Material Stage (West Hall 3)
Jan. 31, 2020 (Fri.)
The Forefront of a Responsible Plastics Industry for a Sustainable Society
Keynote Speech
Biodegradable Plastics for the Future
10:15-10:55
The University of Tokyo
Department of Biomaterial Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences
Professor
Prof. Tadahisa IWATA
Polylactic acid (PLA) ~Improvement of performance to expand applications
11:05-11:35
Total Corbion PLA b.v. Japan Representative Office
Representative
Mr. Takeshi Kanetaka
Effort to reduce consumption of plastics by replacing with pulp materials -New paper based barrier material, "Silbio Barrier"-
11:45-12:15
Oji F-Tex Co.,Ltd.
Marketing & Develpoment Dept., Sales Div.
General Manager
Mr. Masaru Kadota
Package strategy of Coca-Cola
12:25-12:55
Coca-Cola Japan Company, Limited
Product & Package Commercialization, Technical
Director
Mr. Kenshi Matsuoka
【Profile】
After working for package development at a big printing company, he joined Coca-Cola Japan Company, Limited in 2002. He was in charge of various package developments and light weighting. He also developed ILOHAS package which was launched in 2019. Then, He is managing Product & Package Commercialization group in Technical which is in charge of formula and package.
【Abstract】
In these days, it's required to act speedy as a producer for environmental matters like as global warming, marine litter plastics and so on. Coca-Cola has been working for the matters through light weighting, selection on low CO2 emission materials. In January 2018, Coca-Cola released a strategy "World Without Waste" globally and accelerating to build circular economy. In addition, Coca-Cola announced the advance of achieving the target in July 2019. We will brief the strategy in this session.