Institutional Events

INSTITUTIONAL EVENTS – HALL 24 – CONFERENCE HALL

The conferences are held in Italian (a simultaneous translation is available in English)

Registration to the exhibition

Tuesday 9 June 2026 – 14:30-16:30

Plastic: Public Enemy or Scapegoat?

organized in cooperation with Ipack Ima srl and Largo Consumo

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Welcome

Luciano Sottile, President of Ipack Ima Scientific Technical Committee

PPWR: less plastic or less virgin plastic? The detail that changes everything

Francesca Siciliano Stevens, Europen Secretary General

The figures behind the transition

Luca Baraldi, Chief Research Manager MECS, UCIMA

The transition as told by those making it happen

Fabio Fiorelli, Purchasing and R&D Packaging Manager Esselunga

Giuseppe Scicchitano, Packaging Manager Henkel Italia

Emiliano Squarza, Packaging, Technical and General Purchasing Manager, Noberasco

Geopolitical implications: Francesca Siciliano Stevens in conversation with Armando Garosci

Francesca Siciliano Stevens, Europen Secretary General and Armando Garosci, Editor-in-Chief Largo Consumo

Wednesday 10 June 2026 – 10:00-12:30

The National Plastics Value Chain Summit – dialogue between institutions and industry on competitiveness and circularity

organized in cooperation with Amaplast, Corepla, IPPR, PlasticsEurope Italia-Federchimica, Unionplast, The European House Ambrosetti

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Moderator Giuseppe De Filippi, Deputy Director TG5

10:00-10:05 Opening session

Gilberto Pichetto Fratin
Minister for the Environment and Energy Security

10:05-10:35 Study presentation

The plastics industry in Italy: Strategies and lines of action to support competitiveness and circularity

Lorenzo Tavazzi
Senior Partner and Head of the Scenarios and Intelligence Area, TEH Ambrosetti

10:35-10:55 Presentation of the geopolitical context

Marco Minniti
President of the Med-Or Foundation

10:55-11:45 Industry round table

Libero Cantarella, President of IPPR

Massimo Centonze, President of Unionplast

Massimo Margaglione, President of Amaplast

Franco Meropiali, President of PlasticsEurope Italia – Federchimica

President of Corepla

11:45-12:15 Institutional round table

Marco Ravazzolo
Director of Environment, Energy and Mobility Policies, Confindustria

Laura D’Aprile
Head of the Sustainable Development Department, MASE

Massimiliano Salini
Member of the ENVI Committee on Environment, Climate and Food Safety of the European Parliament

Valentino Valentini
Deputy Minister of Enterprises and Made in Italy (tbc)

Wednesday 10 June 2026 – 14:30-15:30

Mould Temperature and Product Quality

organized in cooperation with TMP

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Mould conditioning and product properties

Vilmo Malavasi, TMP Consultant

Thermoregulation and conformal cooling channels in injection moulding

Fabio del Monaco, Sales Director HTS Sidertoce

From monitoring to action: improving energy efficiency

Giorgio Pigozzo, CEO Wittmann Digital, Wittmann Group

Thursday 11 June 2026 – 10:00-13:00

Mechanical Recycling of Plastics – Report 2025. Protection, to Regenerate the System

organized in cooperation with Assorimap

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Moderator: Daniele Di Stefano, journalist of EconomiaCircolare.com

10:30 Institutional greetings

Alessandra Gallone, President Ispra

10:40 Assorimap Report – Mechanical Recycling of Plastics: 2025 Data

Paolo Arcelli, Director of Plastic Consult

Walter Regis, President of Assorimap

11:20 The state of art of the System

Edo Ronchi, President of Fondazione Sviluppo Sostenibile

Roberto Sancinelli, President of Montello spa

11:40 Regenerating, standards and traceability

Riccardo Parrini, Ceo The Nest Company

Rodolfo Cattoi, Board Member of Uniplast

12:00 Protection, a supply chain agreement

Walter Regis, President of Assorimap

Giovanni Bellomi, DG Corepla

Thursday 11 June 2026 – 10:00-12:00 (Exhibitor Arena – Hall 11)

Circularity and AI for the competitiveness of the rubber industry

organized in cooperation with Assogomma (available only in Italian language)

Save the date

10:00 Institutional greetings

Roberto Luciano Forresu, President of Assogomma

Introduction to the day’s event

Maurizio Galimberti, Maurizio Galimberti, Full Professor, Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano

Materials and Circular Economy

Gaetano Guerra, Professor Emeritus, University of Salerno, Accademia dei Lincei

10:30 AI in Industry

Matteo Matteucci, Full Professor, Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano

Pioneering Tomorrow

Thomas Hanel, Head of Innovation and Material Development Pirelli

11:55 Closing remarks and thanks

Maurizio Galimberti, Maurizio Galimberti, Full Professor, Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano

Thursday 11 June 2026 – 14:30-16:00 (Exhibitor Arena – Hall 11)

Traceability and the digital product passport: the “Plastic Second Life” case

organized in cooperation with IPPR (available only in Italian language)

Daniele Rozzoni, autore di “Digital Product Passport, quando il prodotto parla”

Riccardo Parrini, The Nest Company

Anna Lisa Polimeni, responsabile certificazione PSV di IPPR

Thursday 11 June 2026 – 14:30-16:00

Competing in plastics today: operational efficiency, compliance and supply chain digitalisation

organized in cooperation with Made Competence Center I4.0

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Digital and sustainable innovation for the plastics industry

Davide Polotto, Business Development Manager MADE4.0

Process innovation and technology transfer: hardware optimisation for competitive and sustainable plastics production

Davide Vizzini,  Sales Director Proplast

Digital transformation for regulatory compliance and process and product optimisation

Luca Bolognini, Director, Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Division, aizoOn

Andrea Terenzi, Direttore Divisione Sostenibilità aizoOn

Digitalisation of production processes in the plastics sector: from data collection to planning

Mauro Manzetti, General Manager Tesar

The safety of connected machinery: a strategic requirement for the entire supply chain, between NIS2, the new Machinery Regulation and the Cyber Resilience Act

Daniele De Marchi, Cybersecurity Specialist Siemens

Friday 12 June 2026 – 10:00-13:00

Plastics in the construction sector: the “PVC” case

organized in cooperation with PVC Forum/VinylPlus Italia

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Introduction

Secretariat PLAST – PVC Forum/VinylPlus Italia

The sustainability programme for the PVC supply chain

programme

D. Redaelli – VinylPlus

PVC in construction

The Italian market – P. Arcelli, Plastic Consult

Advantages in PVC applications – M. Piana, PVC Forum/VinylPlus Italia

European and Italian recycling projects for the construction sector

The Recovinyl scheme – D. Redaelli, VinylPlus

The WREP Project – M. Piana, PVC Forum/VinylPlus Italia

Sustainability and circularity of PVC in construction: past and future

C. Ciotti, PVC Forum Italia

ASF, ecodesign applied to PVC in construction

G. Sarti, VinylPlus Italia

Systems for detecting legacy additives

A. Boscolo, Phoenix srl

Proposed EPR scheme for the construction sector

C. Ciotti, PVC Forum Italia e M. Piana, PVC Forum/VinylPlus Italia

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