January 14 th Tour of RF Micro Devices Greensboro BOD Meeting 4-4:50 pm at TE Connectivity, 719 Pegg Road, Greensboro

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1 P E R S P E C T I V E Section S-71 Covering Eastern North Carolina Newsletter of the Society of Plastics Engineers, Piedmont-Coastal Section, North Carolina Promoting the Scientific & Engineering Knowledge of Plastics Volume XXXVIII No. 5 Jan 2014 A few SPEcial Words from our President - January 14 th Tour of RF Micro Devices Greensboro BOD Meeting 4-4:50 pm at TE Connectivity, 719 Pegg Road, Greensboro RF Micro Tour 5-6 pm at 7908 Piedmont Triad Parkway, Greensboro Dinner/Speaker 6:10-8 at TE Connectivity Cost - $20 Speaker: Zach Lyon Perfect Plastics Through Pro/E Details about RFMD Page 14 Questions?? Contact Clark Broome (work) (cell) eclarkbroome@ TE.com I hope this finds everyone having a safe and enjoyable holiday season with family and friends. We had a very successful 2013 and I look forward to the schedule we have for the first half of We had a wonderful Christmas party this year thanks to the hard work and dedication of Tim and Linda Earley. They generously opened up their historic home to us, prepared a fantastic meal and made everyone feel at home with tours of the house. I can t thank Tim and Linda enough for everything they did. Everyone in attendance really enjoyed the chance to celebrate the Holidays together. Once again we had a lively game of Dirty Santa with some nice gifts which were well received and in some instances saw multiple hands as they were coveted by the Dirty Santa s in the crowd. If you could not attend this year I surely hope you will be able to next year as it is always a great time. I am pleased to announce that on January 14th we will be touring RF Micro Devices, Inc. (RFMD) in Greensboro. RFMD is a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance semiconductor components. Their products enable worldwide mobility, provide enhanced connectivity, and support advanced functionality in the cellular handset, wireless infrastructure, WLAN, CATV/broadband, and aerospace & defense portfolio of GaAs, GaN, Si, and SiGe semiconductor technologies and RF systems expertise. They are a preferred supplier to the world s leading mobile device and communications equipment providers. In the world of compound semiconductor manufacturing for RF applications, gallium arsenide (GaAs) makes up the largest subset. RFMD is the world s leading manufacturer of GaAs compound semiconductors. The Wafer Fab in Greensboro is RFMD s primary foundry for GaAs and GaN semiconductor components assembled into multi-component modules. This makes up a cell phones high power amplifier sending the signal to the cell tower. The Greensboro Wafer Fab creates thousands of individual circuits on each 150mm diameter GaAs wafer during a two week production cycle. The finished wafer is laser cut into its individual circuits (chips) which become the amplifier used in wireless devices. After the tour we will enjoy a dinner provided by Tricia s. Zach Lyon will be speaking about Perfect Plastics Through Pro/E. This is a great opportunity that I hope you will be able to attend. Please RSVP to Clark Broome eclarkbroome@te.com or by January 10th. See all of the details on page 14. Looking ahead to the February meeting when we will be having our Education Night at NC State University. This night will be focused on the local polymer educational programs we support, the students, and the essay winner for this year. I hope everyone can attend to show them our support. I truly hope that 2014 will be a Happy New Year seeing growth and opportunities for each and every one of you. Rodney Joslin

2 OUR NEW 2013/2014 PIEDMONT-COASTAL SECTION OFFICERS Rodney Clark Lewis Tim Todd Officers Name Business Phone Cell (home) President Rodney Joslin TE Connectivity / Pres-Elect Clark Broome TE Connectivity (c) Treasurer Tim Bryant Tim Bryant, Inc Secretary Lewis Wilson SABIC (c) Councilor Todd Bryant TE Connectivity (c) Board of Directors 2013/2014 Paul Sonkin, Jim Chapman, Todd Bryant, Geoff Foster 2014/2015 Walt Carey, Dan Fuccella, Tim Earley, Jim Griffith 2015/2016 Mike Ellison, Maury Balik, Don Aiken, Glenn Shearin Board of Directors by Position: House - Clark Broome; Education - Maury Balik; Advertising - George Millington; Rules - open; Historian - open; Membership - Tim Earley; Newsletter Editor - Mike Jensen; Awards - Russell Broome; Golf Outing - Jackie Ryba and Walt Carey Liaisons: NCSU - Dr Maury Balik CCCC - Glenn Shearin Carolinas Section SPE - Dennis Hayford NC A&T - Geoff Foster PCE - Dan Fuccella SPE Executive Committee - Russell Broome PERSPECTIVE is published electronically monthly from September through June, to inform members of the Section s activities, national events, and news. Communications should be sent to the Editor: Mike Jensen, mljensen514@earthlink.net or mikejen47@gmail.com telephone at (cell). To advertize in our newsletter, contact George Millington at georgemillington@ec.rr.com. Our newsletter is available on our web page at International SPE two weeks prior to the next meeting, at newsletters/161. You should be notified by when it is posted. Neither the Society of Plastics Engineers or the Piedmont-Coastal Section is responsible for views that are expressed by individual contributors, either in the articles published in the newsletter or in any of the technical presentations. Page 2

