Conference Programme
The conference language is English.
Depending on number of attendees from France, requesting for translation, simultaneous translation from English into French will be provided.
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| Wednesday | MARCH 3rd 2021 | ||
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| FUNDAMENTALS OF THERMOFORMING Training Course for Thin and Thick Gauge Location: Hilton Hotel Geneva | OPTIONAL (training course needs to booked separately) | ||
| 09:30 | Heavy Gauge Wolfgang Daum | ||
| 12:30 | Lunch | ||
| 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 4th 2021 | ||
| 08:30 | Conference Registration | ||
| GENERAL SESSION | |||
| Moderator: | Antonio Staffoni (Italy) | ||
| 09:00 | Welcome to Geneva, Switzerland - Conference Introductions & Welcome Antonio Staffoni (Italy), Chair ETD 2018-20 | ||
| 09:15 | Sustainability - From PS to PET . . .and beyond plastic! Laurent Benoit-Maréchal (France) Group Performance Manager, DANONE | ||
| 09:55 | 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) | ||
| 11:25 | Importance of Plastics Packaging: create value, not waste Marek Nikiforov (Czech Rep.), ETD | ||
| 11:40 | Confronting plastic bashing – How can we make the case for the environmental performances of thermoformers? Sébastien Petithuguenin (France), PAPREC Group | ||
| 12:10 | Circular Economy – A big step forward in China with European technology Gerald Ausweger (Austria), SML Frédéric Durand (France), TOMRA Christoph Wöss (Austria), EREMA Olaf Tanner (Germany), KIEFEL Frederic Blanchard (France) SOREMA / PREVIERO | ||
| 13:10 | Lunch | ||
| HEAVY GAUGE SESSION | THIN GAUGE SESSION | ||
| Moderator: | Ken Braney (United Kingdom) | Moderator: | Marek Nikiforov (Czech Republic) |
| 14:30 | Innovative mass production application of thermoforming parts for electric vehicles Johannes Rosenberger (Germany), PARAT | 14:30 | How to put sustainability, the Circular economy and design innovation at the heart of a thermoforming business Justin Kempson (U. K.), CHARPAK |
| 15:00 | Sea-Doo - When fun meets Thermoforming: High tech thermoforming technology for high performance recreation product Claudio Bottos (Italy), SELF Kitty Beijer (Netherlands), SENOPLAST | 14:50 | THE HOLYGRAIL 2.0 PROJECT – how to improve mechanical recycling? Nicolas Lorenz (Germany), PACCOR, Nico Van de Walle (Belgium), Verstraete-IML |
| 15:30 | Conformal cooling: a breakthrough in mold-making Alban Agazzi (France), Innovation Plastics Composites | 15:20 | Newly Process Design Guide for Packaging Christina Busk (Denmark) DANISH PLASTICS FEDERATION |
| 15:35 | Circularity in food packaging Thomas Bak Thellesen (Denmark), FAERCH |
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| 15:50 | Coffee-Break | 15:50 | Coffee-Break |
| Moderator: | Michel Py (France) Thin Gauge Session (Sponsors presentations - 16:20 - 17:35) | Moderator: | Thierry d’Allard (France) |
| ILLIG – Innovative rim-rolling solutions | 16:20 | Vacuum forming and recreational vehicle issues Jean Bernard Boulet (France), TRIGANO VDL |
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| MARBACH - Tooling with Connect/M Tool-Monitoring-Module | 16:50 | PP based compound for the thermoforming process of refrigerator inner and door liners Gilda De Luca (Italy), ELECTROLUX |
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| KILDE – Flexible thermoform Automation solutions | 17:20 | Kepstan: new innovative way of deep draw thermoforming Pierre Gonnetan (France), Arkema Alexandre Delemazure (USA), Westlake Plastics Olivier Rodary (France), Plastiform |
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| KIEFEL – The new machine generation | |||
| RHOMBUS – Know your Factory | |||
| LUNDBERG – Highlights in grinding | |||
| 18:30 | Departure for Dinner at Four Seasons Hotel des Bergues | ||
| 19:00 | Conference Dinner and Sponsors awarding | ||
| FRIDAY | March 5th 2021 | ||
| 08:30 | Opening | ||
| 08:45 | HEAVY Gauge Session (Sponsors presentations) | THIN Gauge Session (Sponsors presentations) |
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| Moderator: | Ken Braney | Moderator: | Antonio Staffoni |
| 08:45 - 10:45 | - We are BRETT MARTIN - COMI - The Laborforma thermoforming machines - 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 - SELF GROUP - Aluminium moulds: Engineering and manufacturing - SEKISUI - Through sustainability initiatives and recycling, plastics are a sustainable solution - SENOPLAST - Update on new products -SPARTECH - New Products Market Diversity: Advances in Materials from ground to Sky - COLLINS AEROSPACE - Investigation into the validation of T-SIM for use in Aerospace Andrew Ferguson (U.K.), Collins Aerospace / Edinburgh Napier University | 08:45 - 10:45 | - BANDERA - 100% Recyclate to 100% Recyclable - BATTENFELD-CINCINNATI - The star-extruder: a reliable approach for A-PET recycling - CGP EUROPE - Optiform Plug, No Dust - CMT - HYTAC Plug Materials: Creating form by function - CMG - AMP - highest operation performance- at the lowest TCO - DTC DOBRINGER - Online Thermoforming Academy by DTC - EREMA’s way of converting post consumer material into circularity - MILLIKEN - Performance additives helping thermoformed packaging to close the loop - OMV's Tech Center - a fully comprehensive chance to test and/or qualify your products -STARLINGER – Circular intelligence: closing the loop in thermoform recycling -TRINSEO Presentation |
| 10:45 | Coffee-Break | 10:45 | Coffee-Break |
| GENERAL SESSION (more thin than heavy) | |||
| Moderator: | Hubert Kittelmann | ||
| 11:15 | Packaging and sustainability: a retailer's view Paul Earnshaw (U. K.), Packaging Manager, TESCO | ||
| 11:40 | Recycling of plastics, what’s next? Bernard Merkx (Belgium), GreenWavePlastics | ||
| 12:05 | Unlocking the full Circularity of Polystyrene Julien Renvoisé (Switzerland), Trinseo Europe | ||
| 12:30 | Impact of EU plastic waste directive - case study Marco Omboni (Italy), ProMo – ProFood | ||
| 12:55 | Lunch | ||
| 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 | Enlarging end of life options by the use of Thermoformable Ecovio Martin Bussmann (Germany), BASF | ||
| 15:00 | Microthermoforming – enhancing Blister technology Philip Koch (Germany), Hahn-Schickard | ||
| 15:20 | Closing remarks Antonio Staffoni (Italy), ETD Chair 2018-20 Michel Py (France), ETD Chair 2020-22 | ||
| 15:30 | Drinks and iPad raffle |