Stewart Hardy will be speaking at the 23rd European PET & polyester conference

Stewart Hardy will be a guest speaker at the 23rd Greater Europe PET & Polyester (Recycling & Sustainability) in Porto Portugal this May 23-24th

Stewart's paper will consider the production economics for the full PET value chain, detailing the extent of the competitive pressure driving the current influx of imports into Europe.  The paper will also outline recent investment and legislative developments regarding PET recycling in Europe.

Highlights of the conference include:

• Feedstock Competitiveness – the impact on global PET trade

• Closing the loop on PET trays

• Scaling up the recyclability of multilayer PET-based tray

• Production of virgin-like monomers from mixed PET waste - revolPET®

• Recycling complex polyester waste to high performance products - The White Cycle project

• Delivering high quality recycled PET to Romania and neighbouring countries - Update on the first PET recycling plant in Romania

• Mono-PET flexibles: the low carbon choice

• Cost-effective chemical recycling process for recycled PET of highest purity

• Recent achievements in the protein engineering of enzymes for the degradation of PET

• Is there a sustainable solution for textile-to-textile recycling

• Drivers for FMCG companies towards more sustainability for packaging