2020 Online Event
Available On-Demand
TPE and Silicone Elastomers Summits have been referred to as the "home" of the global elastomers industry.
Why attend the Elastomers World Summit?
The Elastomers World Summit Online brings together manufacturers, processors, end-users, designers and researchers for a summit-style technical discussion of silicone adn TPE elastomer materials, global markets, processing advancements and novel applications.
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Director of Technology, Star Thermoplastics Alloys & Rubbers, Inc
Dr. Prakash is the head of product development, application development and analytical chemistry teams at Star. Prakash has led his team for over a decade with successful commercialization of various TPE applications including soft gels and non-halogenated fire-retardant grades. His prior stints at global entities include GE Plastics. Prakash has a Ph.D. in Synthetic Organic Chemistry specializing in Polymers from Loyola University Chicago, MS degree in Analytical Chemistry and Instrumentation from Bangalore University and a BS in Chemistry from St. Joseph’s College, Bangalore University.
Patrick Ellis qualified at the Borough polytechnic as a Plastics Technologist in 1959. He worked for Shell Chemicals first in the field of epoxy resins and later in the development of expanded polystyrene. He left Shell in 1963 to join Borg-Warner Chemicals, where he was responsible for the development of wide ABS sheet, particularly for small marine craft. In 1970 he joined GEP as Area Sales Manager and in 1972 he moved Monsanto to develop their position in the European automotive industry. In 1976 he joined Hercules Europe as Technical Manager responsible for injection and blow moulding PP business.
When Hercules and Montedison formed Himont, he was appointed European Market Development Manager. Later Neste Chemicals bought the Himont Belgium operation, when was asked to become part of Neste Polypropylene as Business Development Manager. In 1991, he left Nest to set up his own consultancy business, where he has carried out numerous single and multi-clients’ studies on polyolefins processes and catalysts, compounding of polyolefins and thermoplastics elastomers, as well as a number of global elastomer studies. He has recently finished a global elastomer study for Smithers and as well as one on global thermoplastic elastomers (TPE) and another on the European market for fibre reinforced thermoplastics (FRT).
Nobuhiro Miwa joined Kuraray Co., Ltd. in 2001. He has twenty years of experiences in TPE industry. He worked for Kuraray America, Inc. in 2015-2017 and then joined Kuraray Europe GmbH as a Technical Service Manager in 2017. His activities include of Application Development, Technical Service. He represents the company’s Styrenic (SEPTON™ and HYBRAR™) and Acrylic based TPEs (KURARITY™). He received his B.S. and M.S. in Polymer chemistry from Kyoto University, Japan in 2001.
Alan Banks is the Lightweight Structures Supervisor within Innovation and Research at Ford Motor Company. He started work at Ford in 1983 as an apprentice and worked in Chassis Engineering responsible for suspension systems on commercial vehicles until 2019 before his move to Innovation and Research.
His remit with the Innovation and Research team is to lead projects with light-weighting technologies and applications in design with mass production capability. This remit includes material choices from advanced steel to full composite structures, including hybrid technology to produce the best value for automotive applications.
Aschak Damani is the Executive Director & CEO of Zylog, India’s leading manufacturer of TPO, TPV, & TPE compounds since 1984. Aschak joined Zylog in mid 2004; after completing his MBA from Chicago, USA and was instrumental in developing automotive customers Daimler, Renault, Nissan, Toyota, and Suzuki, Tata & Mahindra.
After demerging and selling PP Compounding business to LyondellBasell in April 2016, Zylog was restructured into 3 business verticals that include:
- Elastomer compounding – TPV, TPE and TPO compounds
- Specialty extruded sheets, skins & composite laminates – based on olefin and styrene elastomers
- Thermoformed parts and components – 3 mtr X 2 mtr large parts
Today, as India’s only fully integrated Tier I supplier, Aschak is driving growth in all 3 verticals in applications across automotive, medical & healthcare, wire and cable, building / construction, agriculture, appliances, consumer and industrial uses.
Constance Ißbrücker holds a degree from the University of Jena, Germany, specialized in macromolecular and bioorganic chemistry. Before joining European Bioplastics in 2013, she worked in different research groups at universities in Berlin and Jena where she gained valuable experience in the modification and analysis of polysaccharide derivatives and the synthesis of chiral amines by biocatalytic processes. In 2016, she has been promoted to Head of Environmental Affairs at European Bioplastics and is, among other things, responsible for the Product Groups Biobased and Biodegradables, standardisation of bioplastics, and the Seedling trademark.
