Transcript final programme - Biobased Performance Materials

Programme
Biobased Performance Materials Symposium
12 June 2014
Hotel & Conference Centre ‘de Wageningsche Berg’
Generaal Foulkesweg 96, 6703 DS Wageningen, The Netherlands
09.00 – 09.30
Reception and Registration
09.30 – 09.35
Welcome & Opening of the symposium
Harriëtte Bos, chair of the symposium
09.35 – 09.50
Topsector Chemistry: Prolongation of the Biobased Performance
Materials R&D programme
Gerard van Harten, Topsector Chemistry
09.50 – 10.00
Introduction to the BPM programme
Christiaan Bolck, director BPM
10.00 – 10.30
Practical experiences in examining the feasibility of biobased
products in challenging applications: printer panels, packaging for
non-perishable liquid foods, and carpet backing
Karin Molenveld, Wageningen UR Food & Biobased Research
10.30 – 11.00
Coffee break
11.00 – 11.30
Powder coatings and waterborne coatings for the industrial and
consumer market: Development of biobased polyamide and
polyurethane systems
Juliën van Velthoven, Eindhoven University of Technology
11.30 – 12.00
Broadening the application of PLA towards ‘durables’: Progress in
the field of impact resistance and thermal stability
Angela Smits, Croda Coatings & Polymers
Rutger Knoop, Wageningen UR Food & Biobased Research
12.00 – 12.30
Plastics that make food last longer: Using the antimicrobial
functionality of natural polymers
Frans Kappen, Wageningen UR Food & Biobased Research
12.30 – 13.30
Lunch
Programme - continued
13.30 – 14.00
Towards biobased and recyclable composite resins
Rolf Blaauw, Wageningen UR Food & Biobased Research
Francesco Picchioni, University of Groningen
14.00 – 14.30
Bioplastic processing: Improved properties of PLA by stretching
Sicco de Vos, Corbion Purac
Gerald Schennink, Wageningen UR Food & Biobased Research
Pim Lohmeijer, Eindhoven University of Technology
14.30 – 15.00
Biobased polyesters for coatings and partially biobased polyesters
for engineering plastics applications
Cor Koning, DSM Coating Resins
15.00 – 15.30
Coffee break
15.30 – 16.00
Biobased ‘drop in’ bulk chemicals: Producing styrene and acrylic
acid from biomass
Jacco van Haveren, Wageningen UR Food & Biobased Research
16.00 – 16.30
Sustainability of biobased performance materials: Current status
and potential for improvement
Li Shen, Utrecht University
16.30 – 16.45
Closing remarks
16.45 – 18.00
Drinks