10:30 - 11:00

Welcome and outlook: Virginia Janssens, Managing Director, Plastics Europe

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, Evonic

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, SYSTEMIQ Ltd/ Founder and CEO, The Landbanking Group GmbH
• Lucrèce Foufopoulos-De Ridder, Vice President, Plastics Europe and Executive Vice President Polyolefins, Circular Economy and Innovation & Technology, Borealis AG

 Introduction, moderation and wrap-up: Virginia Janssens, Managing Director, Plastics Europe

13:30 - 14:00

Plastics experiments show

Wolfram N. Diener

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

Dr. Wilma Dewald

16:00 - 16:30

Plastics experiments show

Ulrich Schuster

10:30 - 11:30

Panel discussion: “Strategic importance and resilience of the European plastics industry”

• 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, CeDO
• Sebastien Bariller, Vice President Polymers / “Low Carbon Solutions”, TotalEnergies

Introduction, moderation and wrap-up by Carina Bastuck

13:30-14:00

Plastics experiments show

14:00-15:30

Best Practices from industry: “Let’s go circular - strategic approaches to transforming the industry”

• Mark Williams, Member of the Plastics Europe Steering Board and Vice President Europe, SABIC
• Support the transformation of the industry by closing the circle a la Neste, Lars Boerger, Vice President Renewable Polymers & Chemicals, Neste 
• Let’s go circular - strategic approaches to transforming the industry, Manfred Hackl, CEO, EREMA Group GmbH
• Versalis’ complementary solutions towards plastics circularity, Franco Meropiali, Member of the Plastics Europe Steering Board and Head of Polyethylene and Intermediates Business, Versalis
• Designing the circular economy of whole plastics, Toshio Shiwaku, President & CEO, Polyplastics Co., Ltd.

Moderation by Carina Bastuck

16:00 - 16:30

Plastics experiments show

Dr. Wilma Dewald

10:30 - 12:30

Two-part panel discussion

Part 1: Waste not, want not - what could a circular and climate neutral future look like? (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
• Benny Mermans, Vice President Plastics Europe and Vice President Sustainability, Chevron Phillips Chemicals
• Nicholas Kolesch, Vice President, Projects, Alliance To End Plastic Waste
• Sabine Pahl, Prof of Urban and Environmental Psychology, Vienna

 10 min break

 Part 2: How can be plastics be a part of a sustainable future? (45 min)

• Frederik Debrabander, Partner, Industry Leader, Deloitte
• Willemijn Peeters, Founding Director, Searious Business
• Lynette Chung, Chief Sustainability Officer, Covestro
• Ralf Düssel, Chair Plastics Europe Deutschland and Senior Vice President / General Manager High Performance Polymers, Evonik

Introduction, moderation and closing by Carina Bastuck

13:30-14:00

Plastics experiments show

16:00-16:30

Plastics experiments show

16:30-17:15

Halbzeittalk – was Industrie und Politik jetzt dringend angehen müssen

• Peter Kurth, Geschäftsführender Präsident des BDE, Bundesverband der Deutschen Entsorgungs-, Wasser- und Kreislaufwirtschaft e. V.
• Ingemar Bühler, Hauptgeschäftsführer Plastics Europe Deutschland

Einleitung: Carina Bastuck

 (in German language)

10:30-11:30

Combining the power of digitization and standardization to secure global supply chains for recyclates

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:

• Combining the power of digitization and standardization to secure global supply chains for recyclates, Christian Schiller, Co-Founder & CEO cirplus
• HolyGrail - digital markers for better sorting recycling, Gian de Belder, principal scientist and packaging technologist, Procter & Gamble
• Digitalization with OPC UA – World Production Language, Harald Johannes Weber, Consultant Technology and Innovation, VDMA Plastics and Rubber Machinery 

 Introduction, moderation and wrap-up by Carina Bastuck

13:30-14:00

Plastics experiments show

16:00-16:30

Plastics experiments show

10:30 - 11:30

Plastics for a sustainable world - how the material helps other sectors to become climate neutral

Best practices from industry:

• Wind power: Opportunities and challenges for a promising renewable energy: Markus Mingenbach, Global Vice President, PU Specialties, Covestro
• Materials for sustainable mobility: Lukas Schröer, Senior Sustainability Manager, LANXESS Performance Materials
• Industrial Hemp as a raw material for bio-based plastics made from renewable resources: Martin Wittau, Managing Director, Linnaeus Kompetenzzentrum Hanf GmbH

 Introduction, moderation and wrap-up by Carina Bastuck

13:30-14:00

Plastics experiments show

15:00-15:30

Zukunftsmodell Kreislaufwirtschaft: Welche Wege müssen wir wählen?

• Alexander Kronimus, Leiter Geschäftsbereich Klimaschutz und Kreislaufwirtschaft, Plastics Europe Deutschland
• Peter Orth, OPC – orth Plastics Consulting, Autor des Buches ,,Kunststoffe im Kreislauf"

16:00-16:30

Plastics experiments show

Wolfram N. Diener

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, Marco Jansen, Business Director EMEA for biopolymers and Director of Advocacy and Sustainability in Europe, Braskem
• Closing the recycling gap – how key technologies like chemical and mechanical recycling need to work together, Bernhard von Vacano, Senior Research Fellow, Program Lead Closed Loop Polymer Recycling, BASF
• Carbon2Chem, Stefanie Eiden, Project Lead Circular Economy, Covestro
• Specialties to Enable Sustainable Plastics Applications, Patrick Glöckner, Head of Global Circular Plastics Program, Evonik
• R-cycle - a Global Digital Product Pass, Benedikt Brenken, Director, R-Cycle Initiative, ProData GmbH

 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:

• Thomas 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

Wolfram N. Diener

10:30 - 11:30

Keynote on Crises & Opportunities

• Marco ten Bruggencate, President Plastics Europe and Commercial VP EMEA, DOW

• David Katz, Founder and CEO, The Plastic Bank
• Marco ten Bruggencate, President Plastics Europe and Commercial VP EMEA, DOW

• Virginia Janssens, Managing Director, Plastics Europe
• Ingemar Bühler, Managing Director, Plastics Europe Deutschland

13:30-14:00

Plastics experiments show

15:00-15:45

Klartext-Podiumsdiskussion: Stärken und Schwächen der Transformation zur klimaneutralen Kreislaufwirtschaft

• Ines Oud, Vorstandsvorsitzende Kunststoffland NRW
• Michael Thews, MdB, stv. Vorsitzender des Ausschusses für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit
• Ingemar Bühler, Hauptgeschäftsführer Plastics Europe Deutschland

Moderation: Carina Bastuck

(in German language)

16:30-17:00

Plastics experiments show

Wolfram N. Diener