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A Acciona Infraestructuras
Acoem Group
Akerman Senterfitt LLP
American Artisan BIcycles Inc
ATK Aerospace Group
Aspen Research Corporation
B BASF
C Chomarat
Chopper College, MN
CIC
Compose
Connectra
Cytec Engineered Materials Inc
D Dieffenbacher North America Inc
E Ecole Polytechnique de Lusanne
Epsilon
G Gordon Holdings, Incorporated
Gurit
H Hanyang University
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J Johns Manville The City College of New York
K Kazak Composites The Ontario BioAuto Council
Kuka Roboter GmbH Ticona Engineering Polymers
M Mag Toyota Motor Corporation
Materials Innovation Technologies, LLC TPI Composites
Matrasur Composites Tractile Pty Ltd
Mitsubishi Plastics Composites U U.S. Army Research Laboratory
America, Inc. University of Porto
Mitsubishi Rayon Company, Ltd. V Victrex plc
O Oracle W Witshire and Grannis LLP
P Plasan Carbon Composites WhiteCloud Innovations
PolyOne WPI
PPG Z Zoltek Companies
Q Quickstep Composites LLC
S Siemens PLM Software
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Dear composites professional,
Composite materials are a fast-growing sector. This is
why JEC, on the strength of its experience at both local
and international level, and its in-depth knowledge of the
markets and their stakeholders, aims to educate the mar-
ket by means of its numerous recognized media along
with programs of forums and conferences organized in
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Education: one of the priority missions of JEC
These programs allow you to:
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professionals, to select the companies and speakers most
suited to addressing the topics that count today. Not to
forget the involvement of universities, R&D centers and
designers, who also provide contributions on subjects of
prime importance, and whose involvement begins well
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North American composites market and all around.
New challenges for composites in Americas: increas-
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In the past decade, major advances are being made in
composites research and technology application. Composite
materials are experiencing a considerable growth in many
sectors business. This growth is explained by the need to
respond to both parts of the relief, the corrosion resistance
and mechanical strength.
Significant progress has been made in many industry
sectors, increasingly replacing metallic components with
light-weight and lower cost composite alternatives.
Manufacturers are looking for new materials: lighter,
environmental friendlier, but equally technically efficient.
They are commited in a continuous effort to reduce the
manufactured weight and production costs, in an effort to
improve performance. The use of composites to achieve
this end has been increasing.
Nowadays, it is essential to understand the importance
of working alone or with partners, the various technologi-
cal developments, constraints and opportunities or how
to learn from others. The I.C.S. conferences and forums in
Boston are an opportunity to meet stakeholders who rely
on a booming composite market and conferences that
promote the foremost Networking.
For our first year in the USA, JEC composites will explore
a large part of the application sectors. The I.C.S. program
provides a comprehensive approach to technical informa-
tion about new advances in composite materials, to bet-
ter prepare for the future.
We look forward to meeting you at the I.C.S. conferences
and forums in Boston.
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End-user Industry Technical forum
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Composites Design l6
Aeronautics l4
Automotive 22 Strategic forums
Construction & Building 20
Wind Energy 24 Regulations 8
Carbon l0

Cross-industry forums
Bio-Based Composites l2
Thermoplastics 18
Automation 26

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Gain insight into the JEC Americas 20l2 l.C.S. program
AERONAUTICS
From research to application in gas turbine
engines
The challenges in commercial aircraft
Improve product performance, quality, and
factory efficiency
Characterize a large variety of materials and
their dependence on various parameters
AUTOMOTIVE
Opportunities and challenges for automotive
in composites.
The use of prepreg carbon composites
in automotive.
Material characterization of natural fiber
New technology development for processing
composite parts.
Low cost materials and manufacturing options
for automotive.
CONSTRUCTION & BUILDING
The use of fibre-reinforced composite
materials (FRP) in Civil infrastructure.
Use of composites materials within the solar
and building industries.
Emergency conditions.
Pultrusion technology and trends.
WIND ENERGY
Overall strategy for the wind energy.
Next generation wind turbine blades.
Optimization of large composite structures.
End-user Industry forums
Todays aircraft make use of composite materials,
design methods, and manufacturing technologies
which are new to the field of large, commercial
airframe development. These technologies pre-
sent opportunities to improve the performance of
aircraft, but can also add cost if the appropriate
tools and development processes are not used and
managed properly. The usual challenges in com-
mercial aircraft design have been heightened by the
increased use of composite materials. Composite
materials have long been used in secondary struc-
ture in airframes, but increasingly are also being
used as primary structures, such as fuselages.
The use of composite materials in this application
The global automotive industry has emerged from
a period of crisis with a renewed sense of pur-
pose, namely, an open approach to innovations in
materials and manufacturing that lead to improve-
ments in performance, fuel economy, emissions
and sustainability. This session, organized by JEC
The session will advance the understanding and
application of FRP composites with the use of
fibre-reinforced composite materials (FRP) in con-
struction and building, the FRP Design and what
are the manufacturing challenges. Furthermore
it will present the use of composites materials
within the solar and building industries. Lastly,
it will point up that Pultrusion processing offers
an efficient and cost effective means to produce
The composites represent an important part in
the Wind Energy notably used in the manufactur-
ing of blades and poles. Composites ensure high
strength-to-Weight ratio, design flexibility, excellent
fatigue and corrosion resistance, and reduced drag.
Wind turbines increase rapidly and new materials,
new processes are required. The universities are
working closely with the industry in the aim to cor-
rect mechanical problems, decrease manufacturing
costs, increase performance and develop the use of
more carbon fiber which is certainly the next step
in the Wind Energy evolution. The wind turbine
industry is striving to capture more and more en-
presents the same challenges associated with piece
part development but adds additional challenges
associated with the assembly and integration of
these large composite structures that did not exist
when fuselages were primarily metallic. The situ-
ation in gas turbine engines is still much more
cautious. For the academics inspired by the poten-
tial of composites, and the challenges of the gas
turbine engine environment, this should provide
some insight into the research and technology
transfer needs of this industry. Most aerospace
structures made of laminated composites must
meet certain damage tolerance requirements and
regulations set forth by a governing agency.
and the Automotive and Composites Divisions of
the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE), highlights
the leading edge in these technologies and the
products they are enabling.
the large part sizes and high volumes demand
by the industry, while allowing intricate design
features such as vent openings or insulating
foam inserts to be introduced as pre-fabricated
elements, thus reducing on-site installation labor
costs. Furthermore Pultrusion offers many potential
advantages over wood products traditionally used
by the housing and commercial building industries.
-ergy through larger turbines. There are several
ways in which to achieve this such as supplying
longer blades on existing turbine designs to suit
light wind sites or installing offshore turbines
that are multi-megawatt requiring larger blades
that can withstand higher loading. Whatever the
approach, the limitations of E-Glass and infusion
technology are fast being reached, with much talk
in the industry about alternative fibres such as
high modulus glass or carbon. A step change in
performance however comes at a cost which must
be considered in a holistic commercial justification.
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Gain insight into the JEC Americas 20l2 l.C.S. program
AUTOMATION
Overall composites industry trends.
The interests to invest in Robotic.
Material advances for automation.
Expanding variety of aerospace applications.
BIO-BASED COMPOSITES
New development in the bio-composites.
Automotive and biocomposites: The new
challenges.
New product offers the highest possible
combination of economics, industrial,
mechanical and environmental performance.
THERMOPLASTICS
Driving New Solutions.
Optimizing Glass Fiber Reinforced.
Thermoplastics.
Challenges and Opportunities.
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Cross-Industry forums
Today, many sectors such as aerospace, automo-
tive, construction, energy for example are moving
toward composites. In a highly competitive context
we must be able to industrialize at a lower cost
to remain competitive. The process automation
solution appears effective against the competitors.
Today, biomass is increasingly being used as a
biofactory to make a portfolio of new genetically
optimised designer materials which are literally
building the infrastructure of the new economy
block by block from advanced, ultra-light-weight
biocomposites in automotive and aerospace appli-
cations to new high-tech twists on millennia-old
building construction materials. This session will
Thermoplastic Composites are gaining market share
and importance over the last 2 decades. The unique
properties such as toughness and impact behavior
paired with the excellent recyclability opened a lot
of opportunities. Enhanced application performance
and increased need for cost reduction and tighter
environmental regulations are challenging all indus-
try segments. The need for reliability and durability,
reduced manufacturing costs, lower weight and
environmentally friendly materials and processes
Thus, Automation can increase its production rate,
keep the image of its brand by building control
and quality while increasing profitability. In this
session, we will understand the benefits and
opportunities to automate in the current situation.
offer compelling testimony on how a strong, indus-
trial biocomposites development strategy can offer
companies multiple triple bottom-line benefits in
terms of economics, environmental and social
benefits. Each of the speakers will address their
industry sectors priorities, how biocomposites are
enabling new solutions for them.
are key drivers in composite application develop-
ment. Ongoing work with thermoplastic compos-
ites seeks to increase the stiffness and strength
of these materials so they can be used in more
structural applications in a variety of industries
ranging from materials handling to automotive.
Researchers are also seeking ways to boost impact
strength and energy-management capabilities fur-
ther already a real benefit of thermoplastics vs.
thermosets and metals.
 Technical forum

COMPOSITES DESIGN
New composite material made with laminates
anisotropic, asymmetric, and homogenized
New material applications.
Bottom-up approach for the efficient design
of composite structures.
Design, fabrication and testing considerations.
This technical forum will explain the design prac-
tices so the true potentials of composites can
be realized. Stephen W. Tsai, Professor Research
Emeritus in cooperation with its keynote speakers
will present the best available theory and also
design tools. Major subjects will be studying during
this forum: C-ply fabric for anisotropic, asymmetric
laminates, the toyota LFA all-carbone composites,
the development of materials in the marine indus-
try and the americas cup, design/manufacturing
interface and simplified models.

