Meet the speakers!
Chemical Recycling Europe (CRE) & Polymer Comply Europe (PCE) are pleased to announce their first live webinar on How depolymerisation technologies contribute to the creation of a circular economy for plastics.
The live webinar will take place on the 24th of September 2020 between 16.00 - 18.00 CET.
Webinar agenda:
- Welcome & Introduction
Maurizio Crippa - Gr3n - PET depolymerisation – Contributions of Crystallization to Sustainability
Dr Claudia Pudack - Sulzer Chemtech - Depolymerization and chemical recycling contribution to a circular and sustainable economy
Dr Mattia Comotto - Aquafil Group - Re-thinking PMMA - Regenerating high quality MMA monomer by depolymerisation
Antonella Annunziata - Madreperla - Questions & Answers *
- Closing
Registration:
Webinar participation €125 (+VAT) per person
Meet the Speakers
Dr. Claudia Pudack is Manager Customer Solutions and joined Sulzer in 2013. Based in Winterthur, she frequently travels to the test center near Basel to coordinate the crystallization tests. Dr. Pudack has 10 years of experience in changing positions within the industrial R&D environment. She received a diploma in Geology from the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology (Germany) and holds a PhD in geochemistry from the ETH Zürich (Switzerland).
Dr. Mattia Comotto got a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Genoa (Italy).
In 2016 he joined Rina Consulting, one of the largest Italian engineering consulting firm, working on several European co-funded projects in the area of bio-based and circular economy.
In 2018 Mattia joined Aquafil. He is currently in charge of a variety of projects in the area of Sustainability & Circular Economy. He also represents Aquafil in many alliances and associations working on Textile / Recycling / Circular Economy legislation and standards development.
Antonella Annunziata started her career in the family owned company. After 5 years she became CEO of the new start-up Madreperla s.p.a specialized in the production of cast acrylic sheets. Later on Madreperla developed a new method of production of methyl methacrylate monomer (MMA) from acrylic scraps using chemical recycling. Madreperla contributes the circular economy by using the’’ second life MMA’’ for their own production of cast acrylic sheets.
How depolymerisation technologies contribute to the creation of a circular economy for plastics
Plastic materials are designed to meet the very different needs of end consumer products and are essential to modern life and the global economy. To reduce the demand for finite raw materials, minimize the negative impact on the environment, and also address the end-of-life issue of plastics, the logical and ideal solution is to develop a circular economy approach to sustainable polymers that can be efficiently recycled.
The conventional recycling methods exist currently to deal with plastic waste, have a number of limitations, the main one being the inherent inability to produce a virgin-comparable product.
However, developments in chemical recycling technologies are creating new opportunities for recovering resources from plastic waste in which polymer waste can be efficiently recycled directly into their own starting materials. Polymers produced from recovered monomer feedstocks have no loss of properties; moreover, the process recovers embedded value and mitigates environmental effects.
During the webinar, we will highlight selected major progress made and the technical and environmental benefits obtained in the field of depolymerization of plastic waste materials.
* We would like to kindly ask you to send us your professional questions in advance. We will have limited capacity and time to answer the real time questions, however the speaker(s) will be answering the pre-collected and selected questions. Please submit your questions to Lilla Mezriczky – lilla.mezriczky@pceu.eu before 21 September 2020 12.00 CET.