SpecialChem4Polymers.com eTraining Courses in Plastics & Elastomers Formulation

Fillers in Thermoplastics: Essential Principles for Efficient Optimization

Save time finding the cheapest solution that fulfills all your requirements by structuring your knowledge on fillers and how they influence thermoplastics performance. The implementation of these essential considerations will be discussed on April 4 to help you maximize efficiently performance and cost ratio in practice.

e-Training Course length: 90 min
Date: 10 a.m.Eastern Time, USA
4 p.m.Paris, Madrid, Rome Time

Presenter: Chris DeArmitt
Attendance Fee: 250 €

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Latest Barrier Solutions in Food Packaging

Clarify opportunities that are emerging for plastic materials in food packaging by reviewing the latest innovations in barrier technology (compostable films, scavengers, multi-layers...). Independent expert Dr. Donald Rosato will present his selection of new materials and technologies (green, cheap, more easily processed...) in barrier packaging to ease your strategic decisions on future developments.

e-Training Course length: 90 min
Date: 11 a.m.Eastern Time, USA
4 p.m.Paris, Madrid, Rome Time

Presenter: Dr. Donald Rosato
Attendance Fee: 290 €

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Fire Resistance Testing: Cone Calorimeter Made Easy

Optimize your formulations for lower flammability by increasing your ability to interpret results properly:

Assess flammability improvements so you can optimize formulations

Learn how to properly interpret heat release curves

Comprehensively understand data available from cone calorimetry (TTI, HRR, pHRR, ttpHRR, THR, EHC, FIGRA, SMOGRA etc)

e-Training Course length: 90 min
Date: 10 a.m.Eastern Time, USA
4 p.m.Paris, Madrid, Rome Time

Presenter: T Richard Hull
Attendance Fee: 250 €

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Filled Thermoplastics Optimization: Practical Formulation Strategy

Get an exclusive know-how and specific key attention points that will enable you to further boost performance of your filled thermoplastics (resistance, strength, processability, stability…), prevent failures and make savings.

e-Training Course length: 90 min
Date: 10 a.m.Eastern Time, USA
4 p.m.Paris, Madrid, Rome Time

Presenter: Chris DeArmitt
Attendance Fee: 320 €

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E&E Plastic Opportunities for miniaturization, recyclability, energy savings...

Structure your strategy and explore new routes to address emerging demand in electronic devices (miniaturization, lower energy consumption…) by benefiting from an expert review of the most impacting plastics material and technology innovations in this field.

e-Training Course length: 90 min
Date: 10 a.m.Eastern Time, USA
4 p.m.Paris, Madrid, Rome Time

Presenter: Dr. Donald Rosato
Attendance Fee: 290 €

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Latest Fuel Barrier Solutions and Opportunities for Higher Performance

Get a clear update on the complex regulatory demands, and clarify how fuels & biofuels affect the traditional solutions, in order to identify opportunities in new structures for the next generation of vehicles.

e-Training Course length: 90 min
Date: 10 a.m.Eastern Time, USA
4 p.m.Paris, Madrid, Rome Time

Presenter: Pierre Delbarre
Attendance Fee: 290 €

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Implementing Failure Analysis of Plastics in Practice

Attend this advanced session and strengthen your ability to avoid various failures in your plastics materials through practical case studies presented by our failure analysis expert, Jeffrey Jansen.

e-Training Course length: 90 min
Date: 11 a.m.Eastern Time, USA
4 p.m.Paris, Madrid, Rome Time

Presenter: Jeffrey A. Jansen
Attendance Fee: 290 €

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Failure Analysis of Plastics - Essential Introduction

Better understand and identify the different types of failures in your plastic parts for effective prevention / problem solving strategies relative to material selection, design & processed-in stress and service environment.

e-Training Course length: 90 min
Date: 10 a.m.Eastern Time, USA
4 p.m.Paris, Madrid, Rome Time

Presenter: Jeffrey A. Jansen
Attendance Fee: 250 €

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Latest Lightweight Solutions for Automotive Applications

Get a clear overview of opportunities arising for lighter vehicles & open-up to new solutions to reach weight reduction target faster with a selection of the most promising innovations. Material and process technologies will be discussed for their potential to reduce weight but also for the opportunity to achieve higher performance, reduce cost and simplify overall design.

e-Training Course length: 90 min
Date: 10 a.m.Eastern Time, USA
4 p.m.Paris, Madrid, Rome Time

Presenter: Dr. Donald Rosato
Attendance Fee: 290 €

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Green Buildings: Mapping Opportunities for Plastics

Get up-to-date on the opportunities arising for plastics in green building applications with a selection of the latest material innovations and application developments. It will help you accelerate your decision-making process on future R&D projects with a clearer view on material requirements, technology adoption and unmet needs.

e-Training Course length: 90 min
Date: 10 a.m.Eastern Time, USA
4 p.m.Paris, Madrid, Rome Time

