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About the founder and speaker

"As a professional in the Plastic Industry for many years now, I have met a very large number of people involved in this field: part designers, mold makers, molders, technicians on the shop floor, or academic people involved in fundamental research. I have always had the impression that everyone has a limited view of the problems, a good understanding in his particular field, but usually little knowledge of the process as a whole. Even worse, people usually do not understand each other because their job and training background are so different. Very few part designers or project managers know about the really peculiar behaviour of molten polymers in a molding process. And no University Professor or Flow Analysis developer seems to know how a molding machine REALLY works or how a mold is made.

During all my professional life I have tried to bridge the gap between those different approaches, being involved in academic research, attending conferences or training sessions, publishing papers, using software, but also spending a lot of time on the shop floor, running the machine myself, and working days and sometime entire weeks in molding shops throughout the world optimising the process.

Flow Analysis Codes (Moldflow®, Moldex®, Sigma3D^® and the likes) are now an established and respected tool, readily available on PC and with excellent user interface and very good modeling capabilities. But it still requires very skilled and experienced specialists for optimum use and proper interpretation of results. The users I come across are often young computer minded engineers, with limited knowledge of plastics and processing technology.

I also noticed that the recent boom in the Mobile Communications Business is generating extremely fast growth in the leading companies, where very young professionals are now in charge of world-wide projects, involving complex plastic parts, special materials, and very demanding dimensional and mechanical requirements. These engineers would certainly benefit from an appropriate training in Injection Molding and Polymer Physics.

Now that I feel that I have a good understanding of the molding process and the underlying physics, I want to try to share my knowledge with people in the industry.

The challenge I throw at myself is the following: I want to go deeply into the physics of the various thermoplastics processing behaviour, thoroughly explain the mechanisms involved in this complex process from filling to final warpage, and yet present this seminar material with simple words and concepts, and minimum mathematics, so that the whole interested community, with or without high level university training, will benefit from these training sessions".

Born in 1956 in Italy, Vito LEO arrived in Belgium as a child.  He was educated first at the European School of Brussels and then at the Université Libre de Bruxelles where he first obtained a degree in Physics. During the following years at the university he taught Physics at the medical school as Assistant Teacher and started his reasearch career working on a PhD project. He obtained his PhD in 1983 and joined the largest Belgian chemical business the same year.