HOLIDAY PARTY WITH SPE PRESIDENT AND FIRESTONE MADRIGAL SINGERS

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1 SPEC SHEET SOCIETY OF PLASTICS ENGINEERS CLEVELAND SECTION DECEMBER 2018 VOL. 62 NO. 4 HOLIDAY PARTY WITH SPE PRESIDENT AND FIRESTONE MADRIGAL SINGERS SPE PROGRAM MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2018 Our December 10 program will be hosted by the Akron Section and held at The Galaxy Restaurant at 201 Park Center Dr, Wadsworth, OH. Dr. Brian Grady, President of the SPE, will provide the presentation - SPE: The Past, The Present and The Future. Past Presidents of the Akron Section will be recognized and honored. As has become our tradition, the Firestone Madrigal Singers will provide entertainment. The nearby Holiday Inn is offering a special rate of $100 for the evening. LOCATION: The Galaxy Restaurant 201 Park Center Dr, Wadsworth, OH. Pricing: $30 members $30 non-members $25 retirees $10 students *New members free AGENDA: 5:30pm: Hors D oeuvres/social time 6:10pm: Dinner 6:45pm: Firestone Madrigals 7:10pm: Speaker RESERVATIONS: Please submit your reservation by noon on Wednesday, December 5 to akronspe1@gmail.com or call Gary Taylor at Be sure to include your company affiliation and any dietary restrictions. BOARD MEETING: December Cleveland Section Board conference call: Monday, December 17, :00 6:30 pm Call-in details to be provided by Todd Waddle Reminder: January 2019 Program and Board meeting January 14, 2019

2 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ R e g i s t e r N o w ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Akron SPE Holiday and 60 th Anniversary Celebration Meeting Information Member and/or guest $30 Retired $25 Student $10 New Member - first meeting Free Hors D oeuvre and Social 5:30 p.m. Dinner 6:10 p.m. Firestone Madrigals 6:45 p.m. Speaker 7:10 p.m. Reservations must be in by noon on Wed., Dec. 5 and can be made to Gary Taylor at or akronspe1@gmail.com Be sure to include your company affiliation and dietary restrictions. Monday, December 10 Galaxy Banquet Center in Wadsworth We will honor and recognize past Presidents of the Akron Section SPE: The Past, The Present and the Future Dr. Brian P. Grady President, SPE-Inspiring Plastics Professionals Douglas and Hilda Bourne Chair in Chemical Engineering Director, School of Chemical, Biological and Materials Eng. Director, Institute for Applied Surfactant Research University of Oklahoma The Holiday Inn is offering a special rate of $100 for the evening stay reference the Galaxy Event Rate. Featuring the Firestone Madrigal Singers

3 DIRECTIONS TO THE GALAXY RESTAURANT The Galaxy Restaurant 201 Park Center Dr, Wadsworth, OH. PRESIDENT S MESSAGE SPE CLEVELAND - DECEMBER I would like to take this opportunity to wish all our Cleveland SPE members warm wishes for a safe, happy and loving Holiday Season with friends and family and I very much hope to see many of you at our upcoming Christmas Party at the Galaxy Restaurant in Wadsworth, OH on December 10th. I would also like to thank all of our Board Members for their hard work and dedication to the section this past year, with a particular expression of gratitude to our Past President, Ron Raleigh. We made great progress last year under his stewardship. Thanks Ron. Being that this is the Holiday Season and we are all imbued with a sense of good cheer and generosity, I would like to announce that Cleveland SPE has created a separate Education/Scholarship fund to help us finance our scholarship programs and as it grows, we will be able to finance additional plastic educational programs. We have opened a special account with initial donations and I hope that many of you will consider making a donation to fund this worthy program. Please contact me as Education Chairman or John Sovis as Treasurer to make a contribution. We will provide a contribution box at our future meetings. Happy Holidays to all and I hope to see you on December 10th in Wadsworth. DENNIS MEADE President SPE Cleveland

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5 CALL FOR NEW BOARD MEMBERS As a member of the Cleveland Section, please consider volunteering for a board position. Several positions are available depending on your interest. The work of the board is critical and relies on technical, commercial, industrial or academic leaders like yourself to achieve our mission. In addition, the experiences gained are invaluable. Please contact the Communication Chair at SPE- CleComm@gmail.com for details. CALL FOR PAPERS May Conference John Carroll University SPE Cleveland has been offered a presentation session at the Microscopy Society of Northeast Ohio s annual May conference. The conference will be conducted on John Carroll University s picturesque campus in University Heights OH on May 22, The conference gathers stakeholders from local universities, businesses and technical societies together to present and exhibit in the fields of chemistry, spectroscopy, microscopy and more. The main topics for our session will be Plastics and Polymers, but can include any subject within those fields, though it may be best to focus on analytical methods. We are asking for 3 or 4 presentations from our members or your companies to make up a full speaker session at the event. If you, or someone at your company or facility have a topic, project or presentation you would like to present, please reach out to our Communications Chair at SPECle- Comm@gmail.com for registration information. We appreciate your consideration of presenting at the event and hope that you can help us build an informative and beneficial session.

