CHEMUK2019
Yorkshire Event Centre, Harrogate, Leeds City Region, UK
1st & 2nd May 2019
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Chemical UK Expo > Speaker Programme
Hosted across ‘free to attend’ theatres integrated into the show floor, the programme will provide a platform for:
- Bringing together UK nationwide specialist groups across the chemicals sector to consider the big common challenges & opportunities
- Sharing of knowledge, viewpoints, experiences across the chemical & chemical products (consumer, industrial & institutional) sectors
- Keynote contributions from leading industry figures, bodies & organisations – highlighting key sector issues & perspectives
- Feature ‘hot topic’ sessions – getting to grips with the major transformational issues & challenges
- Technology & Innovation insight and assessing major ‘disruptive change’ in the Chemical sector
- Feature daily panel sessions – leading figures across the UK regions uniting to debate
- Feature streams planned include – EcoChem, Chem Industry 4.0 and more
'CALL FOR PAPERS' Online Submission Form
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INVITED THEMES INCLUDE: |
1. Chemical Business/Markets/Sector Landscape/Brexit/Regulatory/ Standards/Skills
Invited themes may include (but not limited to):
- Chemical Processing (CPI) sector – future UK & International outlook?
- Chemical Sector business environment – current & projected/growth drivers
- Competitive pressures to reduce plant, processing, labour & energy costs, whilst remaining ‘competitive’
- ‘Growth’ and ‘value opportunities’ gaps – where are the opportunities for UK chemical sector manufacturers? –
- Challenges of Feedstocks price & supply volatility /Raw material changes in the Chemical Industry
- Meeting renewable feedstocks demands for future chemical industries
- Downstream market opportunities and changing demand patterns – e.g. battery chemicals/sustainable plastics etc
- Collaborative R&D/Innovation initiatives, supporting UK capability
- Future-proofing for 2025/2030 markets & beyond – products & supporting processes
- Brexit explored – where are we? impacting on the chemical sector? (current/projected)
- Brexit impact – survival, damage limitation & growth strategy in a post-Brexit marketplace
- Avoiding commoditisation /retention of market share
- Chemical Growth partnership and UK chemicals industry collaborative intelligence
- Chemical Industry workforce changes – how fit for the future is your team?
- Labour costs/challenges – automation investment & strategy
- Chemical Sector Automation – meeting the skills shift running against demographic trends
- Regulation, Policy & Legislative updates/perspectives for the chemicals industry
- Access to funding for SME growth & support structures in the chemicals sector
- Managing Workforce Competence within the Chemicals sector
- Chemical Industry skills gap?
- Servitisation – challenging supply chains and business models
- Inward investment – looking to work with the UK’s high value chemical industries?
2.Process & Operational Performance + Improvement/Technology & Innovation
Invited themes may include (but not limited to):
- Maintaining & Improving productivity & flexibility levels
- Achieving environmental targets & regulations/ newer sustainability-based processes
- The right strategy for harnessing ‘innovation’
- Industry 4.0 /Digitisation adoption/Newer business models – when and how?
- Chemical Industry and Big Data– explored?
- Chemical Industry & Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT)
- Chemical Sector Automation – possibilities & insight into its part in future competitive strategy
- Breakthrough technology innovation – supporting chemical synthesis & processing
- Digital economy, importance within individual processes and in connection supply chains.
- Achieving faster innovation/R & D cycles for competitive edge
- Process Scale-up challenges
- Plant reliability & maintenance/service strategy
- Optimising Chemical Plant process & operational performance – when and where to invest?
- Water management/resources challenges for the chemical sector
- Adapting to process change to meet developing/transitioning markets
- Reconciling continued growth and innovation with compliance management
- Challenges of embracing chemical synthesis /bioprocessing processes in the chemicals industry
- Resource, multi-plant & inventory management challenges
- Chemical Industry energy – reconciling sustainability with competitiveness
- Applications in flexible and modular processing plant/tech
- Competitive pressures to reduce plant, processing, labour & energy costs, whilst remaining ‘competitive’
3.Supply Chains/Capabilities/Resources/Logistics – supporting UK Chemical Sector
Invited themes may include (but not limited to):
- Efficiency of Supply Chains supporting UK-based chemical production processes
- Highlighting of key capability gaps / shortfalls in UK readiness to capitalise on future market requirements
- Exploring Chemical sector skills shortages/skills initiatives & strategy
- Supply chain management capabilities – challenges for SMEs
- UK readiness to capitalise on future market requirements & capabilities
- Chemical Supply Chain Logistics – major trends & priorities/challenges & opportunities for competitive edge
- Managing transportation costs & raw material volumes
- Logistics challenges for specialised chemic-based industries
- Adapting to supply chain process change to meet developing/transitioning markets
- Industry 4.0 /Digitisation adoption/Newer business models – when and how?
