EMA Autumn Meeting 2009
This year's EMA Autumn Meeting was held on 8 - 9 October at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Lyon, France. The Executive Committee was pleased to invite you to our Autumn Meeting. Following our decision to hold a smaller meeting inThe global economy, and our industry, is going through a challenging time at the moment and some of the presentations that we've arranged should give an interesting view on this.
We trust that the venue chosen and the presentations arranged have been of interest to you all and we thank you for your support in attending the conference.
Programme
Wednesday 7 October 2009
14.00 – 18.00 Executive Committee Meeting (for board members only)19.30 XC Dinner
Thursday 8 October 2009
09.00 – 12.00 Paper Committee Meeting (Please note: for Paper Metallizers ONLY!)
09.00 – 12.00 Film Committee Meeting (Please note: for Film Metallizers ONLY!)
09.00 – 12.30 Arrival and welcome of seminar participants
12.30 – 14.00 Networking lunch
START SEMINAR
14.00 – 14.30 General Assembly
14.30 – 14.55 Open Content Presentation
Wilhelm Altena - Hunsfos
Bill Duckham - General Vacuum Equipment Ltd
14.55 – 15.15 PaperImpact - Unfolding the potential of paper
Tiina Heikel – PaperImpact
15.15 – 15.50 Market Reports
Paper: Adeline Saillard – Ahlstrom
PET: Eric Maitre – Toray Plastics
OPP: Simon King – PCI Films Consulting Ltd
15.50 – 16.20 Coffee/Tea break
16.20 – 16.50 Trends in Barrier in Flexible Packaging
Simon King – PCI Films Consulting Ltd
16.50 – 17.20 Non-Fickian Behavior of Metalized Film
Andreas Roos – Paul Lippke Handels-GmbH
19.00 Departure from hotel for dinner
Friday 9 October 2009
09.15 – 09.45 French packaging market, structure and evolution of the
French flexible packaging industry and main drivers
Francoise Gerardi - Elipso
09.45 – 10.15 The Sustainability Agenda and Packaging: what is it all about
and what should you do?
Fiona Durie - EUROPEN
10.15 – 10.45 Credit Crunch so far / to come
Henk Willemse – Atradius
10.45 – 11.15 Coffee/Tea break
11.15 – 11.45 PLA as a sustainable product or new application
Régis Garoutte – Polyfilms
11.45 – 12.30 Keynote: Survival of the Fittest: How to survive and win in the
current climate
Peter van Veen – de Ruijter Strategy Ltd
12.30 – 13.30 Closure and lunch
Official language: English
Proceedings
The proceedings are available for attendees only.
Please contact the EMA Secretariat if you are interested in the proceedings as a non-attendee.
Hotel information
Radisson Blu Hotel
Alois-Steinecker-Str. 20
129 Rue Servient
F-69326
Tel. +33 4 78 63 55 05
Fax. +49 4 78 63 55 00
