Conference Programme
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| Wednesday | MARCH 30th 2022 | ||
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| FUNDAMENTALS OF THERMOFORMING Training Course for Thin and Thick Gauge Location: Hilton Vienna Park, Austria | OPTIONAL (training course needs to booked separately) | ||
| 09:30 | Heavy Gauge Wolfgang Daum | ||
| 12:30 | Lunch break | ||
| 13:30 - 18:00 | Thin Gauge Mark Strachan | ||
| EVENING | |||
| 18:30 - 19:30 | Conference Registration | ||
| 19:00 - 20:30 | Welcome Reception A warm welcome to friends and colleagues | ||
| THURSDAY | MARCH 31ST 2022 | ||
| 08:30 | Conference Registration | ||
| GENERAL SESSION | |||
| Moderator: | Ken Braney (United Kingdom) | ||
| 09:00 | Welcome to Vienna, Austria - Conference Introductions & Welcome Ken Braney (UK), Chair ETD 2021-2022 | ||
| 09:10 | Importance of Plastics Packaging Marek Nikiforov, (Czech Rep), ETD | ||
| 09:20 | Sustainability - From PS to PET . . .and beyond plastic! Laurent Benoit-Maréchal (France) Group Performance Manager, DANONE | ||
| 10:00 | Challenges of the future mobility and their impacts on Polymers Gérard Liraut (France), Expert Leader Polymers RENAULT – NISSAN - MITSUBISHI | ||
| 10:40 | Coffee break | ||
| Moderator: | Marek Nikiforov (Czech Republic) | ||
| 11:00 | Confronting plastic bashing – How can we make the case for the environmental performances of thermoformers? Sébastien Petithuguenin (France), PAPREC Group | ||
| 11:30 | Circular Economy – A big step forward in China with European technology Gerald Ausweger (Austria), SML Frédéric Durand (France), TOMRA Sorting Christoph Wöss (Austria), EREMA Olaf Tanner (Germany), KIEFEL Frederic Blanchard (France) SOREMA / PREVIERO | ||
| 12:15 | Lunch break | ||
| HEAVY GAUGE SESSION | THIN GAUGE SESSION | ||
| Moderator: | Ken Braney (United Kingdom) | Moderator: | Marek Nikiforov (Czech Republic) |
| 13:30 | Innovative mass production application of thermoforming parts for electric vehicles Johannes Rosenberger (Germany), PARAT | 13:30 | CPET light: Transparent and temperature-resistant up to 100°C Alessandra Funcia (Switzerland), SUKANO |
| 14:00 | Sea-Doo - When fun meets Thermoforming: High tech thermoforming technology for high performance recreation product Claudio Bottos (Italy), SELF Kitty Beijer (Netherlands), SENOPLAST | 14:00 | THE HOLYGRAIL 2.0 PROJECT – how to improve mechanical recycling? Nicolas Lorenz (Germany), PACCOR, Nico Van de Walle (Belgium), VERSTRAETE-IML |
| 14:30 | Conformal cooling: a breakthrough in mold-making Alban Agazzi (France), INNOVATION PLASTICS COMPOSITES | 14:30 | New Process Design Guide for Packaging Christina Busk (Denmark) DANISH PLASTICS FEDERATION |
| 14:50 | Coffee break | 15:00 | Coffee break |
| 15:10 | Vacuum forming and recreational vehicle issues Olivier Marduel, (France) TRIGANO VDL | 15:20 | 4PET NL – Recycling of post consumer PET thermoformed packaging in reality Thomas Bak Thellesen (Denmark), FAERCH |
| 15:40 | Thermoformed PP liners for refrigerators Gilda de Luca, (Italy), ELECTROLUX | 15:45 | Thin Gauge Session (Sponsors' Presentations) |
| 16:10 | Kepstan: new innovative way of deep draw thermoforming Pierre Gonnetan (France) ARKEMA Alexandre Delemazure (USA) WESTLAKE PLASTICS Olivier Rodary (France) PLASTIFORM | ILLIG: "Innovative rim-rolling solutions" KIEFEL: "The new machine generation" KILDE: "Flexible thermoform automation solutions" LUNDBERG: "Highlights in grinding" MARBACH: "Tooling with Connect/M Tool-Monitoring-Module" OMV: "OMV's Tech Center - a fully comprehensive chance to test and/or qualify your products" |
