Plenary Lectures

• Catia Bastioli
  Chief Executive Officer of Novamont (Italy)
  "Bioplastics: state of the art, properties and environmental impact"
• Gaetano Guerra
  Full Professor at University of Salerno, Dept. of Chemistry (Italy)
  "Processing Controlled Polymorphism of Syndiotactic Polystyrene"
• Willy Hoven-Nievelstein
  Group Vice President, Engineering Plastics Europe, BASF (Germany)
  "Engineering Plastics - Markets and Trends"
• Reinhold W. Lang
  Full Professor at the Univ. of Leoben, Inst. of Materials Sci. and Testing of Plastics (Austria)
  "Challenges and Opportunities for Plastics in Sustainable Energy Scenarios"
• Ruth H. Pater
  Senior Polymer Scientist at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia (USA)
  "Processing Polyimide Composites"
• Jinliang Qiao
  Vice president, Beijing Research Institute of Chemical Industry, SINOPEC Co. (China)
  "The market and manufacture of polyolefin in China"
• Jerold M. Schultz
  C. Ernest Birchenall Professor Emeritus, University of Delaware (USA)
  "The Solidification of Blends Containing Crystallizable Polymers: Opportunities to Control Morphology and Properties"
• Kazuyuki Yabuki
  Director and Corporate Officer, Toyobo Co. (Japan)
  "Fiber processing supported with micro-structure analysis"