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Meetingpack 2024 will take place on April 10 and 11 at the Valencia Conference Center. These two days, will be structured in eight thematic blocks.

Attendees will have the opportunity to discuss the environmental sustainability of food packaging and the need to combine it with the high-barrier functionality that the market demands of these products.

MEETINGPACK 2024

2024 April, 10th-11th · Palacio Congresos Valencia

Program

April 10th, 2024

8:30 Registration and accreditation.

9:20 Welcome and opening. AINIA and AIMPLAS

9:30 Opening presentation: NEW CHALLENGES OF ECOLOGICAL MARKETING: from fighting greenwashing to new eco-labelling schemes. Jose María Fernández. Head of Circular Economy, Ihobe-Basque Environmental Agency.

SESIÓN 1

Innovative materials for the production of sustainable packaging (I)

Session oriented to new innovative and sustainable raw materials that are presented as an alternative to conventional materials, either due to their nature as a renewable source or because they are recyclable, biodegradable or compostable at their end of life.

09:50 Session 1 presentation. Víctor Borrás. KNAUF MIRET.

10.00 Title pending confirmationWout Lyeten. Director Technical Service, KURARAY.

10.20 Recyclable solutions for advanced packaging. Bárbara Franch. Technical Service Engineer, UBE.

10.40 PLA application profiles and end of life options. Jenifer Mitja. Application Specialist-Account Manager Iberia, TOTAL CORBION.

11.00 Question Time.

11.10 Coffee Break.

SESIÓN 2

Sustainability in flexible barrier packaging

Innovative solutions for the development of new flexible barrier packaging solutions that are sustainable, safe and that guarantee product preservation.

11:50 Session 2 presentation. Jorge Serra, Manager. COMEXI.

12:00 Ecodesign for a circular economy. Gerard Parés. Sustainable packaging manager, ROTOPRINT.

12.20 Title pending confirmation. Manuel De Las Peñas. Business Development & Retail Manager, SEALED AIR.

12.40 Recyclable mono-material PE package for vacuum thermoforming. Guia Blanco. R&D Project Engineer, PLASTIENVASE.

13.00 Functionalization of flexible packaging as a tool for innovation. Antonio Riaño Asensio. INNOTECH Manager, Lantero Group.

13.20 Question Time.

13.30 Lunch.

SESIÓN 3

Sustainability in rigid barrier packaging

Innovative solutions for the development of new rigid barrier packaging solutions that are sustainable, safe and that guarantee the preservation of the product.

14.50 Session 3 presentation. RAORSA.

15.00 OLIVE-PACK: Development of new sustainable packaging for olive oil. Melchor Martínez. Director I+D+i, ACESUR.

15.20 Title pending confirmation. FAERCH.

15.40 Title pending confirmation. Mireia Vilalta. R&I Packaging Sustainability Leader Europe, DANONE.

16.00 Question Time.

16.10 Coffee Break.

SESIÓN 4

Strategies in the packaging of products to meet the 2030 objectives

Round table that will include companies or food groups that give a vision of the strategy to follow to achieve the objectives set for 2030 of Law 7/22 and the Royal Decree-Law on packaging, on issues of recyclability, recycled content, bioplastics, reuse, etc.

16.40 Moderator: Jesús Pérez. Director, Cluster Envase y Embalaje de la C. Valenciana.

16.50 ROUND TABLE:

Jorge Martínez. Packaging Manager, CALIDAD PASCUAL.

Virginia Muriel. Sustainability Manger, GARCIA CARRIÓN.

Leyre Herranz. Responsable de Sostenibilidad, FLORETTE.

Joaquín Del Rio. Director de Innovación y Calidad, VICKY FOODS.

20.30 Dinner.

April 11th, 2024

SESIÓN 5

Innovative materials for the production of sustainable packaging (II)

Session oriented to new innovative and sustainable raw materials that are presented as an alternative to conventional materials, either due to their nature as a renewable source or because they are recyclable, biodegradable or compostable at their end of life.

8.50 Session 5 presentation. Pere Coll. Director I+D+i, ENPLATER.

9.00 Edible coatings and packaging as a strategy for the design of more sustainable packaging and the fight against food waste. José Ángel Garde. Packaging Technologies, AINIA.

9.20 Caretips, natural solution to microplastics for your paper packaging. Benoit Berny. Product Innovation Manager, LACTIPS.

9.40 Confirmation pendient.

10.00 Question Time

SESIÓN 6

The reuse of packaging

Session aimed at presenting reusable packaging solutions, sanitation systems, applicable legislation and new business models.

10.10 Session 6 presentation. Fernando Rodríguez-Mata. Director General, NewEra.

10.20 Title pending confirmation. Oriol Segarra. Founder, BUMERANG.

10.40 Fyllar.

11.00 Confirmation pendient. AIMPLAS.

11.20 Question Time.

11.30 Coffee Break.

SESIÓN 7

Recycling processes

Session intended to presenting new developments in the management, separation and recycling of barrier packaging. News and application of legislation for recycled (plastic) materials for food contact.

12.00 Session 7 presentation. María Serrano. HEURA FOODS.

12.10 Recycled plastic as a decarbonisation vector. Rafael Sánchez. Head of Waste & Plastics, VEOLIA SPAIN.

12.30 Confirmation pendient.

12.50 Confirmation pendient.

13.10 Innovative technologies for recycling complex packaging for high added value applications. Oksana Horodytska. COO, FYCHTECH.

13.30 Question Time.

13.40 Lunch.

SESIÓN 8

Trends and needs of packaging in distribution and consumers

Round table that will include the participation of retail companies, distribution associations and some consumer associations that will show their point of view regarding the fulfillment of the 2030 objectives, what challenges they face, how it is being addressed and what it would do needed to contribute to the fulfillment of these objectives.

15.15 Moderator: Mª. Belén García. Directora, PACKNET.

15.20 ROUND TABLE:

María Segura. Responsable de Seguridad Alimentaria y Medio Ambiente, ACES.

Alexandra Ribeiro. Director of Food Safety, Quality and R&D. TAL, Terra Alegre Grupo Jeronimo Martins.

Carmen Redondo. Directora de Relaciones Institucionales, HISPACOOP.

Ricardo Fernández. Director Calidad, Seg Alimentaria y Desarrollo Sostenible, CARREFOUR.

16.00 Closure.

Call for speakers

Are you interested in presenting in any of the sessions?

Send us your participation proposal!

Registrations

AINIA/AIMPLAS associates: €490
Non-associated: €600

Groups 5-8 people (10% discount):*
AINIA/AIMPLAS Associates: €441
Non-associated: €540

Groups +9 people (20% discount):*
AINIA/AIMPLAS Associates: €392
Non-associated: €480

All amounts are WITHOUT VAT

*Group rates applicable to members of the same company with simultaneous registration.

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