8h30  Opening of the exhibit, welcome coffee

Me1  Packaging and new technologies: Prospects for new services for consumers

9h00 Me1.1 Introduction, presentation of the session, co-chairman
      Didier Jupont, Consultant Packaging, France

Didier, 43 years old, is a packaging consultant and teaches Packaging Sciences at ESIEC and IUT Packaging, Reims.
Prior to these activities, Didier worked for 5 years as Packaging Director with Yoplait France.
He was in charge of managing the innovation and optimization processes (strategic watch, benchmarking, new concept materialization, packaging development and implementation, manufacturing equipment selection, innovation proposal support for the worldwide Yoplait licensees) in direct interface with the marketing, buying and production departments.
Didier has worked in various capacities in the Packaging industry in the U.K, Germany and France for 18 years.
His background includes European product management with in-mould labelling technologies, flexible packaging and converting, lidding and thermoforming processes.
Didier is a Packaging Engineering graduate of the Packing and Packaging Engineering School of Higher Studies, Reims (E.S.I.E.C) and holds since 2004 a certified training course in Management and Financial at the Graduate Marketing Institute (I.S.M – Paris).

Me1.2   Packaging innovation and New Technologies, Chairman
           Jay Gouliard, Vice President, Packaging Development, in the Innovation,
            Technology and Quality (ITQ), General Mills, USA

Mr. Jay L. Gouliard joined General Mills, early 2002, as Vice President, Packaging Development, in the Innovation, Technology, and Quality (ITQ) organization. Jay is an officer of General Mills and a member of the ITQ Senior Leadership Team. Jay and his team are responsible for all aspects of packaging development … materials, function, structure, design, and packaging systems for all General Mills’ products and businesses.
Jay graduated Summa Cum Laude with a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Bradley University in Peoria, IL, and holds a master’s degree in Engineering Management from the University of Missouri – Rolla.
Prior to joining General Mills, Jay held positions as Director Global Packaging Development at the Coca-Cola Companies, Sr. Manager Integrated Product and Process Development at Anheuser-Busch Companies, Sr. Mechanical Design Engineer at McDonnell Douglas Aerospace, and Tool and Die Maker at Caterpillar, Inc.
Jay is a past member of the Packaging Science Advisory Board of Clemson University, a current member of the Industrial Advisory Board of the Institute for Physical Research and Technology at Iowa State University, the Industrial Design Advisory Board of the Georgia Institute of Technology, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Leadership Committee for the Packaging Management Council of the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute, the Product Development and Management Association, and the International Society of Beverage Technologists.

Colleen DEHMER, Packaging Engineer,General Mills, USA

Colleen Dehmer has worked as a Packaging Engineer at General Mills on a variety of General Mills’ brands, developing packaging-driven strategies to help win at the shelf and create consumer loyalty. With a passion for innovation and design, she has collaborated closely with the Brand Design function to produce multiple exciting, integrated packaging solutions.
Colleen Dehmer holds a BS degree in Packaging Engineering with a concentration in Graphic Design from the University of Wisconsin – Stout. She also holds an MBA from the University of Minnesota. Colleen has recently been appointed to the Packaging advisory board at UW-Stout.

Me1.3   Personalisation and direct communication with the consumer, brand protection and traceability
           Alain Foucou, Vice Président, ATT Advanced Track & Trace

• Personalisation and direct communication with the consumer
• Fighting counterfeit and traceability

Me1.4   Automated management of multilingual graphics on packaging to reduce costs
              and optimise « Time to Market »
         Jan De Roeck, Marketing Director Packaging Software, Esko-Graphics, Belgium

Packaging suppliers to the FMCG industry, more specifically food packaging converters, have to meet increasingly more stringent demands of the customer, the Brand Owner and the legislator. In the Western European countries and in the US/Canada, these converters operate in a so-called “buyers market” in which the packaging buyer defines the rules of the game: price, quality and deadline.
In such a business climate, it is a daily challenge for the printer/converter to keep operational profit at an acceptable level. Success may well be in reach if the production workflow meets a number of essential requirements. A state of the art packaging workflow is entirely based on industry-accepted file format standards to guarantee reliable data exchange between all partners in the supply chain, all the way from idea over design and production to the finished product on the shop shelves. Efficient communication with a standard file format like Adobe PDF can cut days out of the time-to-market for a Brand Owner.
Secondly, standardization and automation of the production processes not only optimizes resource usage, but more important, dramatically reduces the risk for human errors throughout the workflow. Imagine the cost of an erroneous barcode on a juice label in the shop. In this presentation, Esko-Graphics explains and shows how Scope, its pre-production workflow, saveguards operational profits of the food packaging converter through a high level of workflow automation. An exciting demonstration of database driven production of line-extensions concludes the intervention.

