Conference Programme
The conference language is English.
PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME 2024
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Wednesday | APRIL 10th 2024 | ||
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FUNDAMENTALS OF THERMOFORMING Training Course for Thin and Thick Gauge | OPTIONAL (training course needs to booked separately) | Venue: Double Tree by Hilton Amsterdam Centraal Station | |
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 | Venue: Double Tree by Hilton Amsterdam Centraal Station | Rooftop bar |
THURSDAY | APRIL 11th 2024 | ||
09:00 | Conference Registration | ||
GENERAL SESSION | |||
09:00 | Welcome to Amsterdam - Conference Introductions & Welcome | ||
with speakers presentations from: REIFENHAEUSER RENAULT INEOS POLYMATERIA GREENYELLOWS 3SKIN KOBQE SE KUNSTSTOFF and others | POEPPELMANN ILLIG BATTENFELD KURARAY | ||
17:30 | END | 17:30 | END |
18:30 | Dinner | Beurs van Berlage - Gramnbeurszaal | |
19:00 | Conference Dinner and Sponsors awarding | ||
FRIDAY | APRIL 12th 2024 | ||
GENERAL SESSION | |||
with speakers presentations from: BRINK AUTOMATIONS LINECROSS TEAMWORK and others | |||
15:40 | Closing remarks by Michel Py (France), ETD Chair 2022-24 | ||
15:50 | Drinks and iPad raffle |
WEDNESDAY | APRIL 10th 2024 | ||||
FUNDAMENTALS OF THERMOFORMING Training Course for Thin and Thick Gauge | OPTIONAL (training course needs to booked separately) | Venue: DoubleTree by Hilton Amsterdam Centraal Station | |||
9:30 | 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 | Venue: DoubleTree by Hilton Amsterdam Centraal Station - Rooftop bar | |||
THURSDAY | APRIL 11th 2024 | ||||
9:00 | Conference Registration | ||||
GENERAL SESSION | |||||
Moderator: Michel Py / Thierry D'Allard | |||||
9:00 | Welcome to Amsterdam - Conference Introductions & Welcome | ||||
9:15 | "Keynote Retail", Speaker tbd | ||||
10:00 | "Digital Product Passport", Dr Benedikt Brenken, REIFENHAEUSER | ||||
10:20 | "Advanced recycling", Ingemar Bühler, PLASTICS EUROPE | ||||
10:40 | Coffee break | ||||
Moderator: Michel Py | |||||
11:25 | "Closed Loop Theory", Gerard Liraut, RENAULT, NISSAN, MITSUBISHI | ||||
11:55 | "Materials: Bio or what?", INEOS | ||||
12:10 | "Materials", Titel tbd, Synco de Vogel, SYNTHOMER | ||||
12:25 | "Profit Energy", Titel tbd, GRENNYELLOW | ||||
12:40 | Lunch break | ||||
HEAVY GAUGE SESSION | THIN GAUGE SESSION | ||||
Moderator: Ken Braney | Moderator: Sven Engelmann | ||||
13:55 | "Tractor Roof", Titel tbd, KUBOTA | 13:55 | "PCR Processing in Thermoforming" Benjamin Kampmann, POEPPELMANN | ||
14:15 | "Local manufacturing - a new Trend!", Emma Hockley, BIG BEAR | 14:15 | "Fiber & Plastic Combos", Frederic Engel, ILLIG | ||
14:35 | "Vacuum Forming & Pressure Forming in the US", Steve Zamprelli, Formed Plastics Inc. | 14:35 | "2 Gauge & more", Dr. Henning Stieglitz, BC EXTRUSION | ||
14:55 | "Light Weight Engineering with Thermoforming ", SE KUNSTSTOFFTECHNIK | 14:55 | "Recycling PP/EVOH", Didier Houssier, KURAREY | ||
15:15 | Coffee break | 15:15 | Coffee break | ||
15:45 | HEAVY GAUGE SESSION (Sponsors' Presentations) | 15:45 | THIN GAUGE SESSION (Sponsors' Presentations) | ||
Moderator: | Moderator: | ||||
15:45 SENOPLAST 15:55 MACHINECRAFT 16:05 PRIMEX PLASTICS 16:15 3A COMPOSITES 16:25 SELF GROUP 16:35 EPSOTECH 16:45 TOOLS FACTORY 17:00 End Sponsors Presentations | 15:45 STARLINGER 15:55 KIEFEL 16:05 MARBACH 16:15 CGP 16:25 ILLIG 16:35 GravoLAB 16:45 SPONSOR 17:00 End Sponsors Presentations | ||||
17:00 | END | 17:00 | END | ||
EVENING | |||||
18:30 | Dinner Reception | Beurs van Berlage - Granbeurszaal | |||
19:00 | Conference Dinner and Sponsors awarding | ||||
FRIDAY | APRIL 12th 2024 | ||||
