When: Thursday and Friday May 17-18, 2012, Hilton Raleigh-Durham Airport
Agenda:
May 17, convenes at 1:30 pm
"Sonoco-Client Zero Waste Parterning", by Ray Howard, Vice President/General Manager, Sonoco Recycling http://www.sonoco.com/productsservices/sonocorecyclinginc.aspx
Jim Kohm, Federal Trade Commission, Associate Director for the Enforcement Division
"AMERIPEN in Review - 2012" by Joan Pierce, founding Executive Director of AMERIPEN (The American Institute for Packaging and the Environment)
May 18
Transport by bus to tour Envision Plastics, known as The Technology Leader in Recycled Polyolefin Resins. Envision manufactures the only FDA approved, food grade post consumer recycled HDPE in North America. Envision also produces custom color sorted post consumer recycled HDPE.
Return to the Raleigh-Durham Airport area by 2 pm on Friday, May 18.
To attend
Attendance is limited, so make your reservations now. Registration fee is $175 for members of the Institute of Packaging Professionals (IoPP), and $275 for non-members of IoPP. Meals are included. Click here to register for the event.
Hotel: Hilton Raleigh-Durham Airport. Call 919-941-6000 and use group code IOP for special rate of $115.
The Sustainable Packaging Technical Committee of IoPP plans to meet twice in 2012, in May (site to be determined), and in late October in Chicago area, before or after PackExpo. Would your sustainable manufacturing operation like to open its doors for a tour? Our typical attendance is about 30 people.
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