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Bineke Posthumus
Avantium Avantium
Director busine... Director business development Renewable Polymers
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Bineke Posthumus
Avantium
Director business development Renewable Polymers
Bineke Posthumus works as a Director Business Development at the Renewable Polymers department of Avantium. In this function, she works on the commercialization of Avantium’s innovative 100% plant-based FDCA and PEF technology. Bineke Posthumus obtained her Master of Science degree in Strategic Management from the London School of Economics in 2007. Before Avantium, she worked at TNO, one of Europe’s largest research institutes, for approximately 10 years. There, she worked at the Strategic Analysis & Policy department, where she had a specific focus on bringing new technology to market in the areas of the circular economy and the energy transition.
Patrick Zimmermann
FKuR Kunststoff GmbH FKuR Kunststoff GmbH
Executive Board... Executive Board Member
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Patrick Zimmermann
FKuR Kunststoff GmbH
Executive Board Member
Patrick Zimmermann / Executive Board Member / FKuR Kunststoff GmbH
Patrick Zimmermann graduated from the University of Applied Science in Aachen with a diploma in Mechanical Engineering. His specialty subjects were Energy and Environmental Technology with a main focus on waste treatment and waste management of dangerous and nuclear substances. In addition, he was granted a diploma in Engineering and Economics from the University of Applied Science in Hamburg specializing in Risk Management. Patrick Zimmermann is member of the executive board of the FKuR Group. In the past 20 years he has been deeply involved in the global business development and marketing of FKuR´s product & distribution portfolio. He was responsible for the establishment of FKuR´s activities in the USA as part of the global marketing strategy. He is also member of the board of the European Bioplastics Association. The FKuR group is a medium-sized, privately held group of companies focusing on the development, production and marketing of high-quality special compounds and the distribution of plastics specialties. The group currently includes amongst others FKuR Kunststoff GmbH, one of the leading suppliers of bioplastics compounds for flexible packaging solutions and engineering applications, and FKuR Polymers GmbH, specializing in the development and production of TPE and PP / PE compounds.
Luca Gili
STELLANTIS – Centro... STELLANTIS – Centro Ricerche Fiat
Polymers Team S... Polymers Team Supervisor
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Luca Gili
STELLANTIS – Centro Ricerche Fiat
Polymers Team Supervisor
Luca Gili / Polymers Team Supervisor / STELLANTIS – Centro Ricerche Fiat
Luca Gili – Graduated in Industrial Chemistry at University of Turin joined CRF Polymers team in 2015 with a master thesis in Green materials and technologies. Today in Stellantis - CRF, Materials & Sustainability Engineering, Polymers he manages materials engineering and innovation activities for aesthetic and high performances plastics with focusing on Bio and Recycled materials. Luca is also managing the CRF activities within EU funded Projects
Chaeryun Yeom
Futua Mat Futua Mat
R&D Project Man... R&D Project Manager
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Chaeryun Yeom
Futua Mat
R&D Project Manager
Chaeryun YEOM graduated from INP-ENSIACET in Toulouse (France) with a master's degree in green chemistry and production. She is R&D project manager with FuturaMat, a company which develops and markets a wide range of bioplastic formulations with close regard to sustainability. Chaeryun is specialized in chemical engineering and responsible for developing formulations of thermoplastics, keeping environment protection in mind. As a research intern, Chaeryun participated in the development of innovative materials based on biopolymers from plants and the development of biobased polyesters.
