February 29
Deadline to Submit Entries
April 1-5
NPE2012 in Orlando, FL
April 2-5
Designs on Display at NPE2012 in Orlando, FL
Sponsors & Partners
SPI would like to thank our sponsors and partners for their generous support of the International Plastics Design Competition. Our supporters have helped SPI expand the design competition from a successful stand-alone event to an all-encompassing international showcase of plastics design innovations. These prestigious sponsors and partners make it possible for SPI to raise the visibility of innovations in design from across all end markets and from around the globe by featuring the entire plastics industry value chain at NPE2012.
NPE2012
At NPE2012 in Orlando, plastics will be the talk of the town. Discover emerging technologies and new applications among 2,000 suppliers. Discuss business with 75,000 professionals from 120 countries. Learn from industry leaders at our comprehensive education program including ANTEC@NPE2012, Seminarios en Español and SPI’s Business of Plastics. Participate in a global technology exchange at the first International Plastics Design Competition. No matter what segment of the industry you represent, we speak your language at NPE2012.
www.npe.org
Design News
Design News is the leading technical resource for design engineers, who create everything from planes, trains and automobiles to cellular phones, medical devices and, well, just about every other product on the planet.
To be successful in their jobs, our readers need information on new technologies and products. They need and want to know how new solutions compare with existing products and how and where their engineering peers are using them. In particular, they are interested in the specific trade-offs and issues that are inherent in the adoption of new technology in a design effort and how other engineers manage those trade-offs.
Design News is the only engineering resource to provide this kind of highly useful, practical editorial content both in print and online. We are committed to packaging and delivering that content in a format that is both quick and intuitive for busy engineers to access, whether it's within our print publication, supplements, bi-weekly technology eNewsletters, RSS feeds or our extremely popular website.
www.designnews.com
GlobalSpec
GlobalSpec is the leading specialized vertical search, information services and e-publishing company serving the engineering, manufacturing and related scientific and technical market segments. We provide domain-expert search engines and a broad range of proprietary and aggregated Web-based content that help engineers and related professionals perform their key job tasks with the highest levels of accuracy and productivity.
On the GlobalSpec site you can search more than 24,000 online supplier catalogs for parts by technical specification or part number. Subscribe to one of our 60+ e-newsletters, including Plastics & Resins or Plastics Fabrication. Stay current with email Product Alerts in over 132 areas, like Plastics, Elastomers and Polymers. Get industry news as it happens. Or connect with your technical peers for questions, answers, and discussion of all things engineering.
www.globalspec.com
UL
UL's testing & certification programs for plastics cover plastic materials and related products for use in components and parts of end-product devices and appliances. As such, UL consults with manufacturers and provides hundreds of preliminary investigations on new and unusual products annually.
www.ul.com/plastics/
IDSA - The Industrial Designers Society of America
The Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) is the voice of the industrial design profession, advancing the quality and positive impact of design.