9:00 | Opening | 9:00 | Opening | ||
9:05 | HEAVY GAUGE SESSION (Sponsors' Presentations) | 9:05 | THIN GAUGE SESSION (Sponsors' Presentations) | ||
Moderator: | Moderator: | ||||
09:05 CMS 09:15 MAAC 09:25 LANULFI 09:35 ARLA PLAST 09:45 GEISS 09:55 SPONSOR 10:05 SPONSOR 10:15 SPONSOR 10:25 End Sponsors' presentations | 09:05 SPONSOR 09:15 SPONSOR 09:25 SPONSOR 09:35 SPONSOR 09:45 SPONSOR 09:55 SPONSOR 10:05 SPONSOR 10:15 SPONSOR 10:25 End Sponsors' presentations | ||||
10:25 | Coffee break | 10:25 | Coffee break | ||
10:55 | HEAVY GAUGE SESSION | 10:55 | THIN GAUGE SESSION | ||
Moderator: | Moderator: | ||||
10:55 | "High Pressure Forming", Wolfgang Daum, GEISS | 10:55 | Success Story in Thin Gauge, tbd | ||
11:15 | "Smarter Luggage Forming", Stuart Fry, LINECROSS | 11:15 | "Automation Options", BRINK AUTOMATION | ||
11:40 | "Automation in Logistics / Demo Mold Making", Holger Hesseling, TRAYTEK | 11:40 | Success Story in Thin Gauge, tbd | ||
12:05 | Lunch break | 12:05 | Lunch break | ||
14:00 | GENERAL SESSION | ||||
Moderator: | |||||
14:00 | "Thermoforming as a Therapy", TEAMWORKS | ||||
14:20 | "Chance & Limits of Pulp & Paper", tbd | ||||
14:40 | "Upcoming Legislation EC and CO2 Calculation", Susanne Hirschel, KIEFEL | ||||
15:00 | "AI in Thermoforming", Michel Py, ETD | ||||
15:40 | Closing remarks by Michel Py, ETD Chair 2022-24 | ||||
15:50 | Drinks and iPad raffle | ||||
16:00 | End |
A view back to CONFERENCE PROGRAMME 2022
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 | ||
09:00 | Conference Registration | ||
GENERAL SESSION | |||
Moderator: | Ken Braney / Marek Nikiforov | ||
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 | Challenges of the future mobility and their impacts on Polymers Gérard Liraut (France), Expert Leader Polymers, RENAULT, NISSAN, MITSUBISHI | ||
10:00 | EC SUP Directives: Threats and Opportunities Bibienne Arnaud-Barbaza (France), Expert economic performance & strategy, POLYVIA | ||
10:30 | Coffee break | ||
Moderator: | Michel Py | ||
11:00 | Confronting plastic bashing – How can we make the case for the environmental performances of thermoformers? David Etienne (France) PAPREC GROUP | ||
11:30 | Circular Economy – a big step forward in China with European technology Martin Kaltenecker (Austria) SML Frédéric Durand (France) TOMRA Sorting Roland Koch (Austria) EREMA Olaf Tanner (Germany) KIEFEL Frederic Blanchard (France) Sorema/Previero | ||
12:30 | Lunch break | ||
HEAVY GAUGE SESSION | THIN GAUGE SESSION | ||
Moderator: | Ken Braney | Moderator: | Sven Engelmann |
14:00 | Distributed Intelligence: A fully automatic thermoforming production line with dedicated moulds and trimming fixtures Fabio Gaiazzi & Fabio Galbusera (Italy) CMS | 14:00 | CPET light: Transparent and temperature-resistant up to 100°C Daniel Ganz (Switzerland) Sukano |
14:15 | rPET100: heat resistant and fully recyclable material Daniel Rechberger (Austria) STARLINGER |
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14:30 | Conformal cooling: a breakthrough in mold-making Alban Agazzi (France) Innovation Plastics Composites I Video Presentation + Q&A live | 14:30 | THE HOLY GRAIL PROJECT – how to improve mechanical recycling!!! Nicolas Lorenz (German) PACCOR Nico Van de Walle (Belgium) Verstraete IML |
15:00 | Coffee break | 15:00 | Coffee break |
15:30 | Covers for busses of the riot squad in PC Chris Mulder (Netherland) VDL Wientjes Roden | 15:30 | New process design guide for packaging Christina Busk (Denmark), DANISH PLASTICS FEDERATION |
16:00 | Agricultural Equipment: A study in styling Gregory S. McCunn (USA) John Deere I Video Presentation + Q&A live | 16:00 | 4PET NL – Recycling of post consumer PET thermoformed packaging in reality Thomas Bak Thellesen, (Denmark) FAERCH |
