Taverne in Richfield to brighten your holiday spirit.

Map for The Taverne at Richfield

Costs, Schedules, Reservations

Member and/or guest $25Retired $20Student $10New Member - first meeting Free

Social / Networking / Bar 5:30 p.m.Dinner 6:00 p.m.Program after dinner - 6:45 p.m.

Reservations must be in by noon onFriday, Jan. 6 and can be made toGary Taylor [email protected] 330-419-4380

Please be sure to include thecompany affiliation of each attendeeincluding dietary restrictions.

Technical Meeting

January 9, 20175:30 p.m.Hilton Inn3180 West Market StreetAkron, Ohio 44333

The Habits and Tools of the World’s Most Innovative PeopleJeff Hoffman, ColorJar

Jeff Hoffman is a successful and energetic entrepreneur, proven CEO, worldwide motivational speaker, published author, executive producer, and a producer of a Grammy winning jazz album in 2015. In his career, he has been the founder of multiple startups, he has been the CEO of both public and private companies, and he has served as a senior executive in many capacities. Jeff has been part of a number of well-known companies, including Priceline.com. He is also the Co-Founder of the EXL Center for Experiential Learning at The University of Akron and as well received the Distinguished Award of Council at the ACESS Honors and Awards Banquet in November.

Joint Meeting with ACESS

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Biography

Jeff Hoffman is a successful entrepreneur, proven CEO, worldwide motivational speaker, published author, executive producer, and a producer of a Grammy winning jazz album in 2015. In his career, he has been the founder of multiple startups, he has been the CEO of both public and private companies, and he has served as a senior executive in many capacities. Jeff has been part of a number of well-known companies, including Priceline.com. uBid.com, CTI, and more. Jeff is currently a founder and partner in ColorJar, a branding and strategic marketing firm that helps businesses of all sizes create and shape their brands, and launch new products and services online and offline.

Jeff Hoffman is an accomplished innovator in the fields of Internet, e-commerce, and entertainment. Having launched his first software company while still a student at Yale University, Hoffman has founded and grown a series of successful startup companies in his career, guiding his companies to both acquisitions and public offerings. For his efforts, Jeff has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the national CEO council in 2012 for his contributions to the field of entrepreneurship, and he received the Champion of Entrepreneurship Award from JP Morgan Chase, Citibank, and Rising Tide Capital in 2013, as well as receiving the George R. Brown Award in 2014 for International Cooperation.

After Priceline, Jeff was a founding partner, Chairman, and CEO of Black Sky Entertainment, an independent production company in the film and music industries. Hoffman’s firm successfully produced such independent films as CABIN FEVER, and in the music business, Jeff has produced concerts with Elton John, reality programming with Boyz II Men, had his artists (pop band LMNT) tour with Britney Spears, hosted charity events with *NSYNC, and much more. Today Jeff is a partner in Unreasonable Media, a TV production company specializing in multi-platform content creation.

An avid sports fan, Jeff has served on the board of the Evander Holyfield Foundation as well as being named Chairman of the Major League Baseball All Star Game Committee, and has produced events for the NBA All Star Game and the Super Bowl. He also served as Chairman of the American Association of Adapted Sports, a sports-based charity that won a Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award.

Jeff is a featured business expert seen on Fox News, Fox Business, CNN, CNN International, Bloomberg News, CNBC, ABC, and NPR, and in publications including Forbes, Inc., Time, Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal, and more.

Jeff is a frequent keynote speaker, having been invited to speak in over 50 countries. He speaks on the topics of innovation, entrepreneurship, and business leadership, and is the author of the book SCALE, a how-to guide for growing your business. Jeff also teaches innovation workshops to major corporations on a regular basis.

Today Jeff serves on the boards of companies in the US, Europe, South America, Africa, and Asia. He supports entrepreneurs and small businesses on a worldwide basis, serving on the global board of directors of Global Entrepreneurship Week (supporting entrepreneurship in over 130 countries), the US State Department’s GIST program (Global Innovation through Science and Technology, working in 49 emerging nations), the APEC Startup Initiative (the Asia Pacific Economic Council’s 21-member nation association), and many others. He supports the White House, the State Department, the United Nations, and similar organizations internationally on economic growth initiatives and entrepreneurship programs.

Advertiser Index

David Industrial Sales 15

Dover Chemical Corp. 5

Harwick Standard 6

Jordi Labs 5

Kuraray – TopCon Gold Sponsor 8

Polysort 15

Struktol 7

Struktol – TopCon Premier Sponsor 9

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Councilor’s Corner

Council Bullet Points

Membership total is currently 21,047 (which includes e-members).

