PFFC - December 2008 - (Page 20) NEWS CLIPS AIMCAL Sustains Technology-Hungry maintaining a healthy environment, and it even can reduce municipal solid waste by securing product integrity and freshness. MYRTLE BEACH, SC | The Assn. of Industrial The program began and ended with Metallizers, Coaters & Laminators featwo joint sessions that served to unify tured two short courses preceding the the diverse but similarly discriminating official opening day’s sessions on trouble- tastes of both vacuum and web coaters/ shooting the vacuum coating process laminators alike. The first joint session and practical defect reduction. Held featured six presentations focused on October 19–22 at the Marriott Resort at Environmental Responsiveness, while Grand Dunes, an appetizer portion on the concluding seven joint sessions sustainability followed the kick-off short concentrated on advances in web coating courses prior to the following morning’s technology, including such subjects as six healthy helpings of presentations on nanoparticles, functional polymers, Environmental Responsiveness. conductive polymer dispersions, Keynoter Dr. Kenneth Marsh of production of advanced microelectronics, Kenneth S. Marsh & Assoc. provided an and covert markers for anticounterfeit overview addressing “Packaging & the brand management. The intervening Environment: Debunking the Myths.” subject matter pleased the 200+ Listing ten popular packaging myths in attendees with high-tech coverage on contrast to their more accurate countercoating, measurement/rheology, substrate parts, Marsh demonstrated how he sees technology and treatment, vacuum packaging becoming key to future ecoweb barrier, vacuum web processing, nomic development, that it’s necessary for and vacuum web performance. I By Yolanda Simonsis, Associate Publisher/Editor personally found this last session especially interesting on the potential of photovoltaics and solar power. Here lay the potential for true growth as research and development uncovers cost effective, efficient means to develop these products for massive consumer use in the future. Two papers were honored with the coveted John Matteucci Technical Excellence Award. On the vacuum web coating side, Don McClure of Acuity Consulting and Training won for his coverage of “Rollto-Roll Processing of ZnO Flexible Active Matrix Display Backplanes and Integrated Circuits.” His presentation detailed how to fabricate arrays of thin film transistors into complex integrated circuits, such as active matrix display backplanes, on low-cost, flexible substrates in a roll-to-roll format. McClure felt this new method would be critical to reducing production costs that can compete with what he considers an already well-established amorphous silicon industry, particularly for low-cost applications. PFFC-ASAP 115 20 | DECEMBER 2008 WWW.PFFC-ONLINE.COM http://www.polymagtek.com http://WWW.PFFC-ONLINE.COM
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