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Petcore Europe Conference 2018 Petcore Europe Conference 2018 - Strategy for PET in the Circular Economy

Date:
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Location:
BLUEPOINT Business Centre, Auguste Reyerslaan 80, 1030 Brussels Brussels, Belgium

Organizer
Petcore Europe, Avenue de Cortenbergh 71, 1000 Bruksela Bruksela ,Belgia
Phone:
+32 2 739 63 88
www:
www.petcore-europe.org
e-mail:
info@petcore-europe.org
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Building up on the success of the last years, we decided to expand the 2018 conference edition to two days. The first half day is exclusively dedicated to PET Business & Strategy, followed by a Networking Event in the evening. The second day focuses on Trends in Collection, Recycling & Sustainability and features presentations from research, industry and EU decision makers.


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Programme

Petcore Europe Conference 2018 - PET Business & Strategy

Day 1: Wednesday, 7 February 2018, BLUEPOINT Business Centre

11:00 - 13:00 Petcore Europe General Assembly (for members only)
12:30 - 13:30 Registration & Welcome Coffee
13:30 - 13:45 Welcome
13:45 - 14:45

2016 PET market, collection & recycling rates

  • PET bottles
    - Helen McGeough, Senior Consultant, PCI Wood Mackanzie
     
  • PET thermoforms & ODR containers
    - Alessandra Funcia, Head of Marketing, Sukano
14:45 - 17:30

Perspectives and Strategy from the PET value chain

- Review of past years
- New markets and tendencies
- Outlook for 2018 / 2019
- Restructuring in the sector

  • PET Producers
    - Antonello Ciotti, President, Committee of PET Manufacturers in Europe (CPME)

  • PET Converters

    • PET thermoforms - Helene Roberts, Global Marketing and Innovation Director, Kloeckner Pentaplast

    • PET bottles - Paulo Correia, CTO, Logoplaste

  • PET Recyclers
    - Casper van den Dungen / Herbert Snell, Plastics Recyclers Europe (PRE)

  Conclusion & Closing
17:30 - 19:30

Networking Event

for all conference participants in the BLUEPOINT Business Centre

Petcore Europe Conference 2018 - Trends in PET Collection, Recycling & Sustainability

Day 2: Wednesday, 8 February 2018, BLUEPOINT Business Centre

09:00 - 10:00 Registration & Welcome Coffee
10:00 - 11:15

European Circular Economy

  • Plastics Strategy
    - European Commission, DG GROW, tbc
     
  • New Plastics Economy
    - Sander Defruyt, Project Manager, New Plastics Economy, Ellen MacArthur Foundation
11:15 - 12:45

Trends & solutions in PET post-consumer collection

  • Holy Grail - global recognition project on markers and digital watermarks
    - Gian de Belder, Principal Scientist, Procter & Gamble
     
  • Deposit versus Non-Deposit
    - Clarissa Morawski, Managing Director, Reloop
     
  • View from an eco-agency
    - CITEO
12:45 - 13:45 Networking Lunch
13:45 - 18:00

Trends & solutions in PET post-consumer recycling

  • Design for Recycling: Ecodesign, EPBP, Recyclass  

    • Antonino Furfari, Managing Director, Plastics Recyclers Europe (PRE)

  • Current challenges & opportunities for PET recycling

    • Developments in the recycling of PET thermoforms
      - François Lagrue, Plant Manager, WELLMAN France Recyclage
       
    • Opaque & difficult to recycle PET - injection molding in the automotive industry
      - Jean Luc Lavergne, President, Lavergne Group
       
    • Labels
      - An Vossen, Executive Manager, PLARABEL / EPRO (European Association of Plastics Recycling and Recovery Organisations)
       
    • Engineered Polymers
      - DuPont

  • Chemical Recycling

    • Current worldwide state of PET chemical recycling
      - Wim Hoenderdaal, Technical Marketing Manager, Indorama Ventures Europe
       
    • Enzymes to rethink the lifecycle of plastics
      - Martin Stephan, Deputy CEO, CARBIOS
       
    • DEMETO - modular, scalable and high-performance DE-polymerization by MicrowavE TechnolOgy
      - Maurizio Crippa, CEO, gr3n
  Conclusion & Closing


 



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