Strategic forums

CARBON
Benefit from the technological breakthrough The future of carbon fiber is touted with the
development. possibility of expansive growth in key consumer
Using recycled carbon fiber in thermoplastic areas such as aerospace, automotive, industrial,
composites. consumer. However, the carbon fiber production
Ensuring the future of carbon fiber in process will be increasingly scrutinized as a source
automotive and beyond. of environmental impact as the market extends
Case studies. to a broader audience of end users. To date, the
evolution of the carbon fiber conversion process has
largely been driven by efforts to maximize scale
of operation while minimizing the cost of produc-
tion. Little effort has been paid to environmental
consequences. Added to the need for greater capac-
ity to support growth, the need to minimize the
environmental impact of carbon fiber production
emerges as an important hurdle to ensure con-
tinued advancement. This Carbon session will
introduce new products developed by industrial
and University, as part of a developing project
mobilizing a team of companies and universities
from around the world. It will show the importance
of the Design regarding the carbon fiber. It will
also highlight the unique nature of pitch fiber and
their advantage is various matrix types. It will
present how carbon fiber is reclaimed and describe
various thermoplastic composite technologies that
are based on the use of recycled carbon fiber. The
challenge will be to preserve as much value in the
fiber as possible.

REGULATIONS
Intellectual property. The breadth of U.S. trade controls comes as a
Export control. surprise to many companies that still hold the
Establishing business presence in the united mistaken view that export controls apply only to
states. weapons-related goods or trade with hot spots
Industry prospective. like Cuba and Iran. Taking a passive approach is no
longer a viable option, as trade controls can impact
almost any enterprise, even including companies
that do no business abroad. This panel presenta-
tion will provide an overview of trade controls
applicable to the advanced materials industry, a
discussion of compliance challenges that face the
industry, best practices adopted by leaders in the
field, and building compliance policies and train-
ing programs.

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 Wednesday November 7 - l0:30am / 12:00pm

REGULATIONS FORUM
``Legal issues affecting the composites industry

Intellectual property
Key Export control
focus Establishing Business Presence in the United States
Industry prospective

The breadth of U.S. trade controls comes as a surprise to many com-

panies that still hold the mistaken view that export controls apply only
to weapons-related goods or trade with hot spots like Cuba and Iran.
Taking a passive approach is no longer a viable option, as trade controls
can impact almost any enterprise, even including companies that do
no business abroad. This panel presentation will provide an overview
of trade controls applicable to the advanced materials industry, a dis-
cussion of compliance challenges that face the industry, best practices
adopted by leaders in the field, and building compliance policies and
training programs.
The United States recently enacted sweeping reforms to its patent sys-
tem, some of which place the U.S. patent system more in line with those
of other countries. Because of the new patent rules, it will be important
for composites industry companies to consider new strategies to pro-
tecting their innovations against misappropriation both in the U.S. and
abroad. The panel will outline 10 things innovative companies should
know about protecting technology through the U.S. patent system.
In an unusual move last term, the US Supreme Court made it harder
to patent certain industry processes--holding that they were unpaten-
table laws of nature or mental steps. The higher standard will have
far reaching implications for whether and how to protect industrial
processes, including those related to the composites industry. The panel
will discuss both the recent seminal Supreme Court case, as well as
study several other case studies with the goal of devising strategies for
protecting composites technology in the new legal landscape.

Discussion with Richard Gilly (Akerman Senterfitt LLP)

and Cecil Hunt (Wiltshire & Grannis LLP)

Richard Gilly Cecil Hunt

Akerman Senterfitt LLP Wiltshire & Grannis LLP

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 Speakers biography
Richard Gilly
Richard Gilly is a shareholder in the Intellectual
Property Practice Group of Akerman Senterfitt.
Richard has nearly 25 years of intellectual property
experience with a focus on serving as lead attorney
and patent counsel on complex patent infringement
litigations. His representations have spanned a wide
range of high technologies, including telecommu-
nications, cable, VoIP, networked systems, medical
devices, computer hardware and software, semi-
conductors, electronics, gaming systems, and many
other complex mechanical devices and systems. He
takes a lean, six-sigma approach to streamlining
patent litigation costs for clients. Richard also is
experienced in strategic patent portfolio manage-
ment and patent prosecution, rendering opinions,
drafting licenses and agreements, and counseling
clients on a variety of strategic intellectual property
and business issues.
Cecil Hunt
Cecil Hunt is of counsel to the law firm of Wiltshire &
Grannis LLP. The focus of his practice is on national
security and foreign policy related governmental
requirements affecting global business operations,
such as export controls, economic sanctions, nation-
al security review of foreign acquisition of U.S. firms,
and the U.S. anti-boycott regulations. Mr. Hunt also
advises on political risk insurance and the pursuit
of claims for loss due to expropriation, war, and
inconvertibility of currency. Mr. Hunt has served as
chairman of the International Law Section of the
District of Columbia Bar and on the Executive Council
of the American Society of International Law. His
extensive lecturing activity has included service on
the faculty of the ALI-ABA program Fundamentals
of International Business Transactions and as co-
chair of the annual PLI program on export controls.
Mr. Hunt received his bachelors degree from the
University of California, Berkeley, and his law degree
from the universitys Boalt Hall School of Law, where
he was an editor of the California Law Review. Mr.
Hunt is a member of the District of Columbia Bar.
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 Wednesday November 7 - l0:30am / l:00pm

CARBON FORUM
``Technological developments and new projects in the use and production
of the carbon fiber
Benefit from the technological breakthrough development
Key Using recycled carbon fiber in thermoplastic composites
focus Ensuring the future of carbon fiber in automotive and beyond
Case studies

Various thermoplastic composite technologies The worlds largest yacht infused in Carbon
CHAIRMAN that are based on the use of recycled carbon Epoxy
fiber.
Chomarat Resoltech
Michel Cognet Pierre Calmon
Group Managing Ensuring the future of carbon fiber in
Export director
Director automotive and beyond
Process selection.
Ensuring the future of carbon fiber in
Benefit from the technological automotive and beyond Material selection and viability tests.
breakthrough development Infusion process.
Harper International
Advanced NCF for unprecedented weight Robert Blackmon
savings Vice president of integrated
systems
Chomarat A roadmap for energy efficiency in the carbon
Michel Cognet fiber conversion process.
Group managing director
Defining the range of carbon footprints cre-
ated by various production strategies.
Bi-angle thin-ply NCF leads to anisotropic,
homogenized laminates. How the process model can be used as a tool
by industrial producers to evaluate the carbon
A variety of NCF with thick-thin plies, variable fiber footprint of existing and planned produc-
angles, and hybrids (Carbon, Glass). tion facilities.

Our NCF handles like fabric but has strength

comparable with unitape.
Case studies
Pitch based carbon fiber and composites

Mitsubishi Plastics Composites High performance bicycle frames

America, Inc. American Artisan BIcycles Inc
Michael Rainaldi John H. Eggers
Dir. Composite fiber division Ph.D. Founder/CEO

PAN and Pitch Carbon Fiber World view.
Pitch fiber characteristics- contrast w/ PAN
CF/other materials.
DIALEAD Applications.
Using recycled carbon fiber in
thermoplastic composites
Bicycle frames can achieve high strength
and low weight by combining innovations in
design, materials, and processing.
The external loading conditions leading to
Overview of the worldwide
composites industry 2010-2015 2011
internal force distribution must be understood
release
The geometric shapes and material selec- Available at the Publications Store
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Closing the loop with the use of recycled

carbon fiber in thermoplastic composites
Also attend
Materials Innovation
Technologies, LLC COMPOSITES DESIGN......................p.16
Mark A. Janney AERONAUTICS..................................p.14
Chief scientist WIND ENERGY.................................p.24
AUTOMOTIVE....................................p.22
How carbon fiber is reclaimed.

