Polyurethanes – Trends in PU-Processing
Programme
Tuesday, 28. March 2023
| Welcome | ||
|---|---|---|
| 13:00 | Welcome by the institute's management and the moderator | Europur, Michel Baumgartner |
| 13:20 | Trends and research activities at the IKV | Institute for Plastics Processing (IKV), Dominik Foerges |
| Recycling of PU | ||
| 13:40 | Rigid foam in circular economy | PU Europe, Domenico Perone |
| 14:10 | Growing towards a PUre future | Recticel Engineered Foams Belgium BV, Bart Haelterman |
| 14:40 | Coffee break | |
| 15:00 | Circular solution for polyurethane-based mattresses | Evonik Operations GmbH, Dr. Emily Schweißinger |
| 15:30 | Recycling of post-industrial and post-consumer polyurethane materials with chemolysis | RAMPF Eco Solutions GmbH & Co. KG, Dr. Frank Duersen |
| 16:00 | Final discussion day 1 | |
| 19:00 | Get-together |
Wednesday, 29. March 2023
| Welcome | ||
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 | Welcome by the institute's management and the moderator | Europur, Michel Baumgartner |
| Digitalisation and data-based process monitoring | ||
| 09:10 | Effiicient production process in the circular PU-Foam conversion | Fecken-Kirfel GmbH & Co. KG, Francis Pinckers |
| 09:40 | smartPUR – status quo & potentials | KraussMaffei Technologies GmbH, Sebastian Schmidhuber |
| 10:10 | Increased efficiency in polyurethane processing through sensor-based process monitoring | Institute for Plastics Processing (IKV), Eduard Kremer |
| 10:40 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 | Simulation for the manufacturing process of PU Materials | SimpaTec GmbH, Christoph Hinse |
| 11:30 | Smart Transfoaming - a data-driven challenge? | Albrecht Bäumer GmbH & Co. KG, Stephan Hohenadl |
| 12:00 | Lunch break | |
| 13:00 | High pressure processing of solid fillers in PU foams for the sake of sustainability: Cannon solutions | Cannon Afros S.p.A, Stefano Andreolli |
| Environmentally compatible materials, additives and sustainable applications | ||
| 13:30 | Selected examples of digital polyurethane R&D | Dennis Krause, Covestro AG |
| 14:00 | Coffee break | |
| 14:30 | ECO-friendly mold release technology | Acmos Chemie KG, Hendrik Beiersdorf |
| 15:00 | Diisocyanates in the REACH restriction process - regulatory framework and best practice for the industry | Fachverband Schaumkunststoffe und Polyurethane e. V., Nilüfer Bozkurt-Thielscher |
| 15:30 | Final discussion day 2 | |
| 16:00 | Tour of the IKV technical facilities | |
| 17:00 | End |