Seven theme days – discussions, impulse lectures, lighthouse projects and exciting experimental shows
The special show Plastics shape the future at K 2022, The No.1 Trade Fair for Plastics & Rubber, from 19 to 26 October 2022, shows how crucial plastics are for a sustainable future. It shows which fascinating developments are already taking place today and that visions for tomorrow are just on their way to implementation. Seven focus days take place – with discussions on innovative technologies, keynote speeches, entertaining demonstrations of flagship projects and exciting experimental shows. The special show equally addresses economic, ecological and socio-political aspects while also presenting solutions for problematic issues the plastics industry has to deal with.
The special show is a project of the German plastics industry led by PlasticsEurope Deutschland e. V. and Messe Düsseldorf. Plastics shape the future promises insights and outlooks for exhibitors and trade visitors at K 2022 as well as for the media and the interested public.
The programme will be held in English.
Day 1 – Wednesday, 19 October
The great transition! An industry becoming climate neutral!
10:30 – 11:00
Welcome and outlook: Virginia Janssens, Managing Director, Plastics Europe
Keynote by Christiane Rohleder, State Secretary, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV), Germany
Introduction: Ingemar Bühler, Managing Director, Plastics Europe Deutschland and Representative of the exhibitors’ advisory board
Official opening by the K-Fair organisers, statements by
Ulrich Reifenhäuser, Chairman, K Fair Exhibitors Committee, CEO Reifenhäuser Group
Erhard Wienkamp, Managing Director Operative Trade Fair Business, Messe Düsseldorf
Ralf Düssel, Chair Plastics Europe Deutschland and Senior Vice President / General Manager High Performance Polymers, EVONIK
11:00 – 12:00
Keynote speech “State of the World” by Ilham Kadri, CEO, Solvay
Moderated fire-side chat: The great transition! An industry becoming climate neutral!
Martin Stuchtey, Founder and Managing Partner, SYSTEMIQ Ltd.
Lucrèce Foufopoulos-De Ridder, Vice President, Plastics Europe and Executive Vice, President Polyolefins, Circular Economy and Innovations & Technology, Borealis AG
Introduction, moderation and wrap-up: Virginia Janssens, Managing Director, Plastics Europe
13:30 – 14:00
Plastics experiments show
14:00 – 15:00
Panel session: Implementing the change – challenges and opportunities faced by the plastics industry
With members of Reshaping Plastics Report Steering Committee or Expert Panel:
Martin Jung, Member of the Steering Board, Plastics Europe and President
Performance Materials, BASF
Kim Ragaert, Professor – Chair of Circular Plastics, University of Maastricht
Joan Marc Simon, Executive Director, Zero Waste Europe
Werner Bosmans, Policy Officer, DG ENVI, European Commission
Introduction and closing: Virginia Janssens, Managing Director, Plastics Europe
Moderation by Carina Bastuck
16:00 – 16:30
Plastics experiments show
Day 2 – Thursday, 20 October
Resilience of the industry – which technologies will make the circular economy work?
10:30 – 12:00
Fireside chat (10:30-11:00): “What’s next on the industry’s circularity paths”
André Bardow, Professor for Energy and Process Systems Engineering, ETH Zürich
Katharina Schlegel, Director Strategic Council, End-of-Life and Circularity, Plastics Europe
Panel discussion: “How politics support the industry on its journey to become circular”
William Neale, Adviser for Circular Economy, DG ENVI, European Commission
(invited)
Henning Wilts, Director Circular Economy, Wuppertal Institute
Benoît Hennaut, President EuPC, Chairman and Managing Director Herige Group
Ton Emans, President Plastics Recyclers Europe, Director Group Recycling
Sebastien Bariller, Vice President Polymers / “Low Carbon Solutions”, TotalEnergies
Introduction, moderation and wrap-up by Carina Bastuck
13:30 – 14:00
Plastics experiments show
14:00 – 15:00
Panel discussion “Let’s go circular – strategic approaches to transforming the industry”
Mark Williams, Member of the Steering Board Plastics Europe and Vice President
Europe, SABIC
Lars Boerger, Vice President Renewable Polymers & Chemicals, Neste
Manfred Hackl, CEO, EREMA
Franco Meropiali, Member of the Plastics Europe Steering Board and Head of
Polyethylene and Intermediates Business, Versalis
Toshio Shiwaku, President & CEO, Polyplastics Co., Ltd.
Introduction and closing: Katharina Schlegel, Director Strategic Council, End-of-Life and Circularity, Plastics Europe
Moderation by Carina Bastuck
16:00 – 16:30
Plastics experiments show
Day 3 – Friday, 21 October
Circular Plastics and Net zero by 2050. “Blah, blah, blah?”
10:30 – 12:30 – Two-part panel discussion
Part 1: Circularity – opportunity or threat? (45 min)
Video address by Kerstin Jorna, Director General, DG GROW, European Commission
Emma Silver, Global Public Affairs Director, Minderoo Foundation’s No Plastic Waste
Initiative
Willemijn Peeters, Founding Director, Searious Business
Benny Mermans, Vice President Plastics Europe and Vice President Sustainability,
Chevron Phillips Chemicals
Nicholas Kolesch, Vice President, Projects, Alliance To End Plastic Waste
10 min break
Part 2: Does the plastics industry have a future in Europe? (45 min)
Sabine Pahl, Prof of Urban and Environmental Psychology, Vienna
Lynette Chung, Chief Sustainability Officer, Covestro
Ralf Düssel, chair Plastics Europe Deutschland and Senior Vice President / General Manager High Performance Polymers, EVONIK
NN, Deloitte
Introduction and closing: Sylvie Aitken, Director Communications, Plastics Europe
Moderation by Carina Bastuck
13:30 – 14:00
Plastics experiments show
16:30 – 17:00
Plastics experiments show
Day 4 – Saturday, 22 October
Digitalisation – Strengthening digital tools to accelerate a Circular Economy
10:30 – 11:30
Digitalisation – a game changer for a circular plastics industry?
