ABC 2023 Presentations

Please note that the presentations we have been permitted to distribute are listed below. The presentations are listed by Dates and Sessions in the order in which they were presented. Click on the presentation title to download.

Monday, October 23, 2023

Plastic 101’s

• Polyethylene Basics for Blow Molding - Justin Lumbley, Technical Service & Application Development Engineer,
  Chevron Phillips Chemical Company
• Industrial Blow Molding Design Fundamentals - Andrew Hobson, Director of Sales, BBM America LLC
• Package Design Means More Than Ever Before! - David Heisner, Industrial Design Sr. Manager, Graham Packaging  Company
• Compression Blow Forming Technology - Allan Anderson, Technical Sales Manager, SACMI USA
• Two-Stage BM Innovations for Sustainable PET Packaging Solutions - Vincent Le Guen, VP, Packaging & Tooling, Sidel
  
• Rotary Wheel Blow Molding - Scott Howland, Strategic Market Manager - Blow Molding Systems, Graham Engineering Co.
• Highest Efficiency and Resource Saving in EBM - Jean Ingenbrand, CEO, Andreas Lichtenauer, Business Development Director, fhw-moulds GmbH
• What Can You Do With Today's Vision Systems? - Scott Heins, Director of Sales & Marketing, INTRAVIS Inc.
  
• Student Design Competition Winners’ Presentations from Students at Penn State Behrend
  -First Place: Green Top Refugee Housing
  -Second Place: Marking Buoy
  -Senior Project: Evaluating the Effects of Additives on Degradation of HDPE in an Extrusion Blow Molding Process to Promote Long Term Sustainability 
   
  

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

General Sessions

• Keynote Presentation: The Vectors That Affect Us - David Parrillo, Vice President, Research & Development, Dow
  
• Plastics, PFAS and Politics in the States - An Overview of State, Legislative, and Regulatory Challenges
  -Tim Shestek, Senior Director, State Affairs, American Chemistry Council
• Sustainability and Advocacy Trends in U.S. Plastics - Patrick Krieger, VP of Sustainability, Plastics Industry Association
  
• Understanding the Growing Contract Manufacturing Market: What Are Your Opportunities? - Ron Puvak, Executive Director, Contract Packaging Association, Association for Contract Packagers and Manufacturers.
  
  

Session 1A – Sustainable Solutions

• Navigating the Migration to Greener Plastics - Scott Steele, President, SWS Consulting LLC
• PWDS/SFDR: Resource Efficiency Through Optimal Wall Thickness - Manuel Krebs, Technical manager, Feuerherm GmbH
• New Advances in PCR Laden BM containers Using Physical Foaming Techniques on Shuttle and Wheel Blow Molding Systems -Sam Dix, Director of Research & Development, Trexel Inc.

Session 1B – Blow Molding Enhancement

• Circular Economy and Automation - Pietro Spiga, NA Sales & Marketing Manager, Celestino Spiga, Director, MAGIC NA
  
• Laser Technology on Mold Textures Endures Brand Protection, Recycling and Traceability - Chad Hase, Director, Advanced Manufacturing, Custom Etch, Inc.
• Production of PET Containers with Integrated Handle and Stretching Technology, Constantinos Sideris, Director, CYPET Technologies Ltd.

Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Session 2A – The Future in Blow Molding

• Future Trends in Industry 4.0 - Sid Khanna, Associate Partner, McKinsey & Company, Manufacturing & Supply Chain
• Manual vs. Automated Process Control - Prepared for the Future? - Sudha Jebadurai, COO, Agr International , Inc.

Session 2B – PFAs Solutions

• Multi-Layer Technology in EBM - Varinia Lück,, Head of Technical Center, W. Müller GmbH
• Bottle Coating Solutions to Improve Barrier Performance - Jimmy Chow, P. Engineering, Product Manager, KHS USA Inc.
• The Current State Of Fluorinated Packaging - Jad Darsey, VP, Barrier & Surface Technologies, Inhance Technologies
  
  ABC 2023 - Closing Speaker

• Global Blow Molding Resin Update - Joel Morales, Jr., Executive Director, Polyolefins Americas, Chemical Market Analytics
  by OPIS, A Dow Jones Company