Exhibitors back NPE cancellation: ‘We couldn t take that risk
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Attendees file past one of several China Pavilions inside the South Hall at NPE March 26, 2015.
Many companies that planned to exhibit at NPE2021 are relieved that the Plastics Industry Association chose to cancel the show.
That includes Conrad Bessemer, president and CEO of auxiliary equipment maker Novatec Inc. After being part of Operation Warp Speed the national effort to develop and distribute COVID-19 vaccines and diagnostics he has been wary about attending NPE2021, which had been scheduled for May 17-21 in Orlando, Fla. We re not in a young industry. Most of us are mature people and with the age factor there are comorbidities like hypertension and diabetes, Bessemer said in a phone interview.
The NPE2021 show, the biggest plastics fair in North America, is canceling the in-person portion of the trade fair scheduled for May in Florida because of the coronavirus pandemic, the organizer announced Jan. 5.
NPE reviews its options as pandemic prompts exhibitor to exit
Steve Toloken and Catherine Kavanaugh
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ORLANDO, Fla. A major exhibitor is pulling out of the NPE2021 show, warning that it could become a COVID-19 superspreader event, as the organizer of the trade show says it is reviewing options and acknowledges the event could be canceled.
Auxiliary equipment maker Novatec Inc. told officials with the Plastics Industry Association, which runs the event, in a Dec. 17 email that it won t be exhibiting at the May trade fair in Orlando and urged that it be canceled because not enough people will have been vaccinated in time.
The popular thermal scanning and temperature scanning system FeverWarn announced the launch of its own private cloud device.
Baltimore, United States (PRUnderground) December 13th, 2020
The pioneering fist-based temperature scanning system FeverWarn has become a popular mass fever screening tool for hospitals, schools, nursing homes and factories all across USA. Based on customer feedback, MachineSense, the parent company, has now announced the launch of a cost-effective, on-premise, mini cloud that will support both Feverwarn and other IoT deployments.
“Many of our larger customers find it difficult to get past their IT policy of not connecting to external cloud like AWS or Microsoft Azure. This mini cloud or master hub based architecture will allow them to benefit from FeverWarn’s cloud features without bothering for IT policy waivers ,” said Conrad Bessemer, Co-Founder and Chairman of MachineSense, the manufacturer of FeverWarn. “This architecture is less expensiv