Day One
Thursday 5 November 2009
| 08.15 | Registration & refreshments |
| 09.00 | Chairman’s opening remarks |
| 09.15 | Global beverage market overview · If there is growth, where is it? · Which markets and sectors have fallen back? · What does the future hold? · What are the implications for caps and closures? Jason Holway Managing Director, futureau consulting limited |
| 09.45 | Global trends in beverage caps and closures · Current market trends and drivers · Key technical trends and developments · Future issues and forecasts Dominic Cakebread Director of Packaging Services, Canadean Limited |
| 10.15 | High-gear solutions for caps and closures · Introducing SABIC · Trends in caps and closures · The one-stop-shop · High-gear solutions René Nieuwhof Technical Marketing PP Moulding & Extrusion, SABIC |
| 10.45 | Questions & answers |
| 10.55 | Break |
| 11.25 | Child resistant packaging and the challenges of adult openability · Child resistant packaging has always been tested for adult openability · But the current test panel, 50-70 year olds, 70% female, doesn’t reflect our ageing population · New standards and the industry’s response to them Stephen Wilkins Senior Partner, Stephen Wilkins Associates and Secretary, Child-Safe Packaging Group (CSPG) |
| 11.55 | Raw material producer perspective · Compounding of cap liners · Opportunities with direct extrusion materials in injection moulding, extrusion and related processes · Developments in relation for further Plastisol replacement opportunities in cap liners Market Manager, Kraton Polymers |
| 12.25 | Multilayer technology for one-piece barrier plastic closures · Kortec patented multilayer single operation injection moulding technology · Replacement of heat seal foils and polymeric barrier cap liners with one-piece closures · Oxygen and carbon dioxide barrier improvement compared to monolayer and two-piece closures Vice President Sales and Marketing, Kortec Incorporated |
| 12.55 | Questions and answers |
| 13.10 | Lunch |
| 14.30 | Turning an idea into a product · The best solution and a market need · New and protectable? · Proof of concept and fit for purpose · Prototyping, pilot tooling and fine-tuning Managing Director, Compgen Limited |
| 15.00 | Laser marking additives for promotion purpose · Composition of light and dark laser marks · Why 1064 nm the best choice for the laser wavelength? · Marking result comparis of Nd: YAG-, Nd:VO4- and fibre-laser Paul Englert Development & Product Safety,Gabriel Chemie |
| 15.30 | Questions and answers |
| 15.40 | Break |
| 16.10 | Panel session The challenges of selling an idea to the closure industry Stephen Wilkins, Senior Partner, Stephen Wilkins Associates and Secretary, Child-Safe Packaging Group (CSPG) Hans van Baekel, Business Development Manager Plastic, Silgan White Cap Derek Hindle, Global Innovations Director, Global Closure Systems Nick Field, Design Director, Minima Design |
| 17.00 | Questions and answers |
| 17.10 | Close of day one |
| 19.00 | Networking dinner for all attendees |
Day Two Friday 6 November 2009 08.30 Refreshments 09.00 Chairman’s opening remarks 09.15 Emerging issues and the changing face of innovation affecting caps and closures · Product safety trends · Packaging focus · Global challenges Jeremy Opperer European Technical Operations Manager, Intertek 09.45 Beverage packaging trends and their influence on manufacturing technologies · Market size and market segmentation · Beverage packaging trends (ie: lightweighting) and their influence on manufacturing technologies · Variables and technical solutions to reduce part cost Business Manager Closure Systems – 10.15 Compression technology: Evolutions in closure market trends · Changes implemented to follow the demands of individual markets and/or customers needs Marketing Manager – Closures & Containers, Sacmi Imola 10.45 Questions and answers 11.00 Break 11.30 Stress crack resistance of mono and multi-modal ELTEX® HDPE caps resins: test methods and correlations · The principle of stress crack resistance (ESCR) in HDPE · Stress crack resistance test methods: o ESCR lab method for resin characterisation o ESCR semi-finished lab method on injection & compression moulded caps o ESCR method on capped bottles · How multi-modal ELTEX® HDPE can in some successful cases outperform standard monomodal HDPE with respect to stress crack resistance Pascale Godon Technical Service & Development – Liquid Food Packaging & Medical, Ineos Olefins & Polymers 12.00 Capturing the future · A brief intro – Dow’s current position in caps and closures · Technical expertise put in practice – bringing more options to converters · Technical development unveiling new capabilities – additives and multimodality · Applied Science – organoleptic polypropylene Technical Leader Caps & Closures, Dow Market Manager, Dow 12.30 Innovative polyolefins solutions for caps and closures · Introducing Borealis and Borouge · Market trends and needs in caps and closures · A ‘taste’ of innovative solutions for PE and PP · Borealis answer to global challenges Laurent Blayac, Application Marketing Manager - Moulding, Borealis Group 13.00 Questions and answers 13.15 Lunch 14.30 Finding the balance between output, energy, consumption and quality · Cost structure Beverage Closure o potentials for cost savings · Energy consumption o structure closure systems · System modifications and influence on the quality Stefan Mueller Product Manager, Netstal Maschinen AG 15.00 Innovative and efficient tooling solutions for the caps and closures industry · Vertical rotation – Foboha Cube Technology for single and multi component products · Unique product designs – the key to success · Injection moulding and assembly in one system for more efficiency and better product quality Hansjorg Keusgen Head Sales & Marketing, Foboha GmbH 15.30 Cycle time reduction with conformal cooling · Selective Laser Melting (SLM) technology · Material properties of SLM parts · Tool insert building for conformal cooling with SLM machine · Advantages of conformal cooling · Cooling of nozzles and hotrunners with conformal cooling Marco Andreetta SLM Manager, Texer Design 16.00 Questions and answers 16.15 Close of conference
