The largest conference stage in polymers returns for 2025!
lIVE FROM 9:50AM
600+
Capacity seated arena with class leading audio / visual system.
10+
Leaders in polymer materials, processing and manufacturing.
20
Minute, solutions-focused presentations.
Who’s Speaking:
Meet your mainstage headliners!
Shell Polymers
A state of the art polyethylene plant to redefine the industry
Discover how Shell Polymers’ strategic polyethylene plant location and innovative approach to customer experience is bringing unique and competitive advantages to the polyethylene market.
AO Recycling
Recycling The AO Way
The recycling arm of well known electronic appliance retailer, AO, will be joining us to share their story of how they take end-of-life domestic white goods and convert them into polymer materials for use in your products.
ENGEL
The Future of Injection Moulding - How AI Will Change Our Business
Featuring a live demonstration of “Engel GPT” – Fascinating technology enabling polymer processors to make gains in efficiency and reduce energy costs.
FRIGEL
Sustainability With The Right Cooling
How do we produce more with less energy and better results? Frigel join us to look at how heat moves in injection moulding, what factors affect cooling and the new technologies that make it faster and more efficient.
Plastics INFORMATION EUROPE
Uncertainty to Insight: 90%+ Accurate Polymer Price Predictions
Discover KI.PIE Group’s new forecasting technology, delivering over 90% accuracy across key polymers like LDPE, HDPE, PVC, and PP. Senior Market Analyst Julia Mihalkina reveals how AI-enhanced insights are helping businesses turn market volatility into confident, data-driven decisions.
RÖHM
Versatile by Nature: PLEXIGLAS® Across Industries
We all know that PLEXIGLAS® plays a role in automotive, but its potential goes far beyond. Join Röhm as they explore the wider range of industries benefiting from this iconic material, revealing surprising applications and fresh possibilities across sectors like architecture, healthcare, and beyond.
Solinatra
The Future of Biomaterials
Join Solinatra as they unveil the latest breakthroughs in plant-based biomaterials—designed to perform like plastic but break down like nature intended. Discover how their innovations are reshaping the future of sustainable manufacturing, without compromise on performance, aesthetics, or end-of-life impact.
Sheffield Hallam University
Using CPD to Attract, Grow & Keep Talent
Discover how Continuing Professional Development (CPD) helps the packaging sector attract diverse talent, close skills gaps and retain staff, creating future‑ready teams equipped to tackle evolving industry challenges in recruitment, innovation and sustainability.
UBQ
The Evolution of UBQ™ - From Household Waste to Biobased Masterbatch
UBQ returns with a new chapter in circular innovation—introducing their climate-positive, bio-based masterbatch made from household waste. Discover how this material enables manufacturers to reduce carbon footprints while transforming unsorted waste into a high-performance raw material ready for real-world applications.
Expert Panel Discussion from 3pm:
The challenges of adopting sustainable materials in plastic packaging
Dan Jarvis
Product Group Manager
Plastribution Group
Conor Ludden
Senior Business Development Manager
Notpla Disappearing Packaging
Ilia Bilbie
Area Sales Manager
GCR Sustainable Plastic Solutions
Jamie Riley
Head of Sustainability
Robinson Packaging
Mark Roberts
Sustainability & Circular Economy Director
Amcor
Patrick Ottens
Commercial Director
Ducor Petrochemicals
About the Engel Mainstage:
The Mainstage, our impressive 600+ seated capacity conference arena, is no-doubt the best place to catch the latest innovations from both industry giants and rising stars in the world of polymers & manufacturing.
Impressive expert speakers will be taking to the stage for punchy 20-minute sets. Expect industry icons to be bringing their biggest, solution-focused hits to keep you engaged - with none of the filler!
Our arena boasts a class-leading sound system & high quality visual displays that are relayed throughout the room, plus comfortable seating, air-conditioning and rapid WiFi to ensure ultimate comfort for the duration of the show.
Topics covered will range from the transformative power of AI, groundbreaking strides in sustainability and the latest advancements in polymer processing and material innovation to improve production efficiency.
Some of the incredible organisations that have stepped into the mainstage spotlight before:
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a huge thank you to Engel for sponsoring our mainstage
For over 75 years, Engel have been guaranteeing our customers a head start and constant progress – in line with their motto “be the first”.
With the development and production of injection moulding machines, technologies and digital solutions, ENGEL are shaping the plastics processing of the future.
Engel have nine production plants in Europe, North America and Asia as well as subsidiaries and representatives in over 85 countries and over 7,000 employees worldwide.