Introductory remarks by:
Christian Hopmann, Professor – Head of the institute at IKV Institute for Plastics Processing, RWTH Aachen University of Technology
Best Practices from industry:
Digital Highway towards the Circular Economy, Christian Schiller, Co-Founder & CEO
cirplus
HolyGrail – Digital markers for better sorting recycling, Gian de Belder, principal scientist
and packaging technologist, Procter & Gamble
OPC UA, Michael Wittmann, Managing Director, Wittmann Group
Introduction, moderation and wrap-up by Carina Bastuck
13:30 – 14:00
Plastics experiments show
16:00 – 16:30
Plastics experiments show
Day 5 – Sunday, 23 October
Plastics for Climate Protection
10:30 – 11:30
Plastics for a sustainable world – how the material helps other sectors to become climate neutral
Best Practices from industry:
Driver for the energy transition: Markus Mingenbach, Global Vice President, PU
Specialties, Covestro
Sustainable building and construction: Andreas Hartleif, CEO, VEKA AG
Clean mobility: Frederique van Baarle, Managing Director, LANXESS Performance
Materials
Biobased raw material – Hemp: Martin Wittau, Managing Director, Linnaeus
Kompetenzzentrum Hanf GmbH
Introduction, moderation and wrap-up by Carina Bastuck
13:30 – 14:00
Plastics experiments show
16:00 – 16:30
Plastics experiments show
Day 6 – Monday, 24 October
Raw Materials and Cycles – What will the future be made of?
10:30 – 12:00
Fossil based feedstock – no, thanks?
Best Practices from industry
The role of biobased plastics in reaching a carbon neutral circular economy,
Walmir Soller, CEO, Braskem
Closing the recycling gap – how key technologies like chemical and mechanical
recycling need to work together, Bernhard von Vacano, Head of ChemCycling, BASF
Carbon2Chem – CO2 emissions for plastics intermediates, Stefanie Eiden, Covestro
Holistic approaches for a circular plastics economy, Patrick Glöckner, Head of Global
Circular Plastics Program, EVONIK
R-cycle – a European digital product pass, Benedikt Brenken, Director, R-Cycle Initiative, Reifenhäuser Group
Introduction and moderation by Carina Bastuck
13:00 – 14:00
WAK Award Ceremony (DE)
Ceremony of the prizes awarded by the “Wissenschaftlicher Arbeitskreis Kunststofftechnik” / Scientific Alliance of Plastics Technology (WAK)
15:00 – 16:00
EU value chain platforms – enablers for circular progress
Introductory remarks by:
Marco ten Bruggencate, President Plastics Europe and Commercial VP EMEA, DOW
Best practices:
homas Hülsmann, Managing Director, VinylPlus Deutschland
Christian Crépet, Executive Director, Petcore Europe
Jens Kathmann, Secretary General, Styrenics Circular Solutions
Paolo Bochicchio, Secretary General, PCEP
Introduction, moderation and wrap-up by Carina Bastuck
16:30 – 17:00
Plastics experiments show
Day 7 – Tuesday, 25 October:
Reality check: global crises – curse or blessing for an industry in transition
10:30 – 12:30
Keynote on Crises & Opportunities
Marco ten Bruggencate, President Plastics Europe and Commercial VP EMEA, DOW
Fire-side chat: The power of blue-sky thinking for a future with plastics
Virginia Janssens, Managing Director, Plastics Europe
David Katz, Founder and CEO, The Plastic Bank
Marco ten Bruggencate, President Plastics Europe and Commercial VP EMEA, DOW
Wrap up – looking back on K
Closing words by:
Virginia Janssens, Managing Director, Plastics Europe
Ingemar Bühler, Managing Director, Plastics Europe Deutschland
Introduction and moderation by Carina Bastuck
13:30 – 14:00
Plastics experiments show
16:30 – 17:00
Plastics experiments show
The programme is also available online at:
www.k-online.com/en/Visitors/Specials_K_2022/Plastics_shape_the_future
Information for participants and visitors:
During the event, the organisers will take photos and videos of guests and participants for public relations purposes. These records may be published on the organisers’ websites, in social networks, or print publications for the aforementioned purpose.
K 2022 is open daily from Wednesday, 19 October, to Wednesday, 26 October, from 10.00 am to 6.30 pm. Tickets are available exclusively online. The day ticket costs 55 euros, the three-day ticket 120 euros. Pupils and students pay 15 euros for the day ticket.
K Basics:
K was first organised by Messe Düsseldorf in 1952 and is held every three years. The last K in 2019 recorded 3,330 exhibitors from 63 countries on 177,000 m² net exhibition space, and 224,116 trade visitors, 73% of whom came from abroad.
For further information about K Show 2022 please visit: www.k-online.de
