2015 AIMCAL Web Coating & Handling / SPE FlexPackCon CONFERENCE EVALUATION FORM To upgrade the quality of the Web Coating & Handling / FlexPackCon Conference, we would appreciate your comments. MONDAY, October 26 Track:Vacuum Coating Session: Flexible Devices Orchid 1 Excellent Good Fair Poor Excellent Good Fair Poor R2R Processing for Flexible Devices & Components Utilized in Wearable & Mobile Electronics Current Activities of Coating Testbed and Converting Companies in Korea to Develop Functional Films by R2R Processes Session:Transparent Conductors Excellent Good Fair Poor Excellent Good Fair Poor 3M Advanced Conductor Technology Roll-to-Roll Sputtered ITO/Ag/ITO Multilayer Films for Flexible Organic Solar Cells and Flexible Heaters New Materials for Transparent Conductors Session: Process Sensitivities and Improvement Metallizer with New Inductively Heated Evaporation Sources Mechanics-Driven Material Design for Optimized Barrier Films AlOx - A Bright Past but do we Need to Protect the Future?? Session: Cathode and Substrate Heat Management Excellent Good Fair Poor Excellent Good Fair Poor Cathode Heating in Reactive Magnetron Sputtering: A Previously Ignored Hysteresis Loop Provides a Direct Determination of the Secondary Electron Yield Substrate Thermal Heating Rates as a Function of Magnetically Controlled Plasma Impedance on Rotary Cathodes Sputter Coating of Plastic Film: Strategies for Reduction of Substrate Heat Load Track: Web Coating Session: Advances in Coating Technology Excellent Good Fair Poor Excellent Good Fair Poor Intermittent Coating 2 Coating and Printing Processes for the Surface Functionalization Fixed Slot Dies vs Adjustable Lip Dies Development of Slot Die Coating Unit with Vision-Base Thickness and Meniscus Control for Reliable Thin Uniform Film Coating After 100 Years of use, Mayer Rods are still Popular Today Fundamental Causes of Coating Defects Session: Advances in Coating and Lamination Technolgy Excellent Good Fair Poor Excellent Good Fair Poor Laminating System Application and Design Considerations Latest Developments in Hot Melt Coating Technology for Special Tape Applications Introducing Ultrasonic Welding Technology Into Continuous Web Lamination And Slitting Applications Laminating to Digitally Printed Substrates for Flexible Packaging Drying Laboratory Methods for Characterization of Limited Rate Drying in Simulation Models Functional Property Enhancement of Packaging and Labels Films Through Coating
Track: Web Handling (Monday continued) Session: Drives and Static Control Excellent Good Fair Poor Excellent Good Fair Poor Auto-Tuning Drives Drive Systems Design for Low Web Speed Applications Managing Static Session: Rollers Excellent Good Fair Poor Excellent Good Fair Poor Guidelines for Rolls Used in Web Handling Vacuum Pull Rolls - Design and Applications What is your Roller's True Shape and Why Does It Matter? Session: Slitting and Splicing Excellent Good Fair Poor Excellent Good Fair Poor Improving Web Tension Regulation during Zero-Speed Splicing Operation Managing Sideforce, Can't Angle and Blade Profile in Tangent Slitting Applications to Reduce Edge Defects Shear Knife Overlap - The Most Common Set Up Error Session: Web Conveyence Excellent Good Fair Poor Excellent Good Fair Poor How Accurately can I Guide my Web? Troubleshooting Web Scratches Combined Stresses for Webs Going Over Rollers Track: FlexPackCon Session: Sustainable Solutions Excellent Good Fair Poor Excellent Good Fair Poor The Challenge of Flexible Packaging Recycling - Multilayer Films, Barrier Structures and Pouches Plastics Packaging: Environmental Assessment of End-of-Life Options Accelerating Sustainability in Packaging by Enhancing Recycle Stream Performance A Compostable Solution for Flexible and Paper Based Packaging Sustainable Collaboration: A Call to Action Efficient Design: Novel Packaging Technology Session: Food Safety and Preservation Excellent Good Fair Poor Excellent Good Fair Poor Food Safety through Better Communication Food Safety Management Systems for Food Packaging Manufacturing: Vive la Différence Changes in Regulation for Polymer Masterbatches Knowing Your Supply Chain: Traceability Solution for Products and Packaging Successes and Challenges Encountered in the Development of Active Packaging for Food EVOH and Polyethylene High Barrier Compound Films for Packaging Application Additional Comments :
TUESDAY, October 27 Track: Vacuum Coating Session: Process improvements Orchid 1 Excellent Good Fair Poor Excellent Good Fair Poor Materials Property Database of Thin Films by Pilot Scale Roll to Roll Sputter Core Technologies for Shortening the Time-to-Market of Display Films Transparent Electrodes Made From PEDOT:PSS Track: Web Coating Session: Adhesives Technology Excellent Good Fair Poor Excellent Good Fair Poor Barrier Adhesive for Flexible Packaging Cationic Cure Mechanism for UV HMPSAs Fit for Use-Laminating Adhesive Selection for Digitally Printed Packaging Track: Web Handling Session: Winding and More Excellent Good Fair Poor Excellent Good Fair Poor Practical Methods to Improve Wound Roll Quality MD Buckles in Thin Film Winding Web Handling Answers for Anyone With Two Thumbs Track: FlexPackCon Session: Our Evolving Industry: Merger and Acquisition Excellent Good Fair Poor Excellent Good Fair Poor Innovation Strategy for the Polymers Industry Key Trends, Drivers and Outlook for Mergers and Acquisitions in the Specialty Packaging and Plastics Sectors M&A Panel Discussion: Sun Capital, Mesirow Financial, and Coveris Additional Comments :
