The New Raw Materials
Tuesday, February 10th 2009, from 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

What are the main directions of research concerning the improvement of materials: The intrinsic qualities of the product (resistance, lightness…), the cost of manufacturing, the fluidity and speed of the process and the recycling possibilities...?
What are the most revolutionary materials put on the market these last few years?
Have they kept their promises?
In comparison what do they bring to the more traditional products?
Regarding steel, what are the possibilities of substitutions?
Non-ferrous metals? Plastics?
Some special materials?
What are the ideal and realistic deadlines between the advances in research and getting them on the market?
What are the short term prospects (three years)?

Raw Materials: The Purchasing Strategies
Wednesday, February 4th 2009, from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM

How to optimize the raw materials situation?
•    Recalling the influence of raw materials on the costs of an industrial business
•    Who manages the purchases: The purchasing director, the “Direction General” (French Administrative Institution), each factory? Does the purchase of raw materials constitute a special function?
•    Who negotiates: Circuit courts/long distance courts?
•    Market structuring and the role of speculation
•    Setting the prices: Negotiation, reports on the strength and stability of the market
•    Mechanisms of coverage and cost fluctuations

 

Raw Materials: Funding and Speculation Mechanisms
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 from 9am - 12pm

1- The circuit of raw materials in the world
 • Monograph of trade materials/financial flows: oil, natural gas, minerals, rice, maize, cocoa, coffee, sand (for glass or the silicon for the integrated circuit), potash, rubber...

2- The markets for materials
· How to sell and negotiate raw materials (contract types)?
· Presentation of the different markets and exchanges

• Payment techniques, coverage of risks, and financial techniques specific to the materials market and a big plan on the chicago exchange (cme/cbot «chicago mercantile exchange/chicago board of trade»)

3- speculation and stabilizing of prices
• who are the speculators? what are the mechanisms that falsely influence prices (other than a development proven by offer and demand)? 
• speculation, particularly in the case of oil: mechanisms in action, the functions of different players

Water, an Industrial Resource
Friday, May 16th, 2008 9am - 12pm

1/Sources of pollution

• Definitions: industrial waste water systems, sewage systems, rainwater disposal systems
• The General structure of these systems
• The nature of pollution and treatment systems: industrial waste water systems, sewage systems, rainwater disposal systems

2/The regulatory context of water management in business

• General presentation
• Explanation of the different regulations
• Regulatory obligations: regulations common to all establishments; those specific to plants that are subject to special authorizations or declarations, and those specific to plants that are not subject to these declarations.
• Authorization and agreements covering waste disposal by a common sanitation system: how this applies to the businesses run by attendees, the regulatory framework, connection authorization and drainage agreements, examples of draft authorizations and draft agreements, and calculation of sanitation charges
• Reduction of consumption and water waste: Clean technologies.
• Why?
• Methodology
• Approaches and steps to take: water management policies, separating water systems, reducing material discharges, water recycling, optimizing water use, limiting water-material contact, preventing accidental pollution, and clean technologies
• Water agency specific aid

Participants

• Patrice BANCE, Air France Industry – Environment Delegate and Sustainable Development
• Laurent MILLIAT, Dexia asset management – Managing Analyst for Sustainable Development and Energy Environment
• Pascal BERARDO, Suez Environment – Environment and Innovation Director
  
  
  

Moderator : Anne JOURDAIN Capgemini consulting – Director, energy utilities sector

Bioplastics
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 9am - 12pm

Plastics: sectors and uses

•    A note on the plastics manufacturing process
•    Plastics in light of environmental standards
•    The uses of plastics, characteristics, toxicity…
•    The market: changes in demand, supply capacity and price balance

Plastics and Bioplastics: a comparitive study

•    New processes: what processes are used to manufacture plastics from biomass?  What quality product is produced?  What uses can it be put  to?  What will be its price?
•    Recycling /Waste-to-energy: an update on the different options: incineration or solid recovered fuel (SRF)
•    Which energy assessment? Utilization-degradation vs. the amount of energy required for production
•    Bioplastics: a new model of economic growth?  Do bioplastics imply the redistribution of supply between oil companies, chemists and agricultural cooperatives?
•    Financing and political aspects of the economic basis of renewable raw materials.  Will agricultural be able to meet the demand for plastics?
•    Viability and social acceptance


Participants

• CNRS: Michel Vert, Director of the artificial biopolymers Research Center
• PLASTICS EUROPE: Jean-Jacques Couchoud, Director of technical and regulatory affairs
• PSA PEUGEOT CITROEN: Sandrine Raphanaud, Project manager: green materials innovation
• NOVAMONT / CLUB BIOPLASTIQUES: Christophe Doukhi-de Boissoidy, Director of Novamont France, Chairman of "Club Bioplastiques"

 

Moderator : Olivier Reymondon, Economist specializing in raw materials in COE REXECODE

The REACH Regulations and Businesses
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 9am - 12pm

30 000 chemicals are now covered by REACH.  Logistics, SQE/HSE and purchasing managers, legal departments: the entire company is affected.

1/The REACH regulations
•    Why?
•    The chemicals affected and those exempted
•    In which cases should special authorizations or research for substitutes be anticipated?
•    Legal responsibilities
•    The timeframe for its application

2/Companies in light of the REACH regulations
•    Which obligations will need to be managed?
•    The internal organizational structures (financial and human resources)
•    The consequences on supplier/user relations
•    An evaluation of the cost of REACH for companies
•    Is REACH a “barrier to entry” for EU producers?



