This year, the popular event features leading edge laboratory demonstrations, with several 'firsts' in the UK (*).  Demonstrations include:

• *Battenfeld Water-assisted Injection Moulding (on a 130 tonne dual injection machine) of a conduit/flange system (part of a Faraday Plastics joint research programme at Bradford and Warwick), 
• *Moldflow MPX developments for gas-assisted injection moulding,
• *Rondol Technologies novel technology Mark II 5-tonne micromoulding machine
• *Battenfeld/ Ultratools/ Bradford micromoulding (0.34mg components)
• *Bradford/Rondol Micromoulding In Line Compounding
• *Lasor Gmbh film image inspection system
• *Polymer Insights blown film bubble profile and freeze line automated measurement
• Isco precision supercritical CO2 in melt processing
• In-process Raman, IR and UV fluorescence spectroscopy
• Process energy measurements on a Fanuc injection moulding machine
• Novel melt temperature measurements, including thermocouple meshes