European Biopolymer Summit

• Paul Foulkes-Arellano, Founder, Circuthon Consulting
• Albin Kälin, Founder and CEO, EPEA Switzerland GmbH
• Alberto Castellanza, Managing Director, Novamont GmbH
• Lars Börger, Vice President Renewable Polymers & Chemicals, Neste
• Jasmin Brinkmann, Senior System Manager Sustainability, ISCC (International Sustainability and Carbon Certification)
• René Saint-Loup, Performance Materials & Cosmetic ingredients Technical Team Manager, Roquette
• Amparo Verdú Solís, Head of Novel Materials Formulation Unit, ITENE
• Brendan Hill, Sustainable Market Development & Sales, Braskem
• Philippe Willems, Co-Founder and Director, Orineo
• Kenneth Van den Hoonaard, Senior Product Specialist, BEWI
• Eleonora Pasetti, EU Policy Manager, Plastics Europe
• Lucy Cowton, Sustainability Manager, Futamura
• Luis Enriquez, Applications Manager – Bioplastics, & Myriam Moeyersons, Business Development Manager EMEA, Ingevity
• David Newman, Managing Director, BBIA
• Sophie Macedo, Business & Alliances Director, Carbios
• Bert Clymans, Senior Business Development Manager Europe, TotalEnergies Corbion
• Dirk den Ouden, VP of Emerging Business & Circular Chemicals, Stora Enso
• Dimitris Vgenopoulos, Market Applications Specialist for Smart Material, Cargill
• Piergiovanni Ercoli Malacari, Product and Application Development, IMI Fabi SpA

• Biopolymers Market Overview
• The Latest Innovations in the Biopolymer Industry
• Increasing the Availability of Biopolymers
• Exploring the Feedstocks Industry
• Regulation affecting the Biopolymer Industry
• The Future of the Biopolymer Industry
• Biopolymers’ Place in the Circular Economy
• Biopolymers’ Role in Reducing Plastic Pollution
• Compostable Packaging in a Circular Economy
• Enzymatic Technologies to Improve Biorecycling & Biodegradation
• Exploring End-of-Life Possibilities for Biopolymer Waste

• Biopolymer Producers
• Consultants
• Heads of Sustainability, Packaging, Environmental Affairs and Innovation
• Brand Owners
• Retailers
• Regulatory and Policy Officers
• Recycling Plant Owners
• Technology Providers
• Director of R&D
• Director of Materials & Manufacturing Advanced Programs
• Advanced Manufacturing
• Engineering
• VP Technology
• Sales and Marketing Director

If you would like to be considered as a speaker for the event with a 30-45 minute presentation, please submit an abstract for consideration to:

Beth Young

Tel: +44 (0)20 3141 0613

Email: [email protected]

The Scottish Plastics and Rubber Association is the trade association for the Plastic and Rubber industry in Scotland and provides technical and business meetings, seminars, newsletters and a website.  The SPRA also organises social functions for members away from the stresses of the workplace.  Members are encouraged to engage in Continuing Professional Development (CPD), to participate in the activities of the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining (IOM3) and form links with other groups with similar interests.

Link – https://www.spra.org.uk/

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A recognised, bioplastics MAGAZINE, has been magazine exclusively to plastics from renewable resources and/or biodegradable plastics since 2006. bioplastics MAGAZINE, including the web-based daily news, the biweekly newsletter and the smartphone/tablet app, has now grown into the premier information platform for bioplastics worldwide. bioplastics MAGAZINE is complemented by books and a series of unique, professional conferences, published and organised by Polymedia Publisher GmbH.

Link – https://www.bioplasticsmagazine.com/en/event-calendar/

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Fecc is the voice of the Chemical Distribution Industry in Europe. With a growing membership of companies and national associations, Fecc represents around 1,600 companies of which many are small and medium sized companies (SMEs). Fecc and its members contribute to innovation and sustainability besides adding value in the supply chain, by sourcing, developing, marketing, and distributing a wide range of specialty chemicals and ingredients to over one million downstream users ranging from automotive, electronics, paint, construction to pharmaceutical, cosmetics, food and nutrition industries, each with their own specialised needs. The Chemical distribution industry in Europe employs more than 30,000 people and has an annual sales leverage of approximately €28 billion.

https://www.fecc.org/

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Our exposure to micro and nano-plastic particles may result from the widespread use of plastic products and their release into the environment, where they degrade and enter our food chains, air, and water.

