Day One, 22nd November 2010

9.00-10.00

Registration, welcome coffee

10.00-10.20

OPENING REMARKS
Welcome address

SESSION 1. Plenary meeting

10.20-12.00

Development of Markets for Polymer Products.
Methods of Regional /State Support of Plastic Processors.-

Eugeny Panteleev, minister of the Moscow City Government, head of the Science and Industrial Policy Department. Welcome speech.

Rafinat Yarrullin, director general of OAO Tatnentekhiminvest-Holding.
Directions for innovations in the polymers manufacturing industry of the Republic of Tatarstan.

Airat Gizzatullin, director general of OAO UK Idea Capital, executive director of Technopolis Khimgrad.
Development of polymer conversion in special economic zone.

Ekaterina Kraeva, director general of RCC Group, Yuri Frei, representative of OAO Tatneftekhiminvest-Holding in the EU. On possible adoption of EN-DIN standards in the Russian Federation and outlooks for the expansion of the domestic polymer products market.

Mikhail Katsevman, director, Science and Development, of the Polyplastic group.
Thermoplastic polymers market in Russia. Analysis and forecasts.

12.00-13.00         LUNCH

SESSION 2. Plenary meeting

13.00-15.30

New Materials in the Russian Market. Specifics of Manufacture and Applications.

Valery Kulichikhin, director of the polymer rheology laboratory of the Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis.
Thermoplastics-based nanocomposites: first steps to commercialization.

Victor Avdeev, head of the Chemical Technology and New Materials Division of MSU, director of the Institute of New Hydrocarbon Materials and Technologies.
Polymer composites and products for engineering, fire protection, sealing and other industrial applications.

Dariusz Lukaszewski, regional director of Milliken Chemical.
Opportunities for the production of innovative polypropylene grades in Russia.

Aslanbek Balov, director general of Polykhimgroup.
On substitution of existing flame retardants with new-generation products.

Marina Chumakova, Silicone Sales Department of Wacker Chemie Rus.
Innovative liquid silicone resins for injection molding.

Vera Myasoedova, professor, chief scientist, Institute of Chemical Physics of the RAS.
Wood-polymer and other fibrillar nanocomposites for pressure molding and extrusion applications.

Eugeny Antipov, professor, deputy director of the Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis.
Cable wastes. Modifying additives. Review of new recycling technologies.

Timofei Kalinin, a group of young scientists, the Kazan State Technical University (Department of New Developments). Polymer additives – fungicides in buildings.

SESSION 3. Panel discussion

16.00-18.00

Review of the Russian Polymer Market.
Problems of Market Regulation and Feedstock Availability.

List of speakers:

Artyom Krupinov, director of the Polymer Marketing Department, Direction of Plastics and Organic Synthesis, Sibur;

Tamara Khazova, director of the Analytic Department, Alliance-Analytics;

Konstantin Arkhipov, director, sales and procurement, Izhevsk Plastics Plant;

Yuri Orlov, director of the technical department, OOO Promkhimplast.

Market players, government officials and industry journalists have been invited to take part in the discussion. Time limits for questions and statements – 5 minutes.

Day Two, 23rd November 2010

10.00-11.00

Registration, welcome coffee

SESSION 4. Plenary meeting

11.00-13.00

Equipment for Plastics Processing.
New Technologies and Cost Efficiency.–

Vsevolod Abramov, chairman of the Russian Plastics Converters Association.
Report on results of K 2010. The latest European technologies and equipment.

Bernd Fischer, executive director of Schnorr von Carolsfeld Engineering & Service GmbH.
Dedusting of granules at the stage of loading and feedstock processing.

Eugeny Bukharev, director general of NPP Mayak-93.
Establishing of a manufacture of new-generation metal-polymer pipes.

Petr Malina, deputy director, Science of ZAO Bioenergetik.
Plan of establishing a manufacture of newly designed polymer valves. Investment project.

13.00-14.00         LUNCH

SESSION 5. Panel discussion

14.00-17.00

Collection and Utilization of Used Polymers.
Municipal Waste Recycling

Valery Blok, director of SPKB, Volgograd.
Modern solutions in municipal solid waste recycling.

Sergei Tarskikh, director general of the Statico group.
Lubov Arkhipova, commercial director of the Statico group.
Specifics of the Russian waste separation. Technical solutions.

Mikhail Zaikov, member of the Board of Directors of ZAO Bioenergetik.
Utilization of Russian MSWs and polymer wastes in 2010-2015.

Nikolai Petov, OOO Infomine. Estimation of volumes food-grade PET recycling in Russia.

Konstantin Maikov, director of NPO Ecomachgroup.
Innovations in processing of municipal and industrial wastes through thermo-chemical destruction.

Market players, government officials and industry journalists have been invited to take part in the discussion. Time limits for questions and statements – 5 minutes.