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PIVOT TABLES: ADVANCED TECHNIQUES ANDANALYSISAlex Pashaian

Galata Chemicals, Southbury, CT

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Pivot TablesPivot tables are a valuable tool offered by Microsoft Excel. Manyorganizations use “pivots” as a tool to communicate, but offer littletraining around the tool itself. The lack of training can make recip-ients feel overwhelmed. Pivots are not complicated, and, aftersome detailed explanation of its construction, can become quitesimple. If you can add, subtract, multiply, and divide, you can un-derstand anything a pivot has to offer. This presentation will focuson advanced techniques and analysis.

BIO: Alex PashaianAlex is the Global Finance/IT Director at Galata Chemicals, a multi-national chemical manufacturing company, with headquarters inSouthbury, CT. Alex is responsible for all Financial Planning andAnalysis, Business Intelligence, and Information Technology forGalata. After divesting from Chemtura Corporation, Alex success-fully integrated all corporate and local financial analysis from SAPinto Microsoft Excel. As a group of advanced users of Pivot Tables,there is very little functionality behind this powerful tool that some-one at Galata hasn’t come across. Alex will bring Galata’s experi-ence and expertise to SPE, and work from the ground up on thispowerful tool.

If you have any questions before or after the presentation, you cancontact Alex at alex.pashaian@galatachemicals.com.

Newsletter of the Palisades - New Jersey Section

Communication Excellence

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2013 Section Awards

Table of Contents

Upcoming Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

President’s Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Support Needed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Member News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

January Meeting Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

TopCon 2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

Sponsorship Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

Call For Papers FOAMS®2014 . . . . . . . . . . .5

Sponsor Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Sponsor Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

BOD Contact List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

MEETING LOCATION: Renaissance Woodbridge Hotel515 Route 1 South; Iselin, NJ(1/2 Mi. North of Interchange G.S. Pkwy) THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 20144:00 PM Board Meeting 5:30 PM Networking6:00 PM Dinner and Speaker Presentation

Member Non-Member

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The Society of Plastics Engineers February 2014

Upcoming Meeting DatesFeb. 20, 2014 Section MeetingMar. 20, 2014 Section MeetingApr. 17, 2014 Section Meeting Apr. 28-30, 2014 ANTEC® (Las Vegas)May 22, 2014 Section MeetingJune 3, 2014 Golf Outing - Oak Hill Golf ClubSept. 8-11, 2014 FOAMS® Conference

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President’s Message

Our Students, the Future of the SPE

One of the questions we continuallyask ourselves is, how can we helpour student chapters, memberswho not only represent the future ofour industry, but the Society aswell? Yes, we can serve as mentorsand help the chapters financially.

And while this is a good start, the question remains,can we do more? What other opportunities can weprovide them with? What can we do to help differ-entiate them from other college graduates? After all,they all have high grade point averages (???) andare doing independent research. But so too doeseveryone else.

We have posed this very question to our RutgersChapter. Besides an employment offer, or perhapssome sort of paid internship, they are asking for jobshadowing opportunities. A job shadow is simplywhat the title implies, that is the person shadows orobserves you for a period of time. It is actually amandatory requirement in Pennsylvania for highschool graduation, and I’ve hosted several studentsover the years. For the high school students it is aprogram to help the students decide whether or nottheir chosen major was actually something theycould see themselves doing, at least in the first partof their career.

For our student chapter members there are furtheropportunities. During your college life you learn thetools and skills required for employment, but you donot necessarily learn the practical skills required forsuccess on the job. A good job shadow can startteaching students the how and why of employment,and who knows, could be a differentiator during theinterview process.

In this issue you will see a request for job shadowopportunities. If you or someone on your staff hasthe willingness, and the time, please contactMichelle Frondelli, who will put you in contact with astudent. It is a rather simple activity, but one thatmay someday make a difference in a youngstudent’s life, impacting not only the future of ourindustry, but the SPE as well.

