Organized by ElitePlus, the 10th Speciality Films and Flexible Packaging Global Summit 2023 is going to take place at the recently opened Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai. The two-day conference which is generally the highlight of the year for the fast-growing Indian flexible packaging industry also attracts a good number of the top leadership of global and Indian brand owners, converters, and suppliers to the industry.
This year’s global summit is set to bring together industry experts for two days of information sharing and networking from companies such as Britannia, DS Group, Hindustan Unilever, ITC, Unibic, Nestle, Piramal Pharma, and Amul. The conference will host panel discussions on industry current challenges, over 45 presentations by global industry leaders, and Q&A sessions with thought leaders and subject matter experts. Over 70 partners will be exhibiting their products and services in front of over 2000 global attendees.
The past several Elite conferences have gradually taken up the sustainability of flexible packaging with increasing seriousness. The polymer suppliers have spoken more and more about recyclates while the Indian converters have talked about the need for better waste collection, sorting, and recycling facilities. In the meantime, the Plastic Waste Management Rules as per Schedule II of February and June 2022 have established the Extended Producer Responsibility guidelines for recyclability with a time-bound schedule of compliance and financial penalties in the case of falling short of compliance.
The Elite Conference generally provides a good insight into which brand owners are most concerned about the sustainability challenge and an update on the vision of the suppliers and flexible packaging converters. Government officials and regulators also provide an update on the latest regulations and compliances.
The technical presentations by the suppliers of equipment, technology, film, polymer, resin, coating, adhesive, and ink suppliers point toward innovations and solutions, while the converters respond with their challenges to the cost of the investments in light of the general unpreparedness of the brand owners to pay more for recyclable and sustainable packaging solutions. Increasingly over the years, there has been a good representation of the recycling community at the event.
Register here to be a part of the 10th Speciality Films and Flexible Packaging Global Summit- 2023.
Program 31 August Thursday
Keynote Address 1 – The Indian Economic Landscape – Nilesh Shah, Group President & MD, Kotak Mahindra Asset Management Co. Ltd.
Keynote Address 2 – PolyOlefins – Near term outlook forFlexible Packaging Industry Prabh Das, Managing Director & CEO, HPCL-Mittal Energy Ltd.
Keynote Address 3 – Current trends in FMCG sector and impact onPackaging Prabha Narasimhan, Managing Director & CEO, Colgate-Palmolive
Keynote Address 4 – Future Strategies & Technologies to increase profitability of the flexible packaging industry – Ashok Chaturvedi, Founder, Chairman &Managing Director, UFlex Group
Keynote Address 5 – Excellence in Packaging to accelerate growth of Brands &m arket penetration Saugata Gupta, CEO, Marico IndustriesLimited
Keynote Address 6 – Why World sees India as the Bright Spot for Business with more Sunshine Ahead
Business Session I –Packaging – Enhancing Value for FMCG companiesKeynote Address – M&A’s SWOT analysis for the Flexible Packaging Industry Manoj Jaiswal, Partner and CFO, Premji Invest, India
Sustainable Packaging and Evolving World of E-commerce – Alok Srivastava, Sr. Director- Packaging &Consumables, Flipkart*
Panel Discussion 1 – Brand Owners’ Perspective – Moderator, Pradeep Banerjee, Executive Director, Hindustan Unilever Limited; Yogesh Mishra, Executive Director, Supply Chain, Hindustan Unilever Limited, Swarn Singh Grover, Director R&D, Kelloggs, Kalyan Chatterjee, Vice President, ITC Ltd., Ruturaj Kamthekar, Head of Innovation & Technical for Global Key Accounts, Huhtamaki, Satyajit Talluri, Chief Procurement Officer, UNIBIC Foods, Sanjay Gupta, Vice President – Corporate Procurement and Packaging Development, Dharampal Satyapal Ltd., Pradeep Kumar Pandey, President Pkg Dev., Emami Ltd
Business Session 2 – Converters’ Perspective on Sustainability
Comparing the Indian and Global Packaging Industry Speaker – Senior Leadership from Constantia, Europe
Overcome challenges of full range of PP barrier film and sustainable packaging solutions – Atsushi Yoshida, Manager, Business Development Department, Global Packaging Subdivision, Toppan Inc., Japan
Advantages of Going Global –Prashant Mehra, President & CEO, SRF Ltd.
European Perspectives on FlexiblePackaging – Davide Garavaglia, President, European Rotogravure Association, Germany
Plastic fantastic, Beat Plastic Pollution by Reducing, Recycling & Reuse Kunal Bajaj, Director, Jupiter Laminators, India
Business Session 3 – Sustainability – Opportunities and Challenges
Keynote Special Address by Shri C.K. Mishra, ex. Secretary-Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Government of India
Collective Intelligence – Value chain collaboration and progress in plastic circularity
Doug Chamberlin, Chief Advisor, Membership Initiatives, Alliance to End Plastic Waste, UK
Panel Discussion 2 – Ground Realities – Environment issues, EPR, Sustainability and Demystifying PWM – Moderator – Marzaban Thanewala,VP HPC Asia, Constantia Flexibles & Jeevaraj Pillai, Joint President, Flexible Packaging Business & New Product Development, UFlex Limited, Jigish Doshi, CMD,Vishakha Polyfab, Saket Kanoria, Managing Director, TCPL Packaging Limited, Suranjana Ghosh, Head, Marico Innovation Foundation, Rahul V Podaar, Managing Director, The Shakti Plastic Industries, Michael Laurier, Chief Executive Officer, Symphony Environmental Ltd
Business Session 4 – Advancements in Raw Material for Sustainable Packaging – Part I Session Chairman Unmesh Nayak, COO, Polymers, Reliance Industries Ltd.
