Sunday, April 26 |
| 3:00pm - 6:00pm |
Annual Meeting Registration |
| 1:00pm - 4:00pm |
TRFA Board and Committee Chairman Meeting |
| 3:00pm - 4:00pm |
Exhibitor Setup |
| 4:30pm - 5:00pm |
1st Time Attendee Reception |
| 5:00pm - 6:30pm |
Welcome Reception |
Monday, April 27 |
| 7:00am - 11:00am |
Late Registration |
| 7:00am - 7:30am |
Continental Breakfast |
| 7:30am -7:40am |
Welcome: Charles Zarnitz, Atlas Minerals & Chemicals, TRFA President
Wells Carter, Olin Corporation, TRFA, Conference Chair |
| 7:40am - 9:10am |
Technical Papers Session (1, 2 and 3)
1. Tao Dong (National Renewable Energy Laboratory), Non-isocyanate Polyurethane Produced from Biobased Lipids and Amines
2. Pradip Kumar Dubey (Aditya Birla), Recyclamine® - Novel Amine Building Blocks for a Sustainable World
3. Yun Mi Kim (Cardolite Corporation), CNSL technology as a versatile tool for Polyurethanes Part 2: Optimization of NCO blocking conditions and Value proposition of CNSL diols |
| 9:10am - 9:30am |
Networking Break |
| 9:30am - 10:30am |
Keynote Address: John Warner, Warner Babcock Institute of Green Chemistry |
| 10:30am - 12:00pm |
Technical Papers Session ( 4, 5 and 6)
4. John McNamara (Zymergen), Revolutionary bio-inspired building blocks for next generation thermosets
5. Glenn House (Entropy Resins), Life Cycle Assessment as a Tool for Sustainability-Driven Product Marketing in the Thermoset Industry
6. Huifeng Qian (Olin Corporation), A New Photo-cationically Curable Epoxy Resin — Unique Combination of Low Viscosity and High Reactivity
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| 12:00pm - 1:15pm |
Buffet Luncheon and Tabletop Showcase |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
Committee Meetings
- Adhesives & Sealants – Dilip Shah, AC Catalysts, Chairman
- Coatings, Civil Engineering, Flooring – Lingyun He, Olin Corporation, Chairman
- Composites & Tooling – Hitesh Soni, CVC Thermoset Specialties, Chairman
- Potting, Encapsulation, Electrical – Sedigheh Nazaripour, Polycast, Chairman
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| 2:45pm - 4:15pm |
Technical Papers Session ( 7, 8 and 9)
7. Joshua Hayes (Glassflake) Application and Use of Glass Flake Pigments
8. Jeffrey Gotro (InnoCentrix, LLC) Thermosets Hard at Work in your Mobile Phone
9. Richard Hardin (Gabriel) Achieving High Performance Adhesives with Polymercaptans
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| 4:15pm - 4:45pm |
10th Annual Research Award Honorary Mention Cheng Zhang,The University of Akron “Renewable thermoset polyurethanes dispersions from bio-based isocyanate” |
| 5:00pm - 6:30pm |
Reception and Table Top Showcase |
Tuesday, April 28 |
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Breakfast on your own |
| 7:30am - 8:00am |
Global Market Update: Omar Espinosa, Olin Corporation: Overall Supply and demand of epoxy systems with raw material suppliers |
| 8:00am - 8:45am |
Global Market Update: Dan Murad, Chemquest: Application Market Update i.e. coatings, adhesives, sealants, elastomers, composites, electrical |
| 8:45am - 9:15am |
10th Annual Research Award Honorary Mention Mengfei Huang, University of Massachusetts Amherst
“Synthesis of High-Performance UV-Curable Crosslinked Coating Films via Grafting of HEMA Functionalized Methylene Malonate” |
| 9:15am - 9:45am |
10th Annual Research Award Presentation Daylan Sheppard, Northwestern University “Recycling Cross-Linked Polyurethane Foam using Twin Screw Extrusion” |
| 9:45am - 10:15pm |
Networking Break |
| 10:15am - 11:45am |
Technical Papers Session ( 10, 11 and 12)
10. Vinay Mishra (Jayhawk Fine Chemicals), Benefits of BTDA and other dianhydrides in advanced composites and high-end electronics applications using polyimide or epoxy resins
11. Abrantes Joe (Evonik), Synthetic Engineered Slica Rheology and Reinforcement of Epoxy Bis-A Resin
12. Yongning Liu (Ingevity), New Bio-Based Distilled Tall Oil Epoxy Resins and Performance |
| 11:45am - 1:00pm |
Lunch and General Membership Meeting |
| 1:00pm - 2:00pm |
Regulatory Update by Lynn Bergeson, Bergeson & Campbell LLC |
| 2:30pm - 6:00pm |
Tour: National Renewable Energy Laboratory Tour (separate registration and fee) |
Wednesday, April 29
Short Course: Thermal Analysis of Thermosets, Dr. Jeff Gotro, Innocentrix |
| 7:30am - 8:00am |
Registration |
| 8:00am - 10:00am |
Presentation |
| 10:00am - 10:15am |
Break |
| 10:15am - 12:00pm |
Presentation |
| 12:00pm - 1:00pm |
Lunch together at hotel |
| 1:00pm - 2:45pm |
Presentation |
| 2:45pm - 3:00pm |
Break |
| 3:00pm - 4:30pm |
Presentation |