Presenter: Dr. Donald Rosato
Attendance Fee: 290 €

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Environmental Stress Cracking Prediction & Prevention

Improve your plastic parts ESC resistance by predicting failure occurrence, analyzing its origin and implementing adequate prevention measures. After reviewing failure mechanisms and prediction methods, influence of polymer selection, design and environment on final performance will be discussed from a practical angle.

e-Training Course length: 90 min
Date: 10 a.m.Eastern Time, USA
4 p.m.Paris, Madrid, Rome Time

Presenter: Jeffrey A. Jansen
Attendance Fee: 250 €

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PVC Plasticizer Selection Strategies

Boost your ability to select plasticizer (phthalates, benzoates, EVA, TPU...) to fit with your application constraints, cost requirements, demand for phthalate-free PVC, failure prevention (embrittlement, staining, stress cracking) and much more to optimize performance of your PVC compounds.

e-Training Course length: 90 min
Date: 10 a.m.Eastern Time, USA
4 p.m.Paris, Madrid, Rome Time

Presenter: Richard Kozlowski
Attendance Fee: 250 €

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Searching & Mapping US Patents for Patentability (Part 1)

Expand your skills at searching and mapping patents and reduce risk of missing an important one that could ruin your own patentability or freedom to operate by getting practical advice to structure your search and to identify connections between patents for a given technology.

e-Training Course length: 90 min
Date: 10 a.m.Eastern Time, USA
4 p.m.Paris, Madrid, Rome Time

Presenter: Laurence Pearson
Attendance Fee: 290 €

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EU Food Contact Regulation:
Migration Testing, Declaration of Compliance & Liability Issues

Get expert insight on best strategies to ensure compliance with EU Food Contact regulation:

Select and perform migration tests for optimal data generation flexibility at minimum cost

Prepare and review efficiently Declaration of Compliance

Clarify responsibility & liability issues among the value chain

e-Training Course length: 90 min
Date: 10 a.m.Eastern Time, USA
4 p.m.Paris, Madrid, Rome Time

Presenter: Rachida Semail & Rob Veraart
Attendance Fee: 290 €

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Alternative Energy: What Opportunities for Plastics?

Get an up-to-date mapping of opportunities for engineering plastics (PA, POM, PPS...) and advanced composites (carbon fiber, E/S glass…) in alternative energy applications - wind, solar, tidal / waves, fuel cells. It will help you accelerate your decision-making process on future R&D projects with a clearer view on material requirements, technology adoption and unmet needs.

e-Training Course length: 90 min
Date: 10 a.m.Eastern Time, USA
4 p.m.Paris, Madrid, Rome Time

Presenter: Dr. Donald Rosato
Attendance Fee: 290 €

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Polyolefin-Based Alloys and Composites Optimization

Push back the limits of your polymer alloys, blends & composites by getting practical support to optimize their performance/cost ratio and lower failure rate. By better mastering compatibilization, you will be better equipped to expand into new applications with cost-effective polyolefin/polymer and polyolefin/filler combinations taking advantage of lower density and cost of polyolefins.

e-Training Course length: 90 min
Date: 10 a.m.Eastern Time, USA
4 p.m.Paris, Madrid, Rome Time

Presenter: Ashok Adur
Attendance Fee: 320 €

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US Patent Claims: How to Efficiently Read Them?

Increase your confidence when reading US patents and interpreting claims (what has been invented, what are the patent boundaries...) and adequately use the information to guide your product development, take advantage of patentable inventions and avoid law suits.

e-Training Course length: 90 min
Date: 10 a.m.Eastern Time, USA
4 p.m.Paris, Madrid, Rome Time

Presenter: Laurence Pearson
Attendance Fee: 290 €

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SpecialChem4Polymers.com eTraining Courses in Plastics & Elastomers Formulation

Fillers in Thermoplastics: Essential Principles for Efficient Optimization

Latest Barrier Solutions in Food Packaging

Fire Resistance Testing: Cone Calorimeter Made Easy

Filled Thermoplastics Optimization: Practical Formulation Strategy

E&E Plastic Opportunities for miniaturization, recyclability, energy savings...

Latest Fuel Barrier Solutions and Opportunities for Higher Performance

Implementing Failure Analysis of Plastics in Practice

Failure Analysis of Plastics - Essential Introduction

Latest Lightweight Solutions for Automotive Applications

Green Buildings: Mapping Opportunities for Plastics

Environmental Stress Cracking Prediction & Prevention

PVC Plasticizer Selection Strategies

Searching & Mapping US Patents for Patentability (Part 1)

EU Food Contact Regulation:Migration Testing, Declaration of Compliance & Liability Issues

Alternative Energy: What Opportunities for Plastics?

Polyolefin-Based Alloys and Composites Optimization

US Patent Claims: How to Efficiently Read Them?

EU Food Contact Regulation:
Migration Testing, Declaration of Compliance & Liability Issues