Sustainable Plastics Packaging Programme
Thursday 3 December 2009
08.15 Registration & refreshments
09.00 Chairman’s opening remarks
09.10 Sustainability strategies in the recession
· Sustainability programmes – can these be maintained when times are tough?
· Practical examples of the financial as well as environmental benefits arising from specific plastics packaging programmes
· Creating new markets
o how sustainable strategies open up new sectors – just at the right time – supporting economic recovery and employment
Dr. George Kellie
Director, Microflex Technologies Ltd
09.30 Designers and packaging technology: Working together for inspiring sustainable packaging
· Understanding end consumer needs, concerns and expectations
· Meeting brand objectives and priorities
· How designers can work with the packaging supply chains
· Radical or evolutionary – opportunities for more sustainable packaging
Dorothy Mackenzie
Chairman, Dragon Rouge Limited
Mike Cook
Cook Business Consulting
09.50 Packaging: Problem or solution? The complexity of sustainable packaging
· Realistic environmental context in which we are doing business
· Benefits of eco-design in packaging
· Key strategies to reduce packaging impact
Mark Shayler
Managing Director, eco3
10.10 Brand owner perspective
Sustainabiligy strategy: Consumer demand for sustainable packaging
· Our packaging and sustainability strategy
Philippe Roulet
Head of Global Packaging Materials & Training, Nestlé
10.30 Questions and answers
10.45 Break
11.05 Closing the loop on packaging waste
· An introduction to Closed Loop Recycling
· Plastic bottle waste in the UK
· Production of food-grade plastic from bottle waste
· Packaging design challenges and design for recycling
Chris Dow
Managing Director, Closed Loop Recycling
11.25 Expanded PLA (E-PLA) biopolymer foam: A viable eco-friendly alternative to expanded
polystyrene (EPS)
· Developing a viable process to manufacture low density PLA foam products with environmentally friendly blowing agents
· ‘Drop-in’ technology for expanded polystyrene (EPS) moulding
· Mechanical and thermal properties comparable to EPS
Samir Shah
Scientist, Biopolymer Network/Scion
11.45 Implications of using components directly coming from nature such as starch and flour for sustainability, applicability and costs of packaging products
· Starch-based plastics
· Products and applications
· Review
· Current developments and preview
Dr. Jeroen van Soest
Manager Innovations Non-Food Applications, Meneba BV
12.05 Crush Pak – Designing for sustainability
· What is Crush Pak? – The success story to date
· Designing for sustainability
· The future of form fill seal packs
Edward Scott
Senior Vice President, EverEdgeIP Limited
12.25 Questions and answers
12.40 Lunch
14.00 Practical recycling of post consumer HDPE back to food use
· Background review: UK dairy roadmap, collection of bottles, competing markets
· Process review: Creating a recycling process that works, problems & key process parameters, challenge testing
· Quality & testing: Methods of laboratory testing to meet legislative requirement (GC and Electronic Nose)
· The future: Increasing recycled content, developing new markets and food grade PP
James Donaldson
Managing Director, Greenstar WES
14.20 Modification of recycled PET for food applications
· Improvement in carbon footprint of rPET packaging
· Use of a plasma process to deposit active nano-coatings onto rPET packaging
· Improvement in heat sealing performance of rPET trays treated using plasma process
John Cullen
Managing Director, Holfeld Plastics Ltd
14.40 Using LCA to improve an organisation’s sustainable performance
· Introduction to LCA: strengths and weaknesses
· Using LCA on a manufacturing process: benchmarking and actions for improvement
· The LCA process in action: a practical demonstration
· Using LCA externally: making the right product choices
Andy Sweetman
Global Marketing Manager – Sustainable Technologies, Innovia Films
15.00 Questions & answers
15.15 Break
15.40 Retailers view of sustainable plastics packaging
· Different sustainability concepts for different retailers
· Reduce: foaming as privileged step towards sustainability
· Re-cycle and re-use: the rPET way
· Naturalbox: 100% biodegradable solutions for WRAPPED and M.A.P. case-ready meat
Antonio Terzoni
Marketing Manager, Coopbox Group SpA-Italy
16.00 The European Shopping Basket: Implications for plastics as part of the packaging mix
o Introducing the shopping basket project
o What packaging is in the shopping baskets of European consumers?
o Trends in packaging usage – materials, types, designs
o Key packaging values
o Future implications for plastics as part of the packaging mix
Kennert Johansson
Director Packaging, Media and Materials, Innventia AB
16.20 Sustainable Plastics Packaging
Mark Vergouwen, EU Director, NatureWorks
16.40 Questions & answers
17.00 Close of conference