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 Speakers biography
CHAIRMAN
Chomarat
Michel Cognet
Group managing
director
Michel Cognet has 30 years experience in the
composites industry. First holding different posi-
tions in the Hexcel group from 1983 to 2008 :
VP Reinforcements for Composites and later
VP Planning and Strategy. He joined Chomarat
in 2008 as Chomarat Composites Managing
Director and is now Chomarat Group Managing
Director.
Michael Rainaldi
Dir. Composite fiber division
Mitsubishi Plastics Composites
America, Inc.
Michael Rainaldi is currently Director of Sales for Mit-
subishi Plastics Composites America DIALEAD pitch
based carbon fiber. He has been with MPCA for the
past 16 years. Prior to this he worked for 5 years at
Fiberites Orange, CA manufacturing plant as a qual-
ity engineer before being transferred to Seattle Wa
to support ICI Fiberites aircraft interior business
as technical service engineer to Boeing Commercial
Aircraft Company. Michael holds a bachelor degree
from the University of Utah in Chemical Engineering.
Mark A. Janney
Chief scientist materials
innovation technologies, LLC
Dr. Mark Janney is Chief Scientist for Materials Inno-
vation Technology, LLC. For the past five years, he
has overseen the R&D activities of the company to
develop materials and processes based on chopped
carbon fiber. Most of his work has focused on incor-
porating reclaimed carbon fiber into those compos-
ites. The ways those fibers are used in composites
include net-shaped preforms, chopped fiber mats,
co-blended structural and thermoplastic fibers, and
compounded fiber - thermoplastic resin forms such
as injection molding compounds and long fiber
thermoplastics (LFT). Before joining MIT-LLC, Dr.
Janney was a Senior Development Staff Member at
the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He has authored
more than 40 peer-reviewed journal articles, holds
15 US patents, and is a Fellow of the American
Ceramic Society.
Robert Blackmon
Vice president of integrated
Harper International
Robert Blackmon is the Vice President of Integrated
Systems for Harper International, world leader in
thermal processing systems for advanced materi-
als. Mr. Blackmon is responsible for sales, design,
engineering, project execution, installation and com-
missioning of complete processing plants around the
globe for Carbon Fiber production. Robert holds a
degree in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern
University.
John H. Eggers
Ph.D. Founder/CEO
American Artisan BIcycles Inc
John H. Eggers is the founder and CEO of Ameri-
can Artisan Bicycles Inc., the first carbon bicycle
manufacturers cooperative in the USA. American
Artisans mission is to produce innovative carbon
bicycles, made in the USA, that are price competitive
with the Asian imports currently dominating the
American marketplace. The goal is to create jobs and
help restore American bicycle manufacturing. Previ-
ously, John was a cofounder of Oakley Sunglasses
and managed sales and marketing worldwide from
the first sale of $78 to $20M. He is also a for-
mer Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and
Industrial/Organizational Psychologist. Dr. Eggers
cofounded the Ivey School of Businesses, Cheng
Yu Tung Management Institute located at Hong
Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. He served
there as Director of Executive Education - Asia.
His research has been called the, The Seminal
Work in Entrepreneurshipby the Center for Creative
Leadership and the, First to Link Entrepreneurship
to Leadership, by American Society of Training &
Development (ASTD). John resides in the Sonoma
wine country with his wife and three children.
Pierre Calmon
Export director
Resoltech
Pierre Calmon, in charge of the export depart-
ment and the product application department of
Resoltech, one of the leading European epoxy resin
formulation company. With an hands one expertise
in composites built along his customer over the
last 20 years in the field of wind blade production,
Marine and Civil engineering project, Pierre spends
most of his time in the composite workshops of his
customers around the world.
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 Wednesday November 7 - 2:00pm / 4:30pm
BIO-BASED COMPOSITES FORUM
``Breaking the barriers technology and technique solutions to enable rapid de-
ployment of biocomposite materials in high-throughput manufacturing industries
New development in the Bio-composites
Key Automotive and biocomposites: the new challenges
focus New product offers the highest possible combination of economics, industrial, mechanical
and environmental performance
CHAIRMAN
Composites Innovation Centre
Simon Potter
Sector Manager for
Product Innovation
and Civil Infrastructure
New development in the
Bio-composites
Market development within the bio-compos-
ites industry
Aspen Research Corporation
Nathan T. Koenig
Sales / Market manager
Aspen Research Corporation.
What the market is calling for.
Where the market is heading and what we
can expect from market developments.
Next generation biocomposites - Driving
innovation in the transportation sector
CIC
Simon Potter
Sector Manager for Product
Innovation and Civil
Infrastructure
Composites have progressed from being used
for non-structural and interior panels to acting
as key structural components in vehicles.
The feasibility of replacing glass fibres with
natural biofibres, and the use of bio-based
cores and resins, has improved tremendously.
A design philosophy change is taking place
where parts are being designed for composite
solutions, and not simply as direct substitu-
tions of metallic parts.
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Current status of transportation vehicles
& sustainability
Chopper College, MN
Tomas Creal
CEO
Brief background on CCG companies and focal
point for transforming industries focuses.
Opportunities at hand for global growth
& development.
Ideal partnerships to establish for develop-
ment for economic growth & industry growth.
BioComposites for the real man
WhiteCloud Innovations
Catherine Tredway
Architect and President
BioComposite is the new buzz word through-
out the chemical, fibre and manufacturing
industries.
What is the real benefit to the front line
construction worker?
Automotive and biocomposites:
the new challenges
The province of Ontario is a major
automotive manufacturing and assembly
center in North America
The Ontario BioAuto Council
Craig Crawford
President and CEO
How Ontarios automotive industry is ad-
vancing the commercialization of bio-based
composites.
Low cost bio-based fillers and extenders to
high performance forest micro-fiber, nanocel-
lulose crystal, and lignin-based carbon fiber
composites.
The requirement for advanced composite
manufacturing processes to achieve accept-
able economics.
Manufacturing technologies available through
the Magna-NRC Global Composites Centre of
Excellence to help companies with product
testing and speed to market.
New product offers the highest
possible combination of economics,
industrial, mechanical and
environmental performance
A strong ecological Composite sheet made of
natural bast fibres which is FIREPROOF and
fully recyclable in fluent water
Textilelabo
Luc Oosterlynck
Textil engineer
A rigid basic sheet which is fireproof, solu-
ble in water or not and thermo-formable: used
for producing a lot of industrial items.
Recycling: Schema for recovering the fibres
and neutralizing the binder.
A continuous process.
Woodforce, natural strength for plastics:
engineered wood fibre dice for thermoplas-
tics reinforcement
Sonae Indstria
Christophe Chambonnet
Global manager
An innovative wood fiber dice material for
reinforcement of thermoplastics.
Wood processing.
The main raw material wood fiber - is
systematically sourced locally with full traca-
bility to well-managed forests (FSC and PEFC
certified forests).
In partnership with
 Speakers biography
CHAIRMAN
Composites Innovation Centre
Simon Potter
Sector Manager for
Product Innovation
and Civil Infrastructure
Dr. Simon Potter has a global reputation as an
expert in the area of biomaterials design and
processing. He holds a PhD in biochemistry from
the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and has
held senior research positions at the University of
British Columbia, FP Innovations and the CSIRO
in Australia where he managed an $11 million
research program in forest biomaterials. Dr. Potter
is currently Sector Manager for Product Innova-
tion and Civil Infrastructure at the Composites
Innovation Centre in Winnipeg, Canada and an
Adjunct Professor in Biosystems Engineering at
the University of Manitoba.
Nathan T. Koenig
Sales / Market Manager
Aspen Research Corporation
In 2006, Nathan Koenig joined the Aspen Analytical
Department taking on the responsibility for Quality
Control of all production materials that were manu-
factured in Aspen Materials, a division within Aspen
Research Corporation. In 2007, Nathan contributed
to the work of the Andersen Windows Enterprise
by playing an integral part in the development of
an extended color palette focusing on a new base
resin advanced in weatherability, substrate protec-
tion, and color fastness. Later that year he joined
the project management staff, coordinating 3rd
party testing and analysis projects in the lab as
well as creating quality testing systems for tolling
agreements. In early 2011, Nathan joined the sales
and marketing team at Aspen Research Corporation
where he has played a large part in the market
development of new technologies in bio-composites
and green polymers.
Tomas Creal
CEO
Chopper College, MN
Thomas Creal is the CEO of Chopper College which
is based out of Chicago, IL, and currently has its
headquarters in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has led
initiatives in the motorcycle industry by applying
sustainable products such as E85 and bio-fiber. He
believes that pairing new technology with existing,
already highly adopted products will increase the
rate of change to sustainable materials in the trans-
portation industry. Beyond fostering new technol- Expert by some Courts of Justice. Since 2008 he
ogy, it has always been Toms belief that education is testing green composite materials; mid 2011
is a key factor in the adoption and advancement he was recording a Belgian Patent of it and got a
of new ideas. Golden Medal for his new technology. Actually, he is
launching a pilot plant to test his materials.
Catherine Tredway
Architect and President Christophe Chambonnet
Global manager
Sonae Indstria
Catherine Tredway was born and raised in Toronto,
Ontario. As an architect and President of BarnOwl Christophe Chambonnet is Global manager of
Designs she travelled internationally for 22 years Woodforce at Sonae Indstria since March 2012.
developing five star destinations in the pristine Christophe Chambonnet occupied managerial and
environments of the world. In starting WhiteCloud, directorship roles in the Marketing area, namely
her goal was to take her respect for the land and in companies based in United States of America,
convert it to some the most advanced biobased com- Canada, France and Belgium. Between 2000 and
posite technologies, without the preconception of 2005, he served as Member of the Board of Directors
limitations. She believes and idea that is developed in Tafisa Canada, a subsidiary of Sonae Industria.
and put into action is more important than an idea In 2005 and 2006, he worked as Vice President of
that exists only as an idea and has lead of team of Tembec Avebene SAS. As from July 2006, he was
seasoned scientists and youthful minds to set new appointed Chief Operating Officer of Isoroy SAS. At
boundaries. Catherine is a passionate advocate for the end of 2007 he joined the Board of Directors
third world improvement and accomplished author of the Company and served as Chief Marketing and
who has been favourably reviewed by most major Sales Officer and Executive Member of the Board
newspapers across North America. of Directors of Sonae Industria SGPS SA from May
2010. He obtained a degree in Engineering from
Craig Crawford the Institut Polytechnique LaSalle Beauvais and a
President and CEO Master of Science in Applied Economics and an MBA
The Ontario BioAuto Council degree from University of Purdue.
Craig Crawford is the President and CEO of the
Ontario BioAuto Council, an industry-led, not-for-
profit organization funded by the Ontario Govern-
ment in 2007. Its mission is to become a global
leader in the use of bio-plastics and bio-composites.
Although the Council was founded in Ontario, its
membership has grown to include global compa-
nies across Canada, the US, Europe and Brazil, and
well-known university, government, private sector,
and non-profit research organizations. Craig is also
a member of the board of directors of the Centre
for Research and Innovation in the Bioeconomy
(CRIBE), the ArboraNano Network, and the NSERC
Green Fibre Network.
Luc Oosterlynck
Textil Engeneer
Textilelabo
Luc Oosterlynck joins his father and eldest brother
into the linen factory for 2 yrs. In the sixties, dis-
covering the NonWovens, he goes back to the high
school in Gent and graduate as textile & plastic
engineer. He went for 6 months on a business trip
into the US. Back in Belgium, he starts a needlefelt
carpeting in 1966 of 250 wkp. The company man-
Flax and Hemp fibres:
aged by foreign people collapsed in 1978. He works
for different dyehouses . From 1983 to 2005 he is
a natural solution for the composite
industry
producing contemporary rugs and is redressing a
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 Wednesday November 7 - 2:00pm / 4:30pm

AERONAUTICS FORUM
``Lowering the cost of using composites for aerospace applications

From research to application in gas turbine engines

Key The challenges in commercial aircraft
focus Improve product performance, quality, and factory efficiency
Characterize a large variety of materials and their dependence on various parameters