Hausmann Karlheinz
Dow Dow
Sr Advisor Sr Advisor
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Hausmann Karlheinz
Dow
Sr Advisor
Dr Karlheinz Hausmann, Sr Advisor with Dow Europe GmbH in Horgen, Switzerland is holding a doctoral degree in Material Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland and a Engineering degree of the FAU (Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg He has more than 30 years of experience in polyethylen and ethylene copolymers. He joined DuPont in 1987 in the W&C group in Geneva, Switzerland. From 1989-1991 he held a position as R&D Engineer in DuPonts ethylene copolymer business at EI DuPont de Nemours Inc in Wilmington , DE, USA. In 1991 he moved back to DuPont in Geneva to work Packaging and Industrial Business Unit. Here he had a number of R&D and Technical and Market Development assignments including packaging, polymer modification, cosmetic packaging and automotive and started the development of DuPonts reactive modifier and compatibilizer business for polymer modification and recycling.As global sustainability leader he has been contributing to the development of the sustainability strategy of DuPonts Packaging and IndustrialPolymers business unit. After the merger between DuPont and Dow in 2017 he has been heavily involved in Sustainability aspects associated with recycling and lightweighting of packaging Structures as SR TS&D Fellow at Dow Europe in Horgen. In this function he is also representing Dow in various industry Organisations and working groups on circular economy aspects such as CEFLEX, Recyclass and PCEP. Starting July 2021 Karlheinz is holding the position of a Sr Advisor to Dow in the areas of high pressure copolymers and sustainability.
Gabriel Ciaccio
STELLANTIS – Centro... STELLANTIS – Centro Ricerche Fiat
Plastic Enginee... Plastic Engineer Materials Specialist
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Gabriel Ciaccio
STELLANTIS – Centro Ricerche Fiat
Plastic Engineer Materials Specialist
Gabriele Ciaccio (male) – Graduated in Industrial Chemistry at University of Turin joined CRF 2010 after a work experience in the truck sector. Currently he works in Stellantis - CRF, Materials & Sustainability Engineering and he manages the Polymers team based in Italy
Cristian Hedesiu
Carbonauten GmbH Carbonauten GmbH
Chief Technolog... Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
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Cristian Hedesiu
Carbonauten GmbH
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Cristian HEDESIU is a polymers expert with more than 20 years of diversified international experience in the plastic industry. Over the past years, Cristian has been combining his extensive expertise in R&D and innovation of polymers, and his knowledge of the global polymers market and value chain to develop and implement global marketing strategies for international corporates. Currently, he is the Chief Technology Officer in Carbonauten polymers, aiming to develop, manufacture, and market minus CO2 biocomposites for a broad range of plastic applications.
Colin Ardern
Applied Bioplastics Applied Bioplastics
CEO CEO
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Colin Ardern
Applied Bioplastics
CEO
Colin Ardern built a team of more than 16 employees across 3 countries to commercialize multiple bioplastic product offerings for durable applications
Andreas Kuenkel
BASF SE BASF SE
Vice President,... Vice President, Biopolymer Research
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Andreas Kuenkel
BASF SE
Vice President, Biopolymer Research
Andreas Künkel studied biology in Marburg (Germany) and did his PhD work at the Max-Planck-Institute for terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg. Having joined BASF in 1999 in the company´s biotech department, he has been afterwards in various marketing positions for Fine Chemicals and ecoflex® & ecovio® with a focus on strategy and New Business Development. Since 2010 he is head of biodegradable and biobased polymer research and is now leading as executive expert and Vice President a program for biodegradable and biobased materials. Andreas is teaching at the University of Marburg.
