1st Swiss Sustainable Polymer Conference SSPC 2025

Session Time

Title

Speaker

08:30

Registration (Audimax 1.045)

09:00

Welcome and Introduction

Prof. Dr. Christian Rytka
Institut für Kunststofftechnik FHNW

09:10

Transformation to sustainable plastics technology

Prof. Dr. Christian Rytka
Institut für Kunststofftechnik FHNW

09:30

Update on Plastic Regulations

Elias Rehmann
BAFU

09:50

PET-Recycling

Jana Walker
Resilux

10:10

Coffee Break / Show cases / table exhibition

10:40

Barriers and Drivers for the adoption of (plastic) circularity and pathways to overcome them

Prof. Dr. Grégoire Meylan
Institut für Biomasse und Ressourceneffizienz FHNW

11:00

Bio-based and degradable thermoset composites

Prof. Dr. Katharina Resch-Fauster
Uni Leoben

11:30

Designing for a Circular Economy

Stephanie Estoppey
Studiocolony

11:50

Lunchbreak / Case studies / table exhibition

13:00

Show cases / table exhibition / Guided tour through the technical center

14:30

Coffee Break / Show cases / table exhibition

15:00

Results Innobooster Applied Circular Sustainability

Salome Berger
ZHAW

15:20

Circular economy as a strategy for sustainable plastics

Dr. Melanie Haupt
realcycle

15:40

Development of closed plastic loops

Dr. Rémy Stoll
KATZ

16:00

Potentials and challenges of chemical recycling

Dr. Arno Maurer
OST

16:20

Closing words

Prof. Dr. Christian Rytka
Institut für Kunststofftechnik FHNW