Increasing efficiencies, reducing cost, Advancing automated manufacturing and

CHAIRMAN and saving weight in composite fuselage inspection methods enables a broader use
development of composite structures through improved
Stanford University quality, reduced production costs, and higher
Alan T.Nettles Siemens PLM Software production rates.
ph.D. Virginia Tech, John OConnor
composites materials Director of product and market Characterize a large variety
engineer strategy
of materials and their dependence
The usual challenges in commercial aircraft on various parameters
design have been heightened by the increased
From research to application use of composite materials.
in gas turbine engines New dynamic mechanical analyzers for supe-
We will explore the challenges of composite rior material testing and unique flexibility
fuselage design using a structure-based
Lost in translation a survey of the difficul-
design approach. Acoem Group
ties in the transfer of composites technology
We will provide solutions to reduce the cost Hugues Baurier
University of Glamorgan and weight of a composite aerostructure Department manager
Alison J. McMillan while simultaneously improving quality.
Academic profession Taking advantage of a common innovative
More and more innovative RTM tools one-piece-structure mechanical design.
The situation in gas turbine engines: much Frequency, temperature, stress or strain
Compose
of the engine is too hot for organic matrix amplitude, excitation wave form, gas or humid
composite materials application. Bruno Machet
environment
Chairman & shareholder
Attempt to rationalise the range of challenges The ergonomics, the reduced foot print and
still to be overcome. the reduced maintenance need meet the
Lower cost price.
expectations of demanding testing laboratory.
The potential of composites and the chal-
lenges of the gas turbine engine environment. Lower investments.

Remove some assembly steps to ensure qual-

ity and repeatability.
The challenges in commercial aircraft

Improve product performance,

The importance of damage tolerance in quality, and factory efficiency
composite aerospace structures

Stanford University Advancements in automated fabrication and

Alan T.Nettles
ph.D. Virginia Tech, composites
materials Engineer
The final product will be manufactured from
a material and lay-up based on undamaged
properties.
Undamaged laminate testing is time consum-
ing and costly.
inspection of aerospace grade composite
structures
ATK Aerospace Systems
Marlo S. Stradley Overview of the worldwide
Business Development composites industry 2010-2015 2011
release
Available at the Publications Store
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use throughout the aerospace industry Special JEC discount on site! -20% per copy

Composite structures generally are more

expensive than metallics, but can be worth
the investment
Also attend
ATK Aerospace Structures has led industry
CARBON................................................ p.10
in development of automated fabrication and
inspection methods to improve product perfor- COMPOSITES DESIGN......................... p.16
mance, quality, and factory efficiency AUTOMATION...................................... p.26

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 Speakers biography
CHAIRMAN
Stanford University
Alan T.Nettles
ph.D. Virginia Tech,
composites materials
engineer
Alan T. Nettles has been a Composite Materi-
als Engineer in the Materials and Processes
Laboratory at NASA-Marshall Space Flight Center
USA since 1987. His area of specialization is
damage tolerance of composites and sandwich
structures for launch vehicle applications. He
has about 55 published papers and is active in
several of the Composite Materials Handbook-17
(CMH-17) working groups. He present lectures
on Damage Tolerance (and occasionally Testing)
for Stanfords online composites workshop. He
has a BS (Physics) from Furman University, MS
(Textile Engineering) from Georgia Institute of
Technology, and PhD (Materials Engineering
Science) from Virginia Tech.
Alison J. McMillan
Academic profession
University of Glamorgan
Alison McMillan studied Maths and Physics BSc at
University College London, and then changed track
to study Mechanical Engineering MSc, specialising
in Finite and Boundary Element Methods at Cran-
field. Her PhD from Staffordshire University involved
computational modelling of vibration and impact
of laminates. Following a series of Post Doctoral
positions at the University of Oxford and Keele she
moved into industry, working at Rolls-Royce plc in
Derby. Here she worked at the interface between
new product introduction and capability acquisition,
engaging frequently with research organisations
and universities. During the period from around
2003-2007, she founded the composites strategy,
and formulated the composites methods capability
gap plan. From 2007-2011 she was a holder of
the prestigious Royal Society Industry Fellowship,
based part-time at the University of Bristol. Alison
left Rolls-Royce plc in October 2011, to enter the
academic profession.
John OConnor
Director of product and market
strategy
Siemens PLM Software
John OConnor is the Director of Product & Market
Strategy for Aerospace for Specialized Engineering
Software, a business segment within Siemens PLM Hugues Baurier
Software. Mr. OConnor has served in many roles Departement manager
ranging from application support and technical sales Acoem Group
management to business development. Prior to his
Hugues Baurier is the manager of the Material Test-
current position, Mr. OConnor was a Senior Design
ing Department of the company ACOEM (France).
Engineer at Lockheed Martin where he led a variety
Under the brand METRAVIB , ACOEM manufactures
of product design teams. Mr. OConnor holds an M.S.
in Materials Engineering from Rensselaer Polytech-
a range materials testing instruments including
:Dynamic Mechanical Analyzers with extended capa-
nic Institute and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
bilities (wide frequency and force range) to achieve
from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
the characterization of the viscoelastic properties
of polymers, composites and rubber materials, and
Bruno Machet
Electrodynamic Fatigue testing machines for materi-
Chairman & shareholder
als samples and components.
Compose
Bruno Machet, 49 years old is chairman & share-
holder of Compose since June 2005. MBA in corpo-
rate strategic management. Graduated in mechanics
and integrated automation of production process.
He managed manufacturing companies in France
and abroad. He worked for 17 years for automotive
first-tier suppliers. He speaks French, English and
Spanish. He is involved in various scientific and
management committees of clusters, federations
and associations. Managed by Bruno Machet for
7 years, Compose has successfully diversified its
markets. The automotive sector was 95% of its
turnover in 2012 it is 20%. Compose broke into
the aerospace sector in 2012 it is 50% of its
turnover. Compose invests every year 10% of its
turnover in R&I and has 3 patents. Compose is
not anymore only mouldmaker but an integrator of
complete turnkey solutions and has developed its
activities abroad.
Marlo S. Stradley
Business Development
ATK Aerospace Systems
Marlo S. Stradley has worked in the aerospace
industry for nearly thirty years. He began his career
in 1984 with Hercules Aerospace in Magna, Utah,
which was later acquired by Alliant Techsystems
(ATK), working in a variety of roles in contract,
finance and program management on Delta II/
III and Orion Programs. He also spent several
years as the business manager for Commercial
launch vehicles. In 2001 Marlo transitioned to ATKs
Aerospace Structures Division where he was the
Delta IV Launch Structures program manager, later
managing NASA Launch Structures programs and
eventually leading the rocket motor case and launch
structures business segment. Recently Marlo was
the business manager for A350 commercial aircraft
structures program prior to his current assignment
in Launch structures business development. Marlo
received a Bachelors of Science degree in Business
Management from Brigham Young University in
Provo Utah.
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 Thursday November 8 - l0:30am / l:00pm

DESIGN FORUM
``The new challenges for design and composites

New composite material made with laminates anisotropic, asymmetric, and homogenized
Key New material applications
focus Bottom-up approach for the efficient design of composite structures
Design, fabrication and testing considerations

Design/manufacturing interface
CHAIRMAN Design, fabrication
Innovative Composite and testing considerations
Stanford University Engineering, Inc
Steven Tsa Steven Maier Large offshore wind turbine blades
Professor research CEO
emeritus, department National Wind Energy Center -
of aeronautics & Cullen College of Engineering -
Laminate problem areas that must be consid- University of Houston
astronautics ered during design
S. S. Wang
Manufacturing process is critical to laminate
design
New composite material made with
laminates anisotropic, asymmetric, How material parameters effect Design & K. H. Lo
Manufacturing of composite structures
and homogenized
Make it - Break it - Fix it
C-Ply Fabric for anisotropic, asymmetric National Wind Energy Center (NWEC)
laminates The development of materials in the marine missions.
industry and the Americas Cup Large rotor blade design considerations.
Stanford University
Steven Tsa Oracle Offshore wind turbines.
Professor research emeritus, Dirk Kramers
Manufacturing of thick laminates and
department of aeronautics & General design/structures sandwich.
astronautics
The boat, the event, and the AC45 series Components and scale blade testing.
C-Ply is able to achieve anisotropy and asym-
metry in making laminates.
The design and development process.
Not only laminates are stronger and tougher,
great savings in assembly cost becomes Building the boat, materials, and processes.
viable. Racing, learning, and applying lessons.
The unique stiffness and strength properties
and examples of structural applications.
Bottom-up approach for the efficient
design of composite structures
New material applications
Simplified models

University of Porto
Toyotas all-carbon composites LFA
Pedro P. Camanho
Toyota Motor Corporation Department of mechanical
Nobuya Kawamura engineering
Project general manager Micro-mechanical analysis of polymer
composites. In partnership with
Design concept and engineering. Meso-mechanical models defined at the ply/
interface level.
Process development.
Quick analysis tools for design and optimiza-
Vehicle Performance.
tion of composite structures.

nd
Also atte
AERONAUTICS......................................p.14
WIND ENERGY.....................................p.24

