Dealing with all aspects of filled polymers, Eurofillers 2011 was the eighth conference in the series first started at Mulhouse in 1995, following the merger of the preceding Moffis and Filplas conferences. This was the first time that the conference had been held in Germany, despite the dominance of this country in the filled compounding business (it is estimated that 25% of European compounding is carried out in Germany).
Eurofillers 2011 was organised this year by the Leibniz-Institute of Polymer Research, Dresden and held under the joint chairmanship of Professors Heinrich and Wagenknecht. It was a great success, despite the difficult economic times. The conference was exceptionally well attended, with about 180 delegates from 25 countries.
Being a European conference, most of the speakers and delegates were from this region. The majority (almost 50%) were from the host country, Germany; but there were good representations also from France, Italy and...