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Growing environmental awareness has put the word ‘sustainability’ on everyone’s lips in the rest of the world. With consumers increasingly demanding more attention to environmental issues, the Packaging Industry recognizes that it is no longer enough to uphold the 3 ‘P’s of packaging: Protect, Preserve and Promote the product. Now, the 3 ‘R’s: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle packaging, are just as important.
Corporate social responsibility, sustainable practices and compliance issues are starting to make demands on Asia, one of the world’s largest manufacturing bases. Product safety and security matters are also becoming more important.
Is Asia ready for this paradigm shift?
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Asian Packaging Summit -
Day 2:
9 am - 9.45 am: Use of Life Cycle Assessment and Sustainability initiatives by major US retailers like Wal-Mart
• Dr. Paul Singh - Professor, School of Packaging Michigan State University,USA ; Board member, International Association of Packaging Research Institutes (IAPRI)
An Asian Perspective
• Dr. Vanee Chonhenchob, Department of Packaging Technology Kasetsart University, Thailand
9.45 am - 12.30 am:
Packaging The Asian Environment - National Initiatives
• What is Sustainability - the Japanese experience
• Kunio Sawamura, Director, Japan Packaging Research Institute
• Voluntary agreement to reduce packaging waste in Singapore
• Sharon Ong, Senior Scientific Office, National Environment Agency (NEA) Singapore
The Brand Owner Experience:
Increasingly packaging buyers – the Brand Owners are implementing
Environmental Compliance criteria beyond National Legislation. Can Asia
- where most of its countries have no internal sustainability
initiatives - meet compliance and packaging safety requirements from
its customers?
- Hear the BRAND OWNER perspective, as decision makers Nestl and Unilever take to the stage.
- Find out from YOUR ULTIMATE CUSTOMER: the Retailer, what the sustainable retail requirements are
Speakers:
• Packaging Reduction & Environmental Impacts
- Nestle: Bruce Funnell – Group Manager, Packaging & Innovations Network (OAO), Nestle R&D Centre
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12.30pm - 1.30pm: Lunch
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1.30pm – 4pm:
The Brand Owner Experience (cont'd):
Speakers:
• Cheap is no longer Enough!
- Unilever: Mr Paul Clegg – Global Head, Packaging (retd)
• Tetra Pak: Sustainable in Nature
- Tetra Pak: Tomas Svenson - Environmental Director for Asia
Summary Forum
Summary: Actions & Moving Forward
• Albert Lim, President of Asian Packaging Federation
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Evening Programme
AsiaStar Awards Presentation & Gala Dinner
Venue: CHIJMES Hall
Billed as The Packaging Oscars of Asia, the Gala Dinner will be a formal function during which both the SingStar and AsiaStar Awards will be presented between courses.
Entertainment will also be provided.
The event will be video recorded and broadcast on the internet.
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