Table of Contents

Plastics Packaging ‘Uber’ Triple Bottom Line Play
Nilang Patel, Senior Vice President, Innovation and Development
Coca-Cola North America

Cracking the Recycling Code for Multi-layer & Coextruded Plastics Materials
Joseph Hensel, CEO
Polyflow

Extrusion Revolution – An Exclusive Debut Technology
Presentation To the North American Plastics Packaging Market
Stefan Lehner, General Sales Manager
M-A-S Maschinen – und Antagenbau Schulz GmbH

Taming the PET Raw Materials Processing Energy Hog
Pete Stoughton, PET Systems Specialist
The Conair Group

Plastics Futures Contracts: Managing & Mitigating Global Price Volatility
Robert Sheldon, Business Manager, Plastics
London Metals Exchange

Strategies of a World-class Rigid Plastics Packaging Company
Mark Burgess, CEO
Graham Packaging Co.

The Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on PET and Polyester Raw Materials
Francesco Zanchi, CEO
Global Service International

Biodegradability, Oxobiodegradability, and Compostability of Plastics Packaging, Science: Principles, Concepts, and Widely Believed Myths
Ramani Narayan, Professor, Chemical Engineering & Materials Science
Michigan State University

Turning Up the Heat on Microwaveable Biopolymer Technologies
Daniel Tein, Vice President,
Teinnovations

Building an RPET `Locavore’ Business & Technology Model
Robert Deardurff, President
Phoenix Technologies International

Leveraging & Leading: Using Technologies & Leveraging Trends to Spur Profitable New Applications for Thermoformed PET
Anthony Gallo, Director of New Applications Development
Ron Skotleski, Market Analyst
Associated Packaging Technologies