3rd International Conference "Circular Economy for Textiles and Plastics"

Saskia Walraedt holds a PhD in polymer chemistry from UGent. She started her professional career in 1996 at ICI, now known as Huntsman. After various functions at Huntsman, Honeywell and TotalEnergies, she joined essenscia in 2009 to support members with the implementation of the REACH legislation. She further built her career in sustainability and circular economy. Since 2018, she heads the department essenscia PolyMatters, representing the polymer producers and plastic converting industry.

Dr. Anne Scheinberg, Global Recycling Specialist, Chair of the ISWA Working Group on Recycling and Waste Minimisation. 
Dr. Anne Scheinberg is here to talk about the CALC (Circular and Low Carbon Cities) Project. In the 1980s she was a young professional working on municipal recycling in North America. Since 1997 she has focused on sustainable waste management and recycling in low- and middle-income countries. She currently divides her time between process facilitation, supporting informal recyclers in SouthEastern Europe, and working on metrics for waste prevention -- the subject of her presentation today.

Anton Luiken studied organic chemistry at the University of Nijmegen (NL). He has worked for 22 years in applied research at TNO, focusing on improving the environmental performance of the textile supply chain. He is a consultant in the field of circular textiles and specialist in textile recycling. At bAwear he is responsible for the metrics on textile materials, processes and products. 

Jana Enking holds a master degree in mechanical engineering from RWTH Aachen University with a focus on chemical and process engineering. She is a PhD student at the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) at Leiden University, Netherlands, where she is working on the sustainability of products, processes and industries. Her research includes the development of Life Cycle Assessment methodology with a focus on recycling industries, currently studying recycling processes of PET-containing post-consumer textiles.
 

Tom Duhoux has more than 10 years of experience in applying sustainability and circularity principles in businesses. He was co-founder of a sustainability consultancy and has proven the concept of circular business innovation in the textiles industry by founding the circular denim brand HNST. Before his consultancy work, he worked in the field of waste management in Belgium, The Netherlands and the UK. Tom is researcher Circular Economy at VITO and involved in various research projects on circular textiles.

Textile Engineer & Master in Supply Chain, Koen has been working in the textile business for 34 years as

• Production Manager/Director (Sofinal)
• Purchase Manager FE (Sofinal)
• Commercial Director (Sofinal & Ter Molst Int.)
• General Manager (Tissat Deslee)
• Supply Chain Director EU (DesleeClama)
• General Manager of a StartUp (PurFi)
   

Rémi Tilkin is a chemical engineer and holds a PhD in material science. For 2 years now, he is a researcher at Centexbel, in the "Medical & Sustainable Materials" group. Rémi conducts research on the development of new sustainable textiles (bio-based additives and dyes, antimicrobial textiles) and new technologies for textile sorting and recycling.

Degree in Chemistry (University of Alicante, 2005). Research Doctorate (Ph.D.)  by Polytechnic University of Valencia, 2012. His PhD thesis dealt with the development of antibacterial PP fibres by means of melt spinning process with nanoparticles. He began working at AITEX in 2006 as a technician in the Nanotechnology and Technical Fibres Research Group. Since 2008, Eduardo is coordinating the Materials and Sustainability Research Group. This R&D group is focused on several technical fields: applied circular economy, biocomposites, non-wovens, lamination processes and functional textiles development. He has managed, coordinated, and participated in several R&D projects at regional, national and international programmes. 

Dr. Dipl. Eng. Maxime OLIVE is an R&D Engineer with more than 17 years´ experience in the adhesive industry, especially formulation issues and debonding strategies. From 2010 to 2015 Maxime has worked as Team Manager of the Sustainable Chemistry Department in RESCOLL, with activities ranging from adhesive dismantling strategies to adhesive formulation (including substitutions of substances and REACH impact studies) or Life Cycle Assessment. In 2015 Maxime took a position as IP and Innovation Manager in RESCOLL with activities devoted to the development of RESCOLL’s home technologies in smart adhesives and coatings.

