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PDM celebrates 10
year anniversary
T
he Plastics Design and Moulding
Exhibition and Conference
(PDM15) celebrates its 10th
anniversary as the UK’s premier
annual event for the plastics industry.
Returning to the Telford International
Centre on 16 and 17 June, the event will be
co-located with the new Plastics Packaging
Show and the second Plastics Recycling
Expo, and has already attracted over 100
exhibiting companies.
The two-day PDM Conference focuses
on a range of the industry’s most topical
issues including skills shortages, EU
membership, sustainable design, automotive
lightweighting and 3D printing. Highlights
include:
• An overview of the UK Auto industry by
Luke Hampton, supply chain director at
the Society of Motor Manufacturers and
Traders (SMMT)
• Skills shortage in the plastics industry are apprenticeships the answer?
• Richard Brown, Managing Director, G&A
Moulding Technology Ltd
• Plastics, lightweighting saviour; welding
of automotive plastics components.
Best practice and assessment of joint
integrity by Farshad Salamat-Zadeh,
Chartered Polymer and Adhesive
Engineer and Senior Project Leader at
TWI
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Failure in Polymer Products - it doesn’t
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Material innovations in injection
moulding by Dr Mark Barnett, Head o f
Warwick Scientific Services
There will also be a number of ‘shop floor’
sessions for engineers, providing practical
expertise in areas such as moulding
techniques and machine care.
A popular feature of previous shows that
returns for 2015 is the Plastics Consultancy
Network’s Plastics Surgery. Visitors are
invited to bring along questions they may
have relating to plastics design and moulding
and PCN’s consultants will be on hand to
offer effective, creative and cost-effective
advice and solutions.
and Kongskilde UK. Other exhibitors include
product design companies, rotational
and blow moulding machinery suppliers,
toolmakers, rapid prototyping specialists,
moulders and mouldmakers, masterbatch
specialists, software suppliers and materials
testing specialists.
Major names from every part of the UK
plastics community have confirmed their
presence at PDM15 including Distrupol,
Plastribution, Negri Bossi, Premier
Moulding Machinery, Billion UK, BMB
Plastics Machinery, Kuka Robotics, Luxus,
Mouldshop, Rutland Plastics and Chess
Plastics.
Organisers have also reported a new level of
interest from overseas businesses keen to
showcase their capabilities to the UK market,
now regarded as the growth area in Europe.
Such exhibitors include Italian-based M.P
Srl, Austrian-based Meusburger Georg GmbH
& Co Kg, Swiss company U-NICA Gruppe,
3D Design Technologies Ltd (Cad2parts
Ltd) from Turkey and Luxembourg-based
CODPRO.
Companies exhibiting at PDM for the first
time in 2015 include: Igus UK, Cad2parts,
South West Polymer Supplies, Hotset UK
To register to attend PDM15 visit:
www.pdmevent.com