ONLY ONE WEEK TO GO, REGISTER NOW for the online conference: Strategic Research Needs for the European Plastics and Composites Industry 2021
ECP4, The European Composites, Plastics and Polymer Processing Platform (https://www.ecp4.eu/) is pleased to announce that the Bi-Annual Conference " Strategic Research Needs for the European Plastics and Composites Industry" will take place on the 21st of April 2021 as a virtual event.
Building upon the success of previous years and after the publication in December 2020 of the “Sustainable Plastic Strategy”, ECP4 is happy to invite you to this conference that focuses on trends and solutions for the circularity challenges of many plastic industrial sectors.
Take the opportunity to learn about the work of renowned plastics research centers in Europe which will present their most relevant projects and strategies to guarantee a sustainable future for plastics.
Programme - 21 April 2021
- 9:00 Welcome and Opening
- 9:10 - 9:30 ECP4 presentation
- 9:30 - 10:00 VTT Plastic Compass, Tuulamari Helaja (VTT)
- 10:00 - 10:30 Circular Textiles In Europe - Bottlenecks Along The Circle, Guy Buyle (Centexbel)
- 10:30 - 11:00 Capacities in polymers for multisectoral applications, Dr. Amaya Igartua (TEKNIKER)
- 11:00 - 11:30 (Recycled) Bio-Polymers for demanding Applications, Jan Diemert (Fraunhofer Institut für Chemische Technologie ICT)
- 11:30 - 12:00 Circular economy: successful case studies, Ferran Martí (AIMPLAS)
- BREAK
- 13:00 - 13:30 A step toward fully sustainable plastic solutions: Proplast’s success stories, Marco Monti (Proplast)
- 13:30 - 14:00 BioInnovative solutions for packaging circularity, Dr. Margaret Fournet (Athlone Institute of Technology)
- 14:00 - 14:30 Plastic Scenario Impact Model (PRISM), Esther Zondervan (TNO)
- 14:30 - 15:00 Innovative polymeric materials and coatings for transport applications, Elena Jubete (CIDETEC)
- 15:00 - 15:15 Chair closing remarks
- 15:15 End of the conference
Date:
21st April (9:00 - 15:15 CET)
Location:
Live webinar
Participation:
Registration required, participation is free of charge.
Meet the speakers
Tuulamari Helaja graduated with a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Helsinki and eMBA from Aalto University. She joined VTT in 2006, where she has held several positions. Her key interests are particularly within sustainable chemistry, as well as within bio and circular solutions. Starting from first of May, she will lead the circular plastics entity at VTT.
Guy Buyle is Manager EU Research of Centexbel. Guy holds an MSc in Engineering and obtained his PhD in Physics on the subject of simulating PVD coating processes. He started at Centexbel in 2006 in the textile coating and finishing group. He has mainly been working on European projects (in FP6, FP7 and H2020), being strongly involved in their coordination and management. Examples are the AT~SEA project which received the Techtextil Innovation Award in 2015 for the novel application of large scale seaweed growth on textile surfaces and the BIO4SELF project which won in 2019 the JEC Innovation Award for Sustainability and the Global Bioplastics Award for the development of bio-based self-reinforced composites.
Dr. Jan Diemert studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Aachen, Germany. Since 1998 he is working in the department for Polymer-Engineering of the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology ICT in Pfinztal, Germany. Since 2003 he is deputy director of the Department for Polymer-Engineering, which works nowadays with 120 people on a broad range of polymer processing topics. Since 2011 he is funding and board member of the ECP4, the European Composites, Plastics and Polymers Processing Platform, which promotes European research to small and medium size companies in the polymer processing sector.
Marco Monti obtained his degree in Materials Engineering (2005) and his PhD (2009) at University of Perugia (Italy), where he kept working as a postdoc researcher until 2011. Since then, hehas been working in Proplast as a R&D project manager. Since 2016, he is also member of Proplast’s cluster management team, with special focus on internationalization activities.
Dr. Margaret Fournet is co-ordinating the Athlone Institute of Technology’s new flagship EU-China Horizon 2020 project spearheading the clean-up of the global plastic waste burden. Dr. Fournet is leading a team of 15 partners spanning 9 different countries on the “BioInnovation of a Circular Economy for Plastics” (BioICEP), which is dedicated to the bioconversion of waste plastics into sustainable plastics for the future.
About of ECP4
ECP4 The European Composites, Plastics and Polymer Processing Platform is an industry-driven collaboration that unites 25 members from 13 countries amongst the top-level European research institutions, regional plastic clusters, and EU-level industrial organizations of plastics and composites converters.
ECP4 brings innovation partners together to identify opportunities for collaborative Research and Development efforts that yield industrial innovation.
The objectives of the platform are:
- To provide networking and collaboration among research institutions and the industry.
- To facilitate the access of the European plastics industry to EU research programs, thus enabling SME’s to innovate, gain competitiveness and fulfil sustainable goals.
- To communicate on new technologies and their relevance for the plastics converters and the composites industry.
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