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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

9:00 am	Welcoming remarks and Hall of Fame presentation John Aufderhaar, TCM-Americas Linn Yeager, Executive Advisory Board
9:15 am	North American wood-based panel markets: The recession continues? Bernard Fuller, RISI
10:00 am	Melamine market dynamics: The commodity game Jan Jaap Nusselder and Claude Bostoen, OCI Melamine
10:30 am	Coffee break
11:00 am	Design and application trends in TFM Susan Doherty, Uniboard
11:30 am	Line of the inevitable Jim Torti and Robert Noble, Ecor
12:30 pm	Lunch break
2:30 pm	Innovation and change Andreas Gottzmann, Süddekor
3:00 pm	Sustainability: Scratching the Surface Tanis Marquette, Hexion Specialty Chemicals
3:30 pm	Coffee break
4:00 pm	Introduction to HPL: Why use it? Anthony Damiano and Sean Gregory, Abet Laminati
4:30 pm	New applications and markets for low base weight paper John Beck, Sauder Woodworking
5:00 pm	End of day one
7:00 pm	Hall of Fame Conference Dinner at the Mount Royal Club The conference dinner will be held at the Mount Royal Club, 1175 Sherbrooke Street West , Montreal (Quebec) H3A 1H9. Dress code: Gentlemen are required to wear trousers, jacket shirt with collar and tie. Ladies are required to dress to a comparable standard.

 

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

9:00 am	Emerging US public policy on product emissions and wood fiber: Implications for the North American composite panel and decorative surfaces industries Tom Julia, Composite Panel Association
9:30 am	The need for design consistency Eric Johnson, Omnova Solutions
10:00 am	Surface material trends in closet and home storage category: What savvy consumers expect … and demand Randy Tallman, The Stow Company
10:30 am	Coffee break
11:00 am	The economic outlook, market conditions and trend lines Jim Sherbert, Bush Business Furniture
11:30 am	Antibacterial functionality on melamine surfaces Ray Chaaraoui, Coveright Surfaces
12:00 noon	Lunch break
2:00 pm	New applications for 2DL and 3DL: A user's perspective Lary Skow, Northern Contours
2:30 pm	New applications for 2DL and 3DL: A material producer's perspective Jim Barnett, Renolit
3:00 pm	Coffee break
3:30 pm	A new “green” high performance film for laminating, wrapping and pressing Michel Fortin, CDM Decor Papers
4:00 pm	The digital color viewing light box and other camera-based off-line and in-line helpers for boosting the productivity of traditional and new decoration processes Robert Massen, Joerg Eberhardt and Christoph Schmitt, Baumer Inspection
4:30 pm	Taber testing - Past, present and future Alan Jaenecke, Taber Industries
5:00 pm	End of conference

 

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