16:30 | Thermoformed PP liners for refrigerators Gilda de Luca (Italy) ELECTROLUX I Video Presentation + Q&A live | 16:30 | Thin Gauge Session (Sponsors' Presentations) |
17:00 | Kepstan: new innovative way of deep draw thermoforming Pierre Gonnetan (France) Arkema François Ernoult (USA) Westlake Plastics Olivier Rodary (France) Plastiform | 16:30 ILLIG: "Less is more. Reduce - Reuse - Separate - Recycle - Renew" 16:40 KIEFEL: "The new machine generation" 16:50 KILDE: "Flexible thermoform automation solutions" 17:00 LUNDBERG: "Highlights in grinding" 17:10 MARBACH: "Tooling with Connect/M Tool-Monitoring-Module" 17:20 OMV: "OMV Technologies - Innovating & Educating for the Future" |
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17:30 | END | 17:30 | END |
18:30 | Departure for Dinner at MAK (Austrian Museum for Applied Arts) | ||
19:00 | Conference Dinner and Sponsors awarding | ||
FRIDAY | APRIL 1ST 2022 | ||
08:30 | Opening | ||
08:30 | HEAVY Gauge Session (Sponsors presentations) | 08:30 | THIN Gauge Session (Sponsors presentations) |
Moderator: | Kitty Beijer | Moderator: | Hans Lauridsen |
08:30 CMS: "ThermoProphet: smart solution for a full heating process control in heavy-gauge thermoforming" 08:40 COMI: "The Laborforma thermoforming machines" 08:50 GEISS: "Again, one step ahead" 09:00 PRIMEX: "Possibilities for a carbon neutral HDPE supply chain" 09:10 SELF GROUP: "Aluminium moulds: Engineering and manufacturing" 09:20 SENOPLAST: "Update on new products" 09:30 SPARTECH: "New products market diversity: Advances in materials from ground to sky" 09:40 End Sponsors Presentations | 08:30 BANDERA: "100% Recyclate to 100% Recyclable" 08:40 BATTENFELD-CINCINNATI: "The star-extruder: a reliable approach for A-PET recycling" 08:50 CGP EUROPE: "Optiform Plug, No Dust" 09:00 CMG: "Innovative scrap recycling solutions by CMG Granulators" 09:10 DTC DOBRINGER: "Online Thermoforming Academy by DTC" 09:20 EREMA: "EREMA’s way of converting post consumer material into circularity" 09:30 MILLIKEN: "Creating solutions for your packaging with anti-fogging agents" 09:40 RHOMBUS: "Know your Factory" 09:50 STARLINGER: "Closing the loop with rPET packaging: new developments” 10:00 SUKANO: "SUKANO® sustainable and circular masterbatches for mono PET thermoforming applications" 10:10 End Sponsors Presentations |
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10:30 | Coffee break | 10:30 | Coffee break |
GENERAL SESSION | |||
Moderator: | Ken Braney | ||
11:00 | COLLINS AEROSPACE Investigation into the validation of T-SIM for use in Aerospace Andrew Ferguson (UK) COLLINS AEROSPACE / Edinburgh Napier University | ||
11:25 | Sea-Doo - When fun meets Thermoforming : High tech thermoforming technology for high performance recreation product Claudio Bottos (Italy) SELF GROUP Thomas Höfels (Austria) Senoplast | ||
11:50 | Recycling of plastics, what's next? Bernard Merkx (Belgium) GreenWavePlastics | ||
12:15 | Unlocking the full Circularity of Polystyrene Julien Renvoisé (Switzerland) Trinseo Europe I Video Presentation + Q&A live | ||
12:40 | Lunch break | ||
Moderator: | Sven Engelmann / Michel Py | ||
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 Christoph Stoye (Germany) Illig | ||
14:40 | Renewable solutions to reduce crude oil dependency and to tackle climate change Martin Bussmann (Germany) Neste Paula Sanabria (Netherlands) Lyndonell Basell | ||
15:00 | Microthermoforming - enhancing Blister technology Daniel Kainz (Germany), HAHN-SCHICKARD | ||
15:20 | Advanced Technologies for high heat Ingeo applications Viviana Conti, NatureWorks LLC, USA | ||
15:40 | Closing remarks by Ken Braney (UK) ETD Chair Michel Py (France), ETD Chair 2022-24 | ||
15:50 | Drinks and iPad raffle |