Join us March 7th for a tour of the Mondi Štětí Mill where you will see paper production at its best: from the wood yard to the paper machines and our paper bag converting operations – we invite you to step inside and see what world class pulp and paper production in the heart of Europe looks like. See the full schedule on the mill tour page.
Complimentary registration can be selected as part of your conference registration and places are on a first come, first served basis.
PLEASE NOTE: The Mondi Štětí Mill tour is now full
Expert speakers include
Andrew King
Group CEO
Mondi
Andrew King
Group CEO
Mondi
Andrew was appointed CEO of the Mondi Group in April 2020, building on his 20 years of experience in the business, 12 of which as CFO. Andrew has played a key role in defining Mondi’s long-term direction and has experience in various strategy, business development and leadership roles, giving him an unparalleled understanding of the Group’s growth opportunities, capital allocation priorities, stakeholder requirements and operating environment.
Andrew took over as CEO at a time of challenge with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and more recently the conflict in the Ukraine and wider macro-economic uncertainty. Against this context, a hallmark of his tenure to date has been to prioritise the well-being of colleagues and maintain stakeholder confidence in Mondi’s ambitious growth plans.
Andrew is a passionate advocate for the paper and packaging industry, readily sharing his expertise as a CEPI Board member and supporting broader strategic partnerships across the paper and packaging value chain.
Lennart Eberleh
CEO
Rottneros
Thomas Ott
CEO, Flexible Packaging
Mondi
Thomas Ott
CEO, Flexible Packaging
Mondi
In January 2022 Thomas Ott was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Mondi’s Flexible Packaging business and he is a member of Mondi’s Executive Committee.
Thomas graduated in business administration from the WU-Vienna business school.
He has extensive experience in the industrial bags and consumer packaging industries, having held a variety of roles with Mondi for more than 25 years, building Mondi’s Industrial Bags business and shaping Mondi’s portfolio of innovative and sustainable packaging solutions in Europe.
Thomas started his career with Deloitte & Touche in 1992, before joining Mondi in 1995 as a financial controller. He went on to hold a number of leadership roles within Mondi before becoming COO Industrial Bags in 2012, a role he held until 2019. During this time, he successfully restructured Western Europe and supported Mondi’s growth in North America, the Middle East and Africa.
Thomas briefly moved to Amcor EMEA, focusing on consumer packaging as a member of the EMEA executive team in the role VP Food, Snacks and Confectionary before returning to Mondi in March 2021 as COO Kraft Paper & Paper Bags.
Prof. Dr. Stefan Ulreich
energy economics
University of Applied Sciences, Biberach
Prof. Dr. Stefan Ulreich
energy economics
University of Applied Sciences, Biberach
Prof. Dr. Stefan Ulreich teaches energy economics at the University of Applied Sciences in Biberach, Germany. His major topics are commodity trading, risk management and energy policy. Before this he worked for nearly 20 years in the E.ON group in various positions: energy and carbon trader, origination, energy policy and energy strategy. Before this he worked for several years in investment banking for Dresdner Kleinwort Benson in London, Paris and Frankfurt.
Garrett Quinn
Chief Sustainability Officer
Smurfit Kappa
Garrett Quinn
Chief Sustainability Officer
Smurfit Kappa
Garrett Quinn was appointed Group Chief Sustainability Officer in July 2021. He joined the Group in 2000 and has occupied a number of roles predominantly in operations, managing corrugated box plants in the UK and Ireland, and subsequently moving to Head of Investor Relations, a role he held for 5 years. Garrett has completed his postgraduate studies with the Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership and holds a bachelor’s degree in Commerce from University College Dublin.