3 Middle and High School Students: Enter the 2013 WONDERS OF PLASTICS International Essay Contest sponsored by the Society of Plastics Engineers and the Piedmont-Coastal Local Section of SPE This month our chapter will review the essays and select our winner/s. Contact Dr. Maury Balik for details. Dr. C. M. Balik Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering Campus Box 7907 North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC Page 3

4 Our Sponsors Training: Consultants/Training Page Website Applied Technologies Inc chemlabconsulting, LLC Piedmont Industry, LLC Porticos Design: Origin 3D Design Equipment: BMS Vision Fordham Plastics Materials Dayson Polymers Polymer Technology & Services. 4 PolyOne Distribution Triangle Central Warehouse... 6 Processors Advanced Plastiform, INC American Extruded Plastics Injection Molding Douglas Fabrication & Machine. 6 FR Male and Associates Plastic Molding Connection Polymers Center of Excellence.. 5,8 Raleigh Precision Products Sapona Plastics, LLC Syracuse Plastics Professional Search Dimensions Professional Search Tooling Carson Tool and Mold Emerald Tool and Mold Hi-Tech Plating FR Male and Associates Maloney Tool and Mold Meusburger USA PCS Company Richmond Tooling Superior Tooling, Inc Tool-All THANK YOU! The members of the Piedmont-Coastal Section, a non-profit organization, thank these sponsors for their generosity. Donations to our section are used for educational purposes. Danville Community College Page 4

5 William B. Pollard III PO Box 4552 Charlottesville, Virginia Page 5

6 MEMBERSHIP REPort Piedmont-Coastal Section S71 As of December we have 210 members! We have 210 plus members including 36 student members end of I am trying to get the end of the year rolls (SPE HQ closed this week). If you have any , employment, or phone number changes, please contact me. If you are up for renewal, please notify me of follow up, I can then keep the rolls accurate. If you have any changes, please send me you re updated information. (Which is preferred for newsletters). SPE HQ is still having problems with membership data. If you are up for renewal, please notify me of follow up, I can then keep the rolls accurate. If you have any changes, please send me your updated information. (Which is preferred for newsletters). SPE has these rates for the 2014 year: New member to SPE A07-NEW $ 99 Renew (between 60 & 120 days) EBM1 $109 Renew (59 days until Expire date) $129 Lapsed (LO1-LAP) $129 If you are a lapsed member and would like to rejoin SPE please let me know and I will work with SPE HQ. I encourage every member to sign up a new member in Let s all work toward increasing our membership. If you have someone you feel can benefit from joining SPE, give them an application or send me their name and I will submit it to SPE and have you as the referring member. If you have any questions, please contact me by e- mail at wolftim@msn.com. Tim Earley, SPE Piedmont Coastal Section S71 Membership Chairman and BOD Page 6

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8 Polymer Processing Career Studies Certificate At Danville Community College s Advanced Technology Center! Convenient schedule! Monday evenings. One or two courses per semester Hands-on learning using state-of-the-art equipment 80 Ton Krauss Maffei Injection Molder 1 ¼ Wayne Extruder inline and crosshead, tubing, rod, pelletizing 1 Wayne Extruder with cast film Tinius Olsen Pendulum Impact Tester, Tinius Olsen Tensile Tester, Melt Indexer, Densimeter and more Courses taught by INDUSTRY Professionals Low Tuition when contracted through your company Jerry Franklin jfranklin@dcc.vccs.edu Page 8

