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50 years of RP
Editorial the voice of the composites industry worldwide
Editorial Amanda Jacob Editor Tel: +44-(0)1865-843638 E-mail: [email protected]
Display Advertising Mark Sherman Global Business Development Tel: +44-(O)1865-843208 E-mail: [email protected] Sally Pye Advertising Sales - Europe & Asia Tel: +44-(0)1865-843081 E-mail: [email protected] Advertising Copy Controller Tel: +44-(0)1865-843819
Production Lin Lucas, Senior Production/Design Controller Joanne Salt, Advertising Production Coordinator
Marketing & Circulation Helena Bartosinska Marketing Manager Tel: +44-(0)1865-843821 E-mail: [email protected]
Address Elsevier Advanced Technology The Boulevard Langford Lane Kidlington Oxford OX5 1GB UK Fax: +44-(0)1865-843971/843973 E-mail: [email protected] Websites: www.reinforcedplastics.com www.rpasia.com
Reinforced Plastics is published monthly by Elsevier Advanced Technology
Annual subscription Worldwide delivery US$340/304/¥40 300 (Payments in other currencies are subject to our prevailing exchange rate.) Prices are valid to the end of 2006 and include airmail delivery in Europe and airspeeded delivery elsewhere.
Free circulation enquiries Tower House, Sovereign Park Market Harborough Leicestershire LE16 9EF, UK Tel: +44-(0)1858-439612 Fax: +44-(0)1858-434958 E-mail: [email protected]
Printed by Headley Brothers Ltd, Kent, UK. 02104 A member of the Reed Elsevier plc group Reinforced Plastics (ISSN 0034-3617) is published monthly by Elsevier Ltd, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, UK. PERIODICALS POSTAGE paid at Rahway, NJ, USA. POSTMASTER: please send address corrections to Reinforced Plastics, 365 Blair Road, Avenel, NJ 07001.
50 years of RP Reinforced Plastics is 50 this year. In the fast-moving world of trade publishing this is a big achievement. Launched in September 1956 by a small London-based publisher, the magazine was acquired by global media group Elsevier in 1989 and since then has grown in both content and readership to become the industry’s only truly global magazine, read and respected by composites suppliers and manufacturers all around the world. In the very first issue of Reinforced Plastics (do any of you still have that issue?) the objectives of the magazine were outlined as: ‘to find new applications for reinforced plastics by introducing the material to manufacturers and designers in many fields outside the plastics industry, and to publish information on moulding techniques, materials and equipment.’ This strategy has stood the test of time and our
mission today is essentially the same. We also monitor industry trends to develop new products and services, such as the RP Asia series of conferences and exhibitions, the new Chineselanguage magazine Reinforced Plastics China, and our digital magazine editions, which utilise the latest IT technology to deliver your magazine to you via the internet. Come and meet the current
Reinforced Plastics team at the JEC Composites Show this month on stand number P66.
Editor
Reinforced Plastics
Cover story
Volume 50 number 3
Reinforced Plastics is 50 years old this year. We thought this deserved some celebrations! (Cover picture © Photodisc Green. Karl Weatherly.)
Copyright © 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
March 2006
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Editorial Amanda Jacob Editor Tel: +44-(0)1865-843638 E-mail: [email protected]
Display Advertising Mark Sherman Global Business Development Tel: +44-(O)1865-843208 E-mail: [email protected] Sally Pye Advertising Sales - Europe & Asia Tel: +44-(0)1865-843081 E-mail: [email protected] Advertising Copy Controller Tel: +44-(0)1865-843819
Production Lin Lucas, Senior Production/Design Controller Joanne Salt, Advertising Production Coordinator
Marketing & Circulation Helena Bartosinska Marketing Manager Tel: +44-(0)1865-843821 E-mail: [email protected]
Address Elsevier Advanced Technology The Boulevard Langford Lane Kidlington Oxford OX5 1GB UK Fax: +44-(0)1865-843971/843973 E-mail: [email protected] Websites: www.reinforcedplastics.com www.rpasia.com
Reinforced Plastics is published monthly by Elsevier Advanced Technology
Annual subscription Worldwide delivery US$340/304/¥40 300 (Payments in other currencies are subject to our prevailing exchange rate.) Prices are valid to the end of 2006 and include airmail delivery in Europe and airspeeded delivery elsewhere.
Free circulation enquiries Tower House, Sovereign Park Market Harborough Leicestershire LE16 9EF, UK Tel: +44-(0)1858-439612 Fax: +44-(0)1858-434958 E-mail: [email protected]
Printed by Headley Brothers Ltd, Kent, UK. 02104 A member of the Reed Elsevier plc group Reinforced Plastics (ISSN 0034-3617) is published monthly by Elsevier Ltd, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, UK. PERIODICALS POSTAGE paid at Rahway, NJ, USA. POSTMASTER: please send address corrections to Reinforced Plastics, 365 Blair Road, Avenel, NJ 07001.
50 years of RP Reinforced Plastics is 50 this year. In the fast-moving world of trade publishing this is a big achievement. Launched in September 1956 by a small London-based publisher, the magazine was acquired by global media group Elsevier in 1989 and since then has grown in both content and readership to become the industry’s only truly global magazine, read and respected by composites suppliers and manufacturers all around the world. In the very first issue of Reinforced Plastics (do any of you still have that issue?) the objectives of the magazine were outlined as: ‘to find new applications for reinforced plastics by introducing the material to manufacturers and designers in many fields outside the plastics industry, and to publish information on moulding techniques, materials and equipment.’ This strategy has stood the test of time and our
mission today is essentially the same. We also monitor industry trends to develop new products and services, such as the RP Asia series of conferences and exhibitions, the new Chineselanguage magazine Reinforced Plastics China, and our digital magazine editions, which utilise the latest IT technology to deliver your magazine to you via the internet. Come and meet the current
Reinforced Plastics team at the JEC Composites Show this month on stand number P66.
Editor
Reinforced Plastics
Cover story
Volume 50 number 3
Reinforced Plastics is 50 years old this year. We thought this deserved some celebrations! (Cover picture © Photodisc Green. Karl Weatherly.)
Copyright © 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
March 2006
REINFORCEDplastics
3