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| 16:35 | END | 16:45 | END |
| 18:30 | Departure for Dinner at MAK - Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna | ||
| 19:00 | Conference Dinner and Sponsors awarding | ||
| FRIDAY | APRIL 1ST 2022 | ||
| 08:30 | Opening | ||
| 08:30 | HEAVY Gauge Session (Sponsors presentations) | THIN Gauge Session (Sponsors presentations) |
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| Moderator: | Ken Braney | Moderator: | Reinhold Plot |
| 08:30 - 10:30 | BRETT MARTIN: "We are BRETT MARTIN" CMS: "ThermoProphet: smart solution for a full heating process control in heavy-gauge thermoforming" COMI: "The Laborforma thermoforming machines" GEISS: "Again, one step ahead" PRIMEX: "Possibilities for a carbon neutral HDPE supply chain" SEKISUI: "Through sustainability initiatives and recycling, plastics are a sustainable solution" SELF GROUP: "Aluminium moulds: Engineering and manufacturing" SENOPLAST: "Update on new products" SPARTECH: "New Products Market Diversity: Advances in Materials from ground to Sky" TRINSEO: Presentation | 08:30 - 10:30 | BANDERA: "100% Recyclate to 100% Recyclable" BATTENFELD-CINCINNATI: "The star-extruder: a reliable approach for A-PET recycling" CGP EUROPE: "Optiform Plug, No Dust" CMG-AMP: " highest operation performance- at the lowest TCO" CMT: "HYTAC Plug Materials: Creating form by function" DTC DOBRINGER: "Online Thermoforming Academy by DTC" EREMA: "EREMA’s way of converting post consumer material into circularity" MILLIKEN: "Performance additives helping thermoformed packaging to close the loop" RHOMBUS: "Know your Factory" STARLINGER: " rPET100: heat resistant and fully recyclable material" |
| 10:30 | Coffee break | 10:30 | Coffee break |
| GENERAL SESSION (more thin than heavy) | |||
| Moderator: | Hubert Kittelmann | ||
| 10:45 | Investigation into the validation of T-SIM for use in Aerospace Andrew Ferguson (U.K.), COLLINS AEROSPACE / Edinburgh Napier University | ||
| 11:10 | Packaging and sustainability: a retailer's view Denise Mathieson (UK), Technical Packaging Manager, TESCO, U.K | ||
| 11:35 | Recycling of plastics, what’s next? Bernard Merkx (Belgium), GreenWavePlastics | ||
| 12:00 | Unlocking the full Circularity of Polystyrene Julien Renvoisé (Switzerland), TRINSEO Europe | ||
| 12:25 | Impact of EU plastic waste directive - case study Marco Omboni (Italy), ProMo – ProFood | ||
| 12:50 | Lunch break | ||
| Moderator: | Sven Engelmann | ||
| 14:00 | Thermoforming of rPET and rPP Thorsten Weber (Germany), Der Grüne Punkt Duales System Deutschland | ||
| 14:20 | Upcycling rPET: from A to C Alessandra Funcia (Switzerland), Sukano Carl-Jürgen Wefelmeier (Germany), Gneuss Andreas Raisch (Germany), Illig | ||
| 14:40 | Renewable solutions to reduce crude oil dependency and to tackle climate change Martin Bussmann (Germany), Nestle | ||
| 15:00 | Microthermoforming – enhancing Blister technology Philip Koch (Germany), HAHN-SCHICKARD | ||
| 15:20 | Advanced Technologies for high heat Ingeo applications Dr. Nemat Hossieny / Peter Vollmann, NatureWorks LLC, USA | ||
| 15:40 | Closing remarks by Ken Braney (UK) ETD Chair 2021-22 Michel Py (France), ETD Chair 2022-24 | ||
| 15:50 | Drinks and iPad raffle |