Mark your calendars for Oct. 20-22, 1999. Plastics Machining & Fabricating is proud to announce plans for the first ever conference devoted to secondary plastics processing. The event will be held at the Holiday Inn City Centre in the heart of Chicago's Magnificent Mile area. Officially called the Plastics Machining & Fabricating Conference, the confab will be brought to you by this magazine and Vance Publishing Corp.

PM&F is part of Vance's Industrial Division, which has many years of experience in developing and managing successful technical seminars and trade shows on a national basis.

Why a conference devoted to machining and fabricating plastics?
Needless to say, the plastics industry has its fair share of educational opportunities and national and regional trade shows. But nowhere can you find a forum for plastics fabricators, machine shops, and thermoformers that is devoted to secondary plastics processing. In talking to readers and suppliers to the industry, it has become apparent that the time is ripe to develop a forum that exclusively addresses this exciting niche.

Seminar outline
The PM&F Conference's curriculum will mirror the editorial calendar of the magazine. Since its inception, we've been able to identify several key areas of greatest interest to our readers. Many of those same topics will be addressed. Here are a few seminar subjects that we'll cover:

• Working with engineered plastics
• Machining and fabricating acrylics.
• Fabricating with nylon.
• Machining and fabricating polycarbonates
• Working with ABS
• Fabricating with polystyrene
• Thermoforming tips and techniques.

Table-top exhibits
As part of the three-day event we will offer several opportunities for you to mingle with your peers and industry suppliers. We'll have a special area and times designated for supplier table-top exhibits.

Call for papers, more information
If you'd like to present an objective presentation on one of the above topics or on another area of secondary plastics processing, we'd love to hear from you. Or, if you're interested in attending or a displaying a table-top exhibit, a brochure describing the event will be available soon.

Please call me at 800-343-2016 or fax 847-634-4374. Also, watch for more details on www.plasticsmachining.com.

Plastics Machining & Fabricating
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