Third Day: Thursday 9 of May 11 am -12 pm. ‘Sustainable and powerful packaging’… Read more

Slot 1: PTI

Mr Dan Durham, Director of Technical Client Services at PTI

CV: Dan Durham is the Director of Technical Client Services at PTI. He has decades of experience in plastic packaging ranging from design to injection and blow molding processing.  He currently focuses his efforts on helping multinational brand owners successfully navigate packaging projects from concept to commercialization and supporting their sustainability goals. His material expertise includes PET and other traditional resins such as PP and HDPE, and biopolymers.

Topic: The PCR Snapshot – When working with rPET, you must collect data over a long period of time to get a base for what the true quality of the resin is from any and all suppliers. It isn’t as simple as you think. Through rigorous testing systems we can begin to understand what the quality issues may be with all types of rPET collections, from curbside to deposit, and set a roadmap of expectations and ways to ensure rPET success in your packaging.

Slot 2: KHS

Mr Sebastian Wenderdel, Business Development Director PET at KHS

CV: His career started in the collecting department in the Mexican branch office of a large German industrial group, where he started dealing with customers and discovered his passion for sales. He returned to Germany in 2007 and spent over 16 years in international Sales and Business Development positions for several market leading machine manufacturers, mainly in the plastics industry and mostly with KHS. He has been involved in numerous packaging and machinery development projects, contributing important inputs from global PET customers and helping KHS to further improve technological solutions for their partners. Since February 2024, Sebastian assumed the position of Business Development Director PET at KHS USA and leads a team of professionals that covers KHS’ PET business in the North American market, incl. Canada, USA, Mexico and the Caribbean.

Topic: PET Market trends and technological solutions

Slot 3: Maguire

Mr Fabien Lemesle, Technical Sales Engineer at Maguire

CV: An International Sales Executive with global experience gained from positions in Singapore, Indonesia, France and the UK focusing on technical products. At Maguire Products, my particular focus has been market development for the “game changing” vacuum dryer series, we call, Ultra. I enjoy challenging convention and pioneering innovation and my role at Maguire in the area of technical sales provides an excellent platform to follow my passion.

Topic: Sustainability and Productivity Gains Happen in a Vacuum