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 Speakers biography
CHAIRMAN
Stanford University
Steven Tsa
Professor research
emeritus, department
of aeronautics & astro-
nautics
Stephen W. Tsai graduated from Yale with
BS and DEng. He was with the US Air Force
Materials Laboratory for 21 years, and Stanford
since 1990. His interest is in the mechanics
of composites, and has been training design
engineers for more than 45 years. His book on
Theory of Composites Design, and Strength &
Life of Composites are standard references; and
his Tsai-Wu failure criterion is also one of the
frequently referenced. He is a member of the US
Academy of Engineering.
Nobuya Kawamura
Project general manager
Toyota Motor Corporation
A veteran of the Americas Cup community since
1977, when aluminum was the space-age material
being used to build 12-Meters, Dirk has nearly seen
it all and done it all. A proponent of multihulls, Dirk
joined ORACLE Racing in mid-2010 and is in charge
of overall engineering of the catamaran. But his
experience with multihulls in the Americas Cup
dates back to 1988 when he was a designer for
Team Dennis Conner and its wingsail catamaran
Stars & Stripes 88. Dirks freehand played a role
in the creation of the AC45 catamaran. He was
primarily responsible for overall engineering of the
design including the hull structures. Before joining
ORACLE Racing Dirk had previously been a member
of the Alinghi design team. One of the principal
creators of the Alinghi 5 catamaran, he found the
process of designing to an open sheet of paper a
rewarding experience. We finally got to play with
aspects of boat design that wed never been able
to play with, because we were restrained by so
many rules, says Dirk. Rather than trying to fit a
design to a strict rule, the open rule gave us a much
bigger palette to paint on. It was scarier because it
gave us much greater scope to go wrong, but it was
also more rewarding. Dirk enjoys working with the
best people in the business and doing things that
have not been done before. Having been part of a
winning team five times and staying married in the
process is my crowning achievement, says Dirk.
Steven Maier Pedro P. Camanho
CEO Department of mechanical
Innovative Composite engineering
Engineering, Inc University of Porto
Steve is a graduate of Rose-Hulman Institute of Prof. Pedro Camanho received his PhD in
Technology with a BS in Mechanical Engineer. Start- Composite Materials from the Department
ed building composite parts 33 years ago starting of Aeronautics, Imperial College London, in
with wet layup then moving on through multiple 1999. In the same year he joined the Institute
processes to autoclave cured pre-preg military and of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial
aerospace structures. As aerospace was declining Management (Porto, Portugal) as Director of the
in the late 80s, I founded Innovative Composite Structural Integrity Unit and the Department of
Engineering with a vision to apply aerospace pre- Mechanical Engineering of the University of Porto
preg materials into consumer and industrial appli- as Assistant Professor. Since 2008 he has been
cations. Have been designing composite structures Associate Professor (Habil.) in the Department of
and manufacturing them out-of-autoclave the Mechanical Engineering of the University of Porto.
past 23 years.
Dirk Kramers
General design/structures
Oracle
A veteran of the Americas Cup community since
1977, when aluminum was the space-age material
being used to build 12-Meters, Dirk Kramers has
nearly seen it all and done it all. A proponent of
multihulls, Dirk joined ORACLE Racing in mid-2010
and is in charge of overall engineering of the cata-
maran. But his experience with multihulls in the
Americas Cup dates back to 1988 when he was a
designer for Team Dennis Conner and its wingsail
catamaran Stars & Stripes 88. Dirks freehand played
a role in the creation of the AC45 catamaran. He was
primarily responsible for overall engineering of the
design including the hull structures. Before joining
ORACLE Racing Dirk had previously been a member
of the Alinghi design team. One of the principal
creators of the Alinghi 5 catamaran, he found the
process of designing to an open sheet of paper a
rewarding experience. We finally got to play with
aspects of boat design that wed never been able
to play with, because we were restrained by so
many rules, says Dirk. Rather than trying to fit a
design to a strict rule, the open rule gave us a much
bigger palette to paint on. It was scarier because it
gave us much greater scope to go wrong, but it was
also more rewarding. Dirk enjoys working with the
best people in the business and doing things that
have not been done before. Having been part of a
winning team five times and staying married in the
process is my crowning achievement, says Dirk.
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Strength & Life of Composites
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THERMOPLASTICS FORUM
``High-performance composites: the interest to invest in the thermoplastic
composites

Driving new solutions

Key
Optimizing glass fiber reinforced thermoplastics
focus Challenges and opportunities

Bridging the gap between thermoplastic

CHAIRMAN Optimizing glass fiber reinforced properties and thermoset processes.
thermoplastics
PPG Open a lot of new applications.
Greig Bowland The effects of sizing and formulation on
Global LFT Leader performance Development of continuous fiber reinforced
composites for structural applications
PPG
Gordon Holdings, Incorporated
Greig Bowland
Global LFT Leader Jonathan Spiegel
Driving New Solutions Senior engineer
The latest developments in glass fiber rein-
High Performance Thermoplastic Composites forced Thermoplastic Composites. A greater measure of structural strength,
engineering thermoplastics are commonly
Victrex plc The importance of the fiber sizing system and employed.
the composite formulation.
Ralf Weidig Approach applications previously only possible
Composites business leader with either metal or thermoset composite
construction.
Challenges and opportunities
Properties and processing.

Value proposition of thermoplastics vs. ther-

mosets and metals. Lightweight army materials for multifunc-
tional applications 1:00pm - 1:30pm NEW
Application areas.
U.S. Army Research Laboratory
Outlook.
Dana M. Granville Following the forum
Materials manufacturing
Improving impact performance in D-LFT Technical Discussion panel with
technology branch weapons
composites with UD-Tape based fabrics & the thermoplastics forum.
materials research directorate
laminates
Multifunctional thermoplastic and other
Technical discussion panel driven by
ticona Engineering Polymers composites for a variety of future Army Rich Caruso, Global Marketing Director
applications. Gordon Holdings, Incorporated.
Michael Ruby
Technology launch manager Weight savings in Army structures also is
critical in meeting rapid deployability require-
Practicality suggests need to produce interme- ments around the globe.
diate products.
The clever design and integration of Army-
Layup configurations produced in plaque unique features that allow the structure to
molding trials. perform several functions.

Use of precolored material to evaluate mate- Thermoplastic composites made from

rial movement in shield molding trials. reactive resins
Preheating / molding parameters and plaque
Johns Manville
impact testing parameters.
Klaus Gleich
Research associate

Anionic polymerization of caprolactam and

in-situ polymerization of other reactive
thermoplastic resins for production of high
performance thermoplastic composites.

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CHAIRMAN
PPG
Greig Bowland
Global LFT Leader
PPG Industries is a leader in its markets; is a
streamlined, efficient manufacturer; and oper-
ates on the leading edge of new technologies
and solutions. It is our vision to continue being
the worlds leading coatings and specialty prod-
ucts and Services Company, serving customers in
construction, consumer products, industrial and
transportation markets and aftermarkets. PPG
has manufacturing facilities and equity affiliates
in more than 60 countries around the globe.
Ralf Weidig
Composites business leader
Victrex plc
Ralph Weidig is born 05.10.62 in Konstanz, Ger-
many. 1984 1989: Study of mechanical engineer-
ing at the Technical University of Stuttgart with
focus polymer technology and management. 1990
1995 Group leader for development for non-metal
materials at ZF Friedrichshafen AG. Since 1995 he
has worked with Victrex Europa GmbH in various
positions (technical service, market development
automotive, technical manager). 2003-2009: Global
Automotive Manager responsible for the technical
marketing, application and product development
of VICTREX PEEK in the automotive industry.
2009-2010: Technical program manager responsible
for technology developments around gears, com-
posites, pipes and new technologies. Since 2010
he is the composites Business Leader responsible
for the composites business unit with the focus
on qualification, sales, marketing and technology
development of VICTRE PEEK polymer for the com-
posites industry
Michael Ruby
Technology launch manager
Ticona Engineering Polymers
Michael Ruby is the Technology Launch Manager at
Ticona (a business of Celanese) and is responsible
for leading the Technical Marketing and Technol-
ogy organizations across the Ticona Thermoplastic
Composites Strategic Program Group. Ticona has
advantaged solutions in Unidirectional Tapes and
Pultruded Rods, amongst other technologies, with
particular interest in the Automotive, Oil & Gas,
Aerospace, and Medical sectors. Michael joined
Ticona in 2010 and has more than 15 years prior
experience in a variety of roles and organizations began working with thermoset composite materials
active in Thermoset Composites, Adhesives, Capital in 1989, and is currently developing high perfor-
Equipment, and Specialty Chemicals. He holds a mance thermoplastic composites and applications
BSME in Mechanical Engineering from UCLA and an at Polystrand.
MBA in General Management from Northwestern
University.
Dana M. Granville
Materials manufacturing
technology branch weapons
materials research directorate
U.S. Army Research Laboratory
Dana Granville holds a B.S. in Plastics Engineer-
ing from UMASS-Lowell, and is just retired senior
materials engineer for the Materials Manufacturing
Technology Branch of the Weapons and Materials
Research Directorate at the U.S. Army Research
Laboratory (ARL), Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD.
He has over 37 years experience with thermoplastic
and thermosetting polymer materials and process-
ing methods. He served as Army Principal and is
past chair of the DoD Manufacturing Technology
Composites Processing and Fabrication Subpanel,
Army deputy of the DOD RELIANCE 21 Technical
Panel for Advanced Materials, coordination chairman
of the Composite Materials (formerly MIL-HDBK-17)
Handbook program with the Federal Aviation Admin-
istration, and serves on NASAs National Center for
Advanced Materials Performance (NCAMP) executive
board of governors at Wichita State University.
Locally, he continues to serve as a trustee for the
Plastics Institute of America at UMASS-Lowell, is
an officer and Board of Directors member of the
Society for Advancement of Materials and Process
Engineering (SAMPE), and serves on the Journal of
Advanced Materials (JAM) editorial board.
Klaus Gleich
Research associate
Johns Manville
Dr. Klaus Gleich works at the Technical Center of
Johns Manville, Littleton, CO. He has more 20 years
experience in advanced materials development and
processing and is well known for his expertise in
long fiber reinforced thermoplastics. Over the years,
he held key positions in the material, process and
application development as well as in production
of composites parts.
Jonathan Spiegel
Senior engineer
Gordon Holdings, Incorporated
Jonathan Spiegel holds a B.S. in Applied Physics
from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and has
worked as an engineer in the high performance
automotive aftermarket for over 25 years, primarily
in the field of suspension and chassis design. He
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 Thursday November 8 - 2:00pm / 4:30pm

CONSTRUCTION & BUILDING FORUM

``Advance the understanding and application of composites
in construction and building
The use of fibre-reinforced composite materials (FRP) in civil infrastructure
Key Use of composites materials within the solar and building industries
focus Emergency conditions
Pultrusion technology and trends

