The Recycling Today Media Group today announced Recycling Today’s Plastics Recycling Conference & Tradeshow program sessions for the upcoming event, June 10-12, 2007 held at the Peabody Hotel, Orlando, Florida. This unique conference, held in conjunction with the Paper Recycling Conference and the Electronics Recycling Conference will present attendees with a dynamic program including panel discussions featuring prominent industry leaders revealing current business and operational trends and how they affect this fast-growing industry.
Sessions include the following:
· Plastics Identification 101 Workshop – An overview of some of the most common plastic resins and polymers encountered by recyclers, and tips for properly identifying them.
· Cross-Marketing Opportunities – Addressing cross-marketing opportunities through which paper and plastics recyclers, electronics recyclers, secure shredding companies and others can form alliances with each other to meet customer requests and increase their menu of services.
· Keynote: Global Markets, Global Trends – Don Reynolds, President, 21st Century Forecasting delivers an insider’s view of current economic and political events and long term economic, demographic and technology trends.
· Keynote Panel Discussion: The Energy Double-Edged Sword – An examination of how the elevated energy costs that encourage plastics recycling also need to be minimized to control operating costs.
· The Search for Manufacturing Scrap – The changing geography of manufacturing and how it affects plastic scrap generation.
· On the Waterfront – Proven strategies on how to take a business global by exporting to growing markets that include China, Latin America and India.
· Closed-Loop Considerations – A guide for recyclers to work with manufacturers to set up a closed-loop system for plastic scrap that still allows them to stay in the picture as advisors or toll processors.
· New…and Improved? – Examining emerging, non-traditional markets and techniques beyond the currently established markets.
These sessions coincide with an exhibit hall featuring industry equipment and service providers ready to share with attendees the latest products and technology that can help upgrade plastics recycling plant operations and expand recycled plastics trading networks.
Contact and registration information, along with sponsorship opportunities is available at www.PlasticsRecyclingConference.com.
About The Recycling Today Media Group
The Recycling Today Media Group, a business unit of GIE Media, Inc., is recognized by its industry leading and award-winning publications such as Recycling Today, Construction & Demolition Recycling, and Secure Destruction Business. The Richfield, OH based GIE Media also publishes Scrap Management, Today’s Medical Developments, and Aerospace Manufacturing and Design, among others. The company also produces industry-leading conferences, websites and directories. To register for Recycling Today’s Paper Recycling Conference & Tradeshow contact a conference division representative at (800) 456-0707 or visit www.PlasticsRecyclingConference.com for more information.
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