SPI announces agenda and call for speakers for New ReFocus Recycling Summit & Expo
Plastics Industry Trade Association has announced the agenda for its new Refocus Recycling Summit & Expo and launched the event web site as well. In collaboration with its Recycling Committee, SPI has designed the event to assist brand owners and processors in taking their environmental goals from aspirational to operational. The Refocus Recycling Summit & Expo, will take place April 25-27, 2016 at the Rosen Shingle Creek conference center and hotel in Orlando, Florida.
The summit launches with an evening reception on Monday, April 25, events on the next two days will include sessions within seven concurrent tracks. Conference track topics will include cutting edge recycling technologies, product engineering & design, supply chain management and manufacturing with recycled content, regulatory & compliance issues, industry-specific topics on recycling to recovery and use of recycled content, sustainability challenges and solutions, and global manufacturing trends in recycled content. There will also be two plenary sessions with keynote addresses. An off-site plant tour is also in development. "The Refocus content will provide brand owners, processors, engineers and designers with resources to help them translate environmental goals into concrete actions. We want to help companies look at product manufacturing in a new way, with an increased focus on recycling and sustainability", said Gene Sanders, SPI’s senior vice president of trade shows and conferences. "It’ll be about supply chain solutions, and our expo floor will reflect this mission as well."
