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Conference Agenda 2010
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5
1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.Workshop: Resins 101 - Hydrocarbons to Polymers
Doubletree Airport Hotel - Peel Aurora Room
Presented by Gus Garrett, Director of Education, Resin Technology Inc.
This 3-hour workshop is designed for plastics processors and will help them understand the key supply, demand and relative cost elements of the resin supply chain. It will provide an overview of how plastics are produced from the wellhead to finished product. It explains the basic processes of oil/natural gas extraction to production of finished parts. The workshop is not designed to be highly technical, although if audience members ask for details, they will be provided.
The Agenda is:
- The Plastics Black Box
- Crude & Natural Gas: Production and Refining
- Petrochemical Production
- Production, Capacity, Uses, Trade of Ethylene
- Production, Capacity, Uses, Trade of Polyethylene
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6
7:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.15th Annual Resin Outlook Conference
Doubletree Airport Hotel – International Rooms A & B
presented by Canadian Plastics magazine
|
Time |
Event |
| 7:45 - 8:30 a.m. | REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST Sponsored by Resin Technology Inc. |
| 8:30 - 8:45 a.m. | Welcome and Opening Remarks
Mark Stephen, Managing Editor, Canadian Plastics Magazine; Mark Badger, President & CEO, Canadian Plastics Industry Association |
| 8:45 - 9:25 a.m. | Resins 101 – From Hydrocarbons to Polymers Gus Garrett, Director of Education, Resin Technology Inc. Note: This is a recap of the workshop given on Oct. 5. |
| 9:25 - 10:05 a.m. | Economic Outlook for Canada and USA Patricia Mohr, Vice President Economics & Commodity Market Specialist, The Scotiabank Group |
| 10:05 - 10:35 a.m. | Outlook for Polyethylene, from a Resin Producer’s Viewpoint Kim McPhillips, Business Director, Polyethylene, NOVA Chemicals Inc. |
| 10:35 - 10:50 a.m. | REFRESHMENT AND NETWORKING BREAK
Sponsored by PolyOne |
| 10:50 - 11:30 a.m. | Outlook for Polyethylene and Polypropylene Resins Jim Virosco, Manager of Special Projects, Strategy, Nexant Chemsystems |
| 11:30 a.m. - Noon | Outlook for Biopolymers John Moisson, President, Jamplast Inc. |
| Noon - 12:30 p.m. | NETWORKING RECEPTION Sponsored by Trimac |
| 12:30 - 1:15 p.m. | LUNCHEON Co-sponsored by Clariant Masterbatches and Canadian Plastics |
| 1:15 - 1:55 p.m. | Outlook for Nylon and Polycarbonate Resins Paul Blanchard, Senior Consultant, Chemical Marketing Associates Inc. |
| 1:55 - 2:25 p.m. | Outlook for PET Resin
José Rengel, Manager, Aromatics & Derivatives Economic Services, DeWitt & Company, Inc. |
| 2:25 - 2:40 p.m. | REFRESHMENT AND NETWORKING BREAK Sponsored by Cantec Polymers Inc. |
| 2:40 - 3:10 p.m. | Outlook for PET from a Resin Producers' Viewpoint
Giovanni Iadeluca, CEO, Selenis Canada |
| 3:10 - 3:40 p.m. | Outlook for Polystyrene
Esteban Sagel, Director Polyolefins and Polystyrene, Chemical Marketing Associates Inc. |
| 3:40 - 4:10 p.m. | Outlook for PVC
Judith Taylor, Markets Editor, ICIS/Houston covering US & Latin American chlor-alkali Fatty acid/fatty alcohol oleochems |
| 4:10 - 4:15 p.m. | Closing Remarks Mark Stephen, Managing Editor, Canadian Plastics Magazine |
To view the 2009 Agenda, click here
