Annual Conference 2010

6 - 9 October, Sheraton Stockholm Hotel - Sweden

Tuesday 5 October 2010
13.00 - 17.30  Technical Committee meeting incl. lunch in conference room
Wednesday 6 October 2010
08.00 - 20.30  Check-in Afera Registration Desk
09.00 - 12.30   Global Tape Forum and Global Test Method Meeting
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch Steering Committee and Participants Global Tape Forum
14.00 - 17.30  Steering Committee meeting
19.00 - 20.30  Welcome Cocktail
21.00  Dinner at leisure 

Thursday 7 October 2010
09.00 - 09.40  Afera General Assembly 
09.40 – 09.45  Opening Afera Annual Conference - Afera President Filippo Antonelli
09.45 – 10.15  Business Outlook for Scandinavian Manufacturers
Speaker to be confirmed
10.15 – 10.45  The New World of Chemical Raw Materials
Tom Brewer – Hydrocarbon Resin Service DeWitt & Company (U.S.A.) 
10.45 – 11.15  Break 
11.15 – 12.00

Increasing the Pie for the European Self Adhesive Tape Industry -Business Development in Praxis

Isabelle Meijer and Frank Voermans - Meijer + Voermans Consulting (CH) and Mike Punter – Parafix (UK)

12.00 – 12.45  Cradle to Cradle® for Polymers: Implementation Experience
Dr. Louis Jetten – Dutch Polymer Institute (NL)
12.45 – 14.00  Business Lunch 

Friday 8 October 2010
09.00 – 10.00 Sustainability: a New Recipe te Create a Bigger Pie

Ir. Paul de Ruijter – De Ruijter Strategy, Author of the publication ‘Scenarios and Strategies for Associations’

10.00 – 10.30 Tapes are Articles under REACH, so we’re off the Hook?

Jan Schuller – Eastman Chemicals (NL)

10.30 – 11.00  Break 

11.00 – 11.30 

Global Tape Forum and Expansion of Afera’s Strategies towards the Middle East & India

Afera SC Strategy Sub Group – Mike Ayres, Advance Tapes (UK), Laurent Derolez Novacel (F) 

11.30 – 12.30  Future Possibilities and Possible Futures

Magnus Lindkvist - Trend Spotter

12.30 – 12.40  Closure Afera Annual Conference - Afera President Filippo Antonelli
12.40 – 14.15  Business Lunch 

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