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10 Minutes - Nov 12 th, 2013 Board of Directors Meeting Meetings January Meeting Plan Rodney working on this month s details Rodney Joslin- President called the meeting to order. Minutes from September 2013 meeting were voted on and approved. Moved Maury Balik, 2nd Tim Earley Treasurer s Report - Tim Bryant 1. $18,860 in the bank plus Golf Outing proceeds expected to go out by 11/16/13 2. Net Income as of October $ Auditing Committee has completed their review and the financial statement has been turned into SPE International 4. Fiscal Year 2012 tax forms have been submitted to the IRS Membership Report - Tim Earley 1. SPE website has been confirmed and updated 2. Approximately 180 active members, 40 students 3. Looking into sending newsletters out via links vs. attaching to directly 4. Members reported being contacted by membership renewal staff after having renewed on line. SPE indicated some electronic renewals did not make the transfer to a new membership tracking system Education Report - Maury Balik 1. SPE International has discontinued running the Student Essay Contest 2. The Piedmont Coastal Section will continue to conduct a Section sponsored essay contest 3. Maury Balik sent out ~145 invitations contest invitations 4. Maury Balik sent out SPE student membership invitations to NCSU students and is also working with the Chemical Engineering department to generate additional student members for SPE. To date 14 students expressed interest in joining the SPE student chapter. Maury hopes to get the NCSU Student chapter up to 10 students this school year. Advertising Report George Millington (absent) The following report was provided by George Millington (sent by prior to the meeting): Current advertising proceeds: $8,500. All but 1 advertiser has paid up. Page 10 February Meeting Plan Education Night Another tour of the New NCSU library was proposed Old Business Positions: 1. Clark will be stepping down as president-elect ( immediately ) 2. Todd (currently Councilor) is interested in taking over the president elect position this year and stepping up to president next year 3. Rodney is interested in becoming Councilor next year in place of Todd 4. Todd expressed the need for new folks to step up to Board positions 5. Nomination process to take place in March/ April 2014 time period; Rodney encouraged new members to participate. 6. George Millington needs to transition from full time role as the Advertising Chairman later than February George is willing to continue for 1 to2 years if the Section is able to get him a Co-Chairperson that will assist George over the next 1-2 years. 7. Donavan interested in getting highly involved starting ASAP and working up the leadership ladder for the Section. Medical Mini-Tech Opportunity Due to other commitments in place for the SPE Medical Sector the possible Mini-Tech to be hosted by the Piedmont-Coastal Section has been dropped. There were no options for an event in North Carolina for the next 2 + years. December/Christmas Party Christmas Party will be hosted by Tim Earley and his wife great support! Location is their home in Mebane, NC Christmas Party: All set - Tim s house, limit of 50 people. Tim s wife is cooking self-serve, Christmas foods, wine, beverages. $20.00 per person. Near Honda Plant. RSVP/headcount needed by 12/2/13. Rodney to push to get newsletter out ASAP to help communicate the December activities. Board very appreciative of Tim/wife coordinating the December event. Meeting was adjourned by Rodney Joslin. Adjourned 5:12

11 2013 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Chief Executive Officer Willem De Vos President Jon Ratzlaff President-elect Vijay Boolani Senior Vice President Raed Al-Zu bi SOCIETY OF PLASTICS ENGINEERS, INC. 13 Church Hill Rd, Newtown, CT Phone: Fax: Vice Pres & Treasurer Greg Campbell Vice Pres & Secretary Jeffery Helms Vice Pres/Event Mgmt Jimmy Masrin Vice Pres/Marketing Oliver Crave Vice Pres/Operations Dick Cameron Vice Pres/Communications Dr Jaime A. Gomez Website Technician Pedro Matos Annual Awards: Sarah Sullinger Membership Programs: Sue Wojnicki CONTACTS pmatos.4spe.org Page 11

