September 23 - 25, 2008
Loews Ventana Canyon Resort
Tucson, AZ |
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Tuesday September 23rd
8:30 am - Noon - Short Courses |
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Course |
Course Content |
Speaker(s) |
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Rheology - Theory and
Application |
A brief account of rheology principles is presented consisting of fundamental definitions,
applications, functions, and purposes of rheology in general with particular attention
to the rheology of inks (and coating colors) and the limitations involved. The concepts
of the practice of rheology and the practical industrial use of rheology and the
contrast between the two are discussed where material representations and QC applications
are compared. The bridge from rheological parameters to runnability performances
and end-use properties is discussed. |
Dr. Saeid Savarmand -
Sun Chemical |
Pigment Dispersion
Technology |
A dispersion is defined as a system consisting of fine insoluble or only slightly
soluble particles distributed throughout a liquid continuous phase. The particles
distributed within the liquid continuous phase constitute the dispersed phase.
This short course will discuss the important technical aspects related to creating
successful pigment dispersion. |
C. Rueb - AVEKA |
Eco-Efficiency
Analysis |
This short course will present an overview of the BASF eco-efficiency analysis which
is a strategic lifecycle tool that compares the relative ecological and economic
efficiencies of alternative products, production processes and technologies. Eco-efficiency
analysis looks at the entire life cycle of a product which also provides an "ecological
fingerprint" of these environmental dimensions: materials and energy consumption;emissions
to air,soil and water;risk and toxicity potential and land use. |
Christopher Bradlee,
BASF |
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Tuesday September 24th - Opening Session |
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Buffet Lunch-12:00 pm - 1:00 pm |
| Time |
Presentation |
Speaker |
| 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm |
Technology's Role in the Business Plan - Jeff Koppelman, president of Gans
Ink and Supply Company and this year's Ault Award winner will present his perspective
on the importance of technology in today's ink manufacturing environment. |
Jeff Koppelman,
Gans Ink and Supply Co. |
| 2:15 pm - 3:00 pm |
Sustainability Overview - This presentation will focus on areas: Kimberly-Clark's
sustainability efforts and particular focus areas; the Corrugated Packaging Council's list of
wants from suppliers; CPC supplier expectations Ink company sustainability
expectations.
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Allen Marquardt,
Kimberly - Clark |
| 3:00 pm - 3:15 pm |
Break |
| 3:15 pm - 4:00 pm |
Packaging Sustainability - Overview of some of the
green issues
impacting society and the packaging field. Brief review of terms in use and identification
of some of the emerging trends in the fast food packaging marketplace.
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George Casper,
Dopaco |
| 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm |
Global Printing and Ink
Markets - This presentation is an overview
of what has occurred in the printing and printing ink markets from a volume and
dollars perspective from 2006 and projections through 2011. Also what market segments
are growing as well as shrinking. The market trends, emerging markets, where the
applications are going (ie heatset, sheetfed, packaging, ink jet etc) and a summary
of what that means. |
Diane Parisi,
Flint Group |
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Tabletops & Posterboards - Reception 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm |
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Wednesday September 24th - Raw Materials Session (Concurrent) |
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Continental Breakfast - 7:00 am - 8:30 am |
| Time |
Presentation |
Speaker |
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The ink raw materials presentations (pigments, resins, additives,
energy curable materials and solvents)
will focus on important supply chain issues
and impacts - threats, opportunities, sourcing, synthesis,sustainability,
recyclability
and global regulatory issues/impacts |
| 8:00 am - 8:30 am
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Pigment Supply - This presentation will cover the key issues in regard
to pigments used by the printing ink industry including threats, challenges and
opportunities for sourcing, sustainability and environmental impact.
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Graham Battersby,
Flint Group |
| 8:30 am - 9:00 am
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Offset Resins - This presentation will cover the key issues
in regard to offset resins used by the printing ink industry including threats,
challenges and opportunities for sourcing, sustainability and environmental impact. |
Tom Fontana,
Arizona Chemical |
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9:00 am - 9:30 am |
Waterbased Resins - This presentation will cover the key issues in regard
to resins for water based inks that are used by the printing ink industry including
threats, challenges and opportunities for sourcing, sustainability and environmental
impact. |
Rick Krause,
BASF |
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9:30 am - 10:00 am |
Energy Curable Materials - The last few years sustainability has become a
topic of increasing importance in the business environment. Some companies have
started to implement the 12 Principles of Green Chemistry which impacts technology,
raw materials, design and manufacturing of new products. Discuss
will conver how UV and
water based UV materials that offers ink makers and printers an energy and environmental
friendly solutions.
