PETCORE EUROPE's Thermoforms Conference 2025
SAVE the date 27 & 28 May to meet up with experts and PET Thermoforms industry leaders at our Thermoforms Conference 2025 “PET Thermoforms Circularity: How can collection and sorting of PET Thermoforms be improved?” that will be held in France, Dijon & Beaune. The registration will be open in March 2025, stay updated and check our website.
PETCORE EUROPE Thermoforms Working Group was launched in June 2015, comprises more than 80 companies and organizations including key players from industry and waste management. Since then a number of events have been organized: online workshops on Recycling PET Thermoforms in 2019, Thermoforms Conference 2023 in Italy & 2024 in Spain.
PETCORE EUROPE is now focused on helping the value chain to reach the PPWR targets of 55% for collection, sorting and recycling and 30% recycled content for the PET thermoforms.
The first day of the event will feature the presentations from all the major experts in the field of thermoforms, followed by panel discussions with the guests from the industry. Also, high-level speakers will join us to explain the goals & expectations of the European Commission for the PET trays. On the second day PETCORE EUROPE will organize a visit to one of the most sophisticated Sorting Plants that shows how efficient PET thermoforms collection and sorting can be.
This physical event will have a special focus on thermoforms collection and sorting of PET thermoforms as a first key step towards circularity. We will also showcase PETCORE EUROPE Thermoforms WG’s initiatives: Tray Circularity Evaluation Platform (TCEP), Functional Barrier (FB) task Force, Standardization efforts for design for recycling and recyclability evaluations in connection with PPWR. We will also discuss recyclability scoring which is provisioned in the PPWR.
Last but not least we will give a floor to innovators with projects that have some potential to help thermoforms circularity. PETCORE EUROPE is calling the interested stakeholders to submit one-pager summary papers to eduard.zagan@petcore-europe.org and maria.trofimova@petcore-europe.org before the 31st of March 2025. PETCORE EUROPE will review papers and confirm which innovations will be invited to present by April 18th.
Below a non-exhaustive list of relevant topics:
- Innovations in relation with AI
- Innovations in relation with traceability of recycled content
- Innovations in relation with recycled PET quality improvement
- Innovations in relation with recycled PET analytics
- Innovations in relation with PET thermoforms collection and sorting
The PETCORE EUROPE Thermoforms Conference 2025 will be sponsored by organizations or individual companies, and we invite you to contact us should you wish to join this growing list. As sponsor, your company's name and logo will be displayed on all our communications material (including invitations, agendas, press releases and website) as well as promoted during the event. If you are interested to hear more about our sponsor package, please contact maria.trofimova@petcore-europe.org.
In case of any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us on: maria.trofimova@petcore-europe.org (Maria Trofimova) and eduard.zagan@petcore-europe.org (Eduard Zagan).