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Plank Brand Director john.guadagno@ubm.com 203/523-7091 Editorial Director tony.deligio@ubm.com 310/740-9088 Account Executive, Western Region tony.marsh@ubm.com 310/445-3725 Account Executive, Classifieds beth.berner@ubm.com 440/209-1478 Account Executive, Europe, Middle East, North Africa, Mexico and Central/South America hp@tecnokal.com +1 480/452-5584 20459_PT12 John Guadagno Online Newsletters Blogs Events Custom Contributing Editors and Guest Columnists Clare Goldsberry Senior Editor Karen Laird Contributing Editor Based in Arizona, Clare started her 28-year career in the plastics industry by spending eight years selling tooling and injection molding capacity for a custom molder/moldmaker She left that job to follow her writing muse and reports on injection molding and moldmaking; CAD/CAM/ CAE; profile and pipe extrusion, and other topics Former chief editor, and later, assistant publisher of the Dutchlanguage trade journal for plastics and rubber, Kunststof en Rubber, Karen Laird initially worked as a Dutch–English translator for legal and technical documents after graduating with a master’s degree in English literature Later, Karen founded Laird Publishing, which specializes in Dutch–English technical translating, writing, editing and publishing services Allan Griff Senior Contributor & Extrusion Expert Series Editor Allan Griff is a consulting engineer who has spent almost 50 years improving extrusion operations He wrote the book on extrusion—really: His Plastics Extrusion Technology was the first practical extrusion book in the industry and his Plastics Extrusion Operating Manual has been in print since 1983 He has helped with troubleshooting of problems, training employees, new product development, and materials management Stephen Moore Asia-Pacific Correspondent Based in Asia, Stephen Moore has been the Asia‑Pacific Correspondent for Modern Plastics Worldwide for 18 years and for PlasticsToday.com since its launch in 2008 His beats include automotive, injection and blowmolding machinery, engineering thermoplastics, CAD/CAM/CAE, and the electronics and telecom markets He has also written in the past for Chemical Week, Chemical Engineering and Turbomachinery magazines Guest Columnists: GLENN BEALL, Plastics Hall of Fame Member and contributing writer of By Design, shares his expertise on topics critical to design engineers His range encompasses material selection, part design and engineering, and DFM (design for manufacturing) Doug Smock Contributing Editor Doug is the medical content editor for PlasticsToday and has been writing about plastics technology since 1986, including coverage of nine K Fairs and nine National Plastics Expositions He is the former Chief Editor of Plastics World and Purchasing magazines and the former Editorial Director and Associate Publisher of Modern Mold and Tooling Doug is also co-author of two leading books in supply chain management: “Straight to the Bottom Line”, & “On-Demand Supply 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