Programme
Wednesday 5 May 2010
08.30 Registration and refreshment
09.30 Chairman's opening remarks
09.45 Global beverage market trends and the Impact on barrier PET
~ Global beverage market trends, issues and drivers
~ Key developments in global beverage packaging
~ Impact on the barrier PET market
Dominic Cakebread, Director of Packaging Services, CANADEAN LIMITED
10.25 KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
The market of barrier PET bottles in Europe
~ Types and markets
~ Facts and trends
~ Comparison of economics of barrier PET bottles, cans and glass bottles
Joerg Schoenwald, Managing Director, SCHOENWALD CONSULTING
10.55 Functional beverages: An opportunity for barrier PET
~ A market poised for growth (where and why)
~ Dive deeper into some popular 'products' (Omega-3, probiotics, super fruits, etc)
~ The need for barrier PET
Ulla Ringblom, RINGBLOM CONSULTING
11.25 Questions and answers
11.40 Break
12.10 Actis PET coating: An industrial and sustainable experience
Franck Hancard, Product Manager Packaging & Actis TM, SIDEL B&C SAS
12.40 Permeation measurement options
~ Overview - Permeation
~ Methods of measurement
~ Rapid analysis for packages
Bryan Cummings, Managing Director, SYSTECH ILLINOIS INSTRUMENTS
13.10 Questions and answers
13.30 Lunch
14.45 Barrier additives for PET
~ ValOr usage in multilayer and monolayer bottles
~ Valspar's accelerated test method to reduce qualification time of barrier bottles
~ Newly developed core thickness measurement system for non-delaminating barriers
Scott Stamback, Business Director - Emerging Markets, THE VALSPAR CORPORATION
15.15 New developments in PET barrier technologies at Invista
~ PolyShield® resin performance in wine/beer applications
~ OxyClear® resin for oxygen sensitive beverages in clear containers
Franck W. Embs, New Business Development Director, INVISTA POLYMERS & RESINS
15.45 Questions and answers
16.00 Break
16.30 PANEL DISCUSSION
Exploring opportunities and barriers to mainstream applications of barrier technology in the PET beverage sector
Roger Moore, Packaging Innovator, COCA-COLA SERVICES
Berco Landman, Senior Scientist Project Manager, Research & Innovation, HEINEKEN
Scott Stamback, Business Director - Emerging Markets, THE VALSPAR CORPORATION
Dominic Cakebread, Director of Packaging Services, CANADEAN LIMITED
17.15 Close of day one
18.45 Dinner for all attendees
(Please meet in the hotel lobby at 18.45 for a short walk to the restaurant)
Thursday 6 May 2010
08.45 Refreshments
09.15 Chairman's opening remarks
09.30 Manufacturing PET barrier bottles: The different solutions
~ Different products, different barriers
~ The perspective of a system supplier
~ SIPA Smartcoat solution
Nicola Morellato, Innovation Manager, SIPA SPA
10.00 Regulation of high barrier food contact packaging materials
~ Reviewing EU food contact regulations impacting on:
> active additives
> multilayer surfaces
> surface coatings
> nano-sized additives
~ Understanding the process for gaining food contact approval
~ Future developments in regulation of barrier packaging systems
Rachida Semail, Partner, KELLER AND HECKMAN LLP
10.30 Questions and answers
10.45 Break
11.15 Microbiological and flavour stability of beer-filled in PET bottles
~ Barrier properties and influences on secondary contaminations
~ Oxygen and CO2 permeation correlating with turbidity measurement
~ Research results with artificial set ups to follow growth kinetics influenced by active and passive barriers
Roland Folz, Head of Brewing and Beverage Science and Applications, VLB-BERLIN
11.45 Improved hot-fill barrier resin from Honeywell
~ Aegis HFX resins in hot-fill applications
~ Key improvements and measurement of performance
Dr. Simon Porter, Senior Principal Scientist, Healthcare and Packaging, HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL
12.15 Questions and answers
12.30 Lunch
13.45 PET (barrier) bottle and sustainability
~ Why recyclable materials/barriers are important
~ European PET Bottle Platform (EPBP): Objectives and priorities
~ How to get a recyclable PET bottle - assessment structure
Patrik Geisselhardt, Member Technical Committee EPBP and Process Owner System Conformity PET Recycling Switzerland, EUROPEAN PET BOTTLE PLATFORM (EPBP)
14.15 Automatic sorting of PLA and PET plastics
~ The issues in automatic sorting of mixed streams of plastics
~ Key steps in PLA and PET recycling
~ Sorting flake mixtures by spectroscopic methods
~ Optimisation of PLA/PET sorting
Edward Kosior, Managing Director, NEXTEK LIMITED
14.45 Questions and answers
15.00 Close of conference
