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Mattias Andersson
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The Circular Plastics 2025
The National Center for Sustainable Plastics invites you to The Circular Plastics 2025, a conference uniting industry, academia, and key organisations to explore plastics' role in the circular economy. This platform fosters discussions on achieving fossil-free solutions through world-leading innovation and production of sustainable plastics.
Throughout the day, you’ll gain valuable insights into the latest advancements in recycling, circular design, and innovative solutions for durable plastic products. Through presentations, panel discussions, and networking, we’ll explore the opportunities and challenges shaping the future of plastics.
The National Centre for Sustainable Plastics fosters cross-sector collaboration across the plastics value chain. This conference provides a unique opportunity to establish new connections, strengthen existing partnerships, and influence future initiatives for sustainable plastics.
Selected Agenda Highlights:
- The European Recycling Market – Current status, trends, and future opportunities.
- The Nordic Recycling Market – Availability, quality considerations, and sourcing of recycled plastics. With Gustav Malmberg, Orbit Supply Chain and Lia Detterfelt, Renova..
- Designing Plastic Packaging and Recycling Systems to Meet Future Demands – With experts from Recycklass and TOMRA.
- Upcoming EU Legislation – Circular plastic recycling requirements and their impact on sustainable design for reuse and material recovery. With Annika Boss, RISE and representatives from Volvo Cars, Scania, and automotive component manufacturers.
- Recycling Systems and Circular Plastics in Long-Life Certified Products – With Minh Nguyen Hoang, IKEA, Anna Jansson, RISE and representatives from the Nordic Plastic Pipe Group and the construction industry.
We warmly invite you to be part of the transition towards more sustainable plastics!
Speakers
Programme
Speakers
Lia Detterfeldt
Development Strategist, Renova
Gustav Malmberg
Founder, Orbit Supply Chain
Kristin Nilsson
Reelab
Minh Nguyen Hoang
Plastic Materials Innovation Area Manager, Ikea
Jean-Emilie Potaufeux
Technical Manager, RecyClass
Valerio Sama
Tomra
Tom Engblom
Environmental Engineer Professional Manager, Volvo Cars
Lars Jerpdal
Technical manager, Scania
Annika Boss
Forskare, RISE
Anna Jansson
Forskare, RISE
Hanna Ljungqvist Nordin
Profu
Andreas Andersson
Regional Sustainability Manager, IAC Group
Tove Almgren
Dagab
Programme
09:15 Registration and coffee
10:00 Introduction and welcoming words
Mattias Andersson, Center Leader at National Center for Sustainable Plastics and moderator Niklas Jälevik RISE
10:10 The recycling status in Europe
10:30 Preview of this year's SMED report - Mapping of Swedish plastic flows
Hanna Ljungqvist Nordin, Profu
10:50 Break
11:15 The recycling market in the Nordics – availability of recycled plastics, their quality, and how to find the plastic you need
Initial interviews followed by panel discussion
Production of high-quality recycled material - how we do it
Kristin Nilsson, Reelab
How we make plastic recycling possible
Gustav Malmberg, Orbit
How we increase profitability by recycling instead of incinerating plastic
Lia Detterfeldt, Renova
12:00 Lunch
13:00 How we design for recycling to meet tomorrow's requirements
Initial presentations followed by panel discussion
Dramatic changes in EU regulations on plastic packaging - How can we meet new demands by improving design for recycling
Jean-Emilie Potaufeux, RecyClass
Intellegent sorting - how AI will improve plastic qualities
Valerio Sama, Tomra
How do we prepare our packaging for the new EU legislation?
Tove Almgren, Dagab
14:00 Break
14:30 Recycled material in demanding applications
Initial presentation followed by panel discussion
CIRCUS, Circular use of plastics in the automotive industry
Opening presentation by Annika Boss, researcher at RISE
Panel:
Tom Engblom, Environmental Engineer Professional Manager, Volvo Cars
Lars Jerpdal, Technical Manager at Scania
Andreas Andersson, Regional Sustainability Manager at IAC Group
15:30 Break
16:00 Sustainable plastic use in long-lived products
Initial presentation followed by panel discussion
Re-cert bygg and Re-membrane - two projects on sustainable building materials
Anna Jansson, researcher at RISE
Panel:
Minh Nguyen Hoang, Plastic Materials Innovation Area Manager, IKEA
More participants to come
16:50 Conference summary
17:00 Conference ends
