News & Events

NatureWorks' Bill Coggio will present at the Coating Trends and Technology Conference in Chicago on Tuesday Sept 10^th at 1:35pm as part of the Biobased and Sustainable Technology in Coatings (Track #3)

Title of the talk:

Lactide Polyester Polyols in Polyurethane Coatings

Authors: Bill Coggio, Matt Tjosaas and Mike Gehrung

From a niche market, single-serve beverage capsules have grown to be one of the most important sub-applications of the ambient thin wall packaging segment in the past 5 years. This dynamic market segment has a complex value chain. There are a number of coffee brewing systems available with proprietary capsule designs. With a number of brands pioneering the emergence of the segment and achieving the highest machine installment rates globally.   

NatureWorks will be attending and exhibiting at this event.

NatureWorks CEO, Rich Altice, will be presenting on the CEO panel, "How does industrial biotechnology contribute to establishing a healthy sustainable planet?" during the opening session on Day 1, 9:00AM-12:30PM

NatureWorks' Erwin Vink will speak on "The future of plastics – How to establish innovative and sustainable solutions" panel.

NatureWorks' Senior Circular Economy Manager, Tim Goodman will participate on the "Do's and Don'ts of Labeling Your Compostable Packaging" panel.

The Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC) Engage event is specially designed to promote solutions and catalyse action by industry that enables more sustainable packaging in a circular economy. The theme of SPC Engage London is activating corporate sustainability goals.

NatureWorks' Mariagiovanna Vetere will participate on the panel, Pioneering Responsible Sourcing in Packaging Materials.

The Sustainable Cosmetics Summit will showcase green materials, sustainable packaging, and marketing developments. This executive summit will discuss approaches to change formulations, packaging, and consumption of cosmetics & personal care products to help prepare for a circular economy.

NatureWorks will sponsor and speak at this event.

See NatureWorks' Senior Sustainability Manager, Erwin Vink, present, "Ingeo Biopolymers, polymers that fit in a true, biobased, circular economy."

FormNext is where experts from a wide range of industry sectors, such as automotive, aerospace, mechanical engineering, medical technology, electrical engineering, and many more, come together to discover additive manufacturing, industrial 3D printing, and innovative production technologies for themselves.

NatureWorks will have an exhibitor booth at the show.

First held alongside COP15 in Copenhagen, the Sustainable Innovation Forum at COP25 has been uniting the public and private sector to accelerate climate action for the last decade. The Forum is now recognized as the premium business-focused event during COP, uniting leaders from the private sector, governments, and investors to build the partnerships required to drive climate action.

NatureWorks will sponsor this event and speak.