Sustainability In Packaging Asia is an important forum to share the value and successes of the Packaging Industry in our Region. In these times of emotional challenges to packaging and the value it delivers it is more important than ever to have opportunities to showcase the real progress being made, the real value packaging delivers that benefits our total environmental footprint and the lifestyles we love. Thank you for the opportunity to contribute to the conversation. - Sustainability Director APAC Region, Sealed Air
Dr Casper Durandt was a founder member of numerous Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Companies, Chairman of the PET recycling company PETCO, founder member of the Glass Recycling Company and MetPac-SA. He has a PhD in Industrial Engineering focused on coupled manufacturing efficiency improvement. He has an MBA from the University of Stellenbosch, a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Pretoria University and is a qualified Professional Engineer with the International Engineering Council.
Casper is an accomplished international speaker, has a passion for the environment and is a technical expert in the field of beverage production, supply chain, environmental issues and equipment maintenance.
Paul has huge experience in all aspects of packaging and has an exceptional understanding of packaging materials, and processes. Paul developed Tesco strategy for packaging sustainability including the creation of preferred materials and formats guidelines.
Currently working for Tesco with responsibility for the non food area for both Own Label and Branded products. Has previously been responsible for the Tesco Packaged Food areas as well as Household and Personal Care.
In his personal life Paul is Chairman of the Thriplow Daffodil Festival – an annual charity event which has raised over £1m to date.
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Samantha is Senior Manager, Sustainability - APAC & MEA at Electrolux. Samantha ever worked in HAVI for managing the sustainabilty packaging portfolio in APAC. HAVI is a global company focused on innovating, optimizing and managing the supply chains of leading brands.
In parallel, Samantha sits on the Packaging Partnership Program in Singapore through her role as Deputy Sector Group Leader to support the industry transition towards the nationwide EPR by 2025.
Samantha currently holds a master degree in environmental management, and has worked across a breath of sustainability industries ranging from FMCG, NGOs and consulting.
Sealed Air Sustainability Director for the APAC region based in Melbourne Australia. Alan is leading customer and packaging industry engagement with sustainable packaging and retail trends and regular public speaking engagements.
Busy in Industry being currently active with the Australian Institute of Packaging contributing to development of Sustainable Packaging Guidelines for reducing food waste. A founding member and former president of the Australasian Bioplastics Association. Currently on the Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO) Design for recovery working group.
Grace Kim is a head of global packaging R&D at CJ CheilJedang, a number one food company in Korea, where she focus es most of her time developing packaging professionals, identifying new strategic initiatives and delivering packaging solutions through breakthrough packaging innovation . She has more than 20 years of packaging industry experiences from CPG, Pharmaceutical and Chemical Companies mostly in US She relocated to Korea, her native country, with her family in 2019 to pursue her career in people management and to gain global experiences. Most recently, she was a principle engineer at AbbVie, Inc., a pharmaceutical company located in North Chicago, IL , where she successfully led multiple medical device packaging programs . Previously, she worked
at Kraft Foods, Inc. located in Glenview, IL as a strategic packaging research engineer and at DuPont in Parkersburg, WV as a R&D Process Engineer . Grace received MS degree in mechanical engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and BS degree in chemical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology.
Marika Knorr has been in charge of Sustainability and Communication at CCL Label since April 2020 and is dedicated to grow the “Sustainable Product Family” while driving CCL’s Sustainability roadmap. Marika holds a Master‘s Degree in Communication from Cologne University and Arizona State University and started her career as a newspaper and magazine writer before moving into Corporate Communications at international companies including TÜV Rheinland, LANXESS AG and Constantia Flexibles. She has held varied and senior positions in marketing and communications and has extensive experience focusing on sustainability and communication. Marika is based in Cologne, Germany.
Cathie Cocqueel, born and raised in France, Brand Design Director role at Johnson & Johnson, on a journey to "save" the world with everyday small actions
In love with Asia for the last 8 years, I see and feel how pollution is affecting not only our beautiful planet but also our health. Optimistic by nature, I believe that we all have the power to shift the direction of the global economy and making it greener.
Passionate about sustainability not an expert, I hope to inspire people with my ambition and the actions that I do.
Colgate Palmolive views sustainability as critically important to the business.
Our sustainability efforts span all aspects of our business, including supply chain, marketing, innovation, customer development and people development.
We are committed to reducing our use of plastic in our packaging, using more recycled plastic, and increasing the recyclability of our plastic packaging.
Ted has over 20 years experience in FMCG packaging. He is based in Sydney, Australia and leads the evolution to sustainable packaging for Asia Pacific.
Ted is a passionate advocate for sustainable packaging.
Elly's work with global not-for-profit organization, Canopy, focuses on protecting the world's most precious Ancient and Endangered Forests by transforming paper packaging and viscose supply chains. She supports forward-thinking brands to find circular and Next Generation Solutions that ensure climate stability and conserved forest landscapes for people and animals, for generations to come.
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Sze is the Regional Business Director responsible for sales in Greater SEA/South Asia/Australasia for Global Paperboard and Business Development in APAC within the Consumer Packaging Group focusing on innovation with integrated packaging solution working closely with major food & beverage and FMCG brand owners in the region, which include home/health and beauty (HHB) segments.
A key area of focus in the innovation work has been in food safety and sustainability through packaging which protects the brand.
Sze has worked at WestRock for 35 years, across various business units and responsibilities which include innovation in the food and beverage packaging segment and more recently in business development offering enterprise wide solutions to brand owners in the region.
WestRock in Singapore achieved consecutive wins toward sustainability in packaging – SINGAPORE STAR PACKAGING AWARDS in 2019 and 2020.
Sze has served in the specialty materials and integrated packaging solution role over his career at WestRock and has lived in Hongkong, Australia, Singapore and the USA. He received his higher education in the USA with a MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management, Arizona and undergraduate degree from Coe College, Iowa majoring in Business Administration and English Literature with a minor in Computer Science.