Frank Brouwer
Stahl International... Stahl International B.V
Renewable Chemi... Renewable Chemistry Specialist
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Frank Brouwer
Stahl International B.V
Renewable Chemistry Specialist
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Derek Atkinson
TotalEnergies Corbi... TotalEnergies Corbion BV
VP Sales and Bu... VP Sales and Business Development
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Derek Atkinson
TotalEnergies Corbion BV
VP Sales and Business Development
Derek Atkinson is responsible for sales for TotalEnergies Corbion business has been located in the Netherlands since August 2020. Prior to this he was Senior Director for Sales in the Americas and Northern Europe and was based in New York from 2015. In 2011 he became Business Development Director PLA Asia for Corbion located in Singapore. In addition to his main responsibilities for commercializing Corbion's PLA technology in Asia he was also strongly involved in the sourcing and conversion of second generation biomass as feedstocks for sustainable PLA production that does not interfere with the food chain. Prior to that he was Business Development Director at Oxford University spinout Velocys plc, a catalyst technology and microchannel reactor development company in the UK and USA. During his time at Velocys the company grew from 7 people to over 130. The focus of Velocys was in gasification and Fischer-Tropsch conversion for biomass to liquids and gas to liquids – specifically flare gas conversion and stranded gas monetisation. He was a member of the UK Government Thematic Working Group on thermochemical conversion of biomass. Before working for Oxford he held many global sales and marketing positions during his 17 years at Grace Davison mostly focused in the polymer catalyst area and was located in Germany. He has a degree in Chemistry and Polymer Science Technology from Loughborough University in the UK. Until he left Europe he was an external examiner for the School of Chemistry at the University of Cardiff
John Williams
Aquapak Polymers Ltd Aquapak Polymers Ltd
Chief Technical... Chief Technical Officer
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John Williams
Aquapak Polymers Ltd
Chief Technical Officer
John is a Chartered Chemist and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He started his career in technical roles in the polymer industry with Henkel GmBH moving on to more senior roles with Mydrin (which became part of Total). A globally recognized expert in bioplastics, John has also worked as Head of Biomaterials at the National Non-Food Crops Centre (NNFCC); a Task Force member of Green Alliance Circular Economy Panel; Member of the Industrial Biotech Leadership Forum; an advisor to BEIS and Ellen MacArthur; Member of the BPF Technical & Sustainability Committee; Founding Member and previous Technical Director at the Bio-based and Biodegradable Industries Association (BBIA); and serves on the Green Economy Panel of Leeds City region.
Anita Haider
Emnandi Bioplastics... Emnandi Bioplastics Ltd
Founder & CEO Founder & CEO
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Anita Haider
Emnandi Bioplastics Ltd
Founder & CEO
Dr Anita Haider is a synthetic polymer chemist with a PhD from Imperial College, London in 2007. During her research career, she developed functionalised biodegradable polymers from various naturally-occurring sugars and produced copolymers with polylactic acid (PLA) to enhance PLA’s biodegradation properties. Anita has had a career spanning 20 years in aluminium, oil and gas industries across multiple commercial disciplines and managing multi-billion-dollar investments in some of the world’s largest organisations, including ExxonMobil and BP. This has taken her on a global journey from the United Kingdom to Africa, the Middle East and Asia. She founded Emnandi Bioplastics to drive the bioplastics industry into new arenas with a focus on the circular economy and expansion into new and niche applications, leveraging the latest in polymer and digital technology to devise solutions that take us Beyond Net Zero.
Floris Buijzen
Borealis Borealis
Strategic Platf... Strategic Platform Leader Circular Economy Solutions
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Floris Buijzen
Borealis
Strategic Platform Leader Circular Economy Solutions
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Ruud Rouleaux
Helian Polymers Bv Helian Polymers Bv
CEO /Business D... CEO /Business Devlopment
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Ruud Rouleaux
Helian Polymers Bv
CEO /Business Devlopment
Ruud Rouleaux is the owner and CEO of Helian Polymers, leading material development expert focusing on fully biobased and 100% biodegradable PHA compounds.
After earning his BSc in Plastics Engineering and gaining experience within that field, Ruud Rouleaux (47) became the managing director in 2007 of the then trading company specialised in masterbatches and additives. For the past 15 years he has been active in the biopolymer market as a key distributor for Enmat PHB and PHBV in the EMEA region. In the meantime he founded the brand colorFabb, leading manufacturer of innovative 3D printing filaments, which was spun off as a separate company in 2015. Ruud Rouleaux is still the owner.
With the increasing demand for biobased alternatives to replace petrochemical plastics, he made the decision to phase out the trading activities in masterbatches and focus solely on the development of PHA based compounds, custom made according the the customers’ needs.
Ruud Rouleaux is married and has three children. His personal interests, whenever he finds the time, are reading, cycling, movies and traveling.
