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PDA EUROPE 2008 ANNUAL CONFERENCE AND TABLE TOP EXHIBITION 18 – 20 November 2008 Austria Trend Parkhotel Schönbrunn, Vienna Companies wanting to find out about the very latest developments in the polyurea industry should register to attend the second Polyurea Development Association Europe (PDA Europe) annual conference. The event, named “Taking Polyurea to the Next Level”, will take place from 18 to 20 November at the Austria Trend Parkhotel Schönbrunn, Vienna. SUBMIT A PAPER! By presenting a paper at this conference, you provide your organisation with invaluable industry visibility; gain recognition amongst your peers; reinforce your expertise within the POLYUREA community; and create the opportunity of advising suppliers of your needs. Papers are invited from polyurea coating professionals - from raw material suppliers to applicators. Possible topics include: • case studies on the use of polyurea coatings • new technical developments or chemistry • environmental and stewardship issues (REACH, regulatory developments, approvals etc) • application technologies The short summary and presenter’s biography of the accepted papers will be included in the official event booklet. Submission conditions: • Presentations must not focus on promotion of a company or its products. • All abstracts must be in English and e- mailed using the Abstract Submission Form • Abstracts should be limited to 250 words and accompanied by presenter's biography of 100 words and photo • Include the names of all authors of the presentation. • The invitation to submit an abstract does not constitute an offer to pay travel or accommodation • By submitting an abstract, you grant the organisers permission to include the electronic format of the presentation in the conference cd rom for the event - unless otherwise noted. • The PDA Europe Programme Committee will review all abstracts. The committee reserves the right to accept and reject abstracts for inclusion in the program. • Responsibility for the accuracy of abstracts rests with the author. • An abstract which does not adhere to these requirements is unlikely to be accepted. • Further instructions on presentation requirements will be provided in the notification letter and in additional correspondence. Deadlines: Abstract Submission Form : 5th May 2008 Powerpoint Presentations : 15th October 2008 PDA EUROPE BOARD OF DIRECTORS President Marc Broekaert Huntsman marc_broekaert@huntsman.com Treasurer Patrick Merlin ALBEMARLE Corporation patrick.merlin@albemarle.com President-elect Bernd Dietz Rema Tip Top Bernd.Dietz@tiptop.de MEMBERS Werner Bertleff BASF werner.bertleff@basf.com Karl H. Wührer Bayer MaterialScience AG karl-heinrich.wuehrer@bayermaterialscience.com Dominique Smits De Neef Conchem d.smits@deneef.eu Romuald Bartczak Flexguard romuald@flexguard.be Alain Descampe Imexfa sa a.descampe@imexfa.be Michael Byrne Liquid Plastics mnb@liquidplastics.co.uk Alain van Oorsouw Elastogran alain.vanoorsouw@elastogran.nl International Directors Murph Mahaffey GlasCraft mahaffeym@glascraft.com Alliance Director Lee Bower Polyvers lee@polyvers.com PDA EUROPE SECRETARIAT Rachel Barlow Dana Popp Françoise Maon Avenue Marcel Thiry 204, Brussels, Belgium Tel: +32 2 774 9611 Fax: +32 2 774 9690 E-mail: pda-europe@keleneurope.com PODIUM | FIRST QUARTER 2008 | 14
SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES The PDA Europe Conference provides a great marketing opportunity to a targeted audience and is an excellent place to network. Don’t miss the opportunity to profile your company during the second industry event and sponsor a conference function. The sponsorship opportunities are now open on our website. TABLE TOPS The table top exhibition will be running along the annual conference, providing the opportunity to promote your company and products to a wide audience. The exhibition space will be located directly outside the conference room where lunches and breaks will be held. The exhibitors’ description and logo will be included in the official event booklet. In addition when booking your table top space, your company will get 1 delegate place for free. Exhibitors can either use the tables provided by the hotel or bring their own displays. Please note that table top places are limited and that we allocate spaces on a first come-first served basis. For further details and to download the Abstract Submission Form, Sponsorship and Exhibition Forms, please visit the PDA Europe website: www.pda-europe.org Details about registration, hotel reservation, conference programme, polyurea trainings and live demonstrations will follow soon! PDA EUROPE NEWS: April 2008 – PDA Europe new website was launched. Visit http://pda-europe.org for updated information on membership, events, industry resources and news! April 2008 – PDA Europe presence at Euromaintenance Fair in Brussels Dominique Smits (De Neef Conchem) and Tom Waisfisch (Megacoatings) represented PDA Europe at the 19th edition of the Euromaintenance Fair which took place in Brussels between 8 and 10 April. March 2008 – PDA Europe Presence at UTECH Europe 2009 Polyurea Development Association Europe will play a key role at the upcoming UTECH Europe 2009 Conference, by organising a full morning session devoted to the recent technical and commercial development of this exciting new technology. All aspects of the technology, including its position in the international marketplace, will be covered in a series of papers from the major partners in the PDA-Europe as well as other presentations from companies active in the sector. The UTECH Europe 2009 event, a major international conference and exhibition for the sector, will run 31 st March – 2 nd April 2009 in the Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre (MECC) in Maastricht, the Netherlands. The Polyurea session will complement the full afternoon of presentations being coordinated by ISOPA (the European Diisocyanate and Polyols Producers Association) on the second day of the conference, 1 April. This is planned to involve a variety of specialists addressing key issues including an overview of polyurethane sustainability; users’ experiences of ISOPA’s safe-working programme — Walk the Talk; and the latest status of the European Union’s REACH legislation (Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals), which is now well into implementation. PDA EUROPE MEMBER COMPANIES Aceto Europe Adcos NV Advanced Plastics Benelux BV Albemarle Europe SPRL Alpina Sicherheitssysteme GmbH Aplicamus-Sinalizacao E revestimentos LDA Azelis Benelux NV BASF Aktiegesellschaft BASF Construction Chemicals Europe AG Baule UK limited Bayer Materialscience AG BCA NV Brayan International FZE Carboline Norge Chemique Adhesives & Sealants Ltd. CMCI Collano Ltd. Collinda De Neef Conchem Dominator Aps Dow Hyperlast ECC NV Elastogran Elastomonotoki LTD Elmico Erik Kalland ESP Benelux Flexcoat Industries BV Flexguard BVBA FluidSystems GmbH&Co. KG Foam Spray LTD Fosroc International Garraf Maquinaria GlasCraft Graco NV Harzlack Ltd Hercules GMBH Huntsman Europe Imexfa SA Improrep Canarisas S.L. Investigation y desarrollo de polyurea (IDP) Isothane JB-Services BVBA Julio Crespo SA Kobato BV Leighs Paints Lindberg & Lund AS Liquid Plastics Limited Lonza LTD Pearl Insulation Materials Industries LLC Polinvent LTD Polycraft GmbH Polymer Institut Polyvers International LLC Prokol Polymers & Compunds BV Pultex Kunststofftechnikhandel GMBH Puran Rema Tip Top GMBH Seal Systems Ireland Limited Sigor Hesselberg Sinitalia SRL Tambour Polyurea Too Kazkor Uniplastic-Pu AG United Foam ApS PODIUM | FIRST QUARTER 2008 | 15
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