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VinylPlus Webinar - Facilitating PVC Products Selection by Green Procurers

December 6, 2022

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (UTC/GMT +01:00 - Europe / Rome)

Registrations are closed

VINYLPLUS SUSTAINABILITY CERTIFICATIONS: FACILITATING PVC PRODUCTS SELECTION BY GREEN PROCURERS

On 6 December 2022, VinylPlus organises a FREE webinar on the benefits of the VinylPlus® Product Label for PVC converters and the VinylPlus® Supplier Certificates for suppliers of PVC additives and compounds, the two VinylPlus Sustainability Certifications to facilitate the selection of PVC products by green procurers.

Why attend this webinar? 

  • Understand how the VinylPlus Sustainability Certifications can benefit industry.
  • Discover why the VinylPlus Sustainability Certifications have been developed to assess and think in common terms about the sustainability performance of PVC products and raw materials.
  • Learn how the VinylPlus Sustainability Certifications facilitate the selection of PVC products by green procurers.
  • Better understand how to implement sustainability in PVC products and process innovation.
  • Find out how the VinylPlus Sustainability Certifications can increase sales in green procurement.

Who should attend:

The FREE webinar is open to all VinylPlus Partners and non-VinylPlus partners. 

  • Business Managers
  • Business Development Managers
  • Market Managers
  • Sustainability Managers
  • Procurement Managers
  • R&D Managers

Key themes

  • VinylPlus Sustainability Certifications - An introduction
  • Benefits of the VinylPlus Sustainability Certifications for the whole PVC value chain
  • VinylPlus® Product Label and VinylPlus® Supplier Certificates criteria schemes
  • European accreditation of the VinylPlus® Product Label
  • Use of the VinylPlus® Product Label to certify recycled content
  • Experience sharing of the VinylPlus® Product Label and VinylPlus® Supplier Certificates holders

Online registration is required.

Contact Noelle Tracey for any additional information.

IMPORTANT: the link to join the webinar will be sent a few days prior to the event.

Details

Start: December 6, 2022
10:00 AM (UTC/GMT +01:00 - Europe / Rome)
End: December 6, 2022
12:00 PM (UTC/GMT +01:00 - Europe / Rome)
VinylPlus®

Online event

Speakers

Dirk Breitbach

Managing Director
Polymer-Chemie
  • www.polymer-chemie.de
  • Dirk Breitbach

    Dirk Breitbach holds a Betriebswirt (VWA)/Graduate in Business Administration. He first worked as a Controller for a Aluminium window-profile producer, and then joined Polymer-Chemie Gmbh, one of the leading compounding producers in Europe, in 1995 as CFO. Ten years later Dirk had different responsibilities in the polymer-group as a managing director. Since 2011, besides his activities as head of administration of the polymer holding, Dirk leads the PVC-Compounding-business of the polymer group. In 2013 Polymer-Chemie decided to join VinylPlus; Dirk represents the interests of the Compounding industry as a VinylPlus Steering Board member.

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Magdalena Garczynska

Technical Project Manager
VinylPlus®
  • www.vinylplus.eu
  • Magdalena Garczynska

    Magdalena has joined ECVM and VinylPlus® in April 2021. Prior to that, she worked for the European Aluminium Association, where she worked on the environmental and circular economy policies. She has also experience in public affairs of the machine tools sector. Her professional experience included 3rd party quality control audits. Magdalena holds a PostGraduate diploma focused on Turbomachinery from The von Karman Institute of Fluid Dynamics in Belgium, and a Master’s in Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University of Poznan, Poland.

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Thomas Hülsmann

Managing Director
VinylPlus Deutchland
  • www.vinylplus.de
  • Thomas Hülsmann

    Thomas Hülsmann has been Managing Director of VinylPlus Deutschland e.V., the PVC value chain association for sustainable development in Germany, since 2014. He is also Managing Director of the associated project and communication firm AGPU MEDIA GmbH. In Europe, he is involved in various committees of VinylPlus®, the sustainability initiative of the european PVC industry, where he is member of the Leadership Team.

    He has been active in the European PVC industry since his graduation in materials engineering in 1988. For the longest time, he held management positions at a PVC manufacturer (now Inovyn) and as managing director at the additives manufacturer IKA. 

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Andy Jones

Global Head of Business Unit PVC Additives
Baerlocher
  • www.baerlocher.com
  • Andy Jones

    Andy joined Baerlocher’s UK subsidiary in 1991 and spent his early career in technical service, sales management and multinational key account management roles, primarily servicing customers in North West Europe. In 2006, he was appointed Managing Director of Baerlocher UK Limited and continues in this position today. Andy joined the management team in Baerlocher GmbH in Munich in 2009 and in his role as Head of PVC Additives EU/MEA, he has been responsible for steering Baerlocher’s business development from all of its European sites through significant technological change and regional expansion. In 2013, Andy joined the Global Management Committee of the Baerlocher Group as Global Head of the Strategic Business Unit PVC Additives and represents the company on a number of subsidiary boards. 

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Vincent Stone - Moderator

Technical & Environmental Affairs Senior Manager
VinylPlus®
  • www.vinylplus.eu
  • Vincent Stone - Moderator

    Vincent Stone graduated in Plastics Engineering at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, where he also earned a PhD. He later earned a part-time MBA degree from the Solvay Brussels School Economics & Management. He joined UCB Group (later Cytec Industries) in 1998, where he led several resin and additive development projects for coatings, inks and adhesives applications. He joined in 2010 ArcelorMittal, where he developed and managed a portfolio of pipe coating technology development and testing services for a range of clients along the oil and gas value chain. He then joined in 2015 the Ferro’s Polymer Additives business (later Synegis) where he led the customer and manufacturing support activities, as well as the global product stewardship activities for the benzoate and polyadipate plasticizers portfolios. Since May 2018, he has joined the European Council of Vinyl Manufacturers (ECVM). ECVM delivers a broad range of technical, sustainability, advocacy and communication services to the leading European PVC resin manufacturers. As Technical and Environmental Affairs Senior Manager, he is mainly in charge to develop the activities of the PVC4Pipes platform. He is also actively involved in the Additives and Sustainable Product Label activities of VinylPlus®, the association managing the European PVC industry's commitment to sustainable development.

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