Sustainability and Recyclability of Food Packaging

This conference will explain the recyclability of PET and further packaging materials - including current challenges in the safety assessment of FCM in the circular economy.

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Overview

With the European strategy on Circular Economy, there is a pressure to increase recycling rates all over Europe. By 2030, the European Commission will propose measures to ensure that all packaging in the European Union is reusable or recyclable. This calls not only for new designs for recyclability and re-usability, but also for new methods to assess the chemical safety of recycled food contact materials (FCM). Also by 2030, the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) provides for a comprehensive catalogue of measures to achieve the target of significantly reducing plastic packaging and waste.

This conference will explain the recyclability of PET and further packaging materials – including current challenges in the safety assessment of FCM in the circular economy. Discuss how the material levels deal with recycling: plastic recycling, paper recycling, aluminium recycling, recycling of adhesives as well as deinking and recycling.

Highlights:

  • Overview of the current challenges in the safety assessment of FCM in the circular economy
  • Current developments for the carton industry for food packaging
  • Sustainability and aluminum packaging
  • Sustainability and adhesives for circular packaging and recycling
  • Design for recycling and deinking
  • Experience with the implementation of the CosPaTox approach towards safety evaluation guidance for the use of Post-Consumer plastic Recyclates (PCR)
  • Recyclates and what to do with the rest, can everything be recycled?

Who will benefit from this conference?

Professionals working in the fields of:

  • Quality assurance & control
  • Product safety
  • Raw material control
  • Regulatory affairs & support
  • Analysis
  • Research & development
  • Toxicology

Sectors that should take part:

  • Food and beverage industry
  • Food retailers
  • Packaging industry
  • Food inspection offices
  • Laboratories
  • Research institutes
  • Authorities
  • Professional associations

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Programme

Wednesday, 19 February 2025

PLEASE NOTE: The indicated times refer to Central European Time CET.

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Morning Session 09:45 – 12:45 CET
Welcome address by Akademie Fresenius and introduction by the Chairs

Thomas Gude, Independent Consultant, Switzerland
Thomas Simat, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

Overview of the current challenges in the safety assessment of FCM in the circular economy

Martin Engelmann, IK Industry Association Plastics Packaging, Germany

Current developments for the carton industry for food packaging

Mike Turner, European Carton Makers Association (ECMA), Belgium

Why we use aluminum capsules
  • Nespresso’s experience in becoming more sustainable, especially through using more recycled content
  • Understanding of how aluminum can be part of more sustainable practices

A Nespresso representative (invited)



Afternoon Session | 13:45 – 17:00 CET
Sustainability and adhesives for circular packaging and recycling

Elizabeth Staab, H.B. Fuller Deutschland, Germany and FEICA SRAPPA (Sustainability & Recycling of Adhesives in Paper & Packaging Applications) Technical Task Force

Design for recycling and deinking

Andrey Charkovskiy, Siegwerk, Germany

Experience with the implementation of the CosPaTox approach towards safety evaluation guidance for the use of Post-Consumer plastic Recyclates in cosmetic and detergent packaging

Ulrich Eicken, Mibelle Group, Switzerland
Daniel Teicher, Mibelle Group, Switzerland
Fabian Lüth, Vogt-Plastic, Germany

Experience of a recycler

Manica Ulcnik-Krump, Interzero Plastics R&D, Slovenia

Speakers

Name

Company

Charkovskiy

Andrey Charkovskiy

Siegwerk, Germany

Andrey Charkovskiy is a Chemist and a Business Partner for global technology projects related to recycling and polymers at Siegwerk in Germany. His key initiative is to drive cross-value chain projects with the target of establishing a packaging circular economy and ensuring that Siegwerk is at the forefront of its development and the business is positioned accordingly. Prior to his actual role, he was working in application development at ExxonMobil Chemical, supporting customers in various film extrusion segments.

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Eicken

Ulrich Eicken

Mibelle Group, Switzerland

Engelmann

Martin Engelmann

IK Industry Association Plastics Packaging, Germany

Martin Engelmann is a Lawyer and has been the Director General of the German Plastic Packaging Association since 2019. Before that, he has been the Director General of the German Paints and Printing Inks Industry Association and had leadership roles at PlasticsEurope and the German Chemical Industry Association (VCI).

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Gude

Thomas Gude

Thomas Gude GmbH, Switzerland

Thomas Gude is Managing Director of Thomas Gude GmbH, which specialises in consulting in the areas of food contact materials, food and non-food. After about 30 years with authorities, the pharmaceutical and chemical industries and a long time as the operational manager of a Swiss laboratory, he now deals with risk assessments, especially in the food contact and consumer goods sector. In addition, he teaches at various universities and technical colleges, in particular at ETH Zurich.