Membership dues should be increased to $155 starting January 1, 2017 (with the opportunity to renew at current rates until 12/31/2016). Unlike most other societies, SPE has not increased dues in many years and its membership price is currently at the very low end of the market spectrum.

At the Indy Council meeting, a motion was made and approved to change the Rebate structure to a simple pass-through support structure. These changes to Article 15 reflect this.

First, eliminated 14.7.11 SPE Europe Board per motion from the Indy Council meeting.

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For technical polymer questions please use the SPE International forum “The Chain”

For local questions please contact the officers at [email protected]

TechnicalAssistance

EXL Center at The University of Akron has just informed us of an up-coming event that is planned by Launch League in Akron led by Courtney Gras. Courtney was an Engineer from U of A – Electrical. She founded a company while in college -- Design Flux.* She is currently working for NASA at Glenn and is running Launch League at age of 28. She is on the Forbes list of 30 under 30 in the US!! Check out the website.

They are preparing for this big event the first weekend in December called Flight. It is a Start Up Conference (http://www.launchleague.org/flight/) that may be of specific interest. Flight helps scalable startups in the Midwest showcase their work, connect with investors and cofounders, and boost their success rate through educational speaker tracks.

Please make sure that your society members are aware of this great Ohio networking event.

*About DFTstrategy + progress + leadershipDesign Flux Technologies, LLC is a spin-out company from the University of Akron, and was co-founded by two Electrical Engineering students in 2011. Frustrated with the complexity and discontinuity in energy storage systems, these two students surrounded themselves with a team of experienced business advisors, engineering professors and other colleagues to formulate a new paradigm in power management. The result of these efforts was the conceptualization of Cognicell: the first software-defined solution to the complex power management ecosystem.

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November Meeting Highlights

John Sovis (right) and Attendee

Keith Pelfrey (left), Gary Taylor and Vivian Malpass

Call to Order: 5:30 PM

Present: Tom McQuaide, Viv Malpass, Marcos Pantoja , David Schultz, , John Fellenstein, Nicole Brostowitz, Sahil Gupta, Keith Pelfrey ,Gary Taylor including PESO representatives- Anisa Cobaj, Tzu Yu Lai and Ashrita NallapaneniAbsent: Bob Weiler, Kevin Cavicchi, Kevin Malpass, Tony Dean, Joe Mattingly , and Bob Wegelin

Bob Weiler- not present but has included below Agenda and items for review and discussion

Minutes from October 3, 2016 were reviewed and approved.

President’s ReportI have attached a draft of our goals for 2016/2017. Please provide feedback and see if we can add a few more action steps to the goals.Cleveland Section has asked that we consider increasing the section meeting prices. They do not have a treasury and they are having difficulty handling the meeting losses. (Personally, I think breaking even is a good idea as well)We need to add a couple more BOD members. Please be on the lookout for new potential BOD members.STILL to review - Vinyl Div is looking for a section to host the 2019 Vinyltec. Newark NJ section has decided to give up their standing every 3 year rotation. We are now scheduled for 2021. Because of last year’s success we should have a good shot at claiming 2019. Cleveland section is also lobbying to get the 2019 Vinyltec. It is doubtful that Vinyl Section would have Vinyltec in Cleveland in 2019 and Akron in 2021. No decision needed until May, but I would like to start the discussion so I know how to steer the Vinyl Div.

• Do we want to go for the 2019 opening?• Do we want to offer to partner with Cleveland Section?

Tom McQuaide started off meeting by welcoming ALL including PESO representatives.

Committee Reports:Technical Program Review—Bob WeilerTom McQuaide for Bob Weiler- Provide below update with modification noted for Jan 9. 2016/2017 Technical Program - We are set this month, we have a plant tour of Reuther Mold. Cleveland Section has the lead on this. Dec 5 is the Christmas party at The Taverne at Richfield. We are not planning any program other than the Madrigal singers. Jan 9 - We have secured an excellent speaker from the local area Jeff Hoffman of Priceline.com fame - a high energy, very active, successful entrepreneur, proven CEO, worldwide motivational speaker and executive producer. Jeff has informed he will speak on “The Habits and Tools of the World’s Most Innovative People”.Nicole reminded that we need to be sure to provide all details on Program for website to her as well for Jenny for Newsletter.

House—Gary Taylor/Bob WegelinGary reports all locations are set for this year- Akron Section developed at Hilton and Taverne of Richfield-Holiday Party, plus Firestone for Awards Banquet Note: Cleveland Section meetings set at Tours and one at Hilton.