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Jo Grosemans,
Cytec |
| 10:00 am - 10:15 am
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Break |
| 10:15 am - 10:45 am
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Ink Additives - One of the key issues challenging today's
chemical producers is the development of new raw materials that positively contribute
to the sustainability of the individual company, the markets they serve and the
world. Sustainability means reducing environmental footprints by minimizing hazards
and offering greener alternatives for waterborne coatings, inks and adhesive formulations.
A variety of specialty surfactants and additives help formulators convert from solvent
borne to waterborne systems, significantly reducing or eliminating volatile organic
compounds (VOCs.) This presentation describes how new surfactant chemistries can
significantly improve environmental and economic performance for the Graphic Arts
industry. |
Jeanine Snyder,
Air Products |
| 10:45 am - 11:15 am
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Ink Solvents - Sustainability has been described in terms
of the environment, safety, economic viability, renewable resources, oil independence,
and corporate responsibility to name a few of many. This presentation will discuss
the role Eastman is playing in this effort, including Eastman's clean, carbon-capturing
technology that transforms coal, petroleum coke, and other plentiful domestic resources
into chemical raw materials safely, efficiently, cleanly and profitably. In addition,
its use of renewable raw materials such as cellulose to make polymers used in inks
and coatings will be presented. In the second part of this presentation we will
look at the way Eastman's solvents can be used to reduce ozone generated from ink
and coating applications by examining the concept of photochemical reactivity. |
Jos deWit,
Eastman Chemical |
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11:15 am - Noon |
Eco-Efficiency Analysis - This short course will present an overview
of the BASF eco-efficiency analysis which is a strategic lifecycle tool that compares
the relative ecological and economic efficiencies of alternative products, production
processes and technologies.
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Chris Bradlee,
BASF |
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1:00 0m - 6:00 pm |
Golf Outing/Offsite Trip |
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Wednesday September 24th - Technical Development Session (Concurrent) |
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Continental Breakfast - 7:00 am - 8:30 am |
| Time |
Presentation |
Speaker |
| 8:00 am - 8:45 am
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Stability and Coalescence of Emulsion Polymers - Emulsion polymers
play an important role in the printing and drying of ink films. The most stable
state of an emulsion from a thermodynamic perspective is that of complete separation.
Hence, they are metastable in nature and are prone to coalescence and Ostwald ripening
as a result. However, solution polymers and simple or polymeric surfactants can
provide steric and electrostatic barriers to destabilization. This paper explores
the mechanisms of drying and coalescence and reviews the relationships that govern
emulsion stability. |
Lisa Fine,
Flexo Tech |
| 8:45 am - 9:30 am
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Hidden Errors in
Density Measurements by Local Spatial
Validations -
This paper reports on various measurements that were made to learn more about local
spatial density variations. Such variations can be readily detected when measuring
the density of test images consisting of a presumed uniform solid or tint. If the
densitometer location is changed by a fraction of an inch and the measurement repeated,
a change in the measured value will be noted. These variations are well known and
account for the practice of taking great care to insure that the necessary density
measurements are always made in the same location on a given test image, whenever
it is necessary to measure multiple sheets, during press tests run for purposes
of characterizing a press. The results of the work reported on here show that local
spatial density variations are quite common in many kinds of printing and, most
significantly, do not exhibit a repeatable pattern from one impression to the next.
Consequently, an uncertainty or error is introduced by these variations whenever
density measurements are used to determine a global characteristic of a press, regardless
of whether the measurements are obtained from a single or multiple sheets. Although
it is not a new discovery, it was also found that the magnitude of this uncertainty
is a function of the size of the aperture of the densitometer, with the magnitude
of the uncertainty decreasing as the size of the aperture is increased. There are
ramifications of this and these are discussed along with the question of what are
the best sizes of aperture and test image to employ.
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John MacPhee,
Baldwin |
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9:30 am - 10:15 am |
Green Printing from a
Digital Printing Perspective - The presentation
explores the technologies of the inks, printheads, writing system, and Optical Media
Advance Sensor used in this new HP industrial printing platform.