Participants

- Anne-Marie Leroy, Associate Manager of the Legal Department, Denton Wilde Sapte consultancy.
- Marion Sandevoir, REACH manager, Yves Saint Laurent Beauté,
- Maurice Cornesse, Production, Environment and Sustainable Development manager, GIFAS,
- Jean-Luc Ponchon, Project Manager: REACH project, RHODIA.

Moderator : François Soubien of PRTM consultancy

The Surge of Steel Prices, Consequences and Perspectives
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007 9am - 12pm

The steel market consists of concentrated demand which grows structurally. Is the steel and its spin-offs following the path of the essence?

1/Steel, the essential elements

• Extraction and the availability of resources (geopolitics of iron)
• Production/transformation: The different types of steel and their usages
• Steel in the industry, constructions…
• Where lies the value add ? In the resources (mines), the production

2/The world-wide steel market

• Volumes and prices
• Composition of demand (qualitative, geographic), previsions, quantitative
• Demand originated in Asia and the emerging countries
• Supply and distribution channels
• Concentration of the steel industry and consequences regarding the quality and price

Participants

Seller:
ARCELOR MITTAL – Olivier DUBREUIL, Purchasing Director of Resources

Buyer, user:
EIFFEL – BISSETTA
ERASTEEL – Philippe GUNDERMANN, CEO
DASSAULT – Brigitte FAURE, Purchasing Director of Resources
VALLOUREC – Alain HONNART, Industrial Director of the Group
THYSSENKRUPP – Serge WEBER, President of ThyssenKrupp Materials France

Institutional:
MINEFI – Jacques THERNIER, Responsible of the Componant Mechanics
MINEFI, DGEMP - Philippe GUIHARD, Chief of the Welding Division
ADEME – Jean-Patrick SUTEAU, Welding Department – “first transformation of steel”

Economist: Elie COHEN, Economist and Research Director of CNRS

Analyst:
Jérôme MALKA, Development Manager of the Raw Material Trading Department of Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking and CEO of ORBEO
Luc PEZ, Société Générale
SOCIETE GENERALE – Frédéric LASSERRE, Raw Materials Research Director

Moderator : Dominique Gautier, Partner, Roland Berger

Is Coal a Clean Energy Source?
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007, 9am - 12pm

1/The energy efficiency of coal

• A typology of different types of coal and their uses
• A short historical review: coal in europe, coal worldwide
• A productivity comparison of coal and other fossil and non-fossil energy sources
• Transforming coal to oil (liquefaction): is this a solution to the structural increase in the price of oil?

2/Reserves and the coal market

• Where are the world's reserves? Estimations
• Changes in consumption by geographical zone and what about the coal-consuming industries? What are the effects on prices?
• Expected progress in mining operations and in logistics
• Future and outlook of the coal economy: who are the importing countries? Demand in China, India, Japan, and Korea
• Coal in Europe: The question of moving towards reopening mines
• Coal: Is it an alternative to price increases in classic energy sources, most notably in electricity?

3/CO2 capture

• What about CO2 emissions? A comparison with other fossil fuels and energy scenarios and CO2 emission
• Capture technologies, waste storage, outlooks for industrial deployment and the economic viability of clean coal
• A review of european projects: Castor, inCA-CO2, lacq

Participants

• ALSTOM - Camille Lévy, Corporate Strategy Manager
• ENDESA - Laurent Thabussot, Manager of the depollution project in the Engineering Department
• TOTAL - Luc De Marliave, Climate Change Coordinator
• EDF - Bernard Rogeaux, Advisor for Strategic Research and Development
• ATIC Services: Stéphane Lemoine, Operational Director
• Serge Périneau, CTL specialist

Moderator : Joseph Roussel, Associate Director of PRTM

Experience Feedback on Industrial Recycling Practices
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

Overview of Recycling in France: Key figures, protagonists, events marking the scope of recycling in past years, risks, expected developments.

The Environmental Responsibility and Management of WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) by Dell
•    The WEEE decree since August 13th, 2005: Manufacturers’ responsibilities, shareholders’ responsibilities, a network for the general public
•    The private network organized by Dell: Equipment sold before August 13th, 2005 (old waste), equipment sold after August 13th, 2005
•    The recycling network for computer hardware
An Eco-Organization’s Point of View on Lamps at the End of Life: Récylum
•    The Network Presentation film
•    The modes of selective collection of used lamps
•    The detailed Memorandum on Waste Follow-up applied in the case of WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment)
The Recycling Regulation, Internal Law and European Law by the Office of Gide Loyrette Nouel
•    Reduction at the source, recycling, and economic development: Common obligations in all waste categories
•    Obligations weighing essentially on the manufacturers – a residual but significant role for the local authorities in matters of household and assimilated waste
•    The importance of the concept of a broadened responsibility for the manufacturers: Tires, out of service vehicles, electrical and electronic equipment… and its impact in terms of eco-design
•    Difficulties holding back the legal qualifications of waste (Communication of the March 2007 Commission)
Rhodia’s Experience Feedback
•    Rhodia;s Presentation
•    The methodology employed
•    The Case Study
Primagaz’ Experience Feedback
•    Primagaz’ Presentation
•    Eco-design: Improvement of recyclables and reduction of quantities
•    Recycling packaging








Participants•    Dell - Laëtitia Flahaut, In Charge of Environment
•    Gide Loyrette Nouel - David Desforges, Associate Lawyer, In Charge of Environmental Law
•    Primagaz - Christian Millet, Director of Operations
•    Recylum - Vanessa Montagne, Director of Partnerships and Recycling
•    Rhodia - Emmanuel Riquelme, In Charge of Environmental Purchasing

Moderator : Anis Ghoumidh, Sustainable Development Consultant at Price Waterhouse Coopers, Ecobilan