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Be on Too of the Trend Toward Wood-Filled Plastics.


A technical conference to be held Dec. 5-6 in Baltimore Baltimore, city (1990 pop. 736,014), N central Md., surrounded by but politically independent of Baltimore co., on the Patapsco River estuary, an arm of Chesapeake Bay; inc. 1745.  will present the latest in processing wood-flour filled plastics. The "Wood Plastic Conference," sponsored by PLASTICS TECHNOLOGY, will include sessions that address material-handling and feeding issues as well as downstream From the provider to the customer. Downloading files and Web pages from the Internet is the downstream side. The upstream is from the customer to the provider (requesting a Web page, sending e-mail, etc.).  equipment. It also provides a look at 25 years of patent activity in wood/plastic materials and processes--and what to look for in the future.

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 America America [for Amerigo Vespucci], the lands of the Western Hemisphere—North America, Central (or Middle) America, and South America. The world map published in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller is the first known cartographic use of the name.  will discuss the latest integrated feeding systems and controls (photo), AirStream Technologies will address drying, and Struktol Co. will talk about the effects of processing aids on composite properties. Compounding machinery will be discussed by DavisStandard, ExtrusionTek Milacron, Farrel Corp., Leistritz, Merritt Davis, and Werner & Pleiderer.
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Date:Oct 1, 2000
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