Opening of Moonshot Flanders' CLARIFY pilot infrastructure
On the 29th of January 2026, Laboratory for Circular Process Engineering (LCPE) of Ghent University will open its doors for the first time in the new Kubes building. The building with the new Moonshot LSI Clarify pilot infrastructure is located at UGent Campus Kortrijk, Graaf Karel de Goedelaan 46, B-8500 Kortrijk, Belgium.
Registration
Places for this event are limited, please register upon clicking this link. Due to capacity issues places are limited. Up to 2 registrations per company are allowed. Definitive registration will be confirmed within 5 working days by info.lcpe
ugent.be (info[dot]lcpe[at]ugent[dot]be).
Programme
| Time | Topic | Speaker, Affiliation |
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| 9h30 | Registration & coffee | |
| 10h00 | Welcome and short introduction | Steven De Meester, UGent |
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Packaging design towards PPWR and CEN |
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| 10h10 | 2026, annus horribilis for plastic packaging recycling. How will Belgian EPR systems cope with this challenge ? |
Francis Huysman, Valipac |
| 10h35 | Design for recycling of packaging inks | Ralf Leineweber, Siegwerk |
| 11h00 | Packaging design towards PPWR and CEN | Nicolas Mys, Amcor |
| 11h25 | Quality of packaging waste from different collection and sorting systems | Alexandra Schmuck, UGent |
| 11h40 | Design for circularity for packaging and beyond | Alexander Azzawi, Evonik |
| 12h05 | Enabling circularity of PP flex | Dominika Maruszak, Pepsico |
| 12h30 | Lunch break | |
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Innovation in a challenging context |
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| 13h30 | The importance of a thriving plastics value chain in Europe for circularity | Virginia Janssens, Plastics Europe |
| 13h55 | Challenges and opportunities around sustainable innovation in Flanders | Peter Roose, Eastman |
| 14h20 | CLARIFY in the Moonshot landscape: connecting research, pilots and industrial roll-out | Tine Schaerlaekens, Catalisti |
| 14h40 | Physical recycling, how far can we get? | Steven De Meester, UGent |
| 15h00 | Coffee break | |
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Advanced physical recycling |
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| 15h30 | Upscaling advanced washing technologies |
Gian De Belder, P&G & Yannick Stanau, Lindner |
| 15h55 | Physical and chemical recycling approaches | Hannah Mangold, BASF |
| 16h20 | Research chair in dissolution recycling |
Richard Geevers, PS Loop & Laurent Bedel, Soprema |
| 16h35 | Upscaling dissolution recycling | Pascal Lakeman, Trinseo |
| 17h00 | A Regional Ecosystem for Advanced Recycling | Stefaan Verhamme, POM West Flanders |
| 17h15 | The CLARIFY pilot system and tour | Tobias De Somer, UGent |
| 17h30 |
Lab and pilot tour |
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| 18h15 | Network reception and walking dinner | |