PROGRAMME
COMPOSITES AUSTRALIA / COMPOSITES CRC 2007
ANNUAL CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION

THURSDAY 19TH APRIL 2007 - THURSDAY 19TH APRIL 2007 - THURSDAY 19TH APRIL 2007

CONFERENCE

Norm Watt, President, Composites Australia Inc, and Murray Scott, CEO, Composites CRC

Gary Fenlon, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for State Development, Employment & Industrial Relations

Bob Lacovara, ACMA (U.S.)
The Shape of Future Composites

Anthony Vizzini, SAMPE (U.S.)
SAMPE's Emerging Technologies

Bobbie Cook, CANZ (N.Z.)
The Composites Industry in New Zealand

Aerospace Session

General Applications

Alastair Johnson, DLR (Germany)
Composites Structures for Enhanced Impact & Crashworthiness Performance

Alan Crosky, UNSW
Wood Plastic Composites

Steve Georgiadis, Hawker de Havilland
- Bird-strike Simulation for Certification Boeing 787 Wing Trailing Edge Devices

Brian Jones, High Modulus
A Study of the Variability of Spray Roving
Laminates

Julien Fabreguette, Australian Aerospace - Structural Composite Repair

Phil Teakle, CSIRO
Lighter, Faster, Deeper, Smarter

LUNCH

Maritime Session

Resins and Additives

Nigel St John, DSTO
Fibre Reinforced Composites for Naval Applications

Chris Cranitch, ATL
Osmotic Blistering, Causes, Prevention, Correction

David Whittaker, Thales
Phenolic Ventilation Ducting for the Marine Environment

Glenn Campbell, NORAC  (U.S.)
New Initiator Products help “new” application Technology shape the Composites Industry

Bruce Cartwright, Pacific ESI
Analysis of the Impact of Composite Structures on Water

Don Wincek, Glas Craft (U.S.)
Gel - Coat Spraying – Features, Advantages, Benefits

AFTERNOON TEA

R & D Session

Business Practices

Debes Bhattacharyya, Uni. of Auckland (N.Z.)
Polymer Composites with Inherently Generated
Micro-/Nano-Fibrils

Michael Ruby, Glas Craft (U.S.)
Establishment & Management of Effective
Distributor-based Sales Channels

Stephanie Fieh, RMIT
Making Composites Safe in Fire

Andy Rusnak, ACMA (U.S.)
Reaching Your Customers, Same Ole? New Paradigm?
Or, a Little of Both?
A Forum for Manufacturers

Arthur Rendell, Regina Glass
Beneath the Surface

Panel session, Research & Development 
Chair, Ian Crouch, Composites CRC

Frank Rosselli,
Composites
CRC - CRC business models
Panel: Grant Pearce (Exel Composites); Mark Sterbic (DIAB Australia);  Anthony Vizzini (SAMPE); Pavel Faigl (USQ)

Panel session, OH&S
Chair: Rick Milne,
Workplace Health & Safety Queensland
Meeting Your Workplace Health & Safety Obligations

Jill Wright, Workplace Health & Safety Queensland

Bob Lacovara, ACMA
The Latest Research on Styrene Emissions – Understanding the emissions mechanism

Materials Session

Suppliers Session

Brian Wardle: MIT (U.S.)
Nano-Engineered Advanced Composites
for Aerospace Applications

Guy Schindler, Airtech (U.S.)
Vacuum Bagging
Material Selection and “Value Added “Services

Jacques Rohen, Earth Composites
“VUBONITE”
the new incombustible composite matrix

Pavel Faigl, USQ
Plant Based Resins for Fibre Composites

Peter Clowes, JFR Australia
Spray Application
of Syntactic Cores and paper

Larry Nunes, Valspar Australia
XLA PLUS – The Next Generation of
High Performance Gel Coat

Ian Snowden, Marbocote (U.K.)
New Developments in Release
Agent Technologies (and Paper)

Stefan Reuterlov, DIAB
High Temperature Foam Core Material

Charles Tur, Magnum Venus Plastech (U.S.)
The Evolution of Light RTM

Patrick Duke, 3tex (U.S.)
Advancements in 3-D Braided Composite Preforms

Nick Cossich, ATL Composites
Airex T90 Foam

Floreana Coman, Australian Composites
Auspreg UV new product for composites in  Marine, Transport, Ballistic, Wind Energy, Sporting, Tooling, Infrastructure, Corrosion fields

Closing Remarks - Norm Watt, President Composites Australia Inc, and Murray Scott, CEO, Composites CRC

SUPER V-8 DRIVING
Bus to take delegates to track (takeaway lunch)

AMBROSE GOLF CHALLENGE
registered delegates to Tee off

Exhibition Close