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Past Events
| September 15, 2008 |
Delphi Packard Electric
Compounding Plant Tour
5245 South Prospect Street
Ravenna, OH
For directions, Click Here.
Schedule:
5:00 - 5:30 p.m. Tours Start
Cost: $15.00
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Delphi Packard Electrics Compounding Plant
This plant was opened in 1985 and occupies 187,000 square feet. They primarily compound glass and other additives into PA6, PA66 and PBT polyester. They produced 37 million pounds of compound in 2007.
For reservations, questions, or additional information, contact Gary Casterline at gary.casterline@delphi.com, W: (330) 373-5000, or Fax: (330) 373-2592.
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| May 12, 2008 |
Student Night with Tim Womer
Solon Community Center
35000 Portz Parkway, Solon, OH
For directions, Click Here.
Schedule:
4:30 p.m. Board Meeting
5:30 p.m. Social Time
6:00 p.m. Dinner
6:30 p.m. Presentations
Cost: $15.00
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SPE Cleveland welcomes Xalloy CTO and past SPE President Tim Womer to the annual Student Night. Womer, who worked his way up from machinist to high-level management, will discuss attitudes and strategies that he has employed in his career and has seen in other successful people, both inside and outside of plastics.
Also joining us that night will be the winners of our Essay Contest and Scholarship winners.
For reservations, questions, or additional information, contact Gary Casterline at gary.casterline@delphi.com, W: (330) 373-5000, or Fax: (330) 373-2592.
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April 28, 2008
Time: 5:30 pm |
Weathering of Plastics - Atlas Material Testing Technology
Joint meeting with Akron Section
Meet at Guy's Party Center
500 E. Waterloo Road
Akron, OH
For directions, Click Here or on map below.
| Costs: |
Member:
Member and Guest:
Retiree:
Student: |
$25.00
$40.00
$20.00
$10.00 |
This program will feature William Lucas of Atlas Material Testing Technology and Amy Wylie of Bayer Material Science whom will talk on different aspects of plastics weathering and protection, including addressing some of the different approaches to weatherability testing, specific things to keep in mind when selecting or developing weathering test methods or programs, and discussing the issues of acceleration, correlations and service life prediction in light of our current understanding.
For questions and additional information, contact Bob Wegelin, C: (330) 414-1498.
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April 14, 2008
Time: 5:30 pm |
Molding for Medical Plastics - Len Czuba
Meet at Panera Bread
19705 Center Ridge Road
Rocky River, OH
For directions, Click Here or on map below.
| Costs: |
Program:
Food: |
$5.00
At your own expense |
This presentation and panel discussion will be done by three device industry experts who specialize in the medical devices.
Len Czuba of Czuba Enterprises, Inc. will serve as moderator and first speaker.
Phil Cashen of Vaupell Inc. will speak about his role at Vaupell.
Our final speaker (yet unnamed) will be someone associated with the Cleveland Clinic who has been involved with product development of medical devices.
For the April 14th meeting abstracts, Click Here.
For questions, reservations, and additional information,
contact Gary Petruska, W: (440) 543-7526 Ext. 2118.
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| March 10, 2008 |
Tour: 5:00 p.m.
PolyOne Compounding Plant Tour
33587 Walker Road
Avon Lake, OH 44012
Phone: (866) 765-9663
For directions, click on map below.
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Dinner: 7:15 p.m.
John Christ Winery
32421 Walker Road
Avon Lake, OH 44012
Phone: (440) 933-9672
For directions, click on map below.
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We hope you can join us in the tour of PolyOne's compounding headquarters. Read about their recent building expansion in a Plastics News release.
The plant is located at the corner of Moore Road and Walker Road. If entering off of Moore Rd, come straight in the driveway all the way to the gate, but do not enter the gate. You'll see a sign for Bldg. 482. Follow the road around to the left along the fence line, go over the tracks and you'll see the plant off to your left.
If entering from Walker Rd., come in the eastern most driveway and follow that road straight back as far as you can until you come to the gravel lot where a lot of semi-trailers will most likely be parked. Take a right at that stop sign and then follow the directions above.
To take tour, you must show up between 5 and 5:30 PM. Dinner will follow immediately afterward at John Christ Winery.
| Costs: |
Member: |
$20.00 Advance
$23.00 at the door |
To register or ask questions, contact Gary Casterline at gary.casterline@delphi.com or call 330-373-5000 by March 5th. Those reservations not canceled by noon on the day of the event will be invoiced.
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| January 28, 2008 |
Time: 5:30 p.m. - Tour with Akron Section
Steere Enterprises
285 Commerce Drive
Tallmadge, OH
Tel: (330) 633-4926
For directions, click on map below.
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Time: 7:00 p.m. - Dinner
Royal Buffet and Grill
1930 Buchholzer Blvd.
Akron, OH 44310
Tel: 330-633-8883
For directions, click on map below.
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Dave Curtis, a former Steere Enterprises employee and currently a consultant for them, will lead us on a tour. Dave is also a past president of the Akron Section SPE. Dave will split the group up with individual tour guides. Since it is a 24/7 operation, we will see them making parts.
At the dinner afterwards, Dave will speak and describe the parts we saw being made.
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$15.00 |
| Guest and Member |
$25.00 |
| Retiree |
$10.00 |
| Student |
$10.00 |
To register or ask questions, contact Bob Wegelin, W: (330) 414-1498.
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December 13, 2007
Time: TBA |
Social Outing - Pro Football Hall of Fame
Point of contact: Gary Casterline, W: (330) 373-5000.
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November 12, 2007
Time: TBA |
Bill Bregar of Plastic News - K Show Review and
Choice Designs presentation on Program Management Software
Meeting held at HomeTown Buffet
1930 Snow Road, Parma
Click Here for directions.
Point of contact: Gary Casterline, W: (330) 373-5000.
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October 8, 2007
Time: TBA |
Tour of Oatey Company
4700 W. 160th St., Cleveland
Click Here for directions.
Point of contact: Ben Davis, Roberto Rodriquez. (216) 267-7100.
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September 10, 2007
Time: TBA |
Tour of Polymer Packaging Inc.
8333 Navarre Road SE, Massillon, OH
Dinner following at King's Chinese Buffet
Click Here for directions.
Point of contact: Gary Casterline, W: (330) 373-5000.
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For a upcoming meetings, click on Schedule.
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