2nd PHA platform World Congress (new date)

The finalised programme of our webinar on Sep 02, 2020 is now available.

We’ve also opened registration for the physical event that is scheduled for 30-31 March 2021. Participation in the webinar is free of charge if full payment of the event registration fee is made before 28 August.
For participants planning to take part in the webinar only, the fee is EUR 349.00. Those who subsequently decide to register for the congress as well will be granted a discount on the regular attendance fee. 

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The programme of the webinar below is no longer divided into thematic blocks. This is mainly because the presentations of speakers in different time zones have now instead been scheduled at the most convenient times possible.

While some participants in the webinar will want to follow the presentations ‘live’, for example, in order to ask questions, time zone differences may make this inconvenient or infeasible for others. However, recorded versions of the presentations will available 48 hours after the event to allow participants to tune in and replay.

Your questions may be submitted to us and will be forwarded to the speakers. The speakers will then respond directly to you.

The programme does not include any coffee or lunch breaks. All time slots are 30 minutes, which includes time for questions and answers, but also time to grab a coffee or to visit the restroom. It also allows us to switch between speakers for a smooth webinar experience.

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