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Plastics Recycling Workshop

Advances in chemical & mechanical recycling
for plastics recycling value chain stakeholders

30 September 2025
01 October 2025

Workshop

Program

Registration required

  • Program
  • Practical information
  • Registration

Welcome to Certech plastics recycling workshop - 30.09 & 01.10.2025 - Nivelles & Seneffe

DAY 1

9.00 Registration & welcome coffee

9.30 Opening of the workshop – Introduction by Certech

SESSION I. Challenges and solutions

  • 9.45 Keynote speaker: Challenges for plastics recycling and circularity in the EU
  • 10h30 Keynote speaker: Let’s turn plastics into green gold!

11h15 Break & exhibition

  • 11h45 Plastic pyoil learnings for ethylene producers
  • 12h15 Understanding the influence of feed composition on pyrolysis product distribution

12h45 Lunch & exhibition

SESSION II. Circularity and technological advances  

  • 13h45 Keynote speaker: From Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) to Practice: Closing the Loop for Plastic Packaging
  • 14h30 Advancing the mechanical recycling of plastics: Veolia’s approach to meet the complex requirements of the market
  • 15h00 Certech, your R&D partner for chemical and mechanical recycling
    • Certech – TDB

15h30 Transfer to Certech by bus and lab tour

17h30 Transfer by bus back to the hotel

18h30 Event & Conference diner

DAY 2

SESSION III. Case studies

  • 9h00 Keynote speaker:Indaver P2C: Hardheaded Approach to Advanced Recycling of waste PS and waste PO streams
  • 9h45 How to comply with european automotive regulations (Volatile Organic Compounds, substances & End-of-Life vehicles)?
  • 10h15 Increase Post-Consumer Recycled (PCR) content in HVAC (Heating, Ventilation & Air-Conditioning) plastic housing: investigations in odor issue

10h45 Break & exhibition

SESSION IV. Characterization and instrumentation

  • 11h15 Enhanced analytical characterization techniques for recycled plastics
  • 11h45 Pyrolysis-GC/MS: Unlocking the Molecular Fingerprint of Microplastics and Recycled Plastics
    • Interscience – TBD
  • 12h15 How to anticipate the impact of materials variability (viscosity) in plastics recycling, with numerical simulation? Application to the twin screw extrusion process

12h45 Lunch & exhibition

SESSION V. Developments

  • 14h00 Ineos Inovyn’s project circle
  • 14h30 Assessing process feasibility and product stability in the industrial mechanical recycling of biodegradable polyolefins
  • 15h00 Insect-based bioconversion of non-recyclable plastics: a new paradigm for circularity

15h30 Concluding remarks – End of the workshop

Certech is a research & development partner and supplier of analytical and technological services for companies involved in activities related to (bio)chemistry: polymers; pharmaceutical, medical and health care; environment and energy; automobile and transport; packaging; construction.

Our mission is to provide innovative solutions for the improvement or development of products and processes, in agreement with the principles of sustainable chemistry and circular economy to meet industrial and societal needs.

Certech has been active for more than 25 years in the field of recycling and waste recovery. We collaborate with different industrial partners and have developed several industrial scale pilot waste recovery units.

VOC & Odor assessment & management:
– Support and expertise for characterization of VOC and odor emissions, as well as solutions for odor remediation and development of low odor/low VOC materials
-Identification of odorous substances and correlation with chemistry by GC-TOFMS/Sniffing analysis with expert panels
– Analysis of compounds at trace levels, identification of unknown compounds, characterization of complex mixtures, group-type analysis by GC×GC-HRTOFMS

Sniffing

Mechanical Recycling (P to P):
– Thermoplastic compounding/processing
– Shredded composites valorisation
– Characterisation / Editing of technical data sheet
– Odour management of recyclates
– HSE management

Chemical Recycling (P to L, P to C, P to G):
– Conversion of non-recycled waste into oil, waxes, hydrocarbons and industrial feedstocks
– Thermo-chemical recycling (pyrolysis, depolymerisation, solvolysis, selective dissolution)
– Alternative feedstock from complex waste streams: ultimate waste, biowaste, urban mining, extraction of strategic raw materials,…
– Characterization of recycled products, identification of contaminants (dimers, odorous and/or organoleptic compounds, NIAS (Non Intentionally Added Substances)

Please find below some information for your venue

  • Venue:

Hotel Van der Valk Nivelles Sud
Chaussée de Mons 22
1400 Nivelles

For the lab tour, a transfer by bus is organized by Certech from/to the hotel.

  • Accomodation:

Hotel Van der Valk Nivelles Sud
preferential rate until 08/09/2025, please contact the reception of the hotel (by e-mail reception@nivellessud.valk.com or by phone +32 67 21 87 21) and mention the code «GF41341–  Certech ».

  • Exhibitors

During the breaks, attendees can browse through table top displays where companies showcase their products or services.
The registration fee includes the table-top display or equivalent space as well as the full attendance for two delegates.

  • Taxi at Nivelles train station:

Nivelles Taxis: +32 67 38 01 01 / +32 488 10 34 34

Taxi bonjour: +32 67 78 08 43 / +32 495 80 92 15

New-York taxi: +32 489 03 99 03

  • Contact:

info@certech.be

+32 64 520 211

Thanks to fill the form below - Closure of the registration on 15-09-2025

Event reserved for our industrial partners only.
Certech reserves the right to accept or reject registrations.

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