Dear Colleagues:

Among the many advantages offered by metallocene and single-site catalysts are improvements in productivity, higher value-added resin products and the potential to incorporate functionalized comonomers into resin backbones. Another early claim has been their ability to "tailor" resins based on enduse requirements, providing materials which were effectively designed for particular applications. Such advances have led technology developers to mathematically model polymer properties as well as catalyst behaviors. The result is an increasingly important, and powerful, role being played by understanding and exploiting the predictable "structure-property" relationships of metallocene and single-site catalyzed resins.

This year's conference theme, "Metallocene and Single-Site Catalysis: Value-Added Resins via Predictable Structure-Property Relationships," is intended to highlight structure-property relationships in understanding the benefits of recent catalyst advancements. It also describes the efforts underway by the leaders to take advantage of their ability to understand, predict and then utilize the detailed level of mechanistic behaviors of these robust and increasingly important commercial systems.

Beyond this focus, this year's MetCon2003 will maintain its tradition of featuring advancements in metallocenes, SSCs and related polymerization catalysts based on early and late transition metals, for both commodity polyolefins and specialty polymers. The event remains an essential meeting for catalyst chemists, polymer scientists, process engineers, business managers and executives involved in the polymer industry. Catalyst manufacturers, resin producers, process licensors and end-users/fabricators will all benefit from attending.

In addition, we continue to update and expand our popular workshop which will be offered as a lead-in to the conference. Now entitled "The Metallocene & Single-Site Catalyst Short Course: From Fundamentals to Post-Metallocene Systems," this one-day course has been refocused to provide an intensive review of both traditional metallocene and developing single-site organometallic chemistries, including the latest on both early and late transition metal complexes.

We encourage you to mark your calendars for May 8-9, 2003 and look forward to seeing you in Houston!

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