2018 international green packaging development summit forum startsat 9 am on October 23, 2018.
At 8 am, the guests arrived at Blue Hall of Nanjiao Hotel, where the forum is held, one after another. Nanjiao Hotel is also called “Shandong’s Diaoyutai State Guesthouse”, which is an important place for the reception of state guests in Shandong Province.
At 9 am, the forum started. The president of WPO (World Packaging Organization), Mr. Pierre Pienaar, General Manager of China National Packaging Corporation, Mr. Li Hua, and Director of Shandong Institute for Product Quality Inspection, Mr. Pei Weirong made speeches. Mr. Pierre Pienaar delivered a speech with the title “Being Smarter and more adaptive to ensure the future of sustainable packaging”.
The title of the speech of Dr. Johannes Bergmair, General Secretary of WPO was “Packaging that Saves the Food”. Dr. Johannes Bergmair shared his views regarding the reform and development of global creative plastic packaging to save the food and improve the social conditions, etc.
Mr. Xing Wenbin, Vice Chief Engineer of China National Export Commodities Packaging Research Institute (CEPI) discussed in his speech about the development of Chinese sustainable packaging, formulation of related theories, policies and standards, etc.
The vice president of WPO, as well as the chairman of Finnish National Committee for Packaging Standardization and chairman of Scandinavian Packaging Association, Mr. Antro Saila introduced the challenges and opportunities of packaging in circular economy and especially the action plans of EU in circular economy package.
The vice director of Shandong Institute for Product Quality Inspection, Mr. Xu Chao made a speech titled “Introduction to Evaluation Methods and Guidelines of Green Packaging”, in which he introduced the background of green product and the formulation process of national green packaging standards, etc.
The general engineer of Labthink Instruments Co., Ltd, Mr. Wang Yuanming shared the stories in the process of developing Labthink’s own core sensor technology in his speech named “Research & Development of Sensors for Gas/Water Vapor Permeability Test of Packaging”. And he also unveiled Labthink’s four types of self-developed sensors.
Ms. Cui Yan, General Secretary of China National Resources Recycling Association, made a speech titled “Packaging Recycling in China”.
With respect to packaging designing, Mr. Dai Yunlin, Vice General Manager and Head of Creative Department of Jiangsu Yanghe Brewery Joint-Stock Co., Ltd., Mr. Chen Yongjun, Senior Engineer of College of Creative Design, Shenzhen Technology University, and Mr. Yu Guang, Shenzhen Green Song Design Co., Ltd made 3 speeches, i.e. Application of Green Packaging in Liquor Packaging, Creative Designs of Modern Green Packaging Featuring Chinese Cultural Characteristics and Function and Structural Design of Packaging Products, respectively.
Professor Dai Tiejun, Institute of Recycling Economy, Beijing University of Technology introduced Paper packaging waste industry policy, market structure and production process optimization based on ecological cost analysis. He suggested to establish an ecological cost calculation system to analyze the paper packaging waste handling and recycling.
Ms. Tian Hui, Vice Director of Electrical Recycling and Green Development Research Center of China Home Electrical Appliance Research Institute made a speech titled “Green Manufacturing and Green Packaging in Home Appliance Industry” in which, she proposed the best solution to reform of green manufacturing including green products, green factories, green industrial parks and green supply chains. Among which, green packaging is one critical component of the green manufacturing.
The first day of the forum came to an end. The specialists from various industries shared different views regarding sustainable green packaging in their wonderful speeches. Tomorrow, the packaging specialists from JD, Suning Group, Nestle, Hunan University of Technology and LogisAll (Korea) will bring more valuable ideas in their speeches.