Mark your calendars for upcoming section meetings and tours:
Nov. 30, 2023 tour of Leistritz Extrusion Technology lab in Somerville, NJ
RSVP using this Google form by Nov. 22 latest. Attendance is limited.
Details:
Where: 169 Meister Ave., Branchburg, NJ. (Your map may say Somerville) Park at either 169 Meister Ave. or 175 Meister Ave. and enter through the front door at 169 Meister.
When: Thursday, Nov. 30, Tour at 2:30 pm. Please arrive by 2:15.
What: We will hear a 15 minute presentation regarding Leistritz Extrusion and descriptions of the machine demos we will see. We then proceed down the hall to the Leistritz Process Laboratory where we will view 3 or 4 extrusion lines in operation. Attendees are welcome to walk around the lab freely until we conclude at approximately 4pm.
Cost: The tour is courtesy
of Leistritz and no cost to attend but you must RSVP, attendance is limited.
Please note: Protective eye wear will be provided. Closed toed shoes are mandatory.
All are invited to an optional networking happy hour/dinner afterwards at Willie McBrides Irish Pub in Branchburg. Contact us at spepalisadesmidatlantic@ gmail.com with any questions.
RSVP at this link by Nov. 22 latest. Attendance is limited. We will confirm your attendance by email with additional details Nov. 24. Contact Ms. Lay Thu lthu@ leistritz-extrusion.com if you have any problems with the form.
About Leistritz
Leistritz Extrusion manufactures co-rotating, intermeshing twin screw extruders (TSEs) with screw diameters from 12 to 260 millimeters, and supplies systems for compounding, devolatilization, reactive processing, foaming and direct extrusion. Areas of specialization include: compounding of concentrate and hi-temperature/filled engineering resins; integration of TSEs into film and sheet systems; and various life science applications for the medical device, pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industries. A fully equipped New Jersey process laboratory is available for testing novel processes. For information, please contact:sales@leistritz-extrusion.com
Past meetings
Oct. 26, 2023
Penn Color, which manufactures color concentrates and pigment dispersions for plastics, hosted our SPE section to tour its global headquarters and manufacturing facility located in Hatfield, PA. Participants were very impressed with the tour and appreciated the opportunity for interactive, hands-on learning about color matching and masterbatch production. Some who were relatively new to the industry called it “eye opening” and we are especially appreciative of Penn Color for sharing our mission to educate. Many thanks to Penn Color for their generosity in hosting the tour and networking dinner! Click here for some background about Penn Color.
Sept. 21, 2023
Thank you to Lehigh University’s professors Ray Pearson and our presenters for hosting us Sept. 21, 2023 in Lehigh’s mixed and virtual reality lab in the new Health, Science and Technology Building that allows viewers to interact with holograms. We were able to try out the HoloLens2 ‘smart glasses’ and experience a unique way to imagine and interact with molecular structures for ourselves. We heard about research in biomedical 3D-printing from Materials Science and Bioengineering professor Lesley Chow and saw a demonstration of 3D modeling from Visiting Scholar in Lehigh’s Nano | Human Interfaces (NHI) Presidential Initiative, Joan Stanescu.
To read more about Lesley Chow’s research see: Research – the chow lab, and to read more about Joan Stanescu’s work see: BioPrinting Scaffold | Nano | Human Interfaces (NHI) Presidential Initiative (lehigh.edu) . For more about the new building see: Health, Science and Technology Building .
Jan. 19, 2023
Thank you to Dr. Arya Tewatia for his Jan. 19 presentation on “Structure, properties, and processing of graphene reinforced thermoplastic polymer composites formed in-situ by a high-shear process”
