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’ Pioneer Group 

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

10:30 Challenges and opportunities for alternative feedstocks for 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: Policy, Regulation, Infrastructure Chaired by Professor Anju Massey-Brooker, Royal Society for Chemistry

12:30 Lunch and Networking

13:30 How can we accelerate the transition of the UK chemicals industry to non-virgin-fossil feedstocks: Funding for Research, development, and innovation, Investment Chaired by Peter Clark, Innovate UK Business Connect

14:30 Break

14:45 How can we accelerate the transition of the UK chemicals industry to non-virgin-fossil feedstocks: Skills, Communication and consumer acceptance Chaired by Dr Mark Corbett, Biorenewables Development Centre

15:45 Summary of roundtable and next steps Dr Jen Vanderhoven

16:00 Close