On behalf of PAGÇEV, we are pleased to invite you to the PAGÇEV Plastic Recycling Conference, which will be held on the opening day of RePlast Eurasia Fair, 02 May 2024 at Istanbul TÜYAP Fair and Congress Center.
The conference will be held in the exhibition area between 12.30-17.40 and you, our esteemed audience, will be able to attend free of charge.
RePlast Eurasia, which is the platform that will carry our country forward in Green Transformation, will play the most important role in Turkey's becoming the epicentre of the recycling sector in the coming years. Raw material and technology companies that produce products and services for all the stages required for recycling plastic and adding value to life will come together with industry professionals for the first time at RePlast Eurasia Plastic Recycling Technologies and Raw Materials Fair.
PAGÇEV Plastic Recycling Conference, where expert speakers will share the latest sectoral information, is also a ground where all questions about plastic recycling can be answered.
In the sessions that will be shaped within the framework of various issues such as the present of the plastic recycling sector, technological developments awaiting the sector in the future, legal practices, sustainability and circular economy, sector professionals will have the opportunity to increase their knowledge and shape their plans for the future.
We are raising the level even higher with the Plastic Recycling Conference we will organise this year.
Members of the sector who would like to register as a visitor should contact Nagihan KUL (nagihan.kul@pagev.org.tr, 0212 425 13 13).
PROGRAM
12.30-13.40:
CONFERENCE OPENING CEREMONY
OPENING SPEECHES
12.30: WELCOMING SPEECH
Hamdi Yazır, PAGEV Congress Committee Chairman
12.35: OPENING SPEECHES
İbrahim Burkay, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bursa Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Zeki Kıvanç, Chairman of Adana Chamber of Industry
Fatma Varank, Deputy Minister of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change
Mehmet Fatih Kacır, Minister of Industry and Technology
13.05: KEYNOTE SPEAKER "GREEN TRANSITION VISION OF TURKISH INDUSTRY"
Yavuz Eroğlu, PAGÇEV President
13.15: PLATINUM SPONSOR SPEECH
13.20: PAGÇEV PLASTIC RECYCLING AWARDS CEREMONY
PANEL - I
13.40-15.00:OVERVIEW OF PLASTIC RECYCLING SECTOR: REGULATION, TECHNOLOGY AND PRICE TREND
Moderator:
Ali Kantur, TOBB Waste and Recycling Industry Council President
Panelists:
Antonello Ciotti, PETCORE EUROPE President
Bernard Merkx, EuPC (EUROPEAN PLASTICS CONVERTERS) Managing Director
Sory Camara, THE FEDERATION OF WASTE MANAGERS OF GUINEA (FEGEDEG) President
Vernigorov Konstantin, SIBUR INTERNATIONAL General Director of SIBUR R&D center “Polilab”
Alexandre Dangis, GREENDOT Vice-President Corporate Affairs
Yağmur Eroğlu, CERTILOOP General Manager
Andrea Carraro, BANDERA Flat Die, Recycling Technologies Senior Manager
Daniel Pelosi, S&P GLOBAL EMEA Chemicals Editor
15.00 - 15.10: Q&A
PANEL - II
15.10-16-00: "ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS AND GOOD PRACTICES IN PLASTIC RECYCLING"
Moderator:
Hamdi Yazır, PAGEV Congress Committee Chairman
Panelists:
Atahan Özgünay, UNILEVER Senior R&D Packaging & Processing Manager
Tuba Gökcan, ANADOLU EFES GRUP Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Director
Erdem Baltalı, COCA COLA Sustainability and Supplier Director
Levent Uçar, NESTLE TURKIYE Procurement Business Partner
16.00 - 16.10: Q&A
PANEL - III
16.10-17-30: "USE OF RECYCLED PLASTIC IN THE AUTOMOTIVE SECTOR AND SUPPLY POSSIBILITIES"
Moderator:
Özlem Güçlüer, TOBB Automotive Council Vice President - OSD Secretary General
Panelists:
Faruk Silahtaroğlu, OYAK RENAULT Plastic Materials Turkiye Strategy Leader
Ayşemin Top Gül, FORD OTOSAN Sustainable Material Applications Technical Leader
Tuğba Okay, TOFAŞ Senior Technical Specialist (Plastic)
Refik Diri, KAREL KALIP General Manager
İlkay Yıldırım, BURPOL POLİMER General Manager
Maryo Kohen, POLİTEM PLASTİK General Manager
Gökhan Dursun, ART Recycle CEO
17.30 - 17.40: Q&A
17.40: Closing
SPONSORS:
EVENT SPONSOR: TÜYAP
PLATINUM SPONSOR: SIBUR
NAME BADGE SPONSOR: BALKAN PLASTİK
BRONZE SPONSOR: CERTILOOP
Please click here for the short promotional film of our previous recycling congress.