PlasticsFatE (Plastics Fate and Effects in the human body) is creating a comprehensive measurement programme to improve our present understanding of the impact of these particles and associated contaminants in the human body. This will inform a risk assessment strategy to support the health-relevant aims of the EU strategies for plastics. PlasticsFatE is a 48-month project funded by the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme of the European Union. The project will run from 1st April 2021 to 31st March 2025.

Find out more:

Visit www.plasticsfate.eu

Follow us on twitter https://twitter.com/plasticsfate

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The Green Chemicals Blog first appeared on 8th November 2007 as part of the ICIS blog community and successfully expanded until publication was interrupted for a month from July to August 2012 as the blog left the ICIS platform and continued as a non-corporate private entity dedicated to covering the business of sustainability within the chemicals and materials markets and o provide data and analytics to global forestry, petrochemicals and renewable carbon markets.

https://greenchemicalsblog.com/

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Tecnon OrbiChem provides independent, third-party, expert assistance to chemicals producers and consumers, financial institutions and government agencies on projects and strategic issues. Our Individual Project Studies team advises customers on planning, marketing and market development, product diversification, mergers and acquisitions or divestments.

https://www.orbichem.com/

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Packaging Herald is a B2B bimonthly magazine about packaging news and trends, which provides practical tips and in­novation insights for daily business. It creates communication and an infor­mation exchange platform for all participating parties that deal with packaging and related services.

http://en.packagingherald.cz/

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Chemical Industry Digest India’s leading chemical and engineering monthly is read by engineers, scientists and technical personnel from top management to plant levels. Industry coverage: oil & gas, refineries, petrochemicals, fertilizers and other agrochemicals to all downstream like drugs & pharma, other fine chemicals, colorants etc apart from EPC & equipment companies.

Features articles and write-ups on current developments, state – of – the – art technologies, process improvements, equipment design and operation, chemical plant engineering and operations, maintenance, energy management, environment and safety. Additionally, there are news features, company and people profiles, interviews, in fact a diversity of features making the journal very interesting and readable. Mini directories of manufacturers of various process equipment and providers of services are published regularly which facilitates sourcing.

https://chemindigest.com/ 

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Wood pellets Ukrainian Biofuel Portal – is a specialized B2B platform on biomass and biofuel trade representing extensive base of suppliers and manufactures. Find reliable biofuel traders.

Ukrainian Biofuel Portal carries out mission of a consulting, project management partner, providing professional informational business-to-business service in alternative energy and power supply.

The marketers of Ukrainian Biofuel Portal try their best to find reliable partners from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.

https://pellets-wood.com/

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NobleNet^SM is the world’s premier professional network designed exclusively for the STEM sector; Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and related markets. Join us for fast, free networking, highly relevant sector content and great sourcing opportunities. We are growing strongly and warmly welcome anyone with interests in these markets, across all levels, from students to CEOs. Basic membership is free.

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Plastech is the largest and most popular information and business platform designed for plastics and packaging industry. Since its foundation in 2002, the Plastech business platform has continuously grown as a branch media player.  Plastech – being a branch Internet vortal, is continuously evolving as a business platform. However, the general idea of a free-access business platform operated by specialists and targeting the wide plastics and packaging industry public is not going to change.

https://www.plastech.pl/

Ingevity provides products and technologies that purify, protect and enhance the world around us. Through a team of talented and experienced people, we develop, manufacture and bring to market solutions that help customers solve complex problems and make the world more sustainable. Ingevity is the world leader in Capa® caprolactone technology and innovation, with a 40-year history of enhancing performance in a wide variety of end-use products. Ingevity supplies Capa products to multiple markets, often helping compounders and converters produce safer, more sustainable and higher performing products for their customers. Specific to bioplastics, Ingevity’s Capa thermoplastic technology improves performance and biodegradability of single-use plastics.

www.ingevity.com

Established in 2011 by Truffle Capital, Carbios is a green chemistry company, developing biological and innovative processes.

