Dates: 13th & 14th February 2012

Venue: Swissôtel Berlin / Germany, Augsburgerstr. 44, 10789 Berlin, Germany
Website: http://manu-chem.we-conect.com/

Global ManuCHEM Strategies 2012 - Strategic challenges and approaches for achieving manufacturing excellence and process safety in chemical operations

we.CONECT is bringing an international audience of global manufacturing directors from the chemical industry to Berlin, to network, share knowledge and be made aware of the key developments within the industry.

With over 80 of the world's leading chemical operators and suppliers, the Global ManuCHEM Strategies is the definitive event for the industry.

Highlights are keynote sessions from following industry leaders:

·         Stephan Sielaff Senior Vice President Global Operations Flavor & Nutrition Symrise AG explains in our World Café, how you create and integrate your own TPM & process excellence network in your daily business to share ideas & innovations with new technologies and process optimization tools in your daily business

·         Wes Oren Global Operations Director, HB Fuller shows how HB Fuller was implementing a successful production planning system in their production facilities and how they integrate a global supply chain management system to manage inventory and reduce time to market

·         Pieter Verberne General Manager Energy AkzoNobel Industrial Chemicals discuss how you can improve sustainability and efficiency in energy intensive processes and will explore in our Ice Breaker Session how you can measuring your carbon footprint and how you define the 'scope' for improvement

·         Herman Van Roost General Manager Industrial Organisation & Competencies Project Total Petrochemicals reveals how to align process excellence with process safety challenges to a common & corporate manufacturing excellence action plan in order to reduce costs, reduce complexity, and achieve greater value for customer

·         Michael Faber Head of Production Excellence Europe BASF Performance Coatings shows the operational excellence journey at the biggest coatings site in Europe and how they integrated a sustainable & stable lean manufacturing culture

·         Antonio Nardone, Plant General Manager, Elantas Deatech explains how small production entities (who don't have expensive specialized resources for process improvement projects) are managing limited human resources in order to reach a maximum on process excellence.

·         Gareth McAllister, European Business Director, Lord Corporation Europe Ltd. will show how Lord was reorganising and restructuring plant facilities in order to reach quality & manufacturing excellence regarding the customer needs

Delegates will come from over 30 countries, take full advantage and attend at  

• Our unique World Café and use the wisdom of the crowd to get the most sustainable results for your daily work
• Gain a unique insight into manufacturing strategies of world leading companies at more than 17 case studies
• See first hand how the largest chemical companies operates
• Meet our business partners, discuss solutions and see their product showcases
• Take your glass and participate at our Ice Breaker Session the day before the conference, the purpose is to help session attendees get to know and appreciate each other
• Wake up in the morning, get a coffee, listen & discuss to cutting edge topics at our Breakfast Sessions
• Take the advantage to have face2face business strategy meetings with our business partners and your peers
• And discover Berlin, one of the most exciting cities in the World!

Several Ice Breaker , interactive roundtables as part of a World Café and case studies of well-known companies to provide participants an overview of strategies, best practices and solutions as cutting edge topics as well.

According to Daniel Wolter, Head of Partnerships, we.CONECT Global Leaders, the conference aim is to provide participants  a balanced mix of lectures and many opportunities as possible to discuss viable approaches for the realization of a sustainable manufacturing excellence strategy. "Dynamic process excellence structures and manufacturing improvements for example in process safety, energy consumption, automation technology at local (plant) level and in global manufacturing networks are the common challenges many companies facing off. The Global ManuCHEM Strategies 2012 takes up this momentum. "

Individuals interested in attending, sponsoring or finding out more about the Global ManuCHEM should visit http://manu-chem.we-conect.com/  

Or contact

Henry Fuchs
MD Production & Marketing
we.CONECT Global Leaders GmbH
Gertraudenstr. 10-12  |  10178 Berlin, Germany

Phone: +49 (0)30 52 10 70 3 - 44  |  Fax: +49 (0)30 52 10 70 3 - 30

Email: henry.fuchs@we-conect.com

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