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• You’re invited: International Reception and Plastics Design Competition awards ceremony
  


• Technology Theater debuts at NPE2009
  Stop by the Technology Theater in the West Hall (Booth W113017) to see innovation and solutions take the stage!


• SPI, McCormick proactively address H1N1 concerns ahead of NPE2009
  Officials from the Society of the Plastics Industry (SPI; Washington DC) and McCormick Place met following the World Health Organization’s (WHO) June 11 declaration that the H1N1 or swine flu virus is a global pandemic, ensuring attendees of NPE2009 (June 22-26) that they will take every precaution possible to protect showgoers. Those precautions include the installation of hand-sanitizer stations throughout the convention center; daily cleaning of all shuttle buses; and additional cleaning measures instituted by all Chicago hotels.


• NPE highlight: Coreless winding cuts your costs and keeps Wal-Mart happy
  Film processors visiting next week’s NPE show absolutely will not want to miss learning more about film winders that employ either thin-walled paperboard cores or even no cores at all. The savings in transport costs are impressive.


• NPE Design Competition: Young scholars sitting pretty in rotomolded desks
  Of the many interesting applications entered in the International Plastics Design Competition, which will be judged and for which awards will be presented during NPE, few are as colorful as the one-piece rotomolded polyethylene school desks designed to replace heavy wood/metal desks.


• Pack Expo organizer PMMI a first-time exhibitor at NPE2009
  The Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute (PMMI; Arlington, VA) will be a first-time exhibitor at NPE2009, participating as an “allied association” at the request of the show organizer, the Society of the Plastics Industry (SPI; Washington DC). PMMI, which organizes the Pack Expo trade shows, will occupy a North Lobby booth (NL200), acknowledging the interdependence of plastics and packaging, with SPI estimating that 34% of all resin sold in the U.S. is destined for packaging.


• Asahi Kasei Plastics North America, Inc.: Introduces New Products at NPE 2009
  


• Chicago rooms still available at NPE2009 discounted rates
  Don’t forget to book your hotel room(s) through NPE’s housing site to take advantage of special rates.


• Chicago rooms still available at NPE2009 discounted rates
  Don’t forget to book your hotel room(s) through NPE’s housing site to take advantage of special rates.


• Take advantage of NPE2009’s colocation with seven conferences
  There’s still time to register for more than 1000 business and technical sessions all during show week at McCormick Place.