Plastics recycling. Circular Economy. Traceability.
Expertise at the service of companies that want to address the concept of sustainability.
My experience in recycling has proved to be a strong argument in the consultancy field as I acquired my first-hand expertise both in the technology and the relevant implementation scope.
In 1990s I got to know the first lines intended for washing and extruding bottle-to-bottle pellets to be supplied to Coca-Cola in Australia.
Then I dealt with automated sorting processes and need for minimized detergent consumption at washing stage.
I travelled a lot with Mr. Sereni, an amazing person, to train Japanese converters and to implement the Italian culinary principle “there is no waste in a pig” to plastics, and I had the first contacts with high-vacuum twin-screw extruders equipped with Toshiba and JSW technology.
Over the 1995 – 2005 decade, I experienced the in-line machine boom with integrated discard into super-performing workstations for the production of single-use thermoformed packaging. Immediate recycling!
Since 2000s I had the pleasure to meet European players accompanied by Mr Venegoni, a gifted person, to drive them to implement post-consumer R-PET in food packaging, putting aside pre-treatment.
Over the latest years, I have discussed the new cascading upcycling technologies with German experts, and I disclosed to Italian entrepreneurs how noble discard extrusion would have developed. An industry that has been noticing the nobility of second-life plastics since 2018.
Further, over the latest decade, I have managed to get an in-depth knowledge of biomaterial processes and performances, mainly in USA - Natureworks – and in Italy - Novamont and Cossa Polimeri.
And above all, I have pursued product marketing (actual active promotion) to support companies in entering the new scenario in 2018, upon coming into force of new European laws about Circular Economy and counter the all-out attack to plastic materials (fortunately stopped by acknowledgment of plastic importance for sanitary apparels to face Covid-19 pandemic outbreak).
Three goals in the area of Sustainability:
- To guide investors in considering Circular Economy as a capital gain in view of selecting corporate industrial assets for the future, thus exploiting opportunities offered by biomaterials, and implementing recycled materials extensively – in-line and offline.
- To support the concept of digital traceability in a competent and actual way in view of reaching Circular Economy certification via promoting R-Cycle consortium.
- To make investors understand the benefits deriving from having an all-round partner, competent in sustainability issues and underpinned by the aforementioned technological values that make it a unique qualified partner in improving technological level of expectations and actual goals to be reached.
I bring with me empathic energy that allows me to sit and listen not only to big entrepreneurs and managers, but also to the technical and production managers - whom I have met at an Italian and European level -, together with a unique set of extended skills acquired in packaging and converting.