Sustainability in Packaging Asia 2023 is coming to Singapore on 6-7 June 2023!
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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
Gary Calicdan is the Packaging and Print Ethical Buyer of Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetics North America . Joining the company in February 2007, he has seen the business grow from 80 shops to over 250 shops. Along with growing the supply chain, Gary has led many initiatives to improve our ethics and sustainability in our packaging supply chain such as use of 100% recycled plastics and paper for all packaging and print materials . Gary has also focused on developing a local high quality recycled plastic materials supply base including Ocean plastics and created closed loop systems through retail and manufacturing operations wherever possible.
Gary is currently a council Director of The Packaging Consortium ( PAC) under Pacific Region Leadership Council based out of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Prior to migrating to Canada in 2006, Gary was the Purchasing Manager of ALCAN Packaging and Avon Cosmetics back in the Philippines from 2001 to early 2006.
Possessing 13 years of professional experience in marketing and business development in the plastic manufacturing industry and waste management, Estelle has her footprint covering both Europe and Asia with a particular focus in plastic recycling and circular economy.
Since joining Veolia, Estelle has been involved in project development of various types of waste management in Asia, including hazardous waste, battery recycling, WEEE recycling.
In the last 2 years, she has focused on boosting the Group's plastic recycling initiatives, including the Greenfield rPET plant in Indonesia, Merchant & Acquisition projects in Japan, Korea and China.
In parallel, she has been actively involved in developing new projects in conjunction with different international brands/key accounts as well as local NGOs/start-ups in the domain of plastic recycling, to name a few, projects such as sustainable collection model pilot, collection pilot to increase traceability of plastic waste in which the brand owners most look upon, and etc.
With her expertise in the plastic recycling industry, she was seconded to the Alliance to End Plastic Waste Association (AEPW) for collection & sorting projects screening and development.
Emily holds an B.Eng in Food Engineering and M. Eng. Studies in Packaging Technology from Massey University in New Zealand, and has 20 years’ experience working in technical, quality and operations roles in the New Zealand food industry. In her role at Fonterra she is responsible for leading strategy development and technical initiatives in the space of sustainable packaging across Fonterra’s global footprint. Her areas of focus include metrics and reporting, global portfolio review, market insight, life cycle assessment and use of recycled content.
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.
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.
Ian Hayes is a senior consultant with PackPro Consulting, currently consulting with the Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation. A results oriented and innovative leader in packaging development who has worked within the food, consumer healthcare and pharmaceutical industries for more than 30 years across the Asia Pacific region, Australia, Singapore, Germany, Saudi Arabia and the UK. Ian possesses a range of experience encompassing broad management of programs and teams, strategy development, sales & marketing/business development, budget setting/planning and innovation programs. Has detailed knowledge of the global packaging industry and heightened awareness of all aspects in successfully engaging across a diversity of countries and cultures. Ian brings a global understanding of packaging development and the interaction of packaging and the environment. He was made a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Packaging in 2008 and has been involved on a number of packaging related industry committees and associations.
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.