Michael Brandkamp
European Circular B... European Circular Bioeconomy Fund (ECBF)
General Partner General Partner
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Michael Brandkamp
European Circular Bioeconomy Fund (ECBF)
General Partner
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Gabrielle Gauge
RENAULT GROUP RENAULT GROUP
Polymers Specia... Polymers Specialist on Life Cycle Assessment, Substances and Recycling
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Gabrielle Gauge
RENAULT GROUP
Polymers Specialist on Life Cycle Assessment, Substances and Recycling
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Mariusz Nowak
Simoldes Plasticos Simoldes Plasticos
Project Manager Project Manager
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Mariusz Nowak
Simoldes Plasticos
Project Manager
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Jasmin Brinkmann
ISCC System GmbH ISCC System GmbH
Senior System M... Senior System Manager
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Jasmin Brinkmann
ISCC System GmbH
Senior System Manager
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Gregory Coue
Kompuestos Kompuestos
R&D Manager R&D Manager
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Gregory Coue
Kompuestos
R&D Manager
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The global bioplastics & biopolymers market size was US$ 3,961 million in 2021. The global bioplastics & biopolymers market is projected to grow to US$ 29,691 million by 2030 by registering a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18.1% during the study period from 2022 to 2030.
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The global bioplastics production will more than triple over the next five years (2021-2026), from around 2.4 million tons in 2021 to 7.5 million tons in 2026, according to market data compiled by European Bioplastics. The development of biodegradable, biobased polymers and plastics from renewable sources such as plants, animals, and microorganisms are gaining engrossing attention nowadays as an essential element to protect the environment from the harmful toxic effects of non-biodegradable synthetic polymers/plastics.
The primary factor driving the growth of the bioplastics & biopolymers market is the rapidly growing need to adopt environmental-friendly measures. Moreover, governments in various countries have introduced stringent government regulations, especially in Europe and North America, in order to boost the use of environment-friendly products. Bio-based plastics and polymers are gaining popularity as the end-use industries are upscaling the adoption of bio-based polymers. Apart from that, the growing need for environment-friendly and lightweight materials in manufacturing vehicle components is expected to bring ample growth opportunities for the bioplastics & biopolymers market
The World Bioplastics and Biopolymers summit will bring together more than 150+ industry experts from biopolymers manufacturers, chemical companies, major associations, raw materials, and technology companies, consultants, to discuss the latest developments, cutting-edge technologies, new challenges and opportunities in bioplastics and sustainable biocomposites. More and more brands and manufacturers are embracing the potential of biopolymers, and policy makers are increasingly streamlining their efforts to create frameworks that benefit the growth of sustainable bio-industries. Now is the time to put bioplastics at the top of the agenda of a bio-based circular economy in Europe and beyond.
More brands and manufacturers are embracing the potential of biopolymers, and policy makers are increasingly streamlining their efforts to create frameworks that benefit the growth of sustainable bio-industries. Now is the time to put bioplastics at the top of the agenda of a bio-based circular economy in Europe and beyond
The World Bioplastics and Biopolymers summit will bring together more than 150+ industry experts from biopolymers manufacturers, chemical companies, major associations, raw materials, and technology companies, consultants, to discuss the latest developments, cutting-edge technologies, new challenges and opportunities in bioplastics and sustainable biocomposites. So, what’s on the agenda for this year? Here’s a snapshot of what’s in-store on this year’s programme:
- Biopolymers Latest Developments
- Sustainable Polyolefins for Durable Applications
- The (R)Evolution of Biobased Materials for Coatings
- Investing in New Biobased Materials
- The Role of Bioplastics in the Packaging Circular Economy
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The World Bioplastics and Biopolymers conference is the must-attend event for any sustainability focused company looking to manufacturer their products from more sustainable materials, understand the opportunities of bioplastics / biopolymers and its role in the circular economy and understand the benefits of combining the use of compostable plastics and recycling to address the plastic waste problem we currently face.
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