7th European Stand-up Pouch Conference - supply chain

Adam Page

Werdegang / Qualifikation

tdam Page is Global Director, Research and Reports at Smithers in Leatherhead, Surrey, Great Britain Adam Page has more than 20 years experience in: - Understanding the impact of trends - Size and segmentation of markets - Project management of international market research projects - Commissioning and publication of market intelligence reports - Development and introduction of new intelligence products and services - Working with customers to achieve their goals - Management of various products and services, including B2B publications, information databases and individual customer advice Adam Page has an extensive experience in international market research/project management in many industries (packaging/print/paper/tyres/raw materials/special chemicals/disruptive technologies/niches and growing markets) Adam Page is member of theAssociation of Professional Futurists (APF) and Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP)

Lieblingsthemen

Market Intelligence, trends and data

Thomas Kahl

Werdegang / Qualifikation

Thomas Kahl studied economics at the University of Applied Sciences in Mönchengladbach. He has more than 25 years of sales and marketing experience in the European flexible packaging industry. His functional experience includes sales, marketing and project management. Since 2018, he has been leading the EcoSolutions project at Mondi, which focuses on sustainable packaging under the heading "paper where possible and plastic when useful". His professional career is as follows: Mondi, Vienna, Austria, 2005 until today Key Account Mgr, Regional Manager DACH and project manager EcoSolutions From various roles in sales and sales management, he moved into the role of EcoSolutions project manager for sustainable packaging solutions last year. Huhtamaki, Ronsberg, Germany, 2000 until 2004, Sales Manager Confectionery He led sales for several multinational FMCGs in the chocolate and confectionery industry. Amcor Viersen, Germany, 1989 until 1999 Responsible for customer service and Key Account Management for customer in the confectionery sector.

Uwe Couvreux

Werdegang / Qualifikation

Uwe Couvreux (diploma/master business administration) is living with his family in the german region Rheinland. During his professional career, he focused on marketing, surface design and packaging materials, most recently as long-standing managing director of a medium-sized surface finishing group. In 2006 he took over maropack film processing in Andernach and has been working on packaging concepts for highly transparent and sustainable films. In 2014, he and a partner founded another location, maropack-serbia, not far from Belgrad. Besides the production of bags, center-folded-films and flat-films, small substrates >2mm (cross-wrapping papers, films) and stand-up pouches are also manufactured. Sustainable substrates now use a large proportion of the production capacity. Maropack produces, at both locations with around 50 employees, on a 3500 square metres production space, has its own QA system and is in the BRC certification process.

Kenntnisse

Manufacture of flat bags (with a lip), header bags and stand-up pouchesCross-wound paper and film substratesSustainable packaging conceptsFoil cuts, punched partsFlat films, half tubeMicro- / macro- and laser perforationPackaging designApplication advice

Lieblingsthemen

Recyclable packaging substrates Development of sustainable packaging concepts

Sprachen

German, Englisch

Henno Hensen

Werdegang / Qualifikation

- 1969 to 1971 employee at Europa Carton AG, Bremen - 1971 to 1997 Managing partner of his father's company for contract processing and mechanical engineering, HENSEN GMBH - 1997 to 2008 Managing partner of HENSEN PACKAGING CONCEPT GMBH (HPC). Separation of the fields "Contract processing" in Hensen GmbH and "Machinery and plant engineering for stand-up pouches" in HPC - July 2008 sales of HPC to KHS AG - Since August 2008 as a freelance consultant with HENSEN CONSULT still independent - Participation in R & D projects regarding flexible packagings - Partner of Scaldopack and FlexFill Solutions

Kenntnisse

Development of flexible packagings Since 1980 active proponent of the refilling packaging stand-up pouch Development of shapes and closures for the stand-up pouch Packaging design Definition of suitable packing material Definition of suitable systems and procedures for this packaging Optimisation of system Holistic view product - packaging - machine - consumer Use and exploitation of patents

Lieblingsthemen

Stand-up pouches Developments and optimisation of flexible packagings R & D participations

Sprachen

German, English

Hery-Christian Henry

Werdegang / Qualifikation

Hery-Christian Henry is an Executive with experience as a private company director and start-up CEO with a passion for public speaking. Founder and Investor. An enthusiast of two worlds, corporate and start-ups, with over 10 years of P&L responsibility. Hery is the Head of Marketing and Sustainability at Wipak, a Flexibles company aspiring to be the world’s first carbon neutral packaging company.

Nicolas Bétin

Werdegang / Qualifikation

Graduated with master’s degrees in both Chemistry (ESCOM) and Marketing (ESSEC), Nicolas Bétin is Director of Product Strategy Packaging Materials EMEA and has endorsed the role of Sustainability Business Leader for all of Sun Chemical. With over thirty years of experience of managing inks & coatings, specialty chemicals, resins and engineering plastics in markets as diverse as adhesives, automotive, packaging converting, and printing, he joined Sun Chemical in 2009 as Managing Director France-Benelux, from Alcan Packaging where he served as European Sales and Marketing Director. He had previously held posts in General Electric Plastics, Royal Dutch Shell, Akzo Nobel, and Rohm & Haas. He has led key initiatives in sustainability including light weighting, halogen free, recyclability and bio-sourcing.