Creating Solutions for Everyday Sustainable Living – Caroline Cathelin, Director, Global Innovation APS (Advanced Polymer Solutions), LyondellBasell, France
New Sustainable products and technology solutions – Anton Wolfsberger, Vice President, Global Marketing, Packaging and Circular Economy, Borouge, Austria
Business Session 5 – Oriented Films moving towards Sustainability
Development and future potential of BOPE films vs BOPP & MDO Films – Markus Gschwandtner, Managing Director and CEO, Brückner Servtec GmbH, Germany
Advancing Sustainability in Flexible Packaging with Rotogravure Printing – Dr. Sascha Witt, CSO, Windmoller & Holscher, Germany
Innovative Blown Film Lines For Highly Flexible And Sustainable Film Production – Dr. Holger Niemeier, Executive Vice President, Hosokawa Alpine, Germany
Sustainable Barrier Films in Cast and Blown With and Without MDO – Benjamin Pott & Vladislav Smirnov – Reifenhäuser Blown Film GmbH, Germany
Innovations in cast film extrusion for sustainable film solutions – Francesco Peccetti, Board Member, Colines, Italy
Welcome Back – Nidhi Verma, Founder&Managing Director, ElitePlus Business Services
Keynote Address 7 – Packaging in India – How do we grow from here
Panel Discussion 3 – Disruptive technologies – Moderator, Pradeep Tyle, CEO, Qzone Technocrats
Hari K Singh, Executive Vice President, Head Global Operations &Strategy (India, Thailand &South Africa) & Country Head Thailand, SRF Limited, N.S. Sundaram, CEO Paharpur 3P Pvt Ltd, Sanjay Chincholikar, Business Head – Technical Films & Rigid Packaging, Cosmo Films Ltd., P N Sridhar, DGM Sustainable Products & Packaging, ITC Ltd., Manoj Kochar, Director, Holoflex Ltd., Mark Bampfield, Director – APAC Region, Hudson Sharp
Business Session 6 – Latest Trends in Green Technology
Elevating Flexible Packaging with Cutting-Edge Cooling Systems for Enhanced Performance – Erhan Haykircan, Sales Director, KuhneAnlagenbau, Germany
Successful transition from solvent to water-based printing in gravure Jonathan Giubilato, Product Line Director, Gravure, Bobst
State of the Art Coating and Converting Technologies for Sustainable Packaging Materials Esa-Matti Aalto, Managing Director, Olbrich Group (Matthews Engineering), Germany
Business Session 7 – Printing – First Impressions Count Part I
Latest Technologies in Flexographic Printing Plates – Jan Scharfenberg, Business Leader EMEA and AP, DuPont Cyrel Solutions, Germany
Optimizing Efficiency – Strategies for Cost and Time Reduction in Short Run Pau Xifra, Chief Transformation Officer, Comexi, Spain
Key trends in Flexible Packaging Market and related business equipment propositions Speaker from Uteco Converting S.p.A., Italy
The relevance of web offset technology for creating a circular economy – Wolfgang Hiesinger, Senior Vice President – Packaging Solutions, manroland GossGroup, Germany
Day Two – Friday 1 September
Session Chairman from Sabic
Business Session 8 – Advancements in Raw Materials for Sustainable Packaging – Part I
Business Solutions for Sustainable Packaging and Circular Economy – Jun Kawaguchi, Managing Director, Mitsui Chemicals India Pvt. Ltd.
Specialty Acrylics for Food Packaging Applications – Dr Nadine Leber, GlobalTechnical Marketing Manager Specialty Acrylics, Evonik, Germany
Business Session Printing – First Impressions Count Part Il
Innovation in the printing & converting industry – Shrey Agarwal, Director, Narendra Gravure
HP New Age digital printing – Appadurai,Country Manager, Indigo & Inkjet Solutions, Hewlett-Packard India Sales Pvt. Ltd.
Cutting edge technologies in Gravure Printing – Yash Shrimanker &Vasu Shrimanker, Directors, Pelican Rotoflex Pvt. Ltd.
Water Based Inks and Coatings Technology for a safer and greener tomorrow – Dr Dipshikha Banerjee, Head of Technology, Flexible Packaging, India Region, Siegwerk
Safe and sustainable inks for food packaging – Giuseppe Ciriello, Head of Technical Competence Center Gecko Europe and Head of Technical Marketing Gecko & Hydro-X South &East Europe, Hubergroup, Italy
Importance of sustainability in today’s world – Jose Novo, Key Account Manager, Toyo Ink Co., Ltd., Japan
Innovation in adhesives for flexible packaging – Wladimir Moraes,Global Market Manager, Bostik, France
Latest Developments in Laminating Adhesives for Flexible Packaging – Gaurav Talwar, Managing Director, Brilliant Polymers
Slitter Rewinders that do more with less – Biku Kohli, Managing Director, SP Ultraflex Systems (P) Ltd.