10h30  Break, visit of the exihibition area

Me1.5  Stretch Cold-Sleeve : technical performances, economic basis, prospects
         Pierre REBEYROLE, Directeur Général, Autobar Flexible Décorative

• Advantages of a stretch solution for the packager and the consumer
• Key characteristics and applications
• Conditions of use and current limitations of the technology
• Cold-Sleeve and the environment
• How to begin a replacement project

Me1.6  Digital printing to optimize the supply chain
             Christian MENEGON, HP Indigo

• Digital printing today, examples of daily use of digital information
• Use by designers : examples of added value
• Product launch and optimizing of « Time to Market »
• Optimization of management and limitation of out-of-date packaging inventory
• Traceability and fight against counterfeit
• Digital printing to enhance sales : personalisation, flexible graphic creation for promotional campaigns, etc.

Me1.7  FastJet™ - High Speed Digital Printing for Corrugated Packaging
           Stefan Slembrouck, Director Digital Packaging Solutions, Sun Chemical

• FastJet™ is a digital printing machine jointly developed by Incadigital and Sun Chemical with a first prototype installed in September 2005
• FastJet™ works with single pass technology capable to print corrugated board at full colour with an output of over 4000m² per hour making it the first digital printer for packaging at industrial speed
• The cost break-even with conventional print processes is higher than 3000m² for highly volatile designs
• Speed, flexibility and cost of FastJet™ will be the basis for new ways in production processes, call-off procedures, test-marketing and packaging as an active promoter of products

The presentation will go into details of the FastJet™ technology with experiences from the first industrial prototype, the possibilities to develop new supply chain mechanisms between packaging buyers and producers and the economical aspects of FastJet printing.

Me1.8   RFID : State of the art & examples of application
            Thierry Robert, Marketing Manager, Les Papeteries Emin Leydier - Emin Leydier Mills, France

• Ground covered since Nodal in October 2000 and Nutripack in January 2002
• Technical situation and standards
• Examples of applications
• Prospects

Thierry Robert holds an engineering degree from ESIEC (Ecole Supérieure d’Ingénieurs en Emballage et Conditionnement, Reims) and graduated from ESCP Paris. He began his career with HP as manager of computer, printer and peripheral packaging development ; he was then in charge of R&D and marketing at IP (International Paper). He is currently Marketing Manager at Emin Leydier. As part of his job, he has monitored the development of RFID technology and was instrumental in its implementation in B to B applications. He published a comprehensive article in Panorama packaging 2004 (directory of ESIEC graduates).

13h00  Lunch, visit of the exhibition area

14h15  Me2    Food safety : context and new consumer expectations

 Me2.1  Chairman & Presentation of the topic
           Pierre Georgeault, Directeur Développement Packaging, LACTALIS, France

• The world has changed, risk management
• Traceability of packaging and its components
• Traceability of information : how to guarantee the relevance of the information, taking downstream to upstream circulation into account
• Transfer of responsibilities
• Hygiene, food contact suitability, new kinds of packaging, etc.

Me2.2   Achieving Excellence in Packaging Innovation & Consumer Safety
            Dr. Helene Roberts, Packaging Manager, Marks and Spencer, UK

• Background to M&S
• Product & Packaging at M&S Foods
• What the customer wants
• Packaging Strategy
• Responsible Packaging Strategy - 'For me & The Environment'
• Implementation in Stores
• Summary

Me2.3    Packaging production : hygiene and safety
            Jean-Michel Sabathier, Directeur Marketing Dairy & Gilles Swingnedauw, Directeur R&D, ALCAN

AP Food Europe has developed original lidding solutions which currently equip leading products on the market, ranging from beverages to dairy products, pre-cooked dishes and pet food aluminium containers. Nomadism is developing for these applications, but the concept of saved time, safety and practicality for the consumer remain the key engines of growth.

Me2.4   The European regulatory framework and traceability
             Maître Sylvain Martin, Avocat à la Cour d’Appel de Paris

• European regulations on traceability and how they differ from directives
• Example : the new legal framework for the principle of inertia and food contact suitability
• The legal framework for packaging and packaging component traceability
• Example : « active » or « intelligent » packaging traceability

16h45  End of exhibit