Paper 1 Polyolefin additives – ‘the looming supply shift’
Ron Babinsky, Townsend Polymer Services & Information, USA

Paper 2 Legislation and testing of food contact plastics - an update with respect to additives
John Sidwell, Rapra Technology, UK

Paper 3 REACH regulations – issues going forwards
Dr Hector Galicia, Springborn Smithers Laboratories (Europe), Switzerland

Paper 4 Distribution from the point of view of a strategic portfolio additive provider/manufacturer
Pascal Brocard, Patrik Edström & Ulf Kratz, Omya Distribution Services, Switzerland

SESSION 2. STABILITY OF PLASTICS

Paper 5 The ester thiol technology for the stabilization of PVC
Dr William H. Starnes, Jr, B. Du, S. Kim, V.G. Zaikov, X. Ge, E.K. Culyba & P.M. Krai, College of William and Mary, USA

Paper 6 Stabilization of photosensitive colorants by nano-sized UV-absorbers
Dr Boris Gorelik, I. Baumberg, O. Berezin, V. Voskobojnik & A. Drabkin, Elam EL Industries Ltd, Israel

Paper 7 Stability study on polypropylene nanocomposites
Kshama Motha & Johannes Wolfschwenger, Borealis Polyolefine GmbH, Austria

SESSION 3. FLAME RETARDANTS

Paper 8 Update of flame retardancy by nanocomposites for EVA, PVC and PE
Dr Günter Beyer, Kabelwerk EUPEN AG, Belgium

Paper 9 New development in PTFE-based anti-dripping additives
Dr Joris Briers, 3M Belgium NV, Dyneon Specialty Additives, Belgium

SESSION 4. ANTISTATIC AND ANTIFOG AGENTS

Paper 10 New innovative antistat and antifog additives for PE and PP film
Bjarne Nielsen, Danisco Emulsifiers, Denmark

Paper 11 A novel permanent antistatic agent
Dr Karlheinz Hausmann, DuPont de Nemours Intl SA, Switzerland and Toshihisa Toyoda, Daisuke Matsuzaki & Kenji Miharu, DuPont-Mitsui Polychemicals Co Ltd, Japan

SESSION 5. FILLERS

Paper 12 Spherical glass microspheres used as functional fillers for performances enhancement
Jean-Philippe Curdy, Potters Europe, UK

Paper 13 Titanate and zirconate coupling agents
Salvatore J. Monte, Kenrich Petrochemicals, Inc, USA

SESSION 6. NUCLEATING AGENTS

Paper 14 A new beta nucleant masterbatch for use in producing unique film, thermoformed, and injection molded polypropylene products
Philip Jacoby, Mayzo, Inc, USA

Paper 15 Recent developments in nucleation of polypropylene
Estibaliz Santamaria, Liam Killough & Hieu-Dinh Phan, RiKA International Ltd, UK

Paper 16 Design of clarified polypropylene with a novel clarifier
Dr Naoshi Kawamoto, Dr Mitsuru Fukushima & Toshinori Yukino, ADEKA Corporation, Japan

SESSION 7. SLIP AND LUBRICANT ADDITIVES

Paper 17 Recent advances in slip additives
Adam Maltby, Croda Chemicals, UK

Paper 18 Room temperature ionic liquids as new lubricant additives of polymers and polymer nanocomposites
M.D. Bermúdez, F.J. Carrión, J. Sanes & G Martínez-Nicolás, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain

SESSION 8. REPELLANTS AND BIOCIDES

Paper 19 Environment friendly animal repellents masterbatches
Bruno Jalenques, C-Tech Europe, France

Paper 20 Tetra-substituted dithiooxamides and p-phenylene diamine as additives for biofilm resistant plastic materials
Svoboda V. Tabakova & Vera V. Mircheva, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

SESSION 9. MASTERBATCHES

Paper 21 Innovative anti-counterfeit solutions for plastics
Marc Leifer & Dan Lewitus, Kafrit Industries-Alqemia Group, Israel

Paper 22 Plastics additives super concentrates made with porous polymer carriers
Dr Hartmut Stenzel, Membrana GmbH/Accurel Systems, Germany

SESSION 10. STABILISERS AND ANTIOXIDANTS

Paper 23 Exploitation of the complex chemistry of HAS in effective plastics stabilization
Dr J. Pospíšil, J. Pilar, S. Nešpurek & A. Marek, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic

Paper 24 Addition of natural antioxidants to polyolefins formulations
Dr José López Vilariño, C. Noguerol, M. Villaverde, J. Sabín & M.V. González, Universidade da Coruña, Spain