2nd PHA platform World Congress (new date)

The Programme of the Webinar on Sep 02, 2020 is almost finished. We publish here a preview with topics and speakers, not yet in any order of sequence. A timetabe will follow soon.

If you register for the physical congress on 30+31 March 2021 now (and pay the fee before Aug 28) you can participate in the Webinar free of any additional charges. If you want to participate in webinar only, the fee is EUR 349.00. If you decide to register for the congress later, we'll grant a decent discount.

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1. GO!PHA organization & legislative matters:

• Rick Passenier (GO!PHA): will be covering the organization and activities of the Global Organization for the PHA-platform.
• Lara Dammer (Nova Institute): SUP-ban Directive EU
• Anindya Mukherjee (GO!PHA): will be covering legislative activities around the world of GO!PHA.
• Ramani Narayan (Michigan State University): Title to be confirmed.

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2. Manufacturing capacity expansions

• Phil Van Trump (Danimer Scientific): Title to come later.
• Blake Lindsey (RWDC-Industries): Title to come later.
• Jan Ravenstijn: Global PHA-platform industry overview.
• John Licata (Cheil Jedang): Speaker not confirmed yet.

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3. Applications

• Rolf Luther (FUCHS Schmierstoffe): PHA: Innovative biogenic and biodegradable polymers as components for lubricants.
• Ronald Krijns (BYK-Altana): Virgin PHA, an extraordinary coating additive.
• Lenka Minarova (Nafigate-Hydal): PHA in cosmetic applications.
• Alessandro Carfagnini (Sabio Materials): The use of PHA for the production of Durable Goods

This list will be updated and a timetable will follow soon. Stay updated and visit this site regularly.

The Programme of the congress on March 30+31, 2021 is also almost finished. We publish here a preview with topics and speakers. A timetabe will follow soon.

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Session 1.: Industrialization of the PHA-platform

• State-of-the-art of the PHA-platform
• Start-ups of new capacities and plans to expand
• GO!PHA, the global organization for the PHA-platform: start, activities and plans

Speakers:
Jan Ravenstijn – Recent platform developments
Phil Van Trump – Danimer Scientific USA
Erwin LePoudre – Kaneka Belgium / Japan
David LeBlanc – RWDC-Industries USA / Singapore
Gaetano Dedual – Futurity New Zealand
Rick Passenier – Global Organization for industrialization of the PHA-platform Netherlands

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Session 2: Global legislative and regulatory matters

• Overview of relevant legislations
  
• Legislative activities on Single Use Plastics in California, China and the EU

Speakers:
Lara Dammer – Nova Institute Germany
EU Representative on legislation in Europe (t.b.c.)
US representative California (t.b.c.)
Chinese representative China (t.b.c.)

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Session 3: New Plastics Economy

• Review of the project status
  
• Developments in biodegradation insights in all environments
  
• End products where biodegradation is a justified and/or required need

Speakers
Bruno De Wilde – OWS Belgium
Michael Carus – Nova Institute Germany
Sander DeFruyt – Ellen MacArthur Foundation (t.b.c.)

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Session 4: Application developments

• Broad variety of current applications in both durable and one-time-use articles, with extensive examples of
  
• Applications for the Cosmetics and Medical markets
  
• Applications for Packaging
  
• Applications as additive for the Coatings market
  
• PHA-products for fibers
  
• Examples developed in the electrical and the furniture markets

Speakers:
Franco Colombo – ABB Italy
Eligio Martini – MAIP Italy
Ronald Krijns – BYK / Altana Netherlands
Garry Kohl – PepsiCo USA
Guy Buyle – Centexbel Belgium
Lenka Mynarova – Nafigate Czech Republic
Liusong Yu – MedPHA China
Alessandro Carfagnini – Sabio Materials Italy

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Session 5: Technology developments

• The use of a very differentiated renewable feedstock base, based on carbon from the atmosphere, biosphere and technosphere
  
• The move away from new fossil-based feedstock
  
• Development of new Downstream Processing technologies
  
• New academic initiative for a series of industrial PhD projects to advance the Materials Science knowledge of the PHA-platform polymers

Speakers:
Robert Celik – Genecis Canada
Manfred Zinn – HES-SO Switzerland
Teng Li – Bluepha – China
Edvard Hall – Bioextrax Sweden
(t.b.c.) – AMIBM Netherlands / Germany

This list will be updated and a timetable will follow soon. Stay updated and visit this site regularly.

Workshop

In the afternoon  (13:00-17:00) of September 1^st, preceding the conference GO!PHA (the Global Organization PHA) will hold a workshop on the basics of the PHA-platform. The agenda of the workshop will be published in due time. The cost of this workshop is 300 Euro.

If you want to participate, please tick the box in the registration form for the conference. (The workshop is for full conference attendees only and will only be held if there are enough registrations)

Maternushaus, Cologne, Germany

Kardinal-Frings-Str. 1-3
50668 Köln, Germany
Tel.: +49 (0221) 1631 - 0
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www.maternushaus.de

Room-contingent
There is a limited number of rooms available in the Maternushaus

Please use the keyword "bioplastics" to book one of these rooms.

How to get there
Over the freeways (Autobahn):
Take the exit Zentrum/Innenstadt.
From there follow the red colour zone'Dom/Rhein' of the Cologne parking guidance system and reach the main station or cathedral.
From here on, please refer to Google-Maps

By public transport:
Book your flight to Cologne/Bonn Airport (CGN)
By train: Cologne HBF (main train station). From there it is only a 5 minutes walk via "Dompropst-Ketzer-Straße" to Maternushaus.

Nearest subway stations: Appellhofplatz and Cologne main station