Saverio Mayer
CEO
Smurfit Kappa
Saverio Mayer
CEO
Smurfit Kappa
After graduating in accountancy in Rome, Saverio Mayer entered the Smurfit Kappa Group at the end of the 80’s as General Manager of SK Tezze & Carmignano (IT) and then of SK Asti (IT). At the end of the 90’s, he became Sales & Marketing Manager for SK Italy and then Vice President Pan European Sales. From 2001 to 2015, he led SK Italy as CEO. During these years he has also been: from 2007 to 2009 CEO SK Russia, from 2007 to 2011 CEO SK Poland and as from 2011 to 2015 CEO of the Group Bag-in-Box division worldwide. In October 2015 he has been appointed COO SK Corrugated & Converting Europe and in April 2017 he became CEO SK Europe for both Paper & Board and Corrugated & Converting divisions. Since May 2018, Saverio is also Vice-President of FEFCO Association, the European Federation of Corrugated Board Manufacturers.
Daniel Noordigaarden
Partner
McKinsey
Daniel Noordigaarden
Partner
McKinsey
Daniel is a core leader in McKinsey’s global packaging sector. Daniel serves clients globally, focused exclusively on the paper and packaging industry. He has deep expertise across packaging substrates, end uses, and regions. Daniel is also leading McKinsey’s global work around “Packaging 2030 outlook”, winning in sustainability in packaging, and The Next Normal and COVID-19 impact on the packaging industry. He also regularly speaks at conferences and hosts webinars. Examples of his work include: • sustainability transformations and strategy studies across all regions • go-to-market studies for new sustainable innovations • global growth strategies including new emerging markets and regions • multi-year transformations • leading a large number of due diligence reviewes across all substrates and all regions In his spare time, Daniel is a dedicated long-distance runner—a sub three-hour marathoner and achieving Boston Qualifying time—and enjoys spending time outdoors with the family.
Marco Eikelenboom
CEO
SAPPI
Marco Eikelenboom
CEO
SAPPI
Marco Eikelenboom is Chief Executive Officer at Sappi Europe since April 2021. His professional career started in 1992 with KNP Fine Paper in The Netherlands and after several commercial positions in Maastricht and Paris, he was appointed Manager Corporate Planning when KNP Leykam was acquired by Sappi Ltd. in 1997. Following this corporate strategy position, Marco took on the role as Managing Director of Sappi Benelux and left in 2002 to Sappi’s global Head Office in Johannesburg to become Marketing Director. Marco came back to Brussels as Director Marketing & Sales in 2005 and after the acquisition and integration of M-Real Graphics In 2008, he assumed the global Marketing & Sales responsibilities for the Graphics business of Sappi Europe as Vice-President Marketing & Sales. Marco holds a Master of Science in Business Administration from the Erasmus University Rotterdam and followed executive management courses at INSEAD, IMD and MIT Sloane School of Management. He lives with his wife and dog Dingo in Brussels and has 3 sons at University in the Netherlands.
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Platinum Sponsors
Mondi is a global leader in packaging and paper, contributing to a better world by making innovative solutions that are sustainable by design. Our business is integrated across the value chain – from managing forests and producing pulp, paper and films, to developing and manufacturing sustainable consumer and industrial packaging solutions using paper where possible, plastic when useful. Sustainability is at the centre of our strategy, with our ambitious commitments to 2030 focused on circular driven solutions, created by empowered people, taking action on climate.
Gold Sponsors
StepChange is an industry focused and independent management consultancy specialized on wood, pulp, paper, packaging and tissue with a proven track record of turning strategy into increased shareholder value.
StepChange provides support to organizations across the globe from strategy development to the implementation of operational improvements. Furthermore StepChange is an industry thought leader in digital strategy bringing digital transformation to the fiber value chain.
With an international team of industry experts StepChange will hit the ground running. StepChange develops innovative and yet pragmatic solutions, placing an emphasis on delivering measurable business results.
A high client loyalty attests to the industry-focused strategy with an international client base consisting of the most renowned companies from the industry.
Silver Sponsors
With over 40 years’ experience Pesmel delivers solutions that integrate and streamline material flows and logistic of manufacturing facilities. We focus on serving customers around the world in the pulp and paper, metals and tire industries. Specialist in innovative material flow solutions, Pesmel helps industrial customers to rethink and renew their logistic chain.
