Description

Our next Open Industry Forum will be held in-person at the Sketchley Grange Hotel, Hinckley. The cost of attending this event is included for FREE in your companies annual membership fees. 

November's programme is being finalised, but we will be looking at some important recycling and sustainability themes, as well as looking at how we can help SME members start their carbon journey is an affordable way (we will even talk about how we can save you money).

We will also have our usual regulatory update and hope that by November we can give you news on UKREACH and UKCA marking, and perhaps talk about what priorities we think the UK government will choose.

If you have new starters - why not bring them along to find out about the sector and do some networking - there are no limits to the number of people attending for each Member company!

Detailed Speaker Programme

Session 1

10:00 Explosive Precursors, Jo Cooper – CBRE Protect team -UK Home Office

This presentation will provide an overview of supplier obligations around the sale of regulated and reportable chemicals under the Poisons Act 1972, and the Control of Explosives Precursors and Poisons Regulations 2023 which came into force on 1st October 2023 bringing with it new obligations and chemicals. The presentation will also cover the importance of suspicious activity reporting to help prevent terrorist and criminal activity and provide some example case studies where reporting has led to positive interventions by Policing colleagues

10:30 Journey Green – the road to a sustainable business and its benefits, David Brookes, Founding Partner, Carbon happy.

• Introduction to CarbonHappy
• Journey Green - background - road to a sustainable business and its benefits
• Journey Green process steps
• Discovery
• Strategy development
• Actions - carbon / procurement
• Communications and marketing
• Cost neutrality

11:00 An update UK EPR and a look into the future, Valpak (speaker name tbc)

11:30 Break: Tea & Coffee, Networking, Poster Presentations

Session 2

11:50 Development of the BPR legislation in Europe and UK, and concerned about the future availability of preservatives on the GB market, Scott Betts, Thor UK

Biocides are an important raw material to prevent water-based adhesives and water based raw materials from biodeteriorating while in their service life. The EU Biocide Regulation, which has its origins in the early 1990's, continues to output reviewed active substances at a slow rate. The EU Authorities that evaluate the biocidal active substances deliver very conservative opinions which limits options for industry. With BREXIT delivered in 2021, the UK market now has the GB version of the EU legislation where implementation of the work is slow. A basic overview of the Biocide legislation will be presented followed by an update of the regulatory status of certain biocide active substances for In-can and film preservation applications.

12:20 How traceability can support with reducing risk and improve compliance, Think (speaker name tbc)

12:50 A look at Recyclability aspects of contaminated adhesives & sealants packaging, Jamie Riley, Divisional Sustainability Manager, Berry CPI

Representing Berry Global in the UK National Treaty Dialogues for Plastic Pollution”. 

Berry Global is a plastics manufacturing company with 250 locations worldwide, offering market leading innovation, design expertise, and sustainability focused solutions for their customer’s needs. Jamie represents Berry Global in the UK National Treaty Dialogues for Plastic Pollution.

The presentation with emphasise the importance of inclusion of recycled content into packaging (and highlight how Berry is addressing this), design for recyclability (for example, Berry have committed to replacing all metal handles with plastic ones for plastic buckets to aid recyclability). 

13:20 Buffet Lunch and Networking

Session 3

14:00 A look at HSE Policy Reform, Leo McDaid HSE

14:30 Digital Product Passports, Mark Wilkinson Senior Technical Manager – Construction Products Association

15:00 Current regulatory update and BASA WG round up, Lorna Williams/ Caroline Raine/ Jim Palmer/ Tony Bingham

15:30 Summary & Closing Comments