Elke Demeyer studied bioscience engineering at KULeuven, Belgium. In 2021, she joined Centexbel-VKC as member of the Plastic Characterisation, Processing & Recycling group. Her research focusses on the development of self-reinforced and natural fibre-reinforced biobased thermoplastic composites, how to boost their performance, reducing their ecological impact and creating a circular economy

Associate Professor at ENSAIT School of Textile Engineering, member of the GEMTEX Textile Research laboratory, Lille University/France. Specialist in innovative, advanced and bio-inspired nonwoven materials. Private and collaborative research project manager, MSC and PhD projects supervisor. Recently invested in collaborations with textile and interior designers for developing new textile and composites materials based on recycled fibrous materials.

Dr. ir. Sofie Huysman obtained a master degree in Materials Engineering and a PhD in sustainable materials management at Ghent University.
She works at Centexbel as a research scientist in the group of “Functional Thermoplastic Textiles” for 6 years and is involved in several regional and European projects on extrusion of thermoplastic polymers, focusing on sustainable materials.

Graduated in Environmental Law, Aurore Mourette has managed in her career the ecological transformation of an industrial area in France, was the CEO of a company linked to 3D printing technology, a Policy Officer for the European Federation of Waste Management Companies where she was able to deal with files on the circular economy in Brussels, she is now the Managing Director of the Walloon cluster, Plastiwin, representing the (bio)plastics, composites, rubber and synthetic textiles industry in Wallonia thanks to its network of 130 members.

Hélène L’Ebrellec is a textile engineer and joined NOOSA in 2020 as product development manager. Her expertise lies in polylactic acid (PLA) textile fibers, chemical recycling and circular practices across the textile industry.

Maximilian Wende successfully completed his studies in chemical engineering at the Technical University of Munich in 2019. As a scientist and project manager he has been working at the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV for more than two years. Maximilian conducts research in the recycling of packaging, composite and textile materials with the solvent-based CreaSolv® Process.

Cristina is currently doing her PhD at Aachen-Maastricht Institute of Biobased Materials (AMBIM) studying the enzymatic recycling of polyester fibers and microfibers. For this, she takes on a multidisciplinary approach, combining her background on biotechnology with her interest in polymer engineering and sustainability. At the moment she also collaborates within the “Glaukos” EU-funded H2020 project.

Education:  Study of Mechanical engineering with specialization „Textile Technology“, degree PhD
Professional experience: 18 years positions as technologist and Head of Technology at several manufacturers of Textile Machinery
Actual: Team leader Machine Technology and Digitalisation at TFI - Institut für Bodensysteme an der RWTH Aachen e.V.

Dieter Stellmach (°1958) has been working at the Center of Management Research of the German Institutes of Textile and Fiber Research in Denkendorf (DITF) since 1986 as senior project manager and EU contact point co-responsible for research in organisation and management of sustainable textile value creation towards the circular economy, and in textile digitisation. He is active member of networks about fibres and textiles on regional, national and European level.

Gabriela Maestri (°1996) is a Textile Engineer (2019) and a M.Sc. Textile Engineer (2022) from the Federal University of Santa Catarina – Brazil. She participated in research projects in the area of technical and smart textiles (2014-2022). Currently, she is working at the Center of Management Research of the German Institutes of Textile and Fiber Research in Denkendorf (DITF) as a Research Associate, and contributes in projects with a focus on the circular economy and the material flow processes in a textile industry approach.
 

Carolin Franitza is Stakeholder Manager at OEKO-TEX®. Her main responsibility are the exchange and committee work related to stakeholders of OEKO-TEX® and the associated institutes. Prior to the appointment to this role, she developed approaches for implementing circularity within OEKO-TEX® as part of the product management. Carolin holds a bachelor degree in Textile- and Clothing Management.

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Carolin Franitza - Stakeholder Manager - OEKO-TEX®

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