8th European Thermoforming Conference 2012, Venice

 
Programme
 

Session
Speaker
Subject
Company
Wednesday General      
18:00-20:00
  Conference Registration  
20:00-22:00 Welcome Reception   A warm welcome to  friends and colleagues

Thursday AM
General      
09:00-09:15 Introduction
Reinhold Plot & Daniele Versolato
Conference Introductions & Welcome Chair ETD
Conference Chair
09:15-10:00   Wim De Vos Challenges and Opportunities in the Global Thermoforming Environment Society of Plastics Industry, Belgium
10:00-10:45
Herman Konings
Keynote - The Best Way to Predict the Future is to create it! Trend Watcher / NXT, Belgium
10:45-11:30 Coffee Break      
11:30-12:00   Peter Davis The Future’s Market for Plastics British Plastics Federation, UK
12:00-12:45   Martin Wiesweg
PET and PS Pricing, another Year of Surprises?
CMAI Europe, Germany
12:45-14:00 Lunch      
Thursday PM
Thick Gauge
parallel session
 
14:00-15:15  
Commercial Presentations
 
15:15-16:00 Coffee Break      
16:00-17:15  
Commercial Presentations  
Thursday PM Thin Gauge
parallel session  
14:00-15:15 Workshop Moderator:
Marek Nikiforov
Etienne Ysewyn
Transformation within Plastics Packaging + Thermoforming expert panel discussion -
New innovative solutions across the thermoforming field, FFS is cost effective food packaging technology but it is threat for thermoforming? Come to discuss topics related to tooling, machinery, materials and processing with industry specialists   

with ILLIG, GABLER, GN, Bosch-Sprang

15:15-16:00 Coffee Break      
16:00-17:15 Workshop Moderator:
Hans Lauridsen
Handle the Output with Faerch, Kilde, Kiefel, Marbach
Thursday Evening  


  Dinner
  Transportation by boat to center of Venice
Conference dinner and presentation of the sponsors at Westin Hotel
 
Friday
AM
Thin Gauge
parallel session  
09:00-10:30  
Commercial Presentations  
10:30-11:15 Coffee Break      
11:15-12:15  
Commercial Presentations  
Friday
AM
Thick Gauge
parallel session  
09:00-09:30   Pieter Steen Large Parts / Machine Cover Case New Holland, Belgium
09:30-10:00   Fabrice Cerisier Ecoleaumur – Twin sheet case study: Why choose for thermoforming? France
10:00-10:30
Jukka Silen
Business Case Tailwind – Twin-sheet thermoforming as a novel tool for innovative solutions and design outlooks for pure water applications Tampere University of Technology, Finland
10:30-11:15 Coffee Break
 
11:15-12:15 Workshop Moderators:
Kitty Beijer & Daniele Versolato
Mechanical fixation /
New gluing and bonding techniques /
Surface treatment
with Solera Thermoform Group / Senoplast / Plasmatreat
12:15-13:30 Lunch      
Friday
PM
General      
13:30-14:00   TBD Design in Thermoforming
14:00-14:30
  Sylvie Meekers Update on Bio Plastics in Thermoforming PRO Europe / Fost Plus, Belgium
14:30-15:00   Armin Van Overbeek Paper Forming Billerud, Sweden
15:00-15:30   Andreas Seefried Radiation Cross Linking of Semi-crystalline Thermoplastics – A novel approach in modifying a material’s thermoformability University Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany

15:30-16:00   Parts Competition
Presentation of the winners
 
16:00-16:15   Reinhold Plot
Daniele Versolato
Close remarks
Chair ETD 2010-2012
Chair ETD 2012-2014
16:15 End   Drinks and iPad raffle  

 

further details coming soon