Plastics News Europe - June 2018 - 23

The march of e-commerce and how the packaging and caps
industries are having to adapt
Speaker to be confirmed
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A look at e-commerce's growth & figures plus trends and
challenges for the packaging industry
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How packaging continues to play a pivotal role in both the
brand and the consumer's e-commerce experience
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Technical issues - why the bottles are leaking through the
e-commerce supply chain
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A look at a case study for easy fixes, some innovative
approaches
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The sticky subject of leaky caps - what innovations are
coming forward to combat this?
Revitalizing the Sustainability Discussion: One Injection
Molder's View
Alex Hoffer, Vice President of Sales and Operations, Hoffer
Plastics Corporation
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How the sustainability discussion is picking up steam.
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Two opposing sides getting further entrenched:
environmentalists who aim to eliminate plastic products
altogether, while the plastics industry push back and
blame "consumer behaviour" as the reason for plastics in
oceans.
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How the conversation needs to change to make progress.
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Action to move forward: the plastics industry reframing their
response, refocusing its team, and revitalizing the pitch so that
sustainable solutions are more enticing to brand owners, and
ultimately consumers.
Caps and closures and the circular economy
Speaker to be confirmed

Day Two * 16th November 2018
Packaging and the environment - a Retailers view
Paul Ernshaw, Packaging Development Manager, Tesco
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The drivers behind sustainability
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Customer attitudes
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Our vision of where we are going
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Thoughts on preferred materials and design
A Plastic Free Society - Fact or Fiction?
Dave Rose, Director, David Rose Packaging Solutions
(Former Project Manager, Packaging Development, Britvic)
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There is no silver bullet
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Recycling must improve.
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Design for re-use recovery and recycling must be
considered at the start
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Biopolymers can be part of the answer
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What about energy recovery?
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It must be much easier and simpler to recycle
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Messaging and information must be consistent
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Consumers need to be motivated
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Consumers will have to change their behaviours.
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Littering and proper disposal is down to people
Navigating the Future: Facing Sustainability Challenges &
Opportunities in Polyolefin
Kaushik Mitra, Director, Polyolefins, IHS Markit

Uncapping the potential of caps and closures in fighting food
waste
Michael Nieuwesteeg, Managing Director, NVC Netherlands
Packaging Centre, Board Member of the World Packaging
Organisation WPO
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Inconvenient truths and the fight against food waste via better
packaging
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Sharing the results of the 1st international conference on food
waste and packaging
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The potential role of caps and closures in limiting unnecessary
food losses
Protecting your competitive advantage
Jason Lessard, Partner, HGF
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Why do your customers choose you over the competition?
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Are your margins sustainable?
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Discover how you can protect your competitive advantage
in 3 steps
Worldwide standardisation as driver for improved
ease-of-opening and ease-of-handling in packaging
Dr. Ken Sagawa, Em. professor National Institute of Advanced
Industrial Science and Technology AIST and chairman of ISO
WG9 Accessible Design for Packaging
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The open-ability of packages in an ageing world
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The principles of accessible design and their implementation
in packaging
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An overview of ISO standards published and work-in-progress
Ease of Opening and Child resistant packaging
Stephen Wilkins, CEO, Child Safe Packaging Group
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Ease of Opening for elderly people - the standard ISO
17480:2015, Design Criteria-Ease of opening,
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Other standards within the suite
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CD 22015 Design Criteria-Handling and Manipulation
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FDIS 19809 Design Criteria-Information and Marking
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An update on child resistant packaging and child resistant
zips for dose packs for detergent soluble packaging

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