10.00 am Netwoking Coffee
10.45 am Institutional welcome MARTINA FONT, President of the Packaging Cluster and MÒNICA ROCA I APARICI, President of the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce
11.00 am How to compete? Our big problem! ESTEVE ALMIRALL
[Presented by JAIME ASIÁN, Director of the Caixa Enginyers Services Area]
11.40 am How the new tax on non-reusable plastic packaging affects the packaging sector JUAN JOSÉ BLANCO and EFREM SILES
[Presented by PERE COLL, Director R&D at Enplater]
The area of Special and Environmental Taxes of KPMG, will explain the content of the Bill to create a Tax on non-reusable plastic containers, the date of entry into force is expected during the first quarter of 2022, and that affects all companies that manufacture, import or make intra-community acquisitions of disposable plastic packaging.
12.20 pm BREAK
12.50 pm Food packaging and sustainability - current projects in application-oriented packaging research MARKUS SCHMID
[Presented by ANA OSUNA, Packaging Material Specialists at Lecta]
Food should be much more than hygienic and tasty. They provide important macro- and micronutrients for a healthy diet. These nutrients are subject to natural and environmental degradation reactions - the nutritional value decreases! If this degradation proceeds too quickly, food waste will inevitably result. Properly applied, food packaging technology can delay or even prevent this degradation and thus make a significant contribution to sustainability by reducing food waste. Alternative packaging materials made from renewable raw materials can additionally support this positive contribution - but this presupposes that these new packaging materials fulfil the protective function to the same extent as petrochemical-based plastics. If these new plastics are also recyclable, they could make a valuable contribution to a circular bioeconomy. Prof. Dr. Markus Schmid, director of the Sustainable Packaging Institute SPI at the Albstadt-Sigmaringen University, will explain in this presentation how this could work and how new food packaging concepts, which are being developed in various European-funded projects, could make a contribution to healthy nutrition, less food waste and a circular bioeconomy.
1.30 pm The importance of talent in the new era MÒNICA UTRERA
[Presented by XAVIER PIFARRÉ, Channel Manager - Robotics & Discrete Automation, Spain at ABB]
Achieving the highest performance standards in our organizations happens, at this time and in the future, to manage the people who make up the organization from a certain prism. One of the main keys is related to the leader and his positioning in the face of the events that occur on a day-to-day basis. From which place we exercise our role as heads, plays a central role in the performance of the most talented teams.
2.20 pm Lunch
4:00 pm Round table with retailers
[Presented by XAVIER PASCUAL, Director of HISPACK, and energized by SERGIO ESCURIET, Global Applications Manager Printing & Packaging of Lubrizol]
ANA PALENCIA, Communication Director of Unilever, BORJA LAFUENTE, Responsible for Sustainability of Southern Europe at Danone and JOAN SABARTES, Director of Operations at Bonpreu Esclat
Unilever, aware that the culture of disposing and that the production model continues to dominate our lives and damaged our planet, publicly committed in 2019 to halve the use of virgin plastic in its packaging, to use at least 25% post-consumer recycled plastic (PCR), as well as collecting and processing more plastic packaging than it sells, by 2025.
5.00 pm Closing cocktail
6.30 pm End of the day
