Under the High Patronage
of the President
of the Italian Republic
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"