Chemical Recycling Europe Forum 2023
Draft Agenda & Confirmed Speakers!
Come join us in Brussels, the heart of Europe, for the Chemical Recycling Europe Forum 2023. Here is the chance to come together and discuss the opportunities, challenges and latest developments of the present and future of chemical recycling with experts from the industry, the plastics value chain, European and national authorities, academia, NGOs, research institutes and more.
Draft Agenda
Day I. - Thursday, 21 September 2023
9.00 – 10.30 CRE General Assembly – for CRE members only
10.30 – 11.00 Registration & welcome coffee
11.00 - 11.10 Welcome & Introduction by host John Sewell, Secretary General Chemical Recycling Europe
11.10 – 12.40 Session 1- Perspectives on the industry: current state of play, growing to scale, challenges and opportunities
- Carlos Monreal (President, Chemical Recycling Europe & Founder & CEO of Plastic Energy)
- Egor Dementev (Senior Analyst Plastics Recycling, ICIS)
- Aurel Ciobanu-Dordea (Director Circular Economy, DG ENV, European Commission)
- Annick Meerschman (Innovation Director, CEFIC)
12.40 - 13.00 Innovation driving the industry of chemical recycling – part I.
13.00 – 14.00 Networking lunch
14.00-15.20 Session 2 - Recycled Content: importance for value chain and role of chemical recycling in providing recycled content
- Tony Nawar (Vice President Sustainability, Innovation & Strategy, Berry)
- Caroline Ploux (Senior Manager Public Affairs Europe, Mars)
- Thomas Nuyts (Head of Sales, Circularise)
15.20 – 15.40 Coffee break
15.40 - 16.00 Innovation driving the industry of chemical recycling – part II.
16.00 – 17.20 Session 3 - Feedstock for circularity
- Mike Jefferson (Chair of technical working group, EXPRA)
- Graham Houlder (Managing Director, CEFLEX)
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17.20-18.20 Networking cocktails
Day II. - Friday, 22 September 2023
8.30 - 9.00 Welcome coffee and registration
9.00 – 9.10 Welcome & Introduction by host
9.10 – 10.30 Session 4 – Policy Environment and Chemical Recycling: Global, European, Member States. Where are we now and what is needed
- Moderator: Adela Putinelu (CRE Policy Working Group & Head of Policy and Sustainability of Plastic Energy)
- Nicolas Hark (Senior Specialist, nova-Institut) & Luciano Proto Cassina (Staff Scientist and Project Manager, nova-Institut)
- tbc - Plastics Europe
Panel discussion
- tbc - European Parliament
- tbc - European Commission
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10.30 – 10.50 Innovation driving the industry of chemical recycling – part III.
10.50 - 11.10 coffee break
11.10 -12.30 Session 5 - ‘The Landscape of Life Cycle Assessments and data’
- Moderator: Dr. Daria Fraczak, CRE Technical Working Group, Scientific Director, Clariter
- Christian Krueger (Expert, BASF)
- tbc - JRC
- Chemical Recycling Europe Technical Working Group update on CRE work on Guidelines
12.30 - 13.00 Closing & Goodbye by host John Sewell, Secretary General Chemical Recycling Europe
More speakers to be announced soon
Date: 21 - 22 September 2023
Location: In the heart of Brussels, in the heart of Europe - Renaissance Brussels Hotel (Rue du Parnasse 19, 1000 Brussels, Belgium)
Registration: Registration is required.
- Early Bird tickets: 750€ + VAT (available until 31 July 2023)
- General Admission: 950€ + VAT (after 1 August 2023)
- Free admission to CRE members (2 tickets/member). For registration please send an email to [email protected]