Kunststoffen, duurzame materialen voor de toekomst - Bioplastics binnen de circulaire economie
Lezing 1
Kunststoffen, duurzame materialen voor de toekomst
door Dr. Saskia Walraedt, essenscia
Wie er de afgelopen jaren de media op nagelezen heeft, riskeert er een heel eenzijdig en negatief beeld over kunststoffen op na te houden. Maar kunststoffen zijn meer dan verpakkingen en kunststoffen worden niet gemaakt om in de oceanen terecht te komen. De lezing haalt kunststoffen uit het verdomhoekje en toont hoe kunststoffen onmiskenbaar bijdragen aan een duurzame toekomst. Daarnaast wordt ook ingegaan op de recyclage van kunststoffen en de rol van de chemische industrie om recyclage de boost te geven die het nodig heeft.
Saskia Walraedt holds a PhD in Polymer Chemistry from University Ghent. She started her career in the chemical industry at ICI in 1996. After various functions in R&D , technical service, technical marketing and purchasing at multinationals such Huntsman, Honeywell and Total, she moved 10 years ago to essenscia, the Belgian Federation of the chemicals, plastics and life sciences industry. Initially she supported members in the implementation of the REACH and CLP legislations. In 2012 she took on the role of senior advisor sustainable development where she built a large expertise on circular economy. Since 2018 she is director essenscia PolyMatters, a division with the national association representing the plastic producers and the plastic converters. Also in this context Saskia remains closely involved in the circularity of plastics.
Lezing 2
Bioplastics binnen de circulaire economie
door Dr. Erwin Lepoudre, Kaneka
Niettegenstaande de betekenis van “bioplastic” heel verwarrend is, biedt deze productgroep potentieel binnen de circulaire economie. Initieel zal daarom eerst een overzicht gegeven worden van de verschillende types bioplastics dewelke biogebaseerd en/of biologisch afbreekbaar zijn. Vervolgens zal verder ingegaan hoe bioplastics effectief hun rol kunnen spelen voor verpakkingen binnen de circulaire economie, wat geïllustreerd zal worden met typische voorbeelden.
Dr. Erwin Lepoudre obtained his Ph.D. degree in Physical Chemistry at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) in 2000. After another 2 years of research work at the university, he started his industrial career within Kaneka Belgium N.V. in 2002.
He has initially been responsible for technical service and project management with customers of the Kane Ace® product line, which includes various polymer additives, i.e. impact modifiers, processing aids, and other functional additives based on core-shell rubber technology, to be used in PVC, epoxy resins, engineering plastics, PMMA etc.
Later one, as New Business Development Specialist, he has been responsible to enlarge the use of new technologies of Kaneka Corporation within the European market, such as Sibstar®, an isobutylene based thermoplastic elastomer for packaging applications and Graphinity®, synthetic graphite sheet, for electronic applications.
Within his recent challenge as Business Manager Biopolymers, he is responsible to expand the usage of the biobased and biodegradable PHBHTM material towards a variety of new applications. Within this position, he is also member of the board of European Bioplastics and Belgian Biopackaging.
He has initially been responsible for technical service and project management with customers of the Kane Ace® product line, which includes various polymer additives, i.e. impact modifiers, processing aids, and other functional additives based on core-shell rubber technology, to be used in PVC, epoxy resins, engineering plastics, PMMA etc.
Later one, as New Business Development Specialist, he has been responsible to enlarge the use of new technologies of Kaneka Corporation within the European market, such as Sibstar®, an isobutylene based thermoplastic elastomer for packaging applications and Graphinity®, synthetic graphite sheet, for electronic applications.
Within his recent challenge as Business Manager Biopolymers, he is responsible to expand the usage of the biobased and biodegradable PHBHTM material towards a variety of new applications. Within this position, he is also member of the board of European Bioplastics and Belgian Biopackaging.
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