Through its unique approach of combining enzymes and plastics, Carbios aims to address new consumer expectations and the challenges of a broad ecological transition by taking up a major challenge of our time: plastic and textile pollution. Carbios deconstructs any type of PET (the dominant polymer in bottles, trays, textiles made of polyester) into its basic components which can then be reused to produce new PET plastics with equivalent quality to virgin ones. This PET innovation, the first of its kind in the world, was recently recognized in a scientific paper published in front cover of the prestigious journal Nature.

The Company has also developed an enzymatic biodegradation technology for PLA-based (a bio sourced polymer) single-use plastics. This technology can create a new generation of plastics that are 100% compostable at ambient temperatures, integrating enzymes at the heart of the plastic product. For more information,

Please visit carbios.com/en

Cargill is a privately-owned company that is committed to providing food, ingredients and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way. Sitting at the heart of the supply chain, Cargill partners with suppliers and customers to source, produce and deliver products that really matter.

Cargill’s Polymer Additives division offers a diverse portfolio of specialty polymer additives that enhances the performance of polymers in a more sustainable manner. Since the acquisition of the majority of Croda’s Performance Technologies and Industrial Chemicals business, the future of world leading Crodamide™ and Incroslip™ slip and anti-block additives, and  Atmer™ and Ionphase™ high-performance anti-stats is now at Cargill.

Combining over 50 years of expertise in the manufacturing of amides with a strong commitment to continuous process optimization and growth investments, will increase the security of global supply.

Sustainable innovation remains a key focus in order to serve the polymer market with greater performance and higher quality solutions than ever before. At the European Biopolymer Summit Dimitris Vgenopoulos, Market Applications Specialist, will introduce the specialty effects for biopolymers offered by Cargill’s polymer additives.

https://www.cargill.com/

IMI Fabi  is a leading company in the production of talc functional minerals offering a wide range of high-quality products at a competitive price and on a global scale. Established in the 50’s in Valmalenco (SO)-Italy, IMI Fabi expanded a lot over the last two decades, through many strategic choices aimed at developing a policy of growth and investment. The operating network of IMI Fabi produces and distributes industrial talc products of high quality, provides a comprehensive and reliable service, doing business with different typologies of customers (e.g.: plastic, paper, paints fillers, animal feed, building coatings, coatings ceramic, pharmacopeia etc.). The company success stems from the commitment in sustainable value creation, from strategic investment policy together with the promotion of a culture aiming at providing innovative industrial solutions.

IMI Fabi is glad to announce its participation to  “The European Biopolymers Summit 2023”.  In this occasion, our speaker Eng.  Piergiovanni Ercoli Malacari will showcase new solutions for compostable biopolymers modification together with a wide offer intended to fulfil the stingiest requirements in lightweighting industry, like in automotive and other high end industrial applications. IMI Fabi will also display several products intended to polymer recycling industry,  that can offer better performances thanks to the property of talc to modify resins.

www.imifabi.com

ACI has put together a range of packages to suit your requirements. These range from branding options, to full scale partner solutions and can be tailored to meet your objectives and budgets.

If you are launching a new product or service and wish to gain visibility and brand recognition within your industry, contact us today!

For commercial opportunities, please contact:

Venkat Paramasivam

Tel: +44 20 3141 0620

Email: [email protected]

At the event we strive not only to bring you to the same location at the same time as your customers/suppliers/peers, we strive to ensure you meet face-to-face with each and every one of your target contacts and to provide you with the time you need to have multiple unhurried conversations with them and build a lasting business relationship:

• A pre-event informal introduction the evening before the conference
• A minimum of five hours’ networking built into the two day conference agenda
• A networking grid which enables you to make your target contacts aware you are looking for them
• The option to join either social drinks or dinner during the evening of Day One
• ACI’s on-site team will assist you in locating your hard-to-find target contacts & make face-to-face introductions

Of course, if there is anybody you are unable to meet over the two days, ACI’s event team will do their best to initiate contact after the event.