Mark Lavach

Host a Rutgers University Student for JobShadowing. Invest in the next generation ofplastics employees!What is Job Shadowing?A program where students can learn from a professional aboutan occupation. Host a student to come with you as you gothrough a typical day.

Activities might include: Facility tourWatch technicians perform laboratory testsSpend time with people in various job functionsExplain what you are doing and allow the student to ask questions.

Host one or more college students for a day or portion of aday. If interested please contact Rutgers Student SectionSecretary, Michelle Frondelli, at 732-425-5224,michellefrondelli@gmail.com We would like to scheduletimes during the Rutgers spring break from March 17-21.

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Attention Members & Employers

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Congratulations to Section Member and Director PaulNardone, who was promoted in January to the newlycreated position of Customer Service Manager for boththe Chemical Division and the Food CharacterizationDivision of C.W. Brabender Instruments, Inc. He willconduct business out of the corporate headquarters inSouth Hackensack, NJ, which will be home base for thecompany’s expanded service division.

Paul previously held the position of Technical AccountManager for 13 years and was instrumental in the pastsales successes of C.W. Brabender. Paul has spent hisentire career working with laboratory-scale physicaltesting instrumentation. “His invaluable experience andtremendous knowledge level in his field of expertisehave long been a welcomed asset to C.W. BrabenderInstruments’ continually growing scope of business andthe redirection of his expertise to the service area is atruly monumental gain for us and our valued customerbase,” the company said in the press release.

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Co-Sponsored by the Palisades-New Jersey Section & TPM&F Division The Society of Plastics EngineersTutorial September 8 - 9, 2014 Conference September 10 - 11, 2014 Iselin, New Jersey USA

The FOAMS® 2014 conference is planned to address the advances in synthesis, characterization, andproperties of polymer foams by leading foam researchers in industry and academia. This conference is thepremier forum for sharing ideas and learning about new developments in foaming technologies due to the di-versity of the attendees.

As an accomplished technical and business leader in polymeric foams, we invite you to give a technical pres-entation at this conference. Please consider contributing an original paper on technical or business aspects of yourrecent, significant developments in thermoplastic foams. The submitted papers will be carefully reviewed. The criteriafor selection of papers will be based on significant developments that will bring benefits to the foam industry withhighest quality and originality. The best papers will be selected and announced in January 2015. If you have anyquestions regarding the abstract, topics, or deadlines, please contact Ajit Ranade. We look forward to your participation.Thank you.

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Papers are invited on the following topics:

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2013-14 OfficersMark Lavach Arkema, Inc. President 610-878-6985 mark.lavach@arkema.comS.T. Lee Sealed Air 1st Vice President 201-712-7142 st.lee@sealedair.comMichael Fisch Consultant 2nd Vice President 201-888-9066 mhfisch@alumni.caltech.eduFrancis McAndrew Retired Treasurer fbmcandrew@verizon.netLenny Davis Sun Chemical Corp. Secretary 201-933-4500 (x1296) leonard.davis@sunchemical.comTom Martin Colorite, Inc. Councilor 201-600-6874 Tom.Martin@Tekni-Plex.comJoe Duska Manetti Group Past President 732-778-1599 Joe.Duska@mainetti.com

2013-14 DirectorsJim Williamson Dover Chemical, Inc. Director 610-662-7779 jim.williamson@doverchem.comArt Finkle BASF Director 203-371-6677 arthur.finkle@BASF.comGiorgiana Giancola Kobo Products Director 732-986-1144 giorgiana.giancola@gmail.com

2015-16 DirectorsBrian Gibson Tekni-Plex Director 973-743-7850 (Home) BGibson322@aol.comPaul Nardone CW Brabender, Inc Director 201-343-8425 (ext 19) pnardone@cwbrabender.comRobert MacFarlane, Jr. THO Services Director 973-410-0590 THOServices@aya.yale.edu

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Emeritus Directors Jay Kotak rktech@worldnet.att.net609-799-9034Dr. David Riley drdavidwriley@msn.com908-369-7260Al Whitney spepal@bestnetpc.com386-445-5408

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