Plastics technical conferences in Middle East

With the success of ANTEC? Mumbai 2012, the latest initiative by the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) to make its plastics technical education programmes available globally, the association’s global president Jim Griffing announced that SPE will organise its first ANTEC for the Middle East in Dubai in January 2014 and plans its first technical conference in China for December 2013. In July 2013 at Lyon, France, SPE will hold its second EUROTEC? conference for the European plastics community.

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