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CEP: Meeting Preview - A Wealth of Opportunities at the Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety

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March

2014

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Organizers are putting the finishing touches on the schedule of events for AIChE’s 2014 Spring Meeting and 10th Global Congress on Process Safety (GCPS), to be held Mar. 30 – Apr. 3 at the Hilton New Orleans – Riverside, in New Orleans, LA.

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