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SHOW PREVIEW lthough it has been for many years the fall conference follow-up to SAMPE's (Covina, Calif.) annual Convention and Exhibition in the spring, SAMPE Tech has been moved to early June this year to make way for the debut of the Composites and Advanced Materi- als Expo (CAMX), the new North Ameri- can exhibition cosponsored by SAMPE and the American Composites Manufac- turers Assn. (Arlington, Va.). CAMX com- bines SAMPE's former spring expo and ACMA's previous turn-of-the-year COM- POSITES trade show into one big super- show that will make its inaugural appear- ance in Orlando, Fla., Oct. 13-16, 2014. New season, same reason Despite the change in timeframe, SAMPE Tech Seattle 2014 will continue a long tradition of delivering high-quality edu- cation and networking opportunities. In recent years, it has incorporated a pro- gressively larger exhibit space devoted to showcasing advanced materials and processes for aerospace and other high- tech end-markets. SAMPE Seattle is billed as the right destination for those who use advanced composites in a va- riety of markets. Chief among them are aerospace (95.2 percent of visitors serve this market), wind energy (50.6 percent), ground transportation and marine (each of interest to 47 percent), sports & recre- ation (39.8 percent), medical (33.7) and infrastructure (19.3 percent). SAMPE Seattle is expected to build on that pedigree. SAMPE organizers say its most recent Seattle event attracted 5,000 attendees, hailing from all 50 U.S. states and 32 other countries, world- A The Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering's annual fall Tech conference is now a spring event. wide. A similar crowd is expected to be on hand this year to take in hundreds of presentations by industry insiders, lead- ers and educators, and view the displays of some 200 exhibiting companies. Given these statistics on attendance, the frst Spring SAMPE Tech event has, appropriately, been scheduled again in one of the hotbeds of the U.S. aerospace industry. Seattle is the site, of course, for the Commercial Airplanes unit of aero- space giant, The Boeing Co., and the U.S. West Coast — from Seattle to San Diego, Calif. — is home to, or the site of sig- nifcant outposts of, hundreds of advanced materials suppliers, processing equip- ment manufacturers and composite parts fabricators. Tech talk: Automotive Despite the aerospace-intensive set- ting, SAMPE Seattle proceedings will be capped by a Keynote Address that high- lights growing advanced materials use in automobiles. Keynoter Jörg Pohlman, managing director of SGL Automotive Carbon Fibers GmbH & Co. KG (Wies- baden, Germany), will update the con- tinuing story of SGL Automotive Carbon Fibers (ACF), the joint venture between BMW Group and SGL Group that is the exclusive suppler of carbon fber materi- als to the BMW Group, the frst carmaker in the world to use carbon fber in series production of this scale for its new i3 commuter car and i8 sports car. Pohlman will provide an overview of the entire val- ue chain, ranging from precursor supply to the production of CFRP parts for the vehicles. The spotlight will be on carbon fber production in Moses Lake, Wash., which operates on 100 percent renewable energy based on hydropower, as well as SGL ACF's Wackersdorf, Germany-based fabric-weaving and newly developed car- bon fber waste recycling operations that provide materials used in i3 and i8 roof and rear seat components. The frst of four Featured Lecturers, Prof. Jan-Anders E. Månson, Ecole Poly- technique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Laboratory of Polymer and Composite Technology (LTC), will discuss the Euro- pean Union's CO 2 auto emissions legis- lation and resulting focus on lightweight material alternatives that can be used in high-volume automotive manufacturing at a realistic cost, with realistic potential for recyclability. Dodd Grande, VP of outdoor prod- uct development at Seattle-based snow ski and snowboard specialist K2 Sports will review the history and current uses of composites applications in sporting goods, explain why composites are ideal for them and then provide a look into the future of composites in the sports and recreation industry. Prof. Douglas Scott Cairns of Montana State University's Department of Me- chanical and Industrial Engineering will speak about manufacturing defects and 3 6 | H I G H - P E R F O R M A N C E C O M P O S I T E S SAMPE TECH SEATTLE 2014 WHAT: SAMPE Tech Seattle 2014 Conference WHEN June 2-5 (Exhibits open June 3-4) WHERE: 800 Convention Pl. Seattle, WA 98101 S ource | HPC / Photo: Jeff Sloan SAMPE Tech returns to the U.S. Pacific Northwest SAMPE organizers say its previous Seattle event attracted 5,000 attendees, hailing from all 50 U.S. states and 32 other countries, worldwide. PREVIEW 0514HPC SampePreviewSeattle-OK.indd 36 4/22/2014 3:08:09 PM