At the heart of the offering is the unique Material Flow How® concept which covers the customers’ needs from smart design and engineering to lifecycle services and maintenance. The concept integrates intelligent packaging along with an automated high bay storage and logistics, being always custom-built to meet the customers’ specific needs and requirements.
We focus on bringing our customers benefits that materialize through improved space efficiency and material flows between processes and shipping, work safety, enhanced loading and shorter turnaround times, as well as quality and accuracy of deliveries. We consider continuous development and engineering excellence as key elements of our competitive edge. Consequently, our operations are based on five cornerstones
• Innovation
• Engineering know-how
• System know-how
• Tailoring and flexibility
• Life-long support and services
Customer industries and offering
Pulp and paper
• Automated storing and retrieval high-bay warehouses (AS/RS) complete with conveying logistics
• All control software inclusive of the Warehouse Management System WMS
Steel and aluminium
• AS/RS complete with in-feed and out-feed systems
• Automated packing of coils and flat products complete with conveying logistics
• All control software inclusive of the WMS
Automobile tires
• AS/RS complete with in-feed and out-feed systems
• Warehouse logistics and truck loading
• All control software inclusive of the WMS
Benefits reported by the customers
• 10% increase in mill efficiency
• 15% increase in sales due to shorter delivery times
• 30% savings in packing costs
• Over 50% better storing density compared to other storing methods
• 100% better handling capability compared to overhead crane storages
• Shortened turnaround times, e.g. truck loading under 20 minutes
• Shipping storage power consumption 0,12 kwh/handled ton
Pesmel in a nutshell
• Founded in 1978, headquartered in Finland
• Subsidiaries in the USA, Estonia, Poland, India, PRC and Taiwan, and an extensive network of agents
• Over 400 material flow technology deliveries for the pulp & paper, metals and tire manufacturing industries on five continents
• 2019 in numbers
o Turnover 52 MEUR
o Personnel 190
The Group Division Voith Paper is part of the Voith Group. As the full-line supplier to the paper industry, it provides the largest range of technologies, services, and products on the market, and offers paper manufacturers integrated solutions from a single source. The company’s continuous stream of innovations facilitates resource-conserving production and helps customers minimize their carbon footprint. With its comprehensive automation products and leading digitalization solutions from the Papermaking 4.0 portfolio, Voith offers its customers state-of-the-art digital technologies to im-prove plant availability and efficiency for all sections of the production process.
For more information visit: www.voith.com
Bronze Sponsors
Your trusted and proven partner – join us in engineering new bio-based processes
Sulzer is the world leader in innovative and proven pumping and mixing solutions for the pulp, paper and board industry. These segments offer a very interesting and important scope together with new additional wood raw material based future products. We are committed to this new development.
Intensive R&D with full-scale test facilities and partnerships with end customers and research institutes in this industry set the baseline and boost for our development programs in order to develop totally new and innovative process equipment fast enough.
As a full-line supplier, we have a proven track record and excellent references in developing high-efficiency products for a wide range of pulp, paper and board process applications. Our deep process and application knowledge, comprehensive understanding of market needs and commitment for the development keeps us at the leading edge of technical innovations.
Find out how our pumping, mixing and aeration expertise in different wood-based process applications can make a lasting difference for your operations.
www.sulzer.com/pulppaper-processes
Weissenrieder & Co is an international leader in Capex Strategy and Capex Management & Budgeting. We enable clients to optimize Capex Strategy decisions - thereby maximizing their cash flow. Our clients are mainly corporations within capital intensive industries. For more than 25-years, we serve the capital-intensive industry globally. Our unique methods and systems enable industrial companies to optimize their Capex Strategy and capital allocation in order to maximize their total cash flow.
Weissenrieder & Co has helped to establish long term asset strategies for over 700 production sites.