Innovation Forum 4 Plastics 2024

08.30-9.00

Registration & Welcome Coffee

09.00-09.20

Opening and welcome to participants

• Sophie Sicard, President of EuRIC’s European Plastic Recycling Branch (EPRB)
• Evdokia Achilleos, Head of the Sector “Circular and bio-based economy and zero pollution”, REA, European Commission

09.20-10.30

Circular Plastics Cluster initiative: boosting plastics recycling and circularity.

·        CIMPA – A CIrcular Multilayer Plastic Approach for value retention of end-of-life multilayer films | Céline Chevallier (IPC)

·        SOL-REC2 – Innovative digital watermarks and green solvents for the recovery and recycling of multi-layer materials | Pascal Negré (iPM2) & George Theodosopoulos (TWI)

·        CIRCULAR FoodPack – Circular Packaging for Direct Food Contact Applications | Esra Kucukpinar (Fraunhofer IVV)

·        MERLIN – Increasing the quality and rate of MultilayER packaging recycLINg waste | Marianne Gravendeel (Ioniqa)

10.30-11.00

Coffee break

11.00-11.45

Innovative solutions to design and manage sustainable food plastic packaging

·        STOPP – Strategies to prevent and reduce plastic packaging pollution from the food system | Sarianna Palola (VTT)

·        MAGNO – Conquering new strategies to prevent and reduce packaging pollution | Ignacio Fernández-Pacheco Ruiz (IDENER)

·        VISS – Viable, safe and sustainable PHBV value chain for food packaging applications | Carmen Fenández Ayuso (CETEC)

·        REBIOLUTION – Novel biodegradable, REcyclable, BIO-based and safe plastic polymers with enhanced circuLar properties for food packaging and agricUltural applicaTIONs | Kai Oliver Siegenthaler (BASF) 

11.45-12.10

Innovative solutions for circular technical/engineering plastics

·        PRIMUS – Reforming secondary plastics to become the primary raw material choice for added-value products | Carolina Mejías (Mondragon)

·        Green3D – Transforming plastic waste into High End Bespoke Furniture| Rocco Lagioia (ITRB)

·        Circular Flooring – New products from waste PVC flooring and safe end-of-life treatment of plasticisers |Martin Schlummer (Fraunhofer IVV)

·        PLAST2BCLEANED – PLASTtics to be CLEANED by sorting and separation of plastics and subsequent recycling of polymers, bromine flame retardants and antimony trioxide |Dr. Esther van den Beuken (TNO)

12.10-13.00

Panel discussion: the role of R&I projects in the EU policy agenda.

Discussions on how the project results contribute to achieving the EU Green Deal and CEAP objectives. 

·        Pierre Fiasse (Groupe Comet)

·        Katharina Schlegel (Plastics Europe)

·        Wolfgang Trunk (European Commission, DG ENV)

·        Silvia Maltagliati (European Commission, DG RTD)

·        Olga Pozlevic (European Commission, DG GROW)

13.00-14.00

Lunch break