ABC 2026 Presentations
ABC 2026 Attendee List (by Last Name)
ABC 2026 Attendee List (by Company Name)
Please note that the presentations we have been permitted to distribute are listed below. The presentations are listed by Date and Session, in the order they were presented. Click on the presentation title to download.
Monday, October 5, 2026
Plastic 101’s
- Reciprocating Screw EBM Technology - Nicholas Rocheleau, Project Engineer, Rocheleau Blow Molding Systems
- Multi-Layer Extrusion Blow Molding -Jens Schlueter, President, W. Müller USA, Inc.
- Shuttle Blow Molding Technology 101 - Joe Slenk, Manager, Applications and Process Development, Bekum America Corporation
- Injection Blow Molding - Philippe Couture, BIM & CNC Consultant, Owner, Optimisation Philippe Couture, Inc.
- Digital Printing for Extrusion Blow Molded Articles - Dietmar Michels, Business Development Engineer, Delta Engineering
- Laser Texturing 101 - Chad Hase, Director, Advanced Manufacturing, Custom Etch Inc.
- Building the Next Generation of Blow Molding Professionals - Kyler Ruark, President, Molding Service Group, LLC
- High-Order Pressure-Volume Relationship for Improved Simulation of Stretch Blow Molding Processes - Dr. Zohir Benrabah, Research Officer, Forming & Blow Molding Scientist, National Research Council Canada
- Student Design Competition Winners’ Presentations from Students at Penn State Behrend and Pennsylvania College of Technology
-First Place: Rainwater Collection Vessel
-Second Place: Water Filled Weight
Tuesday, October 6, 2026
General Sessions
- NPE Bottle Zone Updates - Mike Urquhart, Plastics Industry Association
- Keynote Presentation: Vertical Lessons - Manley Feinberg,
award-winning speaker, expert mountain climber, and
author of Reaching Your Next Summit™! 9 Vertical Lessons for Leading with More Impact - Keynote Presentation: Advancing the Plastics Circular Economy with Breakthrough Material Identification Technology - Jill Martin, Sr. R&D/TS&D Fellow, Packaging Specialty Plastics & Hydrocarbons, The Dow Chemical Company
- Preview of the ABC 2027, October 18-20 - Jens Schlueter, Chair Elect
Session 1A – Innovation in Processing
- Laser Heating Technology Redefines PET Blowing after Four Decades of Halogen Heat - Dider Decrock, Director, PET Portfolio PET Solutions, Sidel Group
- Advanced Heat Management for Large Preform Reheating - Tetiana Pronikova, Head of Marketing, PET Technologies, GmbH
- Roadmap to Sustainable Low-Carbon Products at Scale - Harpreet Singh, NA R&D/TS&D Director, Packaging and Specialty Plastics, The Dow Chemical Company
Session 1B – Driving Performance Through Innovation and Sustainability
- Innovative New Processing Solution for Cost Saving and Quality Improvement - Heinz Gross, Dr. Ig., Gross Kunstoff-Verfahrenstechnik
- Sustainable Packaging That Performs and Stands Out at the Point-of-Sale - Dennis Dube, Global Sales Lead
fhw-moulds GmbH - How to Measure Greenhouse Gas Emissions to Achieve Net Zero - Chaitanya Gogula, Operations Manager,
Arch Plastics Packaging
Wednesday, October 8, 2026
Session 2A – Artificial Intelligence in Blow Molding and Manufacturing
- Can AI Run a Blow Molding Machine? Opportunities and Limits of AI in Plastic Processing - Aleksandr Kharazov,
Regional Sales Manager, ST Blowmoulding - AI-Powered Manufacturing Productivity and Employee Engagement - Marshall Price, Sr. Account Executive, QAD Redzone
- AI Technologies for Optimizing Spare Parts Availability - Michael Minc, Director of Energy and Manufacturing, Verusen
Session 2B – Sustainable Solutions in Blow Molding
- Beyond the Blow Molder, Finding the Profit Hiding Outside of the Machine - Josh Dillman, Category Manager, Packaging and Joel Bryant, VP Purchasing and Business Development, All Star Purchasing Association
- Sustainability from the Lens of Converters - Rainer Sattel, Management Consultant, AST Kunststoffverarbeitung GmbH
- Effect of Post-Consumer Recycled Content on Blow Molded High-Density Polyethylene Bottles - Hayden Sprague, Jacob Culross, Pittsburg State University