World first integrated solar roof tile solution Manufacturing an engineered replacement for
CHAIRMAN generating both electricity and hot water from current roofing systems.
a single unit.
WPI Integrated structures plus insulation
materials.
Nicholas A Dembsey
Professor Fire Protection Emergency conditions
Engineering Department

Stress Ribbon Bridge using pre-tensioned

The use of fibre-reinforced composite
materials (FRP) in civil infrastructure
Working with the International Institute for
FRP in Construction
The City College of New York
Lawrence C. Bank
PhD Vice president for research
and sponsored programs
The only international professional or-
ganisation dedicated to the use of fibre-
reinforced composite materials (FRP) in Civil
infrastructure.
Development of FRP systems, applications,
guidelines, standards and codes, and curricular
material worldwide.
FRP Design for the 2012 international
building code
WPI
Nicholas A Dembsey
Professor fire protection
engineering department
Key requirements for non-loading bearing
interior use FRP and exterior use FRP.
A screening process for FRP development.
Various examples of FRP systems.
Use of composites materials within
the solar and building industries
CFRP cables
Acciona Infraestructuras
Anurag Bansal
Head Manufacturing Process
Department Innovation and
Development
Why FRP as the Manufacturing material?
Which design was used to manufacture it and
why?
What were the manufacturing challenges and
how the cables were manufactured?
Different phases of development and
installation.
Pultrusion technology and trends
Pultruded products range from very small,
thin profiles to very large
Strongwell
Glenn Barefoot
Vice President, Business
Development & Marketing
The evolution of pultrusion and the current
state of pultrusion technology.
The present trends in pultrusion processing
and market applications.
Pultruded energy-saving wood-replacement
building panels

The Tractile solar Horizon BIPVT (Building KaZaK Composites

Integrated photovoltaic and Thermal) Dr Woodrow Holley
Project manager
Tractile Pty Ltd
Jason Perkins
CEO Jerry Fanucci
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CHAIRMAN
WPI
Nicholas A Dembsey
Professor Fire Protection
Engineering Department
Nicholas Dembsey is a Professor of Fire Pro-
tection Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic
Institute. He has been involved in fire protection
engineering teaching and research for over 25
years. He currently teaches graduate courses in
fire modeling and materials fire pyrolysis. His
research interests involve a wide range of topics
in fire protection engineering with special focus
on material fire characteristics and fire safe prod-
uct development. He works extensively with the
architectural fiber reinforced polymer industry to
improve the fire performance of their products
in his role as chair of the American Composites
Manufacturers Associations Fire Committee. He
is an editorial board member of the journal Fire
and Materials and an Associate Editor for the
journal Fire Technology as well as a Fellow of
the Society of Fire Protection Engineers.
Lawrence C. Bank
PhD vice president for research
and sponsored programs
The City College of New York
Lawrence C. Bank is the Vice President for Research
and Sponsored Programs at The City College of New
York and a Professor in the Department of Civil
Engineering at the Grove School of Engineering. He
is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers
(ASCE), as well as a Fellow, and currently President
of the International Institute for FRP Composites
in Construction (IIFC). Dr. Bank received his BSc
degree from the Technion in Israel in 1980, and his
MS and PhD degrees from Columbia University in
New York City in 1982 and 1985, respectively. Prior
to studying at the Technion, Dr. Bank studied in
the Schools of Architecture and Civil Engineering at
the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He has
previously been employed as a Structural Engineer
with LERA (Leslie Robertson and Associates) in New
York City, and as a faculty member at Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, The Catholic University of
America and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
From 2008-2010, Dr. Bank was the Program Director
for the Structural Materials and Mechanics Program
at the US National Science Foundation (NSF). He is
registered Professional Engineer. Dr. Banks primary
research is in the area of the mechanics and design
of composite material structures with an emphasis
on applications to civil engineering. He has authored
numerous technical publications on composite mate-
rials and structures and is the author of the textbook
Composites for Construction: Structural Design with
FRP Materials (Wiley, 2006).
Anurag Bansal
Head manufacturing process
department innovation and
development
Acciona Infraestructuras
Since 2010, Anurag BANSAL is working as Head-
Manufacturing & Process Group in the Technolog-
yand Innovatin Centre of ACCIONA Infraestructuras
S.A (Madrid, Spain). He joined this centre in 2007
as a Research Engineer. Here, he is actively involved
in providing new and innovative solutions to the
Civil & Construction Industry using Composites
materials and is also involved in various national
and international research projects. Previously, he
worked for Sintex (India) for more than 5 years in
variousprocess for Composite part manufacturing,
he was selected as the group leader to acquire
extensive on site training at the CSI Bakersfi eld,
California manufacturing plant and later was respon-
sible for set up and streamlining of the FRP-Tank
Division. He was involved in development for SMC/
DMC Compression Moulded parts for a leading Power
generation equipment manufacturing Company in
US. Apart from manufacturing he was also involved
in key customer co-ordination and material outsourc-
ing from across the globe. Prior to joining Sintex,
he worked in a Pultruded products manufacturing
Company for more than 2 years. He holds a MBA in
Operations and a Degree in Production Engineering.
He has more than 12 years of hands on experience
in Manufacturing Composite parts using different
processes
Glenn Barefoot
Vice president, business
development & marketing
Strongwell
Glenn Barefoot is Vice-President of Business Devel-
opment and Marketing for Strongwell Corporation
which is headquartered in Bristol, Virginia USA.
Glenn is a graduate of the United States Military
Academy, West Point, NY. His career involves ten
years of experience in the steel industry includ-
ing being a General Manager of a structural steel
fabrication plant. He has been in the structural
composites industry since 1994 and is actively
involved in helping advance pultrusion technology
for Strongwell and the composites industry. Glenn
is Vice-Chairman of the Pultrusion Industry Council
(PIC) and will become Chairman of the PIC in 2013.
He is also Chairman of the FRP and Plastics Materi-
als Task Groups for the Cooling Technology Institute
which develops specifications and guidelines for
FRP materials in cooling tower construction. Glenn
was the Program Manager for Strongwells Advance
Technology Program (ATP) which developed a new
optimized pultruded structural shape for use in the
infrastructure market. He has also been active in
developing other FRP applications for Strongwell like
FRP sheet piling and ballistic plates for commercial,
industrial and military use.
Dr Woodrow Holley
Project manager
KaZaK Composites
Dr Woodrow Holley is a Project Manager for KaZaK
Composites. He has been involved in resin design
and composite manufacturing for 25+ years. He is
currently active in investigating the use of pultruded
composites incorporating phase change material,
foam insulation and integrated air flow elements
into prefabricated components for thermal man-
agement of building envelops in the construction
industry.
Jerry Fanucci
President
KaZaK Composites
Dr. Jerry Fanucci is President of KaZaK Composites.
He has over 30 years of experience in composite
design and manufacturing, and holds more than 20
patents on pultrusion-related composite structures.
His company was responsible for the application of
pultrusion technology to a range of many military
and aerospace products. KaZaK manufactured what
is probably the most prominently displayed high
performance pultrusion in the world, the compos-
ite structure of the 200 deployable Shuttle Radar
Topography Mission boom, on display above the
Space Shuttle at the National Air and Space Museum
in Washington, DC.
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 Thursday November 8 - 2:00pm / 4:30pm

AUTOMOTIVE FORUM
``Manufacturing and materials innovations for improved performance,
fuel economy, emissions and sustainability
Opportunities and challenges for automotive in composites
Key The use of prepreg carbon composites in automotive
Material characterization of natural fiber
focus New technology development for processing composite parts
Low cost materials and manufacturing options for automotive

Development of preforming process in

CHAIRMAN Material characterization
prepreg compression molding technology
of natural fiber
Quickstep Composites LLC Mitsubishi Rayon Company, Ltd.
Dale Brosius Acrylic thermoset composites Koichi Akiyama
President Research director
BASF
Jeremy Funk
Introduction of the PCM process.
Technical specialist
Opportunities and challenges for Adhesives & fiberbonding High quality molding of CFRP parts in a few
minutes cycle time.
automotive in composites Key Trends / Drivers.
Applications of PCM in the automotive
Chemistry Advantage.
Composites have become a more realistic industry.
alternative to metals Target Composite Applications.

Mechanical Performance Comparison.

Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne
Jan-Anders Manson
Head of laboratory of polymer New technology development for
and composite technology (LTC) processing composite parts
Challenges for composites go beyond me-
chanical performance. Carbon fiber composites
Environmental effects and life cycle In partnership with
Zoltek Companies
considerations.
George Husman
New simulation models help pinpoint suitable Chief technology officer
applications and production volumes.

Carbon fiber SMC processing for low scrap and

The use of prepreg carbon high throughput.
composites in automotive New processing techniques for carbon fiber
reinforced thermoplastics.
Cutting cycle time for prepreg carbon fiber
Comparison of weight savings versus cost.
composites

Plasan Carbon Composites Low cost materials and

Jim Staargaard manufacturing options for
President automotive

New out of autoclave technology reduces cycle
time by 75 percent.
Seventeen minute cycle time for class A and
structural automotive parts.
Energy efficient and lower waste than tradi-
tional processing.
Direct Thermoset Compounding (D-SMC)
Composites penetration growth
Dieffenbacher North America Inc in Automotive : towards mass
production 2010-2020 trends and
Christian Fais forecasts
General sales/Project manager
Available at the Publications Store
Special JEC discount on site! -20% per copy
Composite technologies aggressively address
weight reduction.

New direct SMC process sets new standards

Also attend
in cost and performance.

