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**New**  EPCEd to partner with companies to develop employee training programs in emulsion polymers science and technology

  • Very few graduating organic chemists, polymer chemists, chemical engineers or materials scientists have any significant background or experience in emulsion polymers or polymerization.
  • Seldom are chemists/engineers who are experienced in other industrial polymer materials and processes ready to contribute to emulsion polymer assignments without significant new training and mentoring.
  • Many senior chemists/engineers with extensive emulsion polymer experience are at or nearing retirement age in many companies.
  • EPCEd has a curriculum of 9 intensive workshops focusing on different aspects of emulsion polymerization and water-based polymer dispersions. These range from basic concepts all the way to scale-up and commercial operations, including analytical characterization techniques. This curriculum can be reviewed by going to our website: www.epced.com
  • EPCEd assists companies in designing and presenting a series of educational workshops to assist technical managers and human resources teams in providing new/existing employees with high level training in emulsion polymers.
  • Further information and requests for proposals can be received by contacting us at [email protected].   
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Announcing EPCEd’s New, On-line Tutorial Curriculum

Dear Colleagues,
Emulsion Polymers Consulting and Education, LLC is pleased to announce that we have created (some still in progress) a new curriculum of 21 tutorials addressing both the fundamentals of emulsion polymers and special topics for emulsion polymers. These are shown directly below:

Fundamentals                                                                                                                                           
  • Film Formation of Latexes
  • Latex “Stability” – Fundamental Aspects
  • Molecular Weight Control Emulsion Polymerization – Recipe and Process Effects
  • Rheology of Mono- and Bimodal Latexes
  • Scale-up Principles for Synthetic Latexes

Special Topics                                                                                                                         
  • DSC Techniques to Measure Polymer Phase Separation in Composite Latex Particles
  • Glass Transitions (wet and dry) of Polymers – Latexes and Subsequent Films
  • Hybrid Latexes – Acrylics with Polyurethanes, Alkyds, Inorganic
  • Impact Modifiers via Emulsion Polymerization
  • “Large” Particle Sized Latex Production
  • Non-spherical Latex Particles (with rheology modifier applications)
  • Redox Chemistries and Reactions for Producing Low VOC Latexes
  • Reversible Deactivation Radical Polymerization in Emulsion Polymerization
  • Starch Modification Leading to Starch/Acrylic Hybrid Latexes
  • Surfactant Adsorption onto Latex Particles
  • Vinyl Acid Comonomers in Emulsion Polymerization - Reactions, Locations in the Latex
  • Water Adsorption into Solvent- and Waterborne Films, Water Whitening of Films
  • Zeta Potential Measurements in Latexes

We have scheduled three of the fundamental tutorials to take place during the rest of 2025. Core-Shell and Other Structured Latex Particles – Production and Characterization is scheduled for June 12, 2025. Characterization of Synthetic Latexes is scheduled for September 18, 2025, and Basics of Emulsion Polymerization for November 20, 2025. As we move through 2025, we will also choose 4-5 tutorials to present in 2026 and send that information to you. Since we have not yet chosen the topics for next year, we invite you to contact us to let us know which one(s) you suggest that we consider.

All of the tutorials are to be presented on-line using Microsoft Teams, and each one will be comprised of a 2-hour presentation/discussion of PPT slides, followed by a 30-minute discussion period of questions posed (via Chat Box) by participants during the 2-hour presentation. For every tutorial, each participant will receive a MS Teams invitation, and a personalized workbook with all of the slides printed in full color – exactly the same as we have always done for our 3 or 4 day workshops in which many of you have participated. These workbooks will be delivered to each participant’s home or company address prior to the tutorial presentation date. Because we expect there to be participants living in a number of different time zones, we will schedule the on-line sessions to begin at 9:30 AM (EST or EDT, depending upon the calendar) so that it is possible to accommodate participants from many parts of the world.

While we completely realize that a 2-hour tutorial on a particular topic is no substitute for a 3 or 4 day intensive workshop on that subject, these short and low cost ($425, USD) educational offerings might well be the starting point for getting involved in a continuous process of developing greater and greater depth in the science and engineering aspects of emulsion polymers. In depth workshops for you might well follow such an introduction to these subjects.