For technical polymer questions please use the SPE International forum "SPE Communities" and then the section on Tech Talk.

For local questions please contact the officers at akronspe1@gmail.com.

SPE Links

• International SPE

• SPE Cleveland Section

Associations

• Akron Council of Engineering and Scientific Societies (ACESS)

• American Chemical Society (ACS)

• American Chemical Society - Rubber Division

• American Chemistry Council (ACC) - Plastics policy and regulation

• American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)

• American National Standards Institute (ANSI)

• American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

• American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)

• ASM International - Materials information society

• Association of Rotational Molders (ARM)

• British Plastics Federation

• Composites Fabricators Association

• Division of Polymer Chemistry of the American Chemical Society

• International Association of Plastics Distributors (IAPD)

• Inter-Society Color Council (ISCC)

• National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR)

• Plastics Industry Association

• Polystyrene Packaging Council

• Polyurethane Foam Association

• Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)

• Vinyl Institute

• Western Plastics Association

Important Links

• British Plastics & Rubber Magazine

• Hanser Publications - technical books for industry, science, and education

• Injection Molding Magazine Online

• MatWeb -a free searchable materials database of polymers, composites, metals, ceramics, and more

• National Academy of Sciences/National Academy of Engineering -for beginning scientists & engineers

• Packaging World Interactive

• Plastics News

• Prospector - Plastics and elastomers technical data, including UL Yellow cards

• Plastics Technology - the magazine of plastics manufacturing

• Recycler's World

• Temarex Corporation - "Technology Marketing Exchange" for polymeric technologies available for license such as extrusion simulation & modeling software; new TPE compositions, star polymers, recycling technologies and much more