Minutes of Board Meeting – November 7, 2016

Program Committee—Tom McQuaideTom and Bob Weiler will begin to work along with new extended Committee - in process to develop next year’s programs using results from survey from this past year and options noted for this year - first meeting set for Nov 9- Hilton with Cleveland.

Membership--Sahil GuptaSahil reports that numbers have appeared to decrease but due to recent national logistics issues will re- review and confirm- if so we will look into the persons listed in detail.Sahil has requested Jenny send out Survey for one last time.

Treasurer--Gary TaylorGary was present and carried out an indepth review of the Financials- in good order, taxes are filed.

Councilor--Kevin MalpassNo report.Need cliff notes version from last Council Meeting as it appears changes are in the offing in US and Europe.

Student Chapter—Marcos Pantoja with Tzu Yu Lai and Anisa CobajMarcos continues to mentor the new PESO representatives and review items that Student Chapter usually does including new ideas and increased involvement, still planning to provide Calendar of events planning a membership drive- Nov 16, in addition Holiday Party scheduled for Friday Dec 16, plan to provide list of PESO led seminars Students PESO and SPE Students continue to attend Akron Section meetings and help at future TOPCONs.They have requested funding for Membership drive – discussed advantages and benefits, voted on and passed support to aid their drive- next week. – In addition they provided budget for Holiday Party and reviewed their needs BOD voted funds to help SPE Std Chapter offset the costsCouncilor-To confirm SPI still handling student support.

Public Interest/Website/Advertising—Tony DeanTony provided a report covering all updates on posting of meetings in local newspapers, along with in PE Magazine, request new advertisers and thanked current four advertisers for 2016-17.BOD Suggested that we determine potential interest of Vinyltec advertisers from past year to continue for upcoming year.Need to review potential Education oriented article.

Website Improvement/utilization—Tony Dean/Nicole BrostowitzNicole notes as we move forward need pictures at meeting please send to Nicole and pictures now on Facebook- they feature our members so tag a way!!DRS has asked Missi for Hands On Plastic kit pictures and descriptions for Facebook and web.BOD suggests we consider placing Student postings for job interest as we most recently last year started posting Industrial positions.

Newsletter—Tony Dean

Minutes of Board Meeting – November 7 (cont.)

Awards—Keith PelfreyKeith reports he will handle new Pinnacle Award- please make sure to provide Keith with any input as he reviews this years’ requirements- will need Financials and Plans for Budget for next year plus GOALS- TDB. He will as well handle development for Awards for this year including International recognition, local and Section.

Education Committee—John FellensteinJohn reports that all is set as we start new year –new Scholarship format is set- BOD determined would be good to re-develop the trifold to copy ready and web friendly format- one page Scholarships have been sent to a more diverse group of students with aspirations in the STEM arena as engineers dealing with polymers and various other materials along with physics majors so we can gather more students Tom McQuaide will continue to help and provide input along with Kevin Cavicchi. We will as well be looking into a more diverse list as well reviewing thoughts with ACESS contact. Need to review-- NSTA Teachers Meeting in Columbus in early Dec and to help her man booth to include our Table top and do hands on STEM experiments.John reports Dori Hess – recent speaker at April Teacher Night potential Polymer Ambassador candidate.John has noted --NSTA- set for Columbus- Missi had mentioned Dec 1-3 he may plan to attendSpring 2017 a number of Science Fairs for students including; Science Olympiad- March 11, Science- District 5- March 18 and Akron Public Schools- TBD plus interest potential in Rubber Band Contest- engineering aspects.

Education Foundation—Bob WegelinNo report.

TPE TOPCON—Viv MalpassViv reports that TOPCON went well with close to 180 attendees and 39 present for first time Primer on TPE. Plans to soon wrap up- this years activities and TPE SIG is suggesting a Sept 2018 date for Akron as it appears to be very centrally located.