Karsten Schröder

Werdegang / Qualifikation

Karsten Schröder studierte Werkstofftechnik. Anschließend sammelte er rund 10 Jahre Erfahrungen bei Bischof und Klein GmbH & Co., Lengerich in der produktionsnahen Produktentwicklung. Als Projektleiter konnte er zahlreiche neue Lebensmittel- und Konsumgüterverpackungslösungen etablieren. Im Jahr 1998 gründete er die Innoform GmbH und im Jahr 2000 zusammen mit Dipl.-Ing. Klaus Behringer den Innoform Testservice. Im Jahr 2004 gründete er mit seiner Frau Kerstin die Innoform Coaching GbR, die seitdem öffentliche Seminare und Konferenzen anbietet. Zusammen mit Dr. Rainer Brandsch und Klaus Behringer gründete er 2010 die Innoform Consulting GmbH. Als Initiator von InnoNET-partners legte er 2008 den Grundstein für projektorientiertes Arbeiten in virtuellen Teams von hochspezialisierten Experten unterschiedlicher Disziplinen. Unter Inno-Impuls hält er mit Kollegen Fachvorträge (Keynotes) rund um das Thema Gesellschaft und Verpackung und moderiert Firmenveranstaltungen. 2020 entwickelte er mit www.eveema.com das Format www.inno-talk.de. Hier wird Wissen für Flexpack-Enthusiasten kostenlos geteilt. Dazu gehört auch der beliebte Podcast: https://www.inno-talk.de/podcast/ Heute moderiert und organisiert er hauptsächlich Konferenzen und Firmenevents. Außerdem führt er mit seiner Frau Kerstin die Innoform Coaching GbR.

Kenntnisse

Folienherstellung und Verarbeitung (Schwerpunkt Standbeutel) Barrierefolien Spezifikationswesen

Lieblingsthemen

Geschäftsmodelle mit Verpackungen Moderation und Organisation von Tagungen Interviews mit Branchenteilnehmern

Sprachen

Deutsch, Englisch, Spanisch (Grundkenntnisse)

Stephan Garvs

Werdegang / Qualifikation

Apprenticeship as industrial clerk as well as part-time studies in business administration (VWA) and Bachelor of Commercial Economics. 5 years of professional experience in the waste management industry (key account sales food retail). Subsequently 5 years as sales manager at Lidl Vertriebs GmbH & Co. KG Kamp-Lintfort. Since 2009 first at the Lidl Foundation and since October 2014 at Schwarz Zentralen Dienste KG as divisional manager GreenCycle responsible for waste and recyclables marketing as well as recycling and sustainability management. Since 2018 he has been responsible for PreZero Deutschland KG as spokesman of the management board.

Kenntnisse

Food retail Waste management Circular economy

Lieblingsthemen

Closing the loop Waste management Packaging optimisation

Sprachen

German, English

Christian Sigmund

Werdegang / Qualifikation

CEO wildplastic GmbH Swam through plastic in the Amazon in 2017, previously worked for Google & YouTube. Wild about responsibility & effectiveness.

Till Isensee

Werdegang / Qualifikation

Till Isensee (Graduate Engineer), born in Braunschweig, married, one child. He studied Packaging Technology at Technical University of Applied Sciences in Berlin. He then gained 13 years of international business experience for Alcan Packaging, Impress and Altana/Actega in various functions: Head of Development, Business Development Manager, Director Sales and Marketing. In 2008 he founded TILISCO and since then he offers together with his competence partners various services around packaging development, implementation and sales.

Kenntnisse

"Guerilla" Marketing Sterile peel-off lids Examination methods for peel-off lids Sterilisation processes (food) Thinking outside the box Innovation scout

Lieblingsthemen

All around innovations and new technologies for the packaging industry

Sprachen

Deutsch, Englisch, Französisch

Corey M Reardon

Werdegang / Qualifikation

Corey Michael Reardon, President & CEO of AWA Alexander Watson Associates, a position he has held since he acquired the business in 1999. AWA was established in 1971 and is a global business-to-business market research, publishing, and advisory services company with a unique industry focus on the specialty paper, film, packaging, coating and converting industry. AWA publishes a broad portfolio of market research studies, undertakes private client research in the markets in which the company specializes, and – through AWA Conferences & Events – organizes international conferences and a growing portfolio of workshops and training programs. Corey is an industry expert with an established career in the industry, he serves on many company boards, is a regular speaker at key industry events around the world; and consults privately for client companies on marketing and strategic planning. Corey Reardon is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati in Marketing and Strategic Planning and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Industrial Marketing. He began his career nearly 30 years ago in Corporate Strategic Planning, joining Loparex (then H P Smith and Rexam Release) in 1987, where he held a number of increasingly senior roles in various Product Management, Marketing and Business Development positions worldwide, including roles in Brussels, Hong Kong and finally The Netherlands, as Director of Marketing and Sales for European operations. He then joined Avery Dennison, as Marketing Director for Europe until he acquired AWA in 1999. AWA Alexander Watson Associates has grown significantly under the leadership of Corey, and now offers its growing global client base a platform of management information, research, consulting, and M&A services from its headquarters in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and from regional offices in the USA, UK and Thailand.

Jörg D. Schönwald

Werdegang / Qualifikation

Joerg D. Schoenwald joined SCHOENWALD CONSULTING in 1995. Since 2006 he is Managing Director. As international business consultancy the firm’s European and worldwide fields of activity are packaging, plastics and environment. Foci of business are industrial market research, business consultancy, recovering and recycling. The main emphasis is put on industrial market research for flexible and rigid plastic packaging, aluminium, steel, glass and paper packaging products. Plastics and paper for non-packaging applications are another field of activities. Besides publishing numerous multi-client-studies SCHOENWALD CONSULTING has been working intensively on exclusive studies on behalf of many renowned companies even in a global scope. Prior to his position with SCHOENWALD CONSULTING, Joerg Schoenwald worked in the pharmaceutical industry. Joerg Schoenwald has studied law, economics, history and politics and holds a Master of Arts from Erlangen-Nuremberg University. He is married and has two children.