Future visions in Tailored SMC and carbon

CARBON.............................................p.10
fiber SMC.
AUTOMATION...................................p.26

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 Speakers biography
CHAIRMAN
Quickstep Composites LLC
Dale Brosius
President
Dale Brosius is the president of Quickstep Com-
posites LLC, the US subsidiary of Quickstep
Technologies, an Australian company supplying
patented technology for rapid curing of advanced
composites. Mr. Brosius started his career in
1979 as a manufacturing engineer for Dow
Chemical, entering the thermoset composites
field in 1984 as market development manager
for Dows efforts in automotive composites.
From 1987 to 1999, he served in various sales,
market development and general management
roles for Fiberite and Cytec, including assign-
ments in Salt Lake City, Chicago, Detroit and
France. In 1999 he started a consulting business
specializing in market analysis and development,
strategic planning and merger and acquisition
assistance for companies in the thermosets and
composites industries, joining Quickstep in 2004.
He has a B.S. Degree in Chemical Engineering
and an MBA. He is a member of SAMPE, and is
the current chair of the Composites Division of
the Society of Plastics Engineers. Mr. Brosius
has completed numerous market studies in the
field of thermosets, and is an author of over 40
published articles in various composites industry
magazines.
Jim Staargaard
President
Plasan Carbon Composites
Jim Staargaard has been the President of Plasan
Carbon Composites (PCC), the Automotive Business
subsidiary of Plasan Sasa (Global Armor and Sur-
vivability Solutions), for the past 2 years and has
worked in the Automotive Industry for 29 years.
PCC (ISO9001/TS16949 certified) has been leading
the development of Class A Carbon Fiber Composite
Solutions for the North American Automotive Indus-
try with historical applications on the Corvette ZR1
and Z06, Viper ACS and Shelby Mustang vehicles.
Most recently, PCC was awarded 3 main carbon fiber
exterior systems (hood/fender, structural roof and
liftgate) on the 2013 Viper. PCC has also developed
and is scaling and commercializing a 17 min part to
part technology for carbon fiber body panels. Prior
to his current position he was President of Helios
Coatings, VP/GM Excel Polymers and held a series
of commercial leadership roles with GE Plastics after
starting his career at Union Carbide. Jim has an
MBA from the Ross School of Business (University
of Michigan) and a Bachelors of Science in Polymer
Science from Pennsylvania State University. He is
also a member of SAE and SPE Automotive Division..
Jeremy Funk
Technical specialist
Adhesives & fiberbonding
BASF
Jeremy is a Technical Service Specialist with BASF
Corporation and has extensive experience in the
development, manufacturing and commercialization
of water-based emulsion polymers across many
different markets. His career spans 15 years across
several companies including Union Carbide Corpora-
tion, The Dow Chemical Company, Ona Polymers,
LLC, and BASF Corporation. He received his BS in
Chemistry from Chowan University.
George Husman
Chief technology officer
Zoltek Companies
George Husman is the Chief Technology Officer for
Zoltek Companies, Inc., the worldwide leader in
production and sales of carbon fiber for commercial
applications. Mr. Husman is responsible for all cor-
porate wide research and development to support
product manufacturing and quality, new products
development, and applications development. He
manages research and development personnel, facili-
ties, and projects globally, including sites in Missouri,
Texas, Utah, Mexico, and Hungary. He works closely
with customers to develop and demonstrate new
materials and processing technologies for customer
applications. Mr. Husman is a materials engineer and
manager with 40 years of experience in advanced
materials technology development in government,
industry and academia.
Christian Fais
General sales/Project manager
Dieffenbacher North America Inc
Christian Fais has worked for Dieffenbacher since
2006 and currently holds the position of the Gen-
eral Sales and Project Manager in Forming. He is
responsible for the North American Region in Sales,
Marketing and New Business Development. His
vast knowledge and working experience, covers all
aspects in Sales, Technical Customer Support and
Project Management.
Koichi Akiyama
Koichi Akiyama is a research director at Mitsubishi
Rayon Co., Ltd. who leads the development of mass
production process for automotive carbon fiber rein-
forced plastics including material, molding process
and application development. He has dedicated 20
years to research and development of unsaturated
polyester and vinyl ester resins, molding compounds
such as SMC and BMC, and molding processes of
these materials at Takeda Chemical Industries,
Ltd. (Japan) and Quantum Composites Inc. (the
United States) before he joined Mitsubishi Rayon
Co., Ltd. in 2007.
Jan-Anders Manson
Head of laboratory of polymer
and composite technology (LTC)
Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne
Professor Jan-Anders E. Mnson obtained his PhD
degree in Mechanical Engineering from Chalmers
University of Technology, Sweden, in 1981. After 5
years as head of the R&D department of Konstruk-
tions-Bakelit AB, Sweden, he was appointed Profes-
sor at the University of Washington (Department
of Chemical Engineering), Seattle in 1987, and at
the Royal Institute of Technology (Department of
Polymer Technology), Stockholm in 1989. In 1990,
Jan-Anders Mnson joined the Ecole Polytechnique
Fdrale de Lausanne (EPFL) as Professor and Direc-
tor of the Polymer and Composite Laboratory (LTC) at
the Institute of Materials. His research is focused on
novel cost-effective materials and applications with
additional functionality, beyond the classical perfor-
mance of composite materials. Prof. Mnson has 500
scientific publications and teaches courses in the
above mentioned fields and is acting on the editorial
board of several scientific journals. During the period
2004-2008, Professor Mnson was Vice-president
at the Ecole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne,
responsible for Innovation and Technology Transfer,
and since 2008 president of the International Sport
Academy AISTS, an organization linking Academic
institutions in collaboration with the International
Olympic Committee (IOC).
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 Friday November 9 - l0:30am / l:00pm

WIND ENERGY FORUM

``Increase performance and develop the next step in the Wind Energy
evolution

Overall strategy for the wind energy

Key
Next generation wind turbine blades
focus Optimization of large composite structures

CHAIRMAN Optimization of large composite

structures
TPI Composites
Steve Nolet Using vacuum infusion simulation techniques
Principal engineer
Composites Consulting Group
James Jones
Top manager

Overall strategy for the wind energy

Vacuum infusion has many benefits over other
composites molding processes
Overall strategy for the wind energy VIP concepts are relatively simple, making
mold fill predictions within reach of most
TPI Composites molders.
Steve Nolet
Principal engineer Risk is high when infusing large composite
structures, such as wind turbine blades and
nacelles, due to large investments of material
and labor

Next generation wind turbine blades Simulation reduces the risk by allowing
optimization of infusion strategies before the
part is molded.
How to get the maximum performance of
carbon fiber in the blade. Infusion and process optimization simula-
tion for wind blades
Epsilon
Matthieu Landais ESI Group
Technical/Commercial engineer Praveen Pasupuleti
Technical support and business
Reduce thickness and weight of CFRP Sparcap. development
Finite element analysis
Reduce the amount of CF required.
Design feasibility
Avoid quality issues.
Infusion strategy evaluation
High modulus materials for next generation
wind turbine blades Process parameters optimization

Gurit Innovation in wind energy turbine blades Overview of the worldwide

/ other applications using infusion flow composites industry 2010-2015 2011
Kevin Cadd
reinforcement & innovative process release
Program manager
Available at the Publications Store
Mathson Group, Inc Special JEC discount on site! -20% per copy
Removing barriers to prepreg technology and
Mathew Boney
the use of carbon to enable the next genera-
President & CEO
tion of blades.

A clear strategy to remove these barriers to Innovative infusion flow reinforcement.

allow the use of prepreg in place of infusion,
maximising the performance of unidirec-
tional fibre and enable the next generation of
blades.
Thick composite processing with improved flow.
Innovative process discussion to improve
composite manufacturing for wind energy and
other applications.
Also attend
CARBON................................................ p.10
COMPOSITES DESIGN......................... p.16
AUTOMATION...................................... p.26

