| 8:30 |
Registration and Refreshments
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| 9:30 |
Chairman’s Opening Remarks and Overview on the Renewable Plastics Industry
Dr John Williams, Head of Materials for Energy and Industry, NNFCC, York
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| 10:00 |
Renewable Plastics in the Polyolefin Industry: How to Approach Commodity Markets
Dr Maria Soliman, Development & Innovation, SABIC, STC Geleen
Dr Rolf Scherrenberg, SABIC, STC Geleen
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| 10:30 |
Cascade Usage: Sustainable Disposal Options for Bioplastics
Ann-Sophie Kitzler, Graduate Assistant, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hanover, Biopolymer Institute – Institute for Bioplastics and Biocomposites
Prof. Hans Joseph Endres, Professor, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hanover, Biopolymer Institute – Institute for Bioplastics and Biocomposites
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| 11:00 |
Morning Refreshments
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| 11:30 |
PHA, Bioplastics, Linking Academic Research with Industrial Requirements
Dr Anna Salerno, Senior Researcher, Graz University of Technology
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| 12:00 |
Optimum FlourPlast
Jeroen van Soest, Manager Innovations & Non Food Applications, Optimum Bioplastics
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| 12:30 |
Panel Session
Discussion covering the morning’s topics and presentations.
Participants: John Williams, Maria Soliman, Ralph Scherrenberg, Ann-Sophie Kitzler, Hans Joseph Endres
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| 13:00 |
Lunch
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| 14:00 |
Specifics of Melt Handling & Pelletizing Renewable Plastics
Dr Horst Mueller, Manager IP, Technical Standards & Documentation, Automatik Plastics Machinery GmbH
Frank Gloeckner, Head of Process Engineering, Automatik Plastics Machinery GmbH
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| 14:30 |
Renewable Plastics from Waste
Robbert Kleerebezam, Delft University of Technology
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| 15:00 |
X-RPET a technology to Recycle and Reduce packing weight
Daniel Ganz, Business Development Manager, Sukano AG
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| 15:30 |
Afternoon Refreshments
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| 16:00 |
Talc in Green Plastics
Caroline Abler, Technical Engineer – Polymers, Imerys Talc
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| 16:30 |
Panel Session
Discussion covering the day’s topics and presentations.
Participants: John Williams, Maria Soliman, Ralph Scherrenberg, Ann-Sophie Kitzler, Hans Joseph Endres, Horst Mueller, Frank Gloeckner, Robbert Kleerebezam, Daniel Ganz and Simon Boxall
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| 17:30 |
Networking Drinks Reception
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