Due to the downturn of the economy we did not organize a short course
during 2009. The 66th INTERNATIONAL INTENSIVE SHORT COURSE ON POLYMER
RHEOLOGY
The 64th International Intensive Short Course was presented in-house at a corporation in ARNHEM, THE NETHERLANDS, March 31-April 1, 2008. The course entitled POLYMER RHEOLOGY AND EXTRUSION was presented in-house exclusively for 24 employees of the corporation who came from The Netherlands, Belgium, U.K. and USA. The lecturer Dr. Vlachopoulos wishes to thank the company, the local organizers and all the participants.
The 63rd International Intensive Short Course was held in VALENCIA, SPAIN. The president of Polydynamics, Dr. John Vlachopoulos, presented in Spanish the course entitled REOLOGIA Y PROCESADO DE POLIMEROS at AIMPLAS in Valencia, Spain, March 11-12, 2008. Dr. Vlachopoulos thanks the local organizer Dr. Adolfo Benedito, the paricipants from AIMPLAS and those from GRUPO ANTOLIN INGENIERIA S.A., REPSOL S.L., and UBE ENGINEERING PLASTICS S.A.
The 62nd International Intensive Short Course on Polymer Rheology and Extrusion was held in Brussels, April 10-11, 2008. The lecturer Dr. John Vlachopoulos wishes to thank the 26 participants who came from 12 different countries from the following companies: EXXONMOBIL (BELGIUM), SABIC EUROPE (NETHERLANDS), LUBRIZOL (BELGIUM), MICHELIN (FRANCE), PREMIX OY (FINLAND), CIBA (SWITZERLAND), SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES (S. ARABIA), BOREALIS (AUSTRIA), EQUATE PETROCHEMICALS (KUWAIT), LEONI STUDER (SWITZERLAND), 3M (BELGIUM), TIMCAL (BELGIUM), MIKROSAN (TURKEY), UNILEVER (U.K.), SAINT GOBAIN (USA), INDUSTRIAS ALVAREZ ALYSOM (SPAIN), DTI (DENMARK), ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY (TURKEY). Full course details can be viewed by clicking here.
Please note that our phone and fax numbers have changed. The phone number is now +1 (905) 592-3507 and the fax number is now +1 (647) 436-7847.
The president of Polydynamics is the 2007 recipient of the Stanley G. Mason award of the Canadian Society of Rheology for his contributions to research, industrial consulting and teaching in rheology of polymers. The award is named after Canada's rheology pioneer, the late S.G.Mason, renowned for numerous contributions in the microrheology of suspensions and particulate flows. The award is presented every other year. Previous winners include J.M. Dealy, P.J. Carreau, M.C. Williams, and D.F. James.
With the help of Polydynamics, Inc.'s representative in Japan, Takeshi Nakamura, the course was presented with simultaneous translation for the 15 participants from the following corporations, all from Japan: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL, ASAHI KASEI, SUMITOMO BAKELITE, TOYO SEIKAN, HITACHI CABLE, NITTA MOORE, OMRON CORPORATION, SHIKOKU KAKOH, KOHJIN CO., SHIN NIKKEI, DAIKIN INDUSTRIES and PLAMEDIA. Thanks to Takeshi and all the participants who came to hilltop conference center at the Miura Peninsula, near Kamakura.
The 60th International Intensive Short Course on Polymer Rheology was held in Brussels, February 22-23, 2007. John Vlachopoulos wishes to thank the 28 participants who came from 11 different countries representing the following corporations: ARKEMA (France), TOTAL PETROCHEMICAL (Belgium), COLBOND (Netherlands), AMN DPI (France), POLIMERI EUROPA (Italy), CREGANNA MEDICAL DEVICES (Ireland), COLOPLAST (Denmark), MAILLEFER (Switzerland), CLARIANT (France), REPSOL (Spain), SABIC EUROPE (Netherlands), SOLVAY (Belgium), MTBE/PP(Malaysia), ARCELOR (France), POLYONE (BELGIUM), CHEMIX (UK), AIMPLAS (Spain), EASTMAN (UK), PREMIX OY (Finland), N.V.ORGANON (Netherlands), ECOLE MINES DOUAI (France), NEXANS RESEARCH (France).
The President of Polydynamics, John Vlachopoulos returned from Japan where he presented lectures at SEKISUI CHEMICAL (Osaka), SUMITOMO BAKELITE (Kobe), PLAMEDIA for invited guests from several corporations (Tokyo) and at the 22nd Annual International Meeting of the Polymer Processing Society (PPS) in Yamagata. John Vlachopoulos is the President of PPS for the term 2005-2007.
It was a smaller than usual group of eight Canadians from HYMOPACK, ARKEMA, HUSKY INJECTION MOLDING, HAREMAR PLASTIC MFG, POLYONE, ROYAL GROUP and one American from TORAY PLASTICS (Virginia). Polydynamics thanks the participants and their employers.
Polydynamics thanks the 29 participants for making our recent European short course (held in Brussels, Belgium during February 23-24, 2006) a sell-out success. Participants came from these organizations: TOTAL PETRO (Belgium), BOREALIS (Norway), EXXONMOBIL (Belgium), O-B ENTERPRISE (Switzerland), TNO (Netherlands), NOVO NORDISK (Denmark), COLBOND (Netherlands), INEOS FILMS (Italy), SOLVAY SOLEXIS (Italy), POLYETHYLENE MALAYSIA (Malaysia), PETRONAS RESEARCH (Malaysia), CIBA (Switzerland), KABELWERK EUPEN (Belgium), INBEV (Belgium), QATAR PETRO (Qatar), TORAY PLASTICS (France), POLYPLAST MUELLER (Germany), COBREW (Belgium), TECHNE (Italy), CLARIANT (Belgium), COROVIN (Germany), ARCELOR (France).