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 Speakers biography
CHAIRMAN
TPI Composites
Steve Nolet
Principal Engineer
TPI Composites
Steve Nolet is principal engineer at TPI Com-
posites in Warren, Rhode Island. He manages
technical activities in the development of low-
cost composite structures for the companys
three primary business units: Wind Energy,
Military Ground Vehicles, and Transportation
Systems. Mr. Nolet also manages the activities
of TPI Composites Physical Sciences Labora-
tory and is responsible for the characterization
and qualification of resins, reinforcements and
their composites used in the development and
production of composite products across the
organization. Prior to joining TPI, Mr. Nolet
was Vice President of Engineering for Fiberspar
Corporation where he directed the develop-
ment of spoolable composite tubulars for the
oil and gas industry. Previous positions include
Director of Engineering at American Composite
Technology and Senior Engineer in the US Air
Force Advanced Composite Program Office in
Sacramento, California. Steve received his B.S.
degree in aeronautical engineering from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in June
of 1982 and completed his Masters of Science
from MIT in the same field in January of 1984.
His discipline and course of study focused on
application of advanced materials in structural
design at both the undergraduate and gradu-
ate level. Mr. Nolets activities have lead to the
issue of more than 23 US Patents on which he
is named as inventor.
Matthieu Landais
Ingnieur technico-commercial
Epsilon
Matthieu Landais has a master Thesis in Industrial
design from Escola Tcnica Superior dEnginyeria
industrial of Barcelona and a MBA International
Marketing & Strategy Lyon School of Management.
Specialist in carbon fiber composite mass production
system for energy markets (offshore oil and wind)
and aeronautics. Head of Epsilon Americas. Founding
member of Aquitaine wind industry Cluster. Member
of Aerospace Valley.
Kevin Cadd
Program manager
Gurit
Kevin Cadd graduated from Southampton University
in 2004 with an M.Eng in Aeronautical Engineer-
ing. Kevin has worked at Gurit for the past 7 years,
starting in Wind Energy Technical Support and for
the last 4 years as Technical Programme manager,
overseeing new product developments for the Wind
Energy, Marine and Automotive markets.
James Jones
Top manager
Composites Consulting Group
James Jones is the Americas Region Manager of
Composites Consulting Group, a leading provider
of innovative product development services for
composite fabricators in the marine, civil, aerospace,
transportation and renewable energy markets. He
has personally consulted with hundreds of compa-
nies, providing engineering, processing, testing and
training services to develop lighter, stronger and
more efficient composite structures. James holds
Mechanical Engineering and Juries Doctor Degrees
from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX
and is a Certified Composites Technician Instructor
through the American Composites Manufacturing
Association. In addition to hands-on research and
consulting work, James has written several award
winning technical publications and has been a fea-
tured speaker at conferences throughout North
and South America. James has been involved with
industry groups to advance the use of composites
such as ACMA, ASTM, MIL-HBK 17 and SAMPE.
Praveen Pasupuleti
Technical support and business
development
ESI Group
Praveen Pasupuleti who holds a Masters Degree in
Aerospace Engineering (University of Kansas) has
experience over 4 years dealing with manufacturing
and structural aspects of Composites. After gradu-
ation, he joined NEi Nastran (a finite element soft-
ware company) and provided technical support on
Fatigue and Fracture modules within software. Later
at CCM (Center for Composite Materials, University
of Delaware), he performed modeling and simula-
tion of ballistic impact on thick section composites
and composite sandwich structures using LS-DYNA
for military and navy applications. He modeled
and simulated various scenarios of impact ranging
from low, ballistic and multipoint-multiple impacts
on composite sandwich structures for Progres-
sive Damage and Delamination Modeling. Later at
Gamesa Wind US (Renewable Energy), he handled
and made contributions to many specialty projects
such as materials characterization tests, defect
characterization tests, blade testing, blade health
monitoring systems (Acoustic Emission Technol-
ogy), development of ice-detection/de-icing/anti-
icing techniques for blades, alternatives towards
improved manufacturing processes (Prepreg and
Infusion), composite blade repairs, field blade bal-
ancing issues, development and improvement of
lightning protection systems etc. A patent on Meth-
odology to Clean and Repair Composite Blades is
pending with Gamesa. His current responsibilities
at ESI Group North America loops around technical
support and business development of ESIs com-
posite products such as PAM RTM and PAM FORM
(manufacturing processes) and other design and
structural platforms of composites.
Mathew Boney
President & CEO
Mathson Group, Inc
Mathew Boney is the President & CEO, Mathson
Group, Inc., Troy, Michigan, USA. Mathson Group
is a leading Global Business Development (Plastic
Material, Automotive, Wind & Solar energy, Medical,
Plastic Products & Tooling), M&A and Innovative
Product Development Company. Mathson Group
designs, develops & markets patented products and
technology using ceramics, metal alloys, elastomers,
and plastics material systems and assemblies. Mr.
Mathews background includes twenty-two years
in the automotive, medical and plastics industry.
Prior to starting Mathson Group, Inc., he was Execu-
tive Director Of Business Development for Roech-
ling Automotive , a $1.5 Billion Global Plastics &
Automotive Company, President & CEO for Mathson
Industries, Inc. a Global Tier I supplier for Auto-
motive OEMs such as BMW, Chrysler etc., Sales &
Technical Executive for Nyltech North America Joint
Venture of Rhone-Poulenc France and Fiat- Italy.
He also served as Plastics Manager for Teleflex,
Inc.s Automotive, Aerospace and Medical Company.
He is the inventor and co-inventor of 25 patents. He
has published and presented twenty technical pub-
lications on various plastics, ceramics, metals and
composites at various international technical confer-
ences and is the co-author of Passage to India,
A Comprehensive Study on the Indian Automotive
Industry. He earned a Bachelor of Science and
Master of Science in Plastics Engineering from the
University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Massachusetts,
USA. Associate in Applied Science in Mechanical
Engineering Technology (Plastics technology), State
University of New York, Morrisville, New York, USA,
Four Year Diploma in Petro Chemical Technology,
M.S. University of Baroda, Baroda, India.
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 Friday November 9 - l0:30am / l:00pm

AUTOMATION FORUM
``The different opportunities for automation in the composites

Overall composites industry trends

Key The interests to invest in robotic
focus Material advances for automation
Expanding variety of aerospace applications

Robotics as an alternative to outsourcing

CHAIRMAN production for composite workshops. Expanding variety of aerospace
applications
Kuka Roboter GmbH Robotics as a way of improving working condi-
tions and operator safety.
Otto Kellenberger New Generation of ATL Equipment
Key technology manager Unexplored robotic potentials.
Mag
James R. Hecht
Material advances for automation Director, Composite Application
Engineering Aerospace
Overall composites industry trends
Material advances for automation in resin
Overall composites industry trends in infusion
automation
Cytec Engineered Materials Inc
Connectra Mark Roman
Andrew Mafeld R&D Engineer
Director
In partnership with
CEM Introduces a new dry tape product
Key goals in the automation of composites optimized for automated laydown and liquid
manufacturing. resin infusion.

Recent innovations in automation by key end
use industry and equipment producer.
Major challenges for the future.
The interests to invest in robotic
Overcoming challenges in composite part
manufacturing with robots
Kuka Roboter GmbH
Otto Kellenberger
Key technology manager
Composite process flow (CFRP, glass fiber).
Challenges and opportunities for material and
processes.
Optimized solutions based on robotics (exam-
ples from industry).
Novel binder technology enhances handling
characteristics for prepreg-like laydown
efficiency.
Proprietary veil technology enhances perme-
ability resulting in improved mechanical
performance over non-crimp fabrics (NCFs).
Automated through-thickness infusion and
rapid curing of composites
Quickstep Composites LLC
Dale Brosius
President
Low cost preparation of automated resin/pre-
form stack via novel Resin Spray Transfer.
Rapid curing through liquid heating and cool- The Automation of Polymer
ing using Quickstep.
Composites Manufacturing
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Robotics: the ultimate production tool for

composite part manufacturing

Matrasur Composites Also attend

Claude Chouet AERONOTICS........................................ p.14
Sales manager CONSTRUCTION & BUILDING............ p.20
AUTOMOTIVE....................................... p.22
Which manufacturing phases can be carried WIND ENERGY.................................... p.24
out with the help of robotics?

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 Speakers biography
CHAIRMAN
Kuka Roboter GmbH
Otto Kellenberger
Key technology
manager
Otto J. Kellenberger, he is responsible for global
Aerospace Application in the department Key
Technology Management of KUKA Roboter GmbH
and was appointed to this post on August 1,
2002. Previously, Mr. Kellenberger served as
Sales Technology Manager of KUKA Group starting
in January 2000. He began his career in 1988.
During the last 22 years, Mr. Kellenberger has
held a series of important tasks in production
of gearing, as auditor for quality assurance,
consulting for business management software
and real-time software for automation systems.
His experiences in robotics, production systems
for different industrial sectors helps to generate
high technological solutions in the process chain
for airplane manufacturing based on robots from
the German robotic manufacturer KUKA Roboter
GmbH. Mr. Kellenberger holds a mechanical
engineer degree in automation systems from
University of Applied Sciences Konstanz and a
master of engineering study from University of
Applied Sciences Augsburg.
Andrew Mafeld
Director
Connectra
Andrew Mafeld has over thirty years of experience
in global composites markets covering the carbon,
glass and natural fiber sectors. He is the founder
and Managing Director of the Connectra group of
companies, a southern Sweden based international
business development consultancy working in the
area of composites materials. Prior to founding Con-
nectra in 1998, Andrew held a variety of Senior
Management positions in both the commercial and
technical areas at Owens-Corning, in Europe and the
USA. He has also held Market Research and Sales
positions with Monsanto Europe and worked with
Procter & Gamble as a process development Engineer
across their European plants. Andrew has a Chemical
Engineering degree from Imperial College, London,
an MBA from INSEAD, France and speaks multiple
languages. He has authored numerous reports for
clients worldwide, including companies, government
ministries and regional development agencies, on
various aspects of the composites industry. He has
written a book on The Automation of Polymer Com-
posites Manufacturing published by JEC last year.
Claude Chouet James R. Hecht
Sales manager Director, Composite Application
Matrasur Composites Engineering Aerospace
Claude Chouet started working in the composites Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from
industry in 1985 in the specific field of anti-corro- the University of Dayton with 2 years in automation
sion. A few years later in 1989 he joined the French for the semiconductor and robotic industries, 24
company Matrasur Composites where he currently years in small to large scale automated composite
works as Sales & Marketing Manager. laminating systems for the aircraft industry.
Mark Roman
R&D Engineer
Cytec Engineered Materials Inc
Mark Roman is a Lead Research Engineer focusing
on material and process improvements for auto-
mated composite manufacturing. At Cytec, Mark
helps ensure that new AFP and ATL materials will
meet or exceed customer laydown and handling
requirements. Mark also works to improve current
products through internal development and external
collaboration. Mark received his Bachelors degree
from Virginia Tech and his Masters degree from
the University of Utah, both in Engineering. Prior
to joining Cytec, Mark worked at ATK Composites
where he helped develop the Automated Stiffener
Forming Process.
Dale Brosius
President
Quickstep Composites LLC
Dale Brosius is the president of Quickstep Compos-
ites LLC, the US subsidiary of Quickstep Technolo-
gies, an Australian company supplying patented
technology for rapid curing of advanced compos-
ites. Mr. Brosius started his career in 1979 as a
manufacturing engineer for Dow Chemical, entering
the thermoset composites field in 1984 as market
development manager for Dows efforts in automo-
tive composites. From 1987 to 1999, he served in
various sales, market development and general
management roles for Fiberite and Cytec, including
assignments in Salt Lake City, Chicago, Detroit and
France. In 1999 he started a consulting business
specializing in market analysis and development,
strategic planning and merger and acquisition assis-
tance for companies in the thermosets and compos-
ites industries, joining Quickstep in 2004. He has a
B.S. Degree in Chemical Engineering and an MBA.
He is a member of SAMPE, and is the current chair
of the Composites Division of the Society of Plastics
Engineers. Mr. Brosius has completed numerous
market studies in the field of thermosets, and is
an author of over 40 published articles in various
composites industry magazines.
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