Virtual Handshake 2022

10 February 2022 14:00 CETDigital event

The nearing 2030 urge both countries and businesses to race to fulfil our sustainability agendas. Join us on February 10, digitally, and get new insights from the initiatives that Packbridge members are implementing to capture the opportunities in the low-carbon economy and reach their sustainability goals.

How do we find and develop the ultimate climate-smart packaging materials for the decades ahead of us?
How can we identify and integrate science-based targets into existing operations?

We will hear fresh insights and stories about the current industry's agendas and challenges ahead from Anke Hampel, Innovation & Sustainability Director at Tetra Pak Global Supply SA; Katrin Molina-Besch, Associate senior lecturer at Packaging Logistics at Lund University; and Louise Wohrne, Director of Sustainability and Public Affairs at BillerudKorsnäs. Take a chance to make new connections! Stay for the digital mingle at the end of the event.

Register latest by February 9, 2021. FREE of charge.
Upon registration, you should receive a confirmation letter with the event link via e-mail. We will also send you an e-mail reminder before the event.

Moderator

Jouni Lattu
Customer Account Lead @ VTT

Jouni Lattu is a Customer Account Lead at VTT in Finland, focusing the project sales on global high impact packaging value chains. He has an M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Tampere and Chalmers. Jouni has spent his career mostly with European packaging converting at Huhtamaki, McDonald’s, WinCup and SoloCup, and the most recent 10 years at VTT, working on novel bio-based plastics, nano-fibrillated cellulose, and other modified fibre products.

Anke Hampel
Innovation & Sustainability Director @ Tetra Pak Global Supply SA

Innovation Partnerships for Sustainable Packaging Materials

14:05 Thursday

15m

Anke Hampel, Tetra Pak Global Supply SA

Anke Hampel

Anke is a member of Tetra Pak’s global Procurement Leadership Team, driving excellence in the company’s sustainability and innovation approach. By focusing on the brand’s promise to protect what’s good - food, people and the planet - Anke and her team are ensuring progress towards Tetra Pak’s commitment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This includes developing the key innovation partnerships that help the company’s future package to be fully made of responsibly sourced renewable or recycled materials, fully recyclable and carbon neutral.

Anke is also coordinating for Tetra Pak’s strategic program on renewable and recycled content. In 2020, she has created the ‘Join us in Protecting the Planet’ supplier initiative, which is driving a 50% greenhouse gas emissions reduction effort as one of twenty actions for 2030. In addition, Anke is representing Tetra Pak in the Plastic Waste Coalition of Action by Consumer Goods Forum.

Anke is a German citizen, based in Lausanne, Switzerland. She holds a diploma in international business studies from Dresden University, Germany. Anke joined Tetra Pak in 2017 and previously held positions within Procurement and Finance in the Consumer Goods Industry.

The industrial perspective on bioplastics in relation to sustainability targets for food packaging – Results from a stakeholder study in Sweden

15m

The presentation will focus on how industrial stakeholders reason about the potential advantages and disadvantages of different types of bioplastics in relation to the packaging sustainability targets of their companies.

Katrin will present preliminary results from an ongoing interview study that is part of the research program STEPS (Sustainable Plastics and Transition Pathways) at Lund University. The goal of the study is to provide insights into the perceptions of industrial stakeholders about bioplastics as a food packaging material. The interviews were performed among representatives from packaging companies, food producers and food retailers in the Swedish context.

Katrin Molina-Besch

Katrin Molina-Besch is a researcher and an associate senior lecturer in the Division of Packaging Logistics at Lund University, where she is also responsible for the Master level course “Packaging technology and development”.
Throughout her scientific career, Katrin has focused her research on how companies handle environmental requirements during packaging development and to this day continues to spread knowledge about how different environmental requirements should be prioritized in packaging development to reduce the overall environmental impact in the food supply chain.

Fighting global warming through science based targets

15m

Louise will explain how BillerudKorsnäs have worked towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions so far and provide insights from their process of setting science-based targets. How were the new targets set? How is the company planning on achieving them and what are the big challenges ahead? These questions will be the focus of Louse's presentation.

Louise Wohrne

Louise is an engineer with a MSc in Biotechnology from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. She has been with BillerudKorsnäs since 2011 in different roles, most of them related to sustainability. Louise is heading BillerudKorsnäs’ Sustainability & Public Affairs team, responsible for developing the sustainability agenda in the company, reporting and supporting the business. Louise was leading the work in setting BillerudKorsnäs’ Science Based Targets in 2017 and her passion is to drive sustainability throughout the company, ensuring that the company contributes to a sustainable future.