WEDNESDAY, October 28 Track: Vacuum Coating Session: Flexible Packaging & Barrier Orchid 1 Excellent Good Fair Poor Excellent Good Fair Poor Consumer Trends and Package Design Sputtered Low-E Films on Flexible PET Substrates Roll-to-roll ALD: Applications and Scaling Prospects Optimizing the ALD Cycle for High Speed, Low Cost Barrier Films in Commercial Packaging Applications High Barrier Film for Flexible Packaging: Challenges and Latest Solutions for the Vacuum Web Coating Industry Optimized High Barrier Properties of Plasma Assisted Deposited AlOx on BOPP and PET Films for Food Packaging Applications Understanding the Vacuum-Chamber Pressure Effect on Metallized Film Properties: Controlling the Timing of Vacuum Pump Maintenance Surface Functionalization of Web Substrates In-line With Metal and Metal Oxide Deposition Session: Magnetrons, Plasma and Control Excellent Good Fair Poor Excellent Good Fair Poor Orchid 1 New Rotatable Magnetrons and Target Materials: Enabling Higher Performance Sputter Coatings Use of Plasma Sources and Feedback Control in Web Coating Vacuum Web Coating: Solutions and Opportunities from High Power Pulsing Track: Web Coating Session: Flexible Electronics Excellent Good Fair Poor Excellent Good Fair Poor Flexible Glass Substrates for Printed Electronic Applications Active and Passive Device Integration on Flexible Glass Substrates Electronic and Optical Devices via Self-Assembly of Hybrid Materials and Nanoimprint Lithography: Towards Solution-Based R2R Nanomanufacturing Flexible Electronics Substrates Coated Ultra Thin Copper for Printed Circuit Laminates Highly Accurate In-Process Measurement of Thin Coated Films and Applied Layers Within R2R Processes for Flexible Electronics and Other Transparent Conductors Session: Solution Delivery Technology Excellent Good Fair Poor Excellent Good Fair Poor Coating Process Performance: Start at the Beginning Solution Delivery for High-Precision Coating Optimizing Mix Performance Fluid Delivery Through Motor Driven Diaphragm Pumps Progressive Cavity Pumps and Coating Transfer Flow Metering Associated with the Coating Operation
(Wednesday continued) Track: Extrusion Coating Session: Extrusion Coating Basics Excellent Good Fair Poor Excellent Good Fair Poor Market Highlights: Extrusion and Vacuum Web Coating A Review of Adhesive and Extrusion E/C Equipment Review Session: Advances in Extrusion Coating Excellent Good Fair Poor Excellent Good Fair Poor Feedblock and Die Technology New Sealant Solutions for Food Packaging Structure Advances in Sustainability for Extrusion Coating Converters Track: FlexPackCon Session:Innovation Tools and Trends Excellent Good Fair Poor Excellent Good Fair Poor Evaluating Your New Business Development (NBD) Process for Packaging Innovation Contest: The Implementation of Innovation Developing an Effective Learning Strategy and Toolset to Innovate Successfully Practical Flexible Food Packaging Innovation Across the Value Chain Creating Consumer Value using High Barrier Films: A Campbell s Brand Example Speaker Panel Discussion Track: FlexPackCon Session: Processing Equipment and Materials Excellent Good Fair Poor Excellent Good Fair Poor From Idea to Product Improved Film Flatness of a Blown Film and The Quality Enhancements it Brings Creating Valve Sacks & Pouches From Plastic Film and Creating Pinch Bottom Sacks From Woven-PP Turn Test Data into Useful Analytics The Stabilization of LLDPE: A new, Clean Stabilization System to Overcome Challenges of the Flexible Packaging Industry The Next Milestone for Blown Film Technology
(Wednesday continued) Track: FlexPackCon (cont) Session: Package Performance and Sealing Excellent Good Fair Poor Excellent Good Fair Poor Functionality in Multilayer Films for Packaging Peelable Seal Films with Enhanced Moisture Barrier Properties for Flexible Packaging Sealant Development for Flexible Packaging Using Light Microscopy Testing and Prediction of Puncture Resistance of Flexible Food Packages 10 Ways to Improve Corona & Atmospheric Plasma Treatment Results Improving Oxidation of the Extrusion Melt at Higher Line Speeds and Lower Melt Temperatures for Better Heat Seal Integrity Additional Comments : Tuesday, October 27 Keynote: The U.S. Flexible Packaging Industry Excellent Good Fair Poor Excellent Good Fair Poor Marla Donahue, Flexible Packaging Association OVERALL 4 3 2 1 Excellent Good Fair Poor Receptions Meeting Rooms Audio Visual Breaks Sleeping Rooms Food / Service Location General Summary of Conference Experience: Suggested future technical topics and/or speakers: What is your overall conference rating? Please indicate a number 10 (highest) to 1 (lowest) Name: