Date: Tuesday 11^th June 2024

Time: 09:30 – 16:00

Location: Wilton Centre, Teesside, TS10 4RF

Purpose: Join us, with our partner CPI, for this exciting round table event, where we will discuss what is needed to transition the UK chemicals industry to non-virgin-fossil feedstocks, including, infrastructure, investment, funding for R&D, skills, policy, regulation and consumer and customer acceptance.

Outputs: As an output of this round table event, we will be producing a short white paper with recommendations on how we can accelerate the transition of the UK chemicals industry to non-virgin-fossil feedstocks.

Agenda:

09:30 Coffee and registration

10:00 Welcome and round table objective: Developing a whitepaper ‘Transforming the UKs chemicals industry’ Dr Jen Vanderhoven

10:10 Current status, challenges and opportunities to transition the UK chemicals industry to non-virgin-fossil feedstocks Dr Jen Vanderhoven

10:30 Roadmap for transitioning to sustainable polymers in Liquid formulations Professor Anju Massey-Brooker, Royal Society for Chemistry

11:00 How can we accelerate the transition of the UK chemicals industry to non-virgin-fossil feedstocks? Introduced by Peter Clark, Innovate UK Business Connect
• Technology readiness
• Funding for Research, development, and innovation
• Investment

12:30 Lunch and Networking

13:15 How can we accelerate the transition of the UK chemicals industry to non-virgin-fossil feedstocks?

Introduced by Professor Anju Massey-Brooker, Royal Society for Chemistry
• Feedstocks
• Infrastructure

14:15 Break

14:30 How can we accelerate the transition of the UK chemicals industry to non-virgin-fossil feedstocks?

Introduced by Dr Mark Corbett, Biorenewables Development Centre
• Policy and Regulation
• Skills
• Communication and consumer acceptance

15:30 Top three asks for the new Government Dr Jen Vanderhoven

16:00 Summary of roundtable and next steps Dr Jen Vanderhoven

16:15 Tour of CPI Wilton Centre

17:00 Close