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Natural Fibres '09

14 Dec 2009 - 15 Dec 2009, Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, London, UK

Organised by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining

2009 is the International Year of Natural Fibres. In the UK, this International Conference will celebrate and highlight the increasing use of natural fibres, to raise awareness of their diverse properties, and stimulate an increased demand. This two day event will offer an opportunity for natural fibre industries to come together to foster international partnership and increased understanding of the role that natural materials can and must play in ensuring a sustainable future.

If you would like to play a part in this event, then this is how you can become involved:

Submit your details to be added to the Register of Natural Fibres Stakeholders (see form at the bottom of this page). This is being compiled by the IOM3 in order to facilitate contact between users, producers, researchers, educators and policy makers in the natural fibres industries.

Submit a poster. The deadline for abstracts for oral presentations has now passed, but poster abstracts are still being accepted. See guidelines below.

Support the conference by co-sponsoring or exhibiting at the event.Contact us for more details.

Register to receive further details of the conference. This will keep you in touch with the addition of new keynote speakers, and inform you of the full conference programme when it becomes available

Submit samples of material to the conference exhibition. This exhibition will accompany the two day conference and be kept for future reference by designers and materials specifiers in the Materials Resource Library, which is held at the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining’s premises at 1 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5DB.

Please don’t hesitate to get in touch for further details of how you can become involved. Contact Dawn Bonfield.

Concessions:

Concessions are available to members of IOM3 and co-sponsoring organisations.

Programme

Conference Themes

The conference will focus predominantly on the industrial applications of natural fibres, and include presentations in the broad themed areas below but not limited to these areas.

• Fibre extraction
• Fibre processing
• Industrial applications (e.g. automotive, construction, leisure, healthcare, etc.)
• BioComposites
• Natural fibre textiles
• Geotextiles
• Biomimetic materials
• Animal fibres
• Marine fibres
• Natural fibres for the Developing World

Who Should Attend
This conference will benefit all groups who have a professional interest in any aspect of the use of natural fibres: industrialists, academics, researchers, growers and the agricultural industry, investors, funding bodies, designers, environmentalists, central and local government.

Co-sponsorship opportunities
A range of partnership opportunities exist for organisations willing to play a part in the co-branding of this high calibre event. Delegate cost reductions apply for partners of the event.
Exhibition space will also be available.
For further details contact Dawn Bonfield.

If you would like to register your interest in the event, to receive more details once the event programme has been finalised, please email your contact details to dawn.bonfield@iom3.org.

Costs
The costs for attending this two day event, including daytime refreshments and conference dinner on 14th December, are as follows:

Full Cost: £450.00 + VAT
Student cost: £140.00 + VAT
Conference Speakers: £180.00 + VAT
Professional Members of IOM3: £320.00 + VAT
Affiliate Members of IOM3 or co-sponsoring organisation: £390.00 + VAT
Student member: £100.00 + VAT

Delegates wishing to attend just one day of the conference can register at a 25% reduction of these costs.

Venue
The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining at 1 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5DB is within walking distance of Piccadilly tube station in London. Venue location map

Accommodation
If you are looking for accommodation whilst at the conference, IOM3 has teamed up with Londontown.com to offer a cost effective accommodation service that is live, interactive and guaranteed to offer the lowest rates available at your chosen hotel.

Call for Papers Deadline - 30 June 2009

Many thanks to all who have submitted abstracts for oral presentations at this conference.

If your abstract has been received, you will have been sent a confirmation. If you have not received a confirmation of receipt, please get in contact as soon as possible.

If you have not submitted an abstract, but still wish to do so, you have been given a final extension to the deadline of Sunday 5th July to email your one page abstract, according to the guidelines below.

Authors of papers and posters presented at the conference will receive a discounted delegate rate.

Abstract Submission Guidelines
The following Guidelines have been prepared to assist you in the preparation and presentation of your abstract.

The length of the submission should be no more than 1 x A4 page (21 x 29.5cm). It can include pictures and diagrams, which may be produced in colour, but should also reproduce clearly in black and white. The font size of the main text should be 12 pt, arial. Please send a word document, and not a pdf.
Please include a paper title, below which you should include the author’s name: initials followed by surname (e.g. AJ Smith).
Beneath the Author’s name there should be Author’s affiliation (company name), followed by postal address, contact email and telephone number.
The submission should start with a 50 word summary, which should be titled SUMMARY. This summary should not exceed 350 characters (including spaces), and the same 50 word (350 character) text will be printed as part of the conference programme.

Following the short summary should be the abstract. An example of an abstract submission can be downloaded from the link at the bottom of this page.

The summary will appear on the website, and the abstract in the conference programme.

Please give the file a name that includes your own name, for ease of identification.

Please do not include any logos, headers and footers on your paper.
The final deadline date for the submission of the abstract is 30 June 2009. Please send abstracts to dawn.bonfield@iom3.org.

Conference proceedings will not be published, but the papers will beinvited for publication in a special edition of the peer reviewed Journal of Biobased Materials and Bioenergy. Authors wishing to publish in this journal will be asked to supply full papers, according to the instructions on the journal's website by Friday 16 October 2009.