Agenda

  • Tuesday, June 19, 2012
  • 4:00 PM  -  6:30 PM
    Registration
    6:30 PM  -  9:30 PM
    Welcome Reception
  • Wednesday, June 20, 2012
  • 8:30 AM  -  8:35 AM
    Welcome
    Lyn Tattum, Senior Director, IHS
    Peter Mapleston, Program Development Manager, SPF, IHS
    8:35 AM  -  10:30 AM
    Global Reviews: Film / Sheet
    • Global supply & demand in polymers for film
      IHS — Andrea Borruso, Director, EMEA Studies - Chemical Industry Research and Analysis
    • Just How Renewable Can Polymer Films Become?
      IHS Business Advisory Services — Mark Morgan, Global Managing Director Renewables
    • Fluoropolymer films and applications - general overview
      Dyneon— Sebastian Zehentmaier, Specialist Application & Product Development

    Roundtable Discussion with the Experts
    9:55 AM  -  10:25 AM
    Q&A
    10:30 AM  -  11:00 AM
    Coffee Break
    10:55 AM  -  12:55 PM
    Specialities in Film, Foil, and Sheet
    • Adding value to performance films - cost efficient technology for in-line conversion of films into honeycomb boards
      EconCore— Tomasz Czarnecki, Technology Manager
    • Makrofol polycarbonate films — enabling design & function
      Bayer MaterialScience — Dirk Pophusen, Head of Business Development, Functional Films / Marketing EMEA/LA
    • A new generation of high strength polymeric foils with outstanding barrier properties, by advanced melt extrusion
      Taenia Tec — Jan Giesbrecht, CEO
    • ETFE films in architecture and industrial applications
      Nowofol Kunststoffprodukte — Robert Hodann, Chief Executive

    Roundtable Discussion with the Experts
    12:15 PM  -  12:45 PM
    Q&A
    12:55 PM  -  1:55 PM
    Lunch
    1:55 PM  -  4:15 PM
    Polymers and Additives for Film, Extrusion Coating
    • The use of polybutene-1 based products in innovative performance film applications 
      LyondellBasell — Stefano Pasquali, Marketing Manager, Specialties
    • New Plexar Tie-Layer Technologies for Flexible Packaging Innovations
      LyondellBasell — Dr. Maged Botros, Technical & Market Development Leader
    • High performance additives for films
      BASF — Wiebke Wunderlich, Application Specialist, Technical Center Specialty Polymers
    • Enhance the performance of your multilayer films with the use of functional additive masterbatches
      A. Schulman Plastics — Jean Laus, Product Manager Additives EMEA

    Roundtable Discussion with the Experts
    3:15 PM  -  3:45 PM
    Q&A
    3:45 PM  -  4:15 PM
    Coffee Break
    4:15 PM  -  5:55 PM
    Styrenics, Soluble Polymers
    • Styrene block copolymers for packaging application
      Styrolution GmbH  — Andrea Colombo, Business Development SBC - Styrenics Specialties EMEA
    • Using specific product properties for specialty labelling, printing and packaging applications with thin-gauge OPS- and PLA- films
      Sidaplax Specialty Films — Martin DeBaets, Sales & Marketing Manager
    • Multi-touch roll stack for high-speed extrusion
      Battenfeld-Cincinnati — Peter Rieg, Regional Sales Manager, Packaging (invited)
    • Innovations in water soluble delivery systems
      MonoSol — Sumeet Kumar, Senior Manager, Technical Marketing

    Roundtable Discussion with the Experts
    • Including: Kraft Foods UK R&D Limited— David Maxwell, Senior Associate Principal Technologist, Global Chocolate Packaging R&D
    6:30 PM  -  8:30 PM
    Reception
  • Thursday, June 21, 2012
  • 8:30 AM  -  10:40 AM
    Coextrusion and Barrier Resins, Technologies and Applications
    • G-Polymer, a biodegradable gas barrier material
      Nippon Gohsei — Takuya Sugimoto, Director, Global Marketing and Sales, Advanced Polymers
    • Enabling barrier packaging through effective interlayer adhesion
      Dow Europe GmbH — Dr. Eva-Maria Kupsch, Performance Plastics TS&D
    • High performance adhesive and peel polymers for food packaging
      DuPont de Nemours Intl — Karlheinz Hausmann, Global Sustainability Technology Leader, Packaging and Industrial Polymers Business Unit
    • A new permeation cell for testing oxygen transmission rate
      Fraunhofer Institute for Process Technology & Packaging — Sven Sängerlaub, Materials Development

    Roundtable Discussion with the Experts
    10:10 AM  -  10:40 AM
    Q&A
    10:40 AM  -  11:10 AM
    Coffee Break
    11:10 AM  -  12:50 PM
    PVC in Films and Sheet Applications

    • Rigid PVC-Films — available for all applications
      Klöckner Pentaplast — Günther Deiringer, Director, Technology, Specialities
    • "VinylPlus, the new 10 year sustainability program of the PVC value chain"
      VinylPlus — Stefan Eingärtner
    • Graft-Copolymers and Copolymers as Additives in PVC-Films
      Vinnolit — Peter Attenberger, Head of Technical Service Thermoplastics
    Roundtable Discussion with the Experts
    12:10 PM  -  12:50 PM
    Q&A
    12:50 PM  -  2:00 PM
    Lunch
    2:00 PM  -  4:00 PM
    Bioplastics and Environmental Issues
    • Ingeo PLA based films overview; state of the art and latest developments
      NatureWorks — Stefano Cavallo, Business Development Manager
    • Nanocellulose films and applications - recent achievements
      VTT Technical Research Centre, Finland — Jari Vartiainen, Senior Scientist
    • Biodegradable blends for compostable bags and mulch film
      Showa Denko — Hideharu Kimura, Senior Researcher, Bionolle Dept
    • Efficiency Improvements for Film Manufacturers through New Extrusion Technology
      Gneuss — Andrew Prangnell, Area Manager, Technical Sales

    Roundtable Discussion with the Experts
    • Including: Kraft Foods UK R&D Limited— David Maxwell, Senior Associate Principal Technologist, Global Chocolate Packaging R&D
    3:20 PM  -  3:50 PM
    Q&A
    3:50 PM  -  4:00 PM
    Closing Remarks
    4:00 PM  -  4:40 PM
    Networking Coffee Hour
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