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• The price of flight to Chicago
  If you’re even thinking about attending NPE 2006, a good start is to get to Chicago. We’re keeping tabs on airfares for you. This list shows the cost (U.S. dollars) of a round-trip ticket from several major cities to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, as of the beginning of April (don’t forget that you can fly into Midway Airport as well). Our source is travelocity.com. Dates include a Saturday night stay in the Windy City. Check back here each month and we’ll keep updating the numbers for you.


• Best Chicago business dining
  Looking for the perfect place to dine and do business? The online city guide Citysearch (www.citysearch.com) has listed the Top Ten business dining places in Chicago. Coming in at number one is Keefer's on 20 W. Kinzie St. The scene is described as “corporate chic.” Not your style? If you want to pay homage to “da Bears,” you can go to Mike Ditka's Restaurant (100 E. Chestnut St.), number seven on the list. The menu includes classic fare: steak, chops, and seafood.


• European exhibitors have great expectations
  Many processing equipment makers from Europe see the upcoming NPE show in June as 'the' platform to show their latest technologies to visitors from NAFTA countries. Merdan Sariboga, managing director of auxiliary equipment maker Optical Control Systems (Witten, Germany), says there are various reasons why his company decided to be an exhibitor at North America's key plastics show.


• NPE offers international plastics-processing flavor
  As of March 31, NPE 2006 (June 19-23; Chicago, IL) was well on track to maintain the leaps it has made in terms of international representation, with exhibitors based in 34 countries outside the U.S. having already signed on.


• NPE as a learning experience
  NPE 2006 (June 19-23; McCormick Place, Chicago) not only offers visitors a firsthand look at the latest technologies available for plastics processing, but it also gives attendees the chance to sit in on a wide variety of technical and management conferences, with more opportunities this year than in shows past.