programme

Wednesday, 27 September 2023

Participants' arrival at the hotel Radisson Blue Béke in Budapest

Registration desk opens
09.00 – 17.00 ESTAL Meetings for invited delegates only
19.00 Welcome Reception and Dinner in the hotel for all participants


Thursday, 28 September 2023

09.00 - 17.00 Sponsors’ exhibition is open
09.00 Opening by Ivo Vermeeren, ESTAL president
09.10 – 09.30 Opening by Gergely Fábián, the Hungarian State Secretary for Industrial Policy and Technology

Half day excursion for Accompanying persons
Session Moderator: Imre Fehér
09.30 – 10.00 Marc-Steffen Hinderer, Hydro – Best practices on main consumer savings with the Green P&L in anodising plants
10.00 – 10.30 Geoffrey Bruno, Enovasense, An innovative technology for measuring in-process the thickness of aluminium anodizing and powder paint
10.30 – 11.00 Cristina Acedo, Henkel – Sustainable impact in the aluminium surface treatment
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break & Exhibition
11.30 – 12.00 Nick Welton, Sherwin Willams - Powdura ECO – Powder Coating created out of recycled PET
12.00 – 12.30 Herman Terryn, VUB – On the different corrosion protection roles of organic coatings on aluminium
12.30 – 13.00 Monika Tornoczky, HuGBC – Hungarian Green Buildings
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch break
14.00 – 17.30 Departure by bus for visit of green buildings – For all participants
19.00 Departure by bus for the dinner in the Larus Event Centre for all participants – Dress code: casual


Friday, 29 September 2023

09.00 - 17.00 Sponsors’ exhibition is open
09.00 – 09.15
Opening and ESTAL Annual report by Ivo Vermeeren, ESTAL president
Session Moderator: Bernard Gilmont
09.15 – 09.40
Katalin Kovács-Toperczer, European Commission – REPowerEU plan for saving energy, producing clean energy, and diversifying our energy supplies

Excursion for Accompanying persons
09.40 – 10.00 Paul Voss, European Aluminium, EU industrial strategy in a changing world economy
10.00 – 10.30 Damian de Geeter, EIPPC – Update on STM BREF review and potential impact on surface treatment of aluminium
10.30 – 11.00 Andrea Monti, Chemetall - Surface Technologies for a sustainable treatment of architectural aluminium
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break & Exhibition
11.30 – 12.00 José Garcia, Alsan – Technical solutions of rotative anodizing for aluminium extrusion profiles
12.00 – 12.30 Emel Razzouk, Miskolc University – Anodizing and plasma electrolytic oxidation of casting Al-Si alloys
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch break
Session Moderator: Ivo Vermeeren
13.30 – 14.00 Can Akyil, MacDermid Enthone – Improving corrosion resistance of cast alloys via surface treatment
14.00 – 14.30 Marcus Pott, MS Oberflächentechnik, Innovative & customized solutions for facades to feed your needs
14.30 – 15.00 Sencan Kizilkaya, AkzoNobel – Sustainability strategies for powder coating
15.00 – 15.30 Coffee break & Exhibition
15.30 – 16.00 Loris Rossi, ALIT Technologies– Fastrip AP, A paint stripping installation for aluminium profiles
16.00 – 16.30 Prof. Rajan Ambat, Technical University of Denmark – Recycled aluminium alloys for sustainable performance: some issues on corrosion and surface engineering
16.30 – 17.00 Zsuzsanna Szignárovits, Paint Tech Group - New sustainable education system for coating technology. Theoretical – virtual – practical training
17.00 – 17.30 Thomas Heusser, Audi Hungaria – The use of Aluminum in carbody construction
19.00
Departure for the gala dinner, held in the Queen Elizabeth room of the Gundel Palace
for all participants – Dress code: elegant


Saturday, 30 September 2023


Individual departures