Sustainability in Packaging Europe will return to Barcelona on 16-18 October 2023 for the eighth time with over 600 packaging innovators expected to join us once again.
This year's event features over 75 packaging industry experts, and promises to once again provide you with a full 360 degree perspective on how companies have achieved circularity.
Stakeholders from across the industry will discuss their challenges and successes of achieving circularity for packaging, providing practical examples to help drive the industry forward. Can you afford to miss out?
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Feliks is currently leading Mars' global packaging sustainability strategy with a special focus on improving circularity of flexible packaging. He is passionate about circular economy and keen to develop systemic solutions to improve the life cycle of plastic packaging. He has extensive business and technical experience in packaging design and recycling infrastructure, and for more than 10 years he has been involved in various sustainability positions helping companies such as Renault, Tarkett and Danone to transition towards circular economy.
Henk Vooijs is consultant market development at Novamont. Novamont is the world's leading company in the sector of bioplastics and biochemicals. Novamont promotes the transition from a product economy to a system economy, relying on the utilisation of local areas and on products that can redesign entire application sectors, reducing the costs of environmental and social externalities.
In his role as market developer he is working with stakeholders in the value chain to develop products that can deliver solutions to major environmental problems. Focus areas are: separate waste collection, agriculture, large retail sector, disposable foodserviceware and packaging. He is member of the board of Belgian Biopackaging and Holland Bioplastics (chair) and is convenor of Working Group 5 of the CEN-TC 411 (Standards Bio-based Products).
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Graham is the Managing Director of SLOOP Consulting B.V. which has been offering consulting services and tools in the field of packaging and sustainability since 2009.
He is the founder & project co-ordinator for CEFLEX (a Circular Economy for Flexible Packaging), which is a collaborative initiative by over 170 companies and associations from across the flexible packaging value chain to make flexible packaging even more relevant in the circular economy.
Prior to 2009, he worked for Unilever for 23 years with a wide range of responsibilities including: R&D, Packaging management and design, Supply chain restructuring, Sustainability and CSR.
When not helping clients to make their packaging more sustainable, he enjoys being outdoors, BBQ’ing, restoring an old house and trying to fend off Father Time by keeping fit.
Alice has worked for OPRL since 2014 and heads up the Member Support team, providing support on labelling of packaging and determining recyclability. Alice started her career at HDRA as part of the Sustainable Waste Team. She moved to WRAP in 2005 to continue work on consumer communications through the Home Composting Programme, Recycle Now and Recycle for London campaigns.
Romeo Pavanello has been working as Environment & LCA manager for Metal Packaging Europe (MPE) - the European association representing the producers and national associations of rigid metal packaging for consumer products (beverage, food, aerosol, general line and closures). In his role at MPE, Romeo Pavanello is responsible for managing topics related to the sustainability and circularity of metal packaging and has an extensive knowledge of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).
Constantia Flexibles is the world’s third largest producer of flexible packaging.
Based on the guiding principle of ‘People, Passion, Packaging’, some 8,530 employees manufacture tailor-made packaging solutions at 37 sites in 16 countries. Many international companies and local market leaders from the consumer and pharma industries choose the sustainable and innovative products of Constantia Flexibles