6 NOVEMBER 12, 2018 TECHNICAL PROGRAM PROGRAM HOST JIM MADERITZ Plant Manger, Twinsburg Facility Quality Synthetic Rubber Strengthened by a merger with Lexington Rubber in 2012, QSR s skilled workforce offers customers a unique combination of technical expertise, advanced manufacturing practices and something seldom available from rubber companies product development. Engineers know they can rely on QSR s engineering, research, development and technical expertise to meet all their needs for products requiring a high level of engineering due to material properties, temperature requirements and tight tolerances. In fact, the majority of insulator and connector seal material for products QSR manufactures is internally compounded from proprietary formulations. QSR principal product lines include: Connector seals used in electrical connectors and wire harnesses to protect connections from harmful elements like oil, water, salt and dust Insulators for automotive ignition systems to seal and insulate terminals on the spark plug and distributor QSR invited our sections to tour their facility for our November program. Their facility is quite large, well organized and very clean. Their primary manufacturing process is compression molded plastic articles of small to medium sizes from an internally-produced silicone rubber compound. Injection molding is also used but to a lesser extent. The inherent number of process steps molding, cleaning, over-molding, coating, etc requires a very sophisticated material flow control system. QSR staff was on hand to explain their processes, business, applications and materials and to answer any questions. In spite of a very busy work schedule, their people were able to accommodate us in their work areas. We thank QSR for the opportunity.

7 NOVEMBER TECHNICAL PROGRAM ATTENDEES Host: Rik Keeley, Technical Program Chair, Cleveland Section SPEC SHEET : SPE CLEVELAND NEWSLETTER SPECLECOMM@GMAIL.COM EDITOR: CRAIG POTTER

8 MINUTES SPE CLEVELAND BOARD MEETING NOVEMBER 12 ATTENDEES (ALL VIA TELECONFERENCE): D. Crist (House), J.Sovis (Treasurer), B. Opalko (Secretary), D. Meade (President, Education), C. Potter (Communications / Sponsors), J. Blayne (Councilor), L. Nie (Membership), M. Ghosh NEW BUSINESS: D. Meade proposed hosting a 3-D Printing TOPCON to the members. In the CLE section, there are developers, users and filament makers. Board member T. Waddle is currently focused on this technology. Members agreed to move forward, maybe targeting The Extrusion Div. wants to have a 1-day TOPCON in the 2nd half of R. Raleigh, J. Blayne and C. Potter will be the point people. TREASURER: J. Sovis circulated the amended budget, and members approved it. He will meet with Huntington Bank on options for the proposed CLE Section SPE Endowment Fund. We are confirmed to be a 510(c)(3) organization. COMMUNICATIONS: C. Potter needs to have the minutes within 5 days of the meeting in order to get the Newsletter out on time. Members agreed on a teleconference Board meeting at 5PM on HOUSE: 26 attendees for tonight s tour of Quality Synthetic Rubber. MEMBERSHIP: Li Nie noted that the membership total stands at 153, with 6 to 7 members new or renewed. Members agree that we need to contact delinquent members. L. Nie will review PPA questionnaire from D. Meade, and modify it for our uses. Members agreed that we should use Survey Monkey or MailChimp. Target date of January EDUCATION: The Dean of Engineering at LCCC is asking for employment data in the Lorain County area for those in plastics. D. Meade will meet with her in January Terra Technical College contacted D. Meade about support, since the Firelands section was disbanded. Members had no recommendations. FUTURE PROGRAMS: R. Keeley will meet with his counterpart in the Akron section to coordinate programs in late The following companies were contacted for future programs: Smart Shape, Automation Plastics, Cobra. Other prospective tours: Nottingham Spirk (must be an afternoon tour), Thogus, Technology House. The Akron Education Night is on , and members agree that this is a good event to attend. COUNCILOR: J. Blayne noted that the next meeting is

9 PROGRAM SCHEDULE: DATE TOPIC TITLE COMPANY LOCATION 12/10/18 Holiday Party Madrigal Singers Wadsworth 1/14/19 ACESS Akron 2/19/19 Plant tour Thermoset Molding Mar-Bal Mentor 3/11/19 TBD Extrusion Event After-market Suppliers Akron 4/8/19 Education Night Magnet presentation Akron 5/13/19 Education Awards Science Fair Award winners Cleveland UPCOMING SPE EVENTS

10 SPE CLEVELAND SECTION OFFICERS AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS PRESIDENT Dennis Meade Chroma Colors PAST PRESIDENT Ron Raleigh BYK Additives & Instruments COUNCILOR Jerry Blayne Professional Polymer Technical Services, LLC TREASURER John Sovis SECRETARY Robert Opalko Biothane Coated Webbing HOUSE Dan Crist Component Mfg. and Design EDUCATION / STUDENTS Dennis Meade Chroma Colors dmeade@chromacolors.com AWARDS Dennis Meade Chroma Colors dmeade@chromacolors.com MEMBERSHIP Li Nie Lubrizol Li.Nie@lubrizol.com WEBSITE/NEWSLETTER Craig Potter PlastExt, LLC cwp654@gmail.com ADVERTISING Craig Potter PlastExt, LLC cwp654@gmail.com TECHNICAL PROGRAMS Rik Keeley Quality Synthetic Rubber rwkplastics1@yahoo.com Guojun Zhang A Schulman guojun.zhang@aschulman.com Todd Waddle MHolland twaddle@mholland.com Monoj Ghosh Sherwin-Williams mg84@zips.uakron.edu