- Resource, multi-plant & inventory management challenges
- Trends in contract processing & manufacturing in the Chemical sector
- Private label manufacturing trends in the chemical products sectors
- UK Innovation support structures, empowering UK world class chemical sector success
4.Green Chemistry/Environmental Management/Sustainable Chemistry
Invited themes may include (but not limited to):
- Achievement of stringent safety requirements
- Chemical Sector Regulatory compliance environment – process/production, logistics, safety, emissions etc
- Environmental impact – improving process & product environmental footprint
- Rise of Synthetic biology & new speciality chemicals
- Challenges of embracing chemical synthesis /bioprocessing processes in the chemicals industry
- Meeting renewable feedstocks demands for future chemical industries
- Achieving environmental targets & regulations/ newer sustainability-based processes
- Chemical Industry energy – reconciling sustainability with competitiveness
- UK chemical sector opportunities in Green Chemistry – e.g. bio packaging /biofuels/bio-synthetic chemicals
- Challenges of embracing chemical synthesis /bioprocessing processes in the chemicals industry
- Sustainability transformation strategy /challenges
- REACH and Brexit – challenges and uncertainty / ECA and UK
- Opportunities within the bio-based and degradable materials future markets
- Water management/resources challenges for the chemical sector
- Regulatory pressures towards circular economies for materials use/re-use/recovery
- UK Clean growth & Bio economy strategy
- Technological challenges for single use plastics
- Plastic microbeads ban in cosmetics and personal care products – challenges & opportunities
5. Regulatory/Compliance/Standards/Codes of Practice/H&S/REACH
Invited themes may include (but not limited to):
- UK Chemicals Regulatory Environment
- Regulatory change – impact in specific segments of the chemicals industry – inc speciality chemicals, biocides, pharma, cosmetics, personal care, I & I cleaning, polymers etc
- Regulation, Policy & Legislative updates/perspectives for the chemicals industry
- UK, European & Global regulatory insight
- Chemical Sector Regulatory compliance environment – process/production, logistics, safety, emissions etc
- Competence management & Process safety
- Achieving environmental targets & regulations/ newer sustainability-based processes
- Plant Safety & Security – physical & digital
- Achieving environmental targets & regulations/ newer sustainability-based processes
- Reconciling continued growth and innovation with compliance management
- Plant Safety & Security challenges & compliance
- Control of Major Accident Hazards (COMAH)
- Environmental Compliance regulatory insight
- Data Protection compliance – in GDPR age
- Complying with DSEAR – understanding workplace responsibilities
- Classification, Labelling, and Packaging (CLP) regulatory insight
- Responsible Care Management insight
- REACH and Brexit – challenges and uncertainty / ECA and UK
6. End-user sector-specific
Invited themes may include (but not limited to):
Downstream sector-specific market opportunities and changing demand patterns /regulatory change etc – e.g. battery chemicals/sustainable plastics etc
- Surfactants, Personal & Homecare chemicals sector – outlook/challenges & opportunities for chemical supply chain
- Industrial and institutional Cleaning products sector – outlook/challenges & opportunities for chemical supply chain
- Paints, Coatings, Sealants & Adhesives sectors – outlook/challenges & opportunities for chemical supply chain
- Agrichemicals – outlook/challenges & opportunities for chemical supply chain
- Water Treatment chemicals– outlook/challenges & opportunities for chemical supply chain
- Construction sector chemicals- outlook/challenges & opportunities for chemical supply chain
- Pharmaceuticals/Healthcare – outlook/challenges & opportunities for chemical supply chain
- Electronics & Battery market – outlook/challenges & opportunities for chemical supply chain
- Next generation Plastics, Packaging & Advanced materials – chemical sector challenges & opportunities
- Biofuels Innovation – chemical sector challenges & opportunities
- Paper & Pulp sector – outlook/challenges & opportunities for chemical supply chain
- Textiles & Fibres sector – outlook/challenges & opportunities for chemical supply chain
- Biocides sector – chemical sector challenges & opportunities