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Fabian Lüth

Vogt-Plastic, Germany

Simat

Thomas Simat

Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

Thomas Simat has been a Professor and the Chair of Food Science and FCM at the Technische Universität Dresden with research on FCM since 2003. He is the Chairman of the ‘German BfR Committee on Consumer Products’’.

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Elizabeth Staab

H.B. Fuller Deutschland, Germany and Chair of the FEICA SRAPPA (Sustainability & Recycling of Adhesives in Paper & Packaging Applications) Technical Task Force (TTF)

Daniel Teicher

Mibelle Group, Switzerland

Turner

Mike Turner

European Carton Makers Association (ECMA), Belgium

Mike Turner is the Managing Director of the European Carton Makers Association (ECMA). He is also Chairman of Fibre Packaging Europe. Since 2020, he has represented packaging converters on the 4evergreen cross-industry alliance. Mike joined ECMA in 2019 from Graphic Packaging International, where he served as Managing Director of their EMEA Foodservice Packaging business. Prior to that, he spent 15 years with International Paper and prior to that, he spent 10 years with M-Real, a Scandinavian paper mill and merchant group. Mike has also served 4 years as President and Chairman of the Brussels based ‘Pack2Go’ representing manufacturers of packaging for food & beverages ‘to go’.

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Manica Ulcnik-Krump

Interzero Plastics Innovations, Slovenia

Manica Ulcnik-Krump is a Chemist and the Managing Director of Interzero Plastics Innnovations. As Head of R&D she is responsible for the technical development of recycled plastics produced by mechanical recycling for the recycling company Interzero Holding. She is a plastic material modification specialist and her current development focus is on the modification of post consumer plastic waste for high-quality mechanical recycling, the evaluation of the recyclability of packaging, the development of methods for analysing the highly concentrated feedstock for chemical recycling and many other areas that are in some way related to the recycling of post-consumer plastic waste.

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Venue

Online Conference
This conference is going to be held online.
You can reach us directly at:
Phone : +49 231 75896-50
Email: info@akademie-fresenius.de
www.akademie-fresenius.de

Prices & Services

Participation Fee: € 795.00 plus VAT.

The registration fee includes the following benefits:

  • Participation in the Online Event
  • Event Documentation (available via download from our website)
  • Certificate of attendance

Representatives of an authority or a public university are therefore eligible for a reduced fee of € 495.00 plus VAT per person (please provide evidence). The reduced fee cannot be combined with other rebates.

Group Reductions
For joint bookings received from one company we grant a 15% discount from the third participant onwards.

Terms of Cancellation / Book without Risk
You can cancel your participation in our online events free of charge and without giving reasons in writing up to 1 week before the start of the event. In the case of later cancellations and non-login to the online event, no participation fees can be refunded.
In this case, however, you will receive access to the documentation after the event.
You can name a substitute participant free of charge at any time.

Event Documentation

Would you have liked to attend this event, but cannot spare the time?

For the price of 295,00 € plus VAT you can order a complete set of event documentation. A few days after the event you will receive the access data for the restricted download section of our Website. There you will find all presentations (subject to the approval of our speakers) as pdf-files.

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Sabine Mummenbrauer

Your Contact

Sabine Mummenbrauer
Programme and conceptual design

+49 231 75896-82
smummenbrauer@akademie-fresenius.de

Sabine Mummenbrauer

Your Contact

Sabine Mummenbrauer
Programme and conceptual design

+49 231 75896-82
smummenbrauer@akademie-fresenius.de

Sabine Mummenbrauer

Your Contact

Sabine Mummenbrauer
Programme and conceptual design

+49 231 75896-82
smummenbrauer@akademie-fresenius.de

Jennifer Zerth

Your Contact

Jennifer Zerth
Organisation and participant management

+49 231 75896-79
jzerth@akademie-fresenius.de

Jennifer Zerth

Your Contact

Jennifer Zerth
Organisation and participant management

+49 231 75896-79
jzerth@akademie-fresenius.de

Display / Supplement

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You can personally present your products and services directly to your specified target group. We are happy to provide you with further information on our range of available options – from displaying company information at the reception counter to presenting your company with an exhibition stand.

We would be pleased to assist you personally:

Monika Stratmann

Monika Stratmann
Phone: +49 231 75896-48
info@akademie-fresenius.de

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Katharina Geraridis

Katharina Geraridis
Phone: +49 231 75896-67
presse@akademie-fresenius.de