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Ross Allen,
Hewlett Packard |
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am
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Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:15 am
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Advances in UV Technology - In today's awareness of the impact
on our environment, we are asking ourselves how we can make a difference. We want
to improve the situation, minimize our carbon footprint, and provide a healthy environment
for our children, grandchildren and future generations. Printing is an integral
part of our society. We use printing for labels, packaging, publications and for
decorative purposes. As we move forward toward establishing a sustainable future,
we must consider approaches to optimizing energy usage, reducing waste, and increasing
the use of renewable resources. Achieving sustainable printing is then the foundation
to our sustainable future. Sustainable printing involves a number of factors including
green printing. Bioligomers, a new class of acrylated oligomers, were developed
for green printing. These oligomers are used in the major printing technologies
including flexography, lithography and screen printing. This presentation will discuss
the Bioligomers and their role in achieving sustainability in printing.
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Ros Waldo,
Cytec |
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11:15 am - Noon |
Engineering Ink Color via
Emulsion Design -Chromatically selective
scattering emulsions (CSSE), in which particle size is controlled to generate a
range of scattering behavior, are described using both scattering and color theory.
With these emulsions, it is possible to generate almost any hue in an opacifying
ink utilizing black pigment only. The range of chromaticity and other properties
of these CSSEs, as simple stand alones or in ink blends, will be examined.
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Tim Klots,
BASF |
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1:00 pm - 6:00 pm |
Golf Outing/Offsite Trip |
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Awards Dinner & Reception 7:00 pm - 10:30 pm |
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Thursday September 25th - Closing Session |
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Continental Breakfast - 7:00 am - 8:30 am |
| Time |
Presentation |
Speaker |
| 8:00 am - 8:45 am
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The Role of Forensic Ink Analysis in Questioned Docuement Examination - Documents and document components that are counterfeited, altered or fabricated
are a source of important forensic evidence in many criminal investigations.
The role of forensic ink analysis is discussed in detail, with specifics about the
types of problems that forensic ink analysis can address, the way conclusions
are rendered and case examples. |
Joel A. Zlotnick/Douglas K. Shaffer,
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement |
| 8:45 am - 9:30 am
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Publication/Commercial
Paper Sustainability - (TBA) |
Denise Olson,
UPM |
| 9:30 am - 9:45 am
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Break |
| 9:45 am - 10:30 am
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DRUPA Review - This presentation will provide an overview and highlights
of DRUPA for those that were unable to travel to Germany to see it first hand. Hear
about the new technologies in the graphic arts industry that will impact inkmakers
and their suppliers. |
Dave Savastano,
Ink World |
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10:30 am - Noon |
Emerging Technologies |
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Nano Dispersions - Nanotechnology is a rapidly growing field with
many interesting and novel applications. These range the gamut from self-cleaning
fabrics to delivery systems for pharmaceuticals, and beyond. Nanoparticles are defined
by their ability to impart unique properties due to their very small size. The particles
are less than 100 nanometers in all three dimensions and have a very high surface
area relative to their volume. This presentation will cover some background on nanotechnology
and current trends, with particular focus on organic pigments and applications to
inks.
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Mark Ortalano,
Sun Chemical |
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Dimatix Inkjet - Many processing steps in the manufacturing of
organic photovoltaics require solution processing. Ink jet printing is a facile
method for depositing solutions into patterned thin films. Piezoelectric ink jet
printing is a thermally consistent process, thereby protecting the tertiary structure
of organic molecules that convert optical power to electrical power. We have taken
several steps back from device manufacturing and worked out the details of ink jet
printing light harvesting bacteria, more specifically photosynthetic cyanobacteria.
Each individual single-celled organism is a functioning biological photovoltaic
device that works with only the input of water as an electron donor for the photosynthetic
reaction. In addition, these cells harvest photons from a variety of wavelengths
so that they function more efficiently in heterogeneous light environments.
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Jan Sumerel
Fuji Film |
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New Pigment Dispersion/Ink Production - The paper will cover the
basics in existing and new grinding and dispersion technology and how to find right
equipment for the task on hand. Often dispersion producers are faced with the challenge
not only to develop unique products with outstanding properties, but also how to
produce it efficiently and successfully. The involvement and close cooperation with
the equipment supplier can be beneficiary for both parties, since both have expertise
in each of their fields and it saves everybody time and money, if the ideal production
solution is found fast. For the development of new equipment the equipment manufacturer
depends on feedback from the market what dispersions producers are requiring to
reach their production goals and improve their market position. Relying on the equipment
supplier's expertise and process knowledge provides highest benefits to
the dispersion
producer. The latest accomplishments in new grinding and dispersion technologies
are presented as a result of successful dispersion producer/equipment supplier
relationship. |
Kerstin Grosse
Buhler |