Old Business:Potential speakers for large events. Still to be considered for future:Thogus PresidentCEO Baerlocher- Edward HallCEO- Newlight Technologies-Robert Heerema- Calif


New Business:Goals for 2016-17BOD did review in detail the goalsBelow noted commentary for each listed Goal- K Pelfrey to gather commentary and review with Bob Weiler and Tom McQuaide :

Akron Section SPE - 2016/2017 goals

1) Membershipa) Given our current membership of 276, achieve an annual growth rate of 2% to increase our membership by 5 members.

i) Welcome new members to section by emailii) Recognize new members at section meetings

2) Technical Programminga) Develop programs that are attended by 20% of the section members – 55 members in attendance

i) Coordinate with Cleveland Section to develop 9 technical meetings.3) Communication

a) Issue monthly newsletter to membershipb) Send eblast notices for monthly section meetingsc) Regularly update Akron Section web paged) Regularly update Akron Section facebook page

4) Student Chaptera) Increase involvement of U of A Student Chapter

5) Member recognitiona) Nominate members for SPE recognition, Honored Service Member, Fellowb) Nominate members for local section recognition, Zieken award

6) Communitya) Coordinate with non-SPE organizations like ACESS

7) Organizationa) Add 2 new BOD members

Confirm timing for new Goals –calendar year , SPE year etc??Comments:1 Confirm current number members, compare last year- determine best %2 Clarify attendance numbers- members vs attendees3 Similar goals with monthly update and added ties with Plastic News4 Continued support and involvement…5 Similar with Hall of Honor added6 Similar with added support enhancing STEM activities, Polymer Ambassadors, Plasti Van7 Plans to bring on 2 BOD- in process

AdjournmentMeeting was adjourned. Next BOD Meeting November 28 at U of A Polymer Engineering.


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Akron Section SPE Past Presidents

1959-1960 Donald F. Siddall1960-1961 Milan Krajcik1961-1962 Foster J. Young1962-1963 Dickson L. Stoker, III1963-1964 Edward L. Hillier1964-1965 John R. Russell1965-1966 John R. Russell1966-1967 Clyde H. Jones1967-1968 Alan Corry, Jr.1968-1969 Bernard M. Saffian1969-1970 Harold R. Schick1970-1971 Robert G. Hills1971-1972 John J. Satterfield1972-1973 Alexis M. Gross1973-1974 Francis J. Maurer1974-1975 Leverett A. Anderson, Jr.1975-1976 Robert M. Hershey1976-1977 Richard L. Fleshman1977-1978 David Curtis1978-1979 John A. Zelek, Jr.1979-1980 Gerald W. Whitnable1980-1981 Kathleen N. Bechter1981-1982 Victor E. Giuffrida1982-1983 James Steiner1983-1984 Robert G. Hills1984-1985 Anthony F. Dean, Jr.1985-1986 Gene Buser1986-1987 Harry J. Barth1987-1988 Judith A. Fallon

1988-1989 William E. Tosko1989-1990 Robert C. Wegelin1990-1991 Geraldine R. Stromquist1991-1992 Spencer Kreiser1992-1993 Robert C. Wegelin1993-1994 Anthony F. Dean, Jr.1994-1995 Wayne Decamp1995-1996 Melanie Stewart1996-1997 Kevin Hershfield1997-1998 David Schultz1998-1999 John Raab1999-2000 Gary Taylor2000-2001 Kevin Malpass2001-2002 Kenneth L. Sharp2002-2003 Joseph E. Pfeiffer2003-2004 Robert C. Wegelin2004-2005 Joseph Mattingly2005-2006 Lloyd A. Goettler2006-2007 John Woodside2007-2008 Vivian Malpass2008-2009 Joseph Mattingly2009-2010 David A. Katz2010-2011 Lloyd A. Goettler2011-2012 David Schultz2012-2013 Kevin Malpass2013-2014 Dan Jones2014-2015 Vivian Malpass2015-2016 Keith Pelfrey2016-2017 Robert Weiler

58 years of excellence

The Akron Section is inneed of New Board Members.

Please consider becoming aBoard Member

to help support your Section.

Contact anyone currentlyon the board (see page 17)

if you are interested.Thank You!

The Akron SPE Section

is happy to post local

job openings in the

plastics industry for 90

days for any member.

Please contact a board

member if you are

interesting in posting.

Programs for 2016 / 2017

Sept. 12 The Technology HouseCarbon CLIP Process Demo and Tour

-- Streetsboro – Cleveland*

Sept. 20-22 12th TPE TopConStretching Performance with TPEs

-- Hilton Fairlawn – Akron*

Oct. 10 VadxxScrap Plastic to Oil


Nov. 14 Reuther MoldMold Design and Manufacture –Plant Tour

-- Cuyahoga Falls – Cleveland *

Dec. 5 Holiday CelebrationMadrigal Singers and Speaker

-- Taverne of Richfield – Akron*

Anisa Cobaj 216-672-8392 TStudent - U Akron Polymer Eng. [email protected], Student Chapter SPE Liaison

John Fellenstein 330-972-6334 TU Akron Polymer Engineering 330-972-2624 FDirector, Student Chapter Advisor [email protected]

