Registration Now Open for 3rd Symposium on the Assessment and Control of Metal Removal Fluids
ALEXANDRIA, VA (May 1, 2008) — Registration for the 2008 Metal Removal Fluid Symposium is now open. Attendees may register online for $595 through September 5, 2008.
This Symposium, which will bring together manufacturers and end-users, is the first of its kind in more than a decade. You should register today to attend this conference if you are any of the following:
- Industry EHS Specialist
- MRF Regulatory Specialist
- Government OHS Regulator
- Allied Trade Association Representative
- Worker H&S Representative
- MRF Management Specialist
- Industrial Hygienist
- Industrial/Machining Engineer
- University MRF Researcher
- MRF Microbiology Researcher
- MRF Exposure Assessment Researcher
- Occupational Medicine Specialist
- Consensus Standards Organization Representative
Organizers are accepting papers and abstracts for the Symposium through May 16, 2008 (a brief extension of the previously-announced deadline). The topics to be addressed include:
- Health and safety effects/occupational medicine
- Dermal effects
- Respiratory effects
- New developments
- Exposure measurement and guidelines
- Developments in MRF aerosol sampling and analytical techniques
- Promulgation of MRF occupational exposure limits
- Managing MRF in the plant/best practices
- Engineering/exposure control practice and research
- MRF microbiology and biocide usage
- MRF waste disposal technologies
- Global Regulatory issues
- Regulatory updates and trends
- REACH and MRFs
- MRF and the Globally Harmonized System
- UK Health Safety Executive MRF investigations
- Sustainability and future trends
- MRFs in the 90s, MRFs now, MRFs in the future
- Future requirements of MRFs
- Nanotechnology and MRFs
- Vegetable-based MRF products
- Demands of high-speed machining on MRF formulations
To submit papers online, please click here.
For more information about the symposium, including the conference program and registration, visit the official Web site or contact Tricia T. Payne or call 843-757-5706.
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The Independent Lubricant Manufacturers Association (ILMA) was founded in 1948. ILMA's 292 members include independent lubricant companies that produce more than 25% of all lubricants and 80% or more of the metalworking fluids and other specialty industrial lubricants sold in the U.S., and key suppliers of raw materials and services to independent lubricant manufacturers.
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