If you have recently completed or will shortly be completing research studies relevant to hide preservation, hide and leather defects, leather manufacturing technology, new product development, tannery equipment development, leather properties and specifications, tannery environmental management, or other related subjects, you are encouraged to present the results of this research at the next annual convention of the Association to be held at the Grandover Resort and Conference Center, Greensboro, NC,  June 7 - 10, 2012.

Abstracts are preferred via email and must be submitted by March 1, 2012 to the Chair of the Technical Program:

Mr. Steven Gilberg

Tanmach Limited

780 Hardwick Road, PO Box 546

Bolton, Ontario L7E 5T4

Canada

Email: steve@tanmach.com

Each abstract should begin with the title in capital letters, followed by the authors’ names.  The name of the speaker should be denoted by an asterisk, and contact information should be provided that includes an email address.  The abstract should be no longer than 300 English words and in the Microsoft Word format. Manuscripts based on the presentation, in publication-ready form, are to be sent to the editor in electronic format as an e-mail attachment by May 15, 2012 (see revised Publication Policy on our website: leatherchemists.org). 

Robert F. White, Journal Editor

c/o The American Leather Chemists Association

1314 50^th Street, Suite 103

Lubbock, TX  79412-2940

USA

E-mail:  jalcaeditor@prodigy.net

Mobile Phone (616) 540-2469

Presentations at the convention will be limited to 25 minutes.  In accordance with the Association Bylaws, papers covering such presentations are to be submitted to the Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association for publication consideration.  Those papers are not to be published elsewhere, other than in abstract form, without permission of the Journal Editor, Robert F. White.