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Dr. John Vlachopoulos, the President of Polydynamics, Inc. and Professor of Chemical Engineering and Director of CAPPA-D at McMaster University, received the Distinguished Achievement Award of the Extrusion Division of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) at the Annual Technical Meeting (ANTEC) in Chicago, on May 18, 2004. The award was accompanied by a $1200 honorarium. The first recipient of this award was Bruce Maddock in 1974. Subsequent recipients have included the entire DuPont team that worked on extrusion in the 1950s (Carley, Strab, Mallouck, McKelvey, Jepson and Gore), Gerhard Schenkel, Zehev Tadmor, Chan I. Chung, Charles E. Maillefer, Paul S. Squires, Frank Nissel, George A. Kruder, Robert A. Barr, Larry Schmidt, David Todd, Costas Gogos, Kun Sup Hyun and Earl W. Veazey.
The NEXTRUCAD demo is an installable program, the same as the full program but with reduced functionality. The screw diameter, screw design and section lengths are fixed for a single example. The other extruder dimensions, process conditions, material data and solution inputs can be changed and the solution re-run. Problem results can be printed, but problems cannot be saved or opened.
Please click here to go to the NEXTRUCAD home page for a link to the demo.
Polydynamics is excited to announce the initial release of NEXTRUCAD, our new full-featured single-screw extrusion simulation package. NEXTRUCAD simulates solids transport, melting, and metering in single screw extruders, and predicts the solid bed profile, pressure build-up and bulk temperature along the screw axis, along with extruder output, power requirement, torque and average residence time. The software supports conventional single-flighted screws, barrier screws of Maillefer / Uniroyal and parallel flight (MC3 / Barr and Dray and Lawrence) designs, and screws with mixing (blister ring, Maddock or Egan) elements.
NEXTRUCAD replaces our original extrusion simulation package EXTRUCAD. We have a special price for the software, for former EXTRUCAD licensees!
Please click here to go to the NEXTRUCAD home page for further information, and for a link to the demo and to an informative slideshow for the software.
Written by 29 prominent experts selected by SPE's Extrusion Division (including our own John Vlachopoulos, who is also co-editor), this 450-page volume focuses on the understanding of the fundamental factors of extrusion and related topics in Extrusion Technology, Downstream Processes and Applications, and Common Technologies. Troubleshooting guides at the end of each chapter provide solutions to common problems with suggestions for both short- and long-term remedies. This guide is being recommended for process/design engineers, equipment operators, managerial personnel, university/college teachers and professors, and students.
***SPE NON-MEMBER PRICE REDUCED!!***
The President of Polydynamics, Inc., Dr. John Vlachopoulos, was presented with the 2001 SPE Education Award at the 59th Annual Technical Conference (ANTEC) in Dallas, Texas (May 6-10, 2001). The Education Award is sponsored by the Detroit Secton and the Automotive Division of SPE in honor of Fred E. Schwab. Dr. Vlachopoulos began teaching at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, in 1968 and has been a full Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering since 1979. At McMaster in 1987, Dr. Vlachopoulos created the Centre for Advanced Polymer Processing and Design (CAPPA-D), of which he serves as director. Known among his students and colleagues for his enthusiasm and dedication to education, he has supervised the research work of numerous post-doctoral fellows, Ph.D. students, and Master's students; and he is a frequent lecturer (in five languages) at conferences and seminars around the world and a consultant to the polymer industry worldwide. Dr. Vlachopoulos is the author or co-author of some 200 articles, conference papers, and book chapters, and with his co-workers he has created a dozen commercially available software packages. He established Polydynamics, Inc. in 1994 for software research, development, and marketing. Dr. Vlachopoulos earned his Dipl. Ing. from the National Technical University in Athens, Greece, and an M.S. and a D.Sc. from Washington University (St. Louis).
Our representative in Japan is Mr. Takeshi Nakamura, formerly employed by the Mitsubishi Chemical owned RYOKA SYSTEMS INC.. He is in charge of sales and technical support for Japan and the Far East. We are very grateful to RYOKA SYSTEMS INC. for five years of fruitful cooperation in promoting our products in Japan. The new address of our sales and technical service office is:
POLYDYNAMICS, INC. (JAPAN)
Takeshi Nakamura
531-2-1110, Miyawada, Torideshi
Ibaraki, 300-1514
Japan
Phone: (+81) 0297 83 1761
Fax: (+81) 0297 83 1730
E-Mail: InfoPDIJ@aol.com
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As a sample of one of the capabilities of XTRU-XPERT, the full Glossary of Terms Plus Explanations, taken directly from the software, is now available on-line. Click here to find the meaning of that technical term you heard.
A demonstration slideshow for XTRU-XPERT, our extrusion expert system package, is available for direct download. Please click here to go to our downloads page.
XTRU-XPERT is a knowledge-based software system for the plastics engineer. It helps the user to perform quick extrusion calculations and offers troubleshooting tips for common single screw extrusion problems.