Bob Wegelin 330-414-1498 TRetired [email protected], Education Foundation

Tony Dean 330-929-9916 TRetired – Director, Public Interest, [email protected]

Joe Mattingly 330-962-5299 TGoodyear Tire & Rubber Co. 330-896-7379 FDirector [email protected]

Sahil Gupta 330-296-1421 TParker Hannifin Corp. 330-296-8433 FDirector, Membership [email protected]

Nicole Brostowitz 330-202-4466 TSeaman Corp. [email protected], Internet Communications

Kevin Cavicchi 330-972-8368 TU Akron Polymer Engineering 330-258-2339 FDirector [email protected]

Robert Weiler 330-283-9024 TAmfine Chemical Corp. [email protected]/Chair, Technical Program

Tom McQuaide 330-630-7113 TA. Schulman 330-630-3349 FPresident/Chair-elect, [email protected] Program, Awards,Education

Dave Schultz 330-798-6535 THarwick Standard Dist. Corp. 330-798-9328 FSecretary [email protected]

Gary Taylor 330-419-4380 TRetired [email protected], House

Kevin Malpass 330-490-4743 TDiebold, Inc. 330-490-4788 FCouncilor [email protected]

Keith Pelfrey 330-212-9174 TRetired [email protected]

Vivian Malpass 330-342-1120 TTek-Mark International 330-342-1134 FPrior Past President, [email protected] 2016

Tzu-Yu Lai 626-693-0532 TStudent - U Akron Polymer Eng. [email protected], Student Chapter SPE Liaison

Akron SectionBoard of Directors

Jan. 9 ColorJar – Jeff Hoffman-- Hilton Fairlawn – Joint ACESS*

Feb. 13 Cleveland Federal Reserve BankNE Ohio Economy

-- Hilton Fairlawn – Akron/Cle*

Mar. 13 Valtris: Additives Development andMfg, Plant Tour

-- Independence – Cleveland *

Apr. 10 Industry / Teacher CollaborationPlastics in Education


May 15 Akron Section Awards Night-- Firestone Country Club – Akron

Meetings are joint with ClevelandSection with host section denoted by *

Akron Section Society of Plastics Engineers Educational Foundation

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The Akron Society of Plastics Engineers Educational Foundation operates exclusively for the benefit of and to carry out the purposes of the Akron Section of the Society of Plastics Engineers, which is to promote scientific and engineering knowledge relating to plastics by making educational scholarship grants to deserving students in the field of plastics engineering and related subjects. The Organization is supported primarily by contributions from the Akron Society of Plastics Engineers, the Society's individual members and corporations like yours affiliated with the polymer industry.

Since the inception in 1988, the Akron Society of Plastics Engineers Educational Foundation has grown to its current position through the hard work of many volunteers and the generosity of the local business community. Over the twenty-seven years that the foundation has been in existence, it has provided scholarships to over 250 young men and women totaling in excess of $320,000 to assist them in furthering their careers in the polymer industry.

Our goal is to continue to grow the assets of the Foundation in order to increase the number of scholarships awarded, as well as the size of the awards, and to do so in perpetuity. In doing this, we hope to be able to contribute to the supply of well-trained individuals to support the growth of the polymer industry in the Northeast Ohio area today and well into the future.

When the Foundation began its fund raising activities in 1988, we offered those companies who contributed $30,000 a scholarship in their name. To date we have five named scholarships, Newell/Rubbermaid, Goodyear, Ken Sharp Memorial and Jim Steiner Memorial scholarships. We are asking your company to help with the growth of well-trained individuals in the local polymer industry. Please print this page, fill out the information and mail it to Bob Wegelin, 13206 Kaufman Ave. NW Hartville, OH 44632.

Akron SPE Scholarship Donation Commitment[ ] $30,000 lump sum. __________________________________________[ ] $10,000/yr. next 3yrs.[ ] $5,000/yr. next 6 yrs.[ ] Other: ____________________________________________________

Company name: ____________________________________________________Contact person: ____________________________________________________Ph. # or email: ____________________________________________________

Our named scholarship donors are recognized at the annual Awards Night of the Akron Society of Plastics Engineers. We invite you to present your tax deductible donation at our Awards Night, which is scheduled on May 9, 2016.

We are looking forward to your support of this very worthwhile cause by your fine company. Please contact me at (330) 414-1498 with any questions. Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,Bob Wegelin, Foundation ChairAkron Section Society of Plastics Engineers, Educational Foundation

Akron Section Society of Plastics Engineers Tony Dean, Advertising Manager

330-929-9916

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