Co-Chairs:  Tom Lemire, Western Regional Manager, Toho Tenax America Inc.
                     Anthony (Tony) Roberts, Principal, AJR Consultant LLC

Seminars:   Carbon Fiber for Tomorrow: A Review of Current Technologies and the Path to Wide
                    Spread Industrial Growth, David Warren, Program Manager, Oak Ridge National Lab 
                    (with others from ORNL)

                     The Global Outlook for Carbon Fiber Composites: Expansion as a Result of Efficiency and
                     Productivity, Chris Red, Editor & VP Market Research, Composites Market Reports
                     and Tony Roberts, Principal, AJR Consultant LLC

CompositesWorld, publisher of High-Performance Composites and Composites Technology magazines, has announced that the Carbon Fiber 2009 conference will be held Dec. 9-11, 2009, at the new Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel on the waterfront in downtown San Diego. This international conference is designed for executives from leading fiber suppliers, end users, fiber converters, prepreggers, and composites parts manufacturers to discuss the current supply and demand situation for carbon fiber as well as the future prospect for growth of new carbon fiber composite applications.

More than 145 marketing executives, business development specialists, technical directors and industry analysts attended last year’s event in Charleston, South Carolina where they explored the regional outlook for traditional markets, such as aerospace, commercial aviation and sporting goods, as well as the growing demand from industrial markets for carbon fiber, such as wind energy, construction, CNG and hydrogen storage tanks, marine and automotive applications.

Conference presentations on Dec. 10-11 will cover market opportunities, new technology, and production processes to streamline manufacturing and lower costs.

In addition, there will be two pre-conference seminars on Dec. 9 focusing on the latest market developments and technology. Numerous networking opportunities are available at catered receptions, roundtable luncheons, and refreshment breaks.

Speaker recruitment is underway. For more information on the conference or to submit a topic for consideration, please contact Scott Stephenson, Conference Director, by e-mail at scott@compositesworld.com; by phone at
+1-207-221-6602; or by fax at +1-207-221-5848. 

CompositesWorld, with offices in Wheat Ridge, Colo., Cincinnati, Ohio and Yarmouth, Maine, is a provider of information to the composites industry through High-Performance Composites and Composites Technology magazines, as well as its CompositesWorld weekly newsletter and its web site, www.compositesworld.com.