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Wednesday, 13 April 2011

8:30 am	Welcoming coffee and registration
9:00 am	Market update George Goroyias, Pöyry Forest Industry Consulting
9:45 am	The laminate industry in Turkey Eren Gonul, Gentas Group
10:30 am	Coffee break
11:00 am	Foil for the future Peter Lantz, IKEA
11:30 am	Industrial digital printing from roll to roll Jordi Reichert , Hymmen
Noon	Lunch break
1:30 pm	Consequences of the new ISO standard for laminate floorings Volker Kettler, Meisterwerke
2:00 pm	The global market of titanium dioxide: Current situation and outlook Güclü Turkoglu, DuPont Titanium Technologies
2:30 pm	Digital (not only) printing Robert David, Interprint
3:00 pm	Coffee break
3:30 pm	Large format digital printing on wood based panels Peter Thomas, Dieffenbacher System Automation
4:00 pm	Digital decoration of products and surfaces Tim Phillips, Xennia Technology
4:30 pm	Influence of printing substrate characteristics on UV-curable inks adhesion and wetting behavior Monica Badila, WOOD Carinthian Competence Centre
5:00 pm	End of day 1
7:00 pm	Impress Conference Dinner Buses will leave at 7:00 pm from the conference hotel. The conference dinner will start at 7:30 pm at the “Hackerhaus” restaurant located in the centre of Munich .

Thursday, 14 April 2011

8:30 am	Welcoming coffee and registration
9:00 am	Innovations - Made by Schattdecor Silke Cuny, Schattdecor
9:30 am	Technology meets design Horst Pachowiak, Impress Decor
10:00 am	Sustainability: Beyond the surface Tanis Marquette, Momentive Specialty Chemicals
10:30 am	Coffee break
11:00 am	New approaches to powder coating on engineered wood products Markus Cudazzo and Ulrich Strohbeck, Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing, Engineering and Automation, IPA
11:30 am	The green solution: MDF powder coating and added value via digital printing Thomas Schmidt, Tiger Coatings
Noon	Next generation of surface excellence in thermoplastic films Frank Herberg, Klöckner Pentaplast
12:30 pm	Lunch break
2:00 pm	Printing on wood-based materials – Influence of the surface properties of the substrates on printing quality Mario Beyer, Ingrid Fuchs and Anissa Ghozzi, Institut für Holztechnologie Dresden
2:30 pm	Improving yields in “high gloss finish” material manufacture Sheila Hamilton, Teknek
3:00 pm	Coffee break
3:30 pm	Paper saturation resins - Red and white going green? Robert Wagner, Dynea Austria
4:00 pm	New approach for improved micro-scratch resistance in decorative laminate surfaces Ulf Panzer, Elaine Pereira and Friedl Heger, Borealis Agrolinz Melamine
4:30 pm	Modification of melamine-formaldehyde resins by substances from renewable resources Martin Kohlmayr, Impress Decor
5:00 pm	End of conference