Event
bio!PAC 2025 (online)
Location
ONLINE
Organizer
Polymedia Publisher GmbH
Dates
Fee
EUR 699.00
bio!PAC 2025
International online conference on packaging made of bioplastics and plastics from renewable carbon
Sustainable Packaging
- Can be recyclable, biodegradable, or both.
- Can be made from biobased, biowaste, or renewable carbon sources.
- Can offer innovative features and beneficial new barrier properties.
- Can help prevent the accumulation of microplastics in our environment.
- Helps reduce the depletion of finite fossil resources and lowers CO2 emissions.
Challenges
Most plastic packaging is made from fossil-based resources, is rarely recycled, and not biodegradable. Additionally, these plastic packaging can contribute to the long-term accumulation of microplastics.
Innovative bioplastics offer a sustainable alternative. They bring new features and can have multiple end-of-life options: recyclable and/or biodegradable. Furthermore, some bioplastics can be produced and recycled with a lower energy and carbon footprint.
At bio!PAC 2025, the focus will be on retail packaging based on biobased feedstock, providing genuine environmental benefits. Special attention will be paid to the criteria for these applications.
Online conference
That’s why Renewable Carbon Plastics, in cooperation with Green Serendipity) , is organizing the 6th edition of bio!PAC—the international conference on bioplastics & packaging.
Experts from all areas of bioplastics & packaging will present their latest developments or research. The conference will also cover discussions like end-of-life options, consumer behavior issues, availability of agricultural land for material use versus food and feed etc.
The conference will be a online event that will be recorded and made available for convenient watching (video-on-demand) for at least 3 months after the event. All presentations will be made available (pdf) as well.
Agenda
Please find below the preliminary agenda. It will be continuously updated. A timetable will follow soon.
| Renewable Carbon Plastics | Michael Thielen | Plastic or "No Plastic" – that's the question |
|---|---|---|
| European Commission, DG GROW | Maarit Nyman | Biobased Materials: Driving a Competitive and Sustainable EU Economy |
| Normec OWS | Bruno De Wilde | Biodegradation of bioplastics without leaving persistent microplastics |
| LoopLife Polymers | Steve DeJonghe | The current state of PLA recycling |
| HYDRA Marine Sciences | Miriam Weber | Microplastics: difference between persistent and non-persistent |
| Mars | Eric Klingenberg (t.b.c.) | PHA flexible film developments for Mars confectionary wrappers |
| FrieslandCampina | Ivanna Lins Colijn | Brand owners perspective on global dairy packaging |
| Bunzl Continental Europe | Francisco Morcillo | Serving the EU market, a brand owners perspective |
| Lamb Weston | Dirk van Dijk | Circular packaging based on frying oil |
| Albert Heijn (t.b.c.) | N.N. (t.b.d.) | Albert Heijn introducing PEF as PET replacement for juice bottles |
| The Shellworks | Amir Afshar | Personal care products based on natural biodegradable polymers |
| Xampla | Sam Walker | New Materials, New Possibilities: Sustainable Packaging with Biodegradable Solutions |
| Clement Packaging | Helen Yang | Compounding & producing market ready PHA cosmetics packaging |
| Aimplas | Nuria Lopez Aznar | Upcycling of by-products from the agri-food industry into sustainable packaging applications |
| Compostable by Design Platform | Henk Vooijs | Compostable by Design Packaging |
| Biotec | Gernot Becker | Biobased Polymers and PPWR |
| Ecopha Biotech | Long Nguyen | Innovations in Biobased Packaging: Challenges and Opportunities for a Sustainable Future |
| TotalEnergies Corbion | Maelenn Ravard | TotalEnergies Corbion’s new LCA |
| Bio4Pack | Patrick Gerritsen | Multilayer bioplastics advantages in PPWR |
| Floreon | Andrew Gill | Enabling the circular economy through advanced bioplastics |
| Kaneka | Stan Haftka | PHBH: Plant based and Biodegradable Innovations for Packaging Industry |
| Emirates Biotech | Francois de Bie | The PLA Packaging Revolution in the Middle East |
| Avantium | Bineke Posthumus | PEF – the polyester of the future (t.b.c.) |
Subject to changes. Please visit this website regularly for updates.