Plastics Industry Awards 2010 Shortlist Announced

The organisers of the annual Plastics Industry Awards 2010 have announced the shortlist of this year’s awards, which will be held at the London Hilton Hotel on Park Lane on Friday 1st October 2010.

Enjoying its 10th year as a social and business highlight of the UK plastics industry, this year’s awards will be presented by Millie Clode, Sky Sports News anchor and co-host of prime time ITV game show The Colour of Money.

For more information about the Plastics Industry Awards go to www.plasticsawards.com or call Karen Jethwa on 020 8253 9629.

MasterFlow Sales Success at PDM10

On the first morning of the PDM10 show MasterFlow UK sold another of its hot runner systems to established customer UB Plastics. Steve Brown Sales Director and Andy Cox Production Director signed the deal on the MasterFlow stand at PDM10.

UB Plastics signs with Masterflow UK

UB Plastics makes plastic tamper-evident seals for use on aluminium beer kegs. They already supply a wide range of household names including Carlsberg, Coors and InBev as well as many smaller brewers like Fuller Smith and Turner. The new hot runner is required for their new contract to supply Guinness in the UK with 36,000 keg caps per day. UB Plastics already manufactures 200,000 keg caps every day and will see production rise even further as beer sales peak for this summer’s football world cup.

“PDM has been a fantastic show for us,” says Chris Whitlam, Managing Director of MasterFlow UK. “We have seen a good mix of new and existing customers, who have all come here to do business.”

Tangerine Man Tackles Sustainable Design

Professor Martin Darbyshire, CEO of global design consultants Tangerine, launched the Design Debate at PDM10 this morning with an incisive and enlightening review of the challenges facing sustainable design. While claiming to be no expert, he and all of the designer panellists displayed an illuninating grasp of the key issues facing us. Sustainable design isn’t actually desirable, it essential for a world survival!

Global Launch of New Rapid Plastic Prototyping System

3.30pm today saw the global launch of a new accurate, high resolution plastic prototyping system. Concurrent Design Group (CDG) on Stand C22 at PDM10 launched the new ZBuilder Ultra system at exactly the same time as US manufacturer Z Corporation was unveiling it at the Rapid Show in California.

Cultivate Your Diamonds: Sir Richard Needham Advises PDM10 Delegates

A very inspirational keynote address from Sir Richard Needham, international and commercial director of Dyson for this morning’s Moulding Business Debate. He used a very amusing tale from his time as a Northern Ireland minister to emphasise the importance of cultivating the diamonds in your business (and filtering out the crap).

PDM10 is Ready and Waiting to See You!

I just walked round the show floor and everything is ready for the doors to open tomorrow at 10am! (OK there are still a few exhibitors adding last minute touches to their stands, but I am sure it’ll all be ready by the morning).

My first impression? One in five exhibitors is new this year – so lots of new names on the show floor, which is good to see. The huge Engel stand is impressive too! Check out the new machines from Krauss Maffei and Billion too.

Sir Richard Needham, international and commercial director at Dyson

I am looking forward to the Conference. Sir Richard Needham, international and commercial director at Dyson is opening the show at 10am and will then deliver the keynote address for the Moulding Business Debate at 10.30 . We’re expecting a full theatre for that one. So make sure you arrive early to bag your seat.

See you tomorrow!

Win a Driver Experience Prize Courtesy of Engel

Engel UK is injecting some fun into its time at PDM10, holding a technical competition for visitors to its stand.

Engel UK will show injection moulding technology at the PDM10 exhibition taking place at the Telford International Centre next week on 18-20 May. It is inviting visitors to its stand (F18) to study a collection of applications made using a variety of advanced moulding technologies. Visitors can then try to identify the process used for each application.

PDM10 is only one week away

The plastics design and moulding community is getting ready for THE show of 2010 for UK designers and producers of plastics products.

The doors of PDM10 open in just 1 weeks time, presenting the perfect opportunity for networking with suppliers and contacts, learning and debating at the free conference and sourcing and comparing products and companies under one roof.

Travelling to Telford couldn’t be simpler. If you are driving and have sat nav, the postcode you need is TF3 4JH.

By train Telford has direct connections from London Marylebone, Birmingham International, Birmingham New Street, Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury. For more detailed travel information please click here

Why not make the most of the free conference and stay over in Telford? There are 2 onsite hotels just minutes walk from the venue plus a further 3,000 beds within a 30 minute drive. Contact our free accommodation booking service on 01952 281561, mentioning PDM10.

There are still a few places left at the free PDM10 Conference, view the full programme and book your place today

Remind your colleagues there is still time to register to attend the show. They can register, free of charge, at: http://www.pdmevent.com/register

We look forward to welcoming you to PDM10!

Plastics from Renewables: New Keynote Speaker for PDM10 Conference

In a late change to our PDM10 Conference programme the keynote speaker for Thursday 20 May 2010, has been changed to Dr. Kerry Kirwan, Senior Research Fellow at WMG’s International Automotive Research Centre.

Leading the session from 10.30 – 11.30  on the conferences’s last day, Dr. Kirwan will present on Technical Applications for Plastics from Renewable Resources for the The Technology and Innovation Debate.

There are a very few places still available for this session.

Distrupol Backs PDM10 Conference

Distrupol UK is the sponsor of the PDM10 conference. In the latest issue of Distrupol’s customer newsletter Talk Polymer, Gerry Moore, managing director of Distrupol UK, discusses the need for “a prosperous and growing manufacturing sector” to help rebalance the economy as it emerges from recession.

“This is the reason we are at PDM and why we have committed to sponsoring the conference,” says Moore. “We are delighted that Crain have increased their investment in PDM by putting together this high class group of speakers and we are looking forward to discussing development opportunities with those attending.”