12 Society of Plastics Engineers - Piedmont-Coastal Section (S71) Newsletter Advertising Campaign Update The Piedmont Coastal Section S17 of SPE 2013 advertising campaign to renew and recruit new advertisers for the Piedmont-Coastal Section monthly on-line newsletter, the Perspective is underway. Advertising in our monthly newsletter can lead to new customers for your organization our newsletter is ed to over 500 professionals in North & South Carolina and posted to the global SPE website. Our section is proud to be one of the top growing sections in the world. You can view our newsletters at the SPE website Your support via an advertisement in our newsletter is vital to improving the current and future workforce in the plastics industry. A key mission of SPE is to promote and provide the knowledge and education of plastics and polymers worldwide. Locally, you can greatly impact the workforce in your area by advertising with us, as these monies are used to support local student scholarships and educational grant programs. We appreciate your consideration in assisting us to continue to provide support for training in the plastics industry. Newsletter improvements, implemented without an increase in the cost of the advertisement, include: We have a quick link to your company website on the index page listing all our sponsors. Text and advertising are now more interspersed than before to ensure readers know the companies that support the Piedmont Coastal Section s programs and offer cost effective services and products. Our newsletter is published electronically and is posted to our Section Web Page and broadcast as an - an attachment to all our section members, other section members in our area and many non-member friends of our section your ad will be sent to over 500 professionals - SPE members and friends of SPE throughout North and South Carolina. We appreciate your support and hope that you will sponsor, or consider sponsoring an advertisement in our newsletter to support the Society of Plastics Engineers and its plastic industry supporting programs. Also ½ page and full page Ads can be changed monthly in order for you to highlight different specialties of your company. Fee Schedule one cost covers one year (10 monthly issues) Ad size Ads may be in color AD Cost Structure Approx Print Size of Ad Business card (1/8 Page - 2 x3.5 ) $ x 3.25 ¼ Page $ x 4.75 or 2.25 x 7.0 ½ Page $ x 9.5 or 4.75 x 7.0 Full Page $1, x 9.5 An electronic version of your ad may be ed to Mike Jensen, at mljensen514@earthlink.net or a hard copy (business card, etc.) may be mailed to: Mike Jensen, 420 Kings Hollow Drive, Raleigh, NC If you would prefer to make an educational donation to us without advertising, we will proudly recognize your sponsorship by posting your website on each newsletter and recognize your company on education night. Sponsorship levels are: Gold - $200; Silver - $150; and Bronze - $100. We appreciate your consideration in advance and look forward to hearing from you. Please submit your check payable to P-C Section, SPE to: P-C Section SPE, c/o George Millington, 1134 Veranda Court, Leland, NC Thank you in advance for your advertising sponsorship and support of the SPE and the Piedmont-Coastal Section. If you have any questions or require an invoice, please contact me, phone , - georgemillington@ec.rr.com. George Millington - Newsletter Advertising Chairman, P-C Section, SPE Page 12

13 Scheduled Meetings for 2013 / 2014 Date Meeting Location Sponsor Speaker Company Topic Tour SPE Leader 9/17/2013 P-C Section s Martin A. Marty Ryba Memorial Golf Outing, The Preserve at Jordan Lake, Walt Carey / Jackie Ryba 9 am check in, 11 am Shotgun start, 5 pm dinner/prize awarding/raffle 10/8/2013 Polymer s Center of Excelence PCE Mathew Boulanger 11/12/2013 Sapona PCS Sapona Randy Bray Roc Tool Induction Heating of a Mold 12/10/2013 TBD TBD NONE NONE P-C SPE Christmas Party 1/14/2014 RF Micro Dayson Polymers PCE Dennis Hayford Sapona Painting Plastic Sapona Walt Carey NONE TBD RF Micro?? RF Micro TBD RF Micro Rodney Joslin 2/11/2014 NC State Tim Bryant,INC Student None Education Night 3/11/2014 Lenova/Catepillar or John Deere TBD Advance Plastiform 4/8/2014 Magnetti-Marelli Donovan Hubbart Library Maury Balik Tony Ledbetter Catepillar Gibbscam Catepillar Tim Earley Company provided Magnetti- Marelli TBD Magnetti- Marelli 5/13/2014 Carolina s Section Carolina s Cup Challenge Golf Outing NorthStone CC, Huntersville, NC Tim Bryant 6/10/2014 P-C Section Planning Session for 2014/2015 year TE/Pegg Rd, Greensboro, NC Page 13

14 January 14 th tour at RFMD, 5:00 pm Headquartered in Greensboro, RF Micro Devices, Inc. (RFMD ) is a global leader in the design & manufacture of high-performance semiconductor components. RFMD s products enable worldwide mobility, provide enhanced connectivity, and support advanced functionality in the cellular handset, wireless infrastructure, wireless local area network (WLAN), CATV/ broadband, and aerospace & defense markets. RFMD is recognized for its diverse portfolio of GaAs, GaN, Si, and SiGe semiconductor technologies and RF systems expertise and is a preferred supplier to the world s leading mobile device, customer premises, and communications equipment providers. In the world of compound semiconductor manufacturing for RF applications, gallium arsenide (GaAs) makes up the largest subset. RFMD is the world s leading manufacturer of GaAs compound semiconductors. The Wafer Fab in Greensboro is RFMD s primary foundry for GaAs and GaN semiconductor components assembled into multi-component modules. Most familiar to the average consumer is a cell phone s high power amplifier that sends the phone s signal to the cell tower. The Greensboro Wafer Fab starts with 150mm diameter GaAs wafers and during a two week production cycle creates thousands of individual circuits on each wafer. The finished wafer is laser cut into its individual circuits (or chips ), which may be assembled into the tiny amplifier you see inside your cell phone or other wireless device. The Wafer Fab is known as Fab 3 and is Building D at 7908 Piedmont Triad Parkway. Page 14