The 2-day speaker programme hosted across three open stages will deliver some 30+ hours of free to attend expert intelligence, case studies, best practice and tech-insight ‘snapshots’, to inspire and assist next level investment and operational strategies for attending industry groups across the UK chemicals & chemical product sectors.
Centre stage will be critical themes such as process innovation, improvement & intensification, sustainability & responsible care, digitisation, new technology, plant & supply chain management, process safety & regulatory landscape, global trade, sector skills, Brexit and more.
- FOCUS – Chemical Business & Operations management
- FOCUS – Raw Materials, Ingredients & Chemicals
- FOCUS – Laboratory/Research & Development
- FOCUS – Plant, Process, Flow & Control
- FOCUS – Health & Safety/Environmental, Regulatory & Compliance
- FOCUS – Logistics/Fulfilment
- FOCUS – Skills/Training/HR
DIGITISATION & SUSTAINABILITY
By far the two ‘standout’ themes across 2020 2-day conference address the crucial topics of the sector’s transition towards ‘digitalisation’ and separately the challenge of stepping up to the demands of ‘sustainability & circular economy’
Digitalisation/Industry 4.0:
2020 programme set to embrace themes including:
- Digital Transformation for the Chemical Industry-
- Digital/Connected workforce
- predicative maintenance /predictive intelligence data
- IOT and site instrumentation
- Digital solutions addressing safety, security & reliability
- Security of critical operational data
- Affordability of digital technology/ digital investment
- Risk mitigation – harnessing technology for more effective asset management
- Digitally connected packaging
- Robotic tanker loading
- Networked digital technologies & cyber risks
- Digital twinning of chemical processes
- Cyber security, challenges & opportunities in the industrial digital world
- Tank Storage industry Cyber Security
- Drivers for next level digital tranmsformation (sustainability/transparency)
- From Data Collection to Actionable Insights ….. and more
Sustainability/Circular Economy/Green Chemistry
2020 programme set to embrace themes including:
- Biobased raw materials
- Consumer led demands/extended producer responsibility
- Life cycle approach for manufacturers
- Demands for zero avoidable waste
- Circular economy demands for debonding, dismantlability and re-use of materials
- Tackling the plastic pollution challenge
- Role of bio-based plastics, the potential for chemical recycling, and innovative plastic substitutes
- Material Circularity and Recycling
- Minimising waste ion chemical formulation
- sustainable chemical packaging
- Decarbonisation
- Life Cycle Thinking (LCT)
- Sustainability and transparency as drivers of next level digital transformation
- Carbon capture ….. and more
