The regional meeting will offer a platform for engineers and scientists in the field to exchange ideas, foster scientific understanding and technical innovation, and develop networks. The thematic range of the conference encompasses all formulation, conversion and shaping operations applied to polymeric systems in the transformation from their monomeric forms to commercial products. The 2012 Americas regional Meeting of the Polymer Processing Society will be held in Niagara, Ontario, in Canada, May 21-24 at the Marriott Gateway on the Falls.