AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY
St. Louis Section
and the
Refractory Ceramics Division
Forty-fifth Annual Symposium
on
Refractories
March 25-26, 2009
Hilton St. Louis Airport Hotel
Theme:
“Raw Materials”
PROGRAM
“Raw Materials”
7:30 A.M. Registration and Coffee
8:45 Morning Technical Sessions
Welcome and Introductions
St. Louis Section Chairman
Dennis Hageman
Missouri Refractories Company
Refractory Ceramics Division Chair
Mike Alexander
Riverside Refractories, Inc.
Co-Program Coordinators
Bill Headrick
Missouri Refractories Company
Dave Tucker
CE Minerals
9:00 “Zirconia, Its Many Types and Uses”
John Kaniuk – Zircoa
9:30 “Non Standard – Standards for In House/Customer Quality Assurance and Usage”
Maurice Cook – Sintertec Div of BPI, Inc.
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Invited Paper – 2008 Allen Award Winner
“Erosion-Corrosion-Resistant Titanium Diboride Cermets for High-Temperature Process Applications”
Chang Min Chun, Narasimha-Rao V. Bangaru and Neeraj Thirumalai – ExxonMobil Research and Engineering, Annandale, NJ
John R. Peterson, Christopher J. Fowler and Robert L. Antram – ExxonMobil Research and Engineering, Fairfax, VA
11:30 Questions and Discussion
Co-Program Coordinator
Bill Headrick
Missouri Refractories
Dave Tucker
CE Minerals
11:45-1:00 Luncheon Banquet
1:00-1:30 Presentation of the T.J. Planje St. Louis Refractories Award to James W. Stendera of Vesuvius USA
Afternoon Session
1:30 “Develop, Analyze, and Recycle: The Service Side of Washington Mills”
Brian Hauer – Washington Mills
2:00 “What Does a Refractory Company Want From a Raw Material Supplier?”
Dilip Jain – Kyanite Mining
2:30 Coffee Break
3:00 “Phosphate Bonding for Phun”
George Gower – Refractory Minerals
3:30 “Refractory Raw Material Producer Challenges and the Future”
Dave Tucker – CE Minerals
4:00 Questions & Discussion
Co-Program Coordinator
Bill Headrick
Missouri Refractories Company
Dave Tucker
CE Minerals
Closing Remarks
Dennis Hageman
Missouri Refractories Company
Mike Alexander
Riverside Refractories, Inc.
5:00-7:00 Exposition and Cocktail Hour
Almatis
Aluchem
American Ceramic Society
BassTech International
Calucem, Inc.
CE Minerals
Cilas Particle-Size
Great Lakes Minerals
Kerneos
Kyanite Mining
Matrix Enterprises
Missouri S&T
Orton Ceramic Foundation
Possehl Erzkontor N.A., Inc.
Refractories Applications & News
Refractory Minerals
Rio-Tinto Alcan Specialty Aluminas North American
Washington Mills
7:00 Dinner
March 26th (2nd Day)
7:00 A.M. Refractory Ceramics Division (RCD) Breakfast Meeting
8:15 Morning Technical Sessions
Welcome and Introductions
St. Louis Section Chairman
Dennis Hageman
Missouri Refractories Company
Refractory Ceramics Division Chair
Mike Alexander
Riverside Refractories, Inc.
Co-Program Coordinators
Bill Headrick
Missouri Refractories Company
Dave Tucker
CE Minerals
8:30 “Coarse Tabular Alumina Aggregates: The Next Generation of Tabular Alumina”
Dale Zacherl – Almatis
9:00 “New Calcium Aluminate Binder for Low Cement Castables (LCC’s)”
Chuck Alt – Kerneos
9:30 “Bauxite & Brown Fused Alumina Supply in 2009”
Erin Eusner – Great Lakes Minerals
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Open Panel Discussion on Raw Materials led by Charles Semler
12:00 Questions & Discussion
Co-Program Coordinator
Bill Headrick
Missouri Refractories Company
Dave Tucker
CE Minerals
Closing Remarks
Dennis Hageman
Missouri Refractories Company
Mike Alexander
Riverside Refractories, Inc.
12:15 St. Louis Section Business Meeting
REGISTRATION FORM
Please select:□ Pre-Registration Fee (Deadline March 23) $225.00 $225.00
□ On-Site Registration Fee $275.00
□ Emeritus/Senior Fee $125.00
□ Student Fee $50.00
□ Exhibitor for Exposition (Table Top) $300.00
(Exhibitor cost does not include registration fee)
□ Lunch - □ Chicken □ Fish □ Pasta/Vegetarian
□ Dinner - □ Chicken □ Pork □ Vegetarian
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(Make checks payable to: St. Louis Section)
Send To: Patty Smith
Missouri S&T
303 Materials Research Center
Rolla, MO 65401
Tel (573) 341-6265; Fax (573) 341-6151
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NOTE: Dress Attire – Semi Casual (Tie Optional)
LOCATION
Hilton St. Louis Airport Hotel
10330 Natural Bridge Road
St. Louis, MO
/ A block of rooms has been set aside at the Hilton St. Louis Airport Hotel in St. Louis, MO for this meeting. Please refer to St. Louis Section of the American Ceramic Society at the Hilton when reserving a room for which the rate is $99.00 single/double per night. Reservations must be made before March 10th, 2009.
HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS
Hilton Hotel (March 10, 2009) (800) 314-2117
Website to make reservation online: http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/groups/personalized/STLHIHF-ACS-20090323/index.jhtml
Hampton Inn (314) 429-2000
Drury Inn (314) 423-7700
Marriott Airport (314) 423-9700