To provide opportunities for training and learning for industry professionals, two Technical Workshops will be held concurrently with the main exhibition November 30-December 1. The Workshops will be delivered in an interactive style and there will be opportunities for delegates to discuss their technical problems with the tutor.

• Workshop 1: “Advances in Smart & Functional Polymers & Coatings,” will be held Wednesday, November 30 at 1:30 pm at the Meeting Room in Canton Fair Complex
and will be lead by Dr. Jamil Baghdachi, a Professor of Polymers and Coatings at the Eastern Michigan University. He joined the University after spending 25 years at various technical and managerial capacities at BASF Corporation, DuPont, and ARCO Chemical Company. He is the author/editor of eight technical books and is the recipient of 2015 American Chemical Society’s Award in Coatings and Industry Excellence Award of the American Coatings Association. He has given over 100 keynote lectures and is an active industry consultant with over 100 clients globally.
• Workshop II: “Principal of High Quality Coatings & Inks – Relevance to Smart/Nano-Technologies,” will be held Thursday, December 1 at 1:30 pm at theMeeting Room in Canton Fair Complex and will be led by Prof. Long Lin, currently the Professor of Colour and Polymer Science and the Head of Department of Colour Science at The University of Leeds, UK, the world-leading institute in colorants, printing and coating science and technology. He is also the Director of DP Centre of Industrial Collaboration, and the Director of Colour and Textile Science centre at Leeds. Prof. Lin is a Chartered Chemist. He is a Fellow of the Technology of Surface Coatings, a Fellow of the Institute of Paper, Printing and Publishing and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He has acted as a key consultant to several colorants, printing inks and coatings related companies for over 25 years.
Prof. Lin’s research expertise covers coatings and inks formulations, coating and printing processes, organic dyes and pigments, specialty dyes and pigments, security printing, functional coatings and inks, polymeric binders, statistical experimental design and data analysis, computer-aided process modelling and computer-aided formulation optimization.