Program Schedule

Registration/Check-in

Lunch

Tabletop set-ups

Presentation rehearsals

China Metal Packaging Association Annual Meeting

Technical Forum: Lowering Costs through Spoilage Reduction in the Can Line
Roger Baker, Director – Technical Sales & Marketing, Belvac Production Machinery
Adrian Long, International Sales Manager, Carnaud Metalbox Engineering
Chris McKenzie, International Sales Director (DWI), Chemtool Inc.
Buzz Bolte, Director of Operations, PAC International: Energy Conservation

Room 1

Presentation: Bruce Allyn, Vice President – Sales & Marketing, Pride Engineering
New Tool Pack Improves Can Wall Quality
Pride’s new Floating Tool Pack and how it improves can walon bright cans and offer suggestions for reduction of bodymaker component failures. New Pride model 30 grinder.

Room 2

Presentation: Cao Ming, Deputy General Manager, FoShan Rocklink Chemical Co. Ltd.
The Information of Metal Decorating UV Ink and Varnish
Characteristics of Rulin UV ink and overvanish, synthesized benefit analysis on UV metal printing.

Exhibition

Welcome Dinner, Earthquake Fundraiser

Breakfast

8:30 am - 9:00 am

Room 1

Keynote - Simon M G Jennings, Managing Director, Rexam Beverage Can Asia Pacific
Global Trends in Beverage Cans and Opportunities in China

9:00 am - 9:30 am

Room 1

Presentation: George Shillcock, OKL Can Lines
OKL Bodymaker Innovations
OKL will present their latest developments for Ragsdale and Standun Type Bodymaker

Room 2

Presentation: Bai Zhong Wen, Canneed Instrument (HK) Ltd.
Quality Testing of Metal Packaging
The progress and application of new technology in laboratory Can and End inspections.

9:30 am - 10:00 am

Room 1

Presentation: Pierre Noltinck, Director-Global Can Business, Quaker Chemical
Key Understandings in the Use of Can Coolants
How to maintain the coolant process in a good shape.

Room 2

Presentation: Heng Feng Printing Materials Co.
Topic TBA

10:00 am - 10:30 am

Room 1

Presentation: Bud Patel, Vice President Business Development, Applied Vision Company
Spoilage Reduction through Intelligent Inspection
Will discuss how container manufacturers can improve their yield and reduce spoilage through Intelligent Vision-Based Inspection.

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Room 2

Technical Forum: Double Seaming
James Wilkinson, Technical Specialist, Carnaudmetalbox Engineering
Pete Moran, Technical Specialist, Carnaudmetalbox Engineering

10:30 am - 11:00 am

Room 1

Presentation: Wendy Xu, Sales Manager, Danobat China
Overbeck Grinder's Application in Can

11:00 am - 11:30 am

Room 1

Presentation: Markus Roever, High-Speed Unit Manager, Schuler Systems
An Overview of the New Schuler DA 140 Cupping Press with the TG Can Technology Installed

11:30 am - 12:00 pm

Room 1

Presentation: Adrian Long, International Sales Manager, Carnaudmetalbox Engineering
The New Dual Stroke Bodymaker

12:00 pm

Group Photo

12:30 pm – 2:00 pm

Lunch

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Room 1

Technical Forum: Controlling the Inside Spray Coating Process
Mark Novotny, Global Marketing Manager, Nordson Corporation
Dan Leshnik, Technical Director – Asia Pacific, Akzo-Nobel
Matthias Allar, Senior Sales & Project Manager, Sprimag Ag

2:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Room 2

Presentation: Luc Nelen, Director, Sencon
Cost Savings by Sheet Coating Control
Most customers can save around $100.000 on lacquer per laquering line. Sencon will explain a simple method to determine if you can save money. Sencon will explain what you should do to save that amount.

2:30 pm - 3:00 pm

Room 2

Presentation: Thomas Duve, Managing Director, CMC Kuhnke
Costs and Benefits of Quality Control in Canmaking

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Room 1

Presentation: Joe DePaso, Senior Staff Engineer, Intralox
Improving 2-Piece Can Throughput by Optimizing Vacuum Transfers and 90 Degree Turns
Intralox has been working with Emulate3D to develop physics based simulation of product motion and interaction over Intralox Modular Plastic Belts. This physics based simulation capability has been developed in the material handling industries. We are in the early development of that same physics based simulation of Can mobility over Intralox Modular Belts.

Room 2

Presentation: John Davis, V.P. Sales & Marketing, CTI
Making Special Effect Inks Work for You
Advice on how to achieve success with special effect inks to those who want innovation, but encounter a variety of problems that special effect inks often present for can manufactures who have to do the printing and brands who need the marketing/packaging creativity.

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Room 1

Presentation: Dale Jeavons, Asian Sales Manager, Ashworth Brothers
Making Conveyor Belts Work for You
Latest developments in can washer, IBO and accumulating conveyor belts.

Room 2

Presentation: Reimar Friess, Sales Director, Gebruder Leonhardt-Blema Kircheis
Innovations by Blema Kircheis – Direct Sealing onto Metal Cans, Embossing Technology, TO-Caps
Development of sealing a membrane direct to a two- or three – piece can and describes the new machine feature for embossing a metal can exactly on a printed layout.

4:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Exhibition

7:00 pm - 11:00 pm

Gala Dinner, ChinaCan Awards Ceremony

Breakfast

8:30 am - 9:00 am

Room 1

Presentation: Tim Yeates, Asia Sales Manager, Sencon Inc.
New Technology for Mis-Spray Can Detection
On line inside can inspection for the detection of partial or total miss sprayed cans at the Lacquer Spray Machine.

Room 2

Presentation: Sun Qiang, General Manager, Wurth Guangzhou International Trading Co.
Topic TBA

9:00 am - 9:30 am

Room 1

Presentation: Christian Bretzing, International Sales Director, Kartonfabrik
Layer Pads for the Can Industry

Room 2

Presentation: John Dunn, Alfons Haar Inc.
New Alfons Haar Conversion System
The production of Full Aperture Easy-Open Ends.

9:30 am - 10:00 am

Room 1

Presentation: Andy Hatch, R&D Technical Director, Henkel Surface Technologies
Sustainability through Innovation
Several new D&I lubricant and washer innovations will be featured which offer to the canmaker the capability to improve plant efficiencies while at the same time reducing the negative impact that these chemicals can have on the environment.

Room 2

Presentation: Mark Novotny, Global Marketing Manager, Nordson Corporation
Coating Application and Curing Systems for Three-piece Can Manufacturing
An overview of the Nordson products and applications to apply, control, monitor, and measure coatings and sealants used in 3-pc can manufacturing. These include products for inside and outside stripe of welded cans, for monitoring the inside stripe process, curing inside stripe coatings, and measuring applied coating thickness and uniformity.

10:00 am - 10:30 am

Room 1

Presentation: Richard Kassanits, Design Engineer, Spraying Systems Co.
Tim Oberg, Director of the Food and Beverage Team
Improving Efficiency In the 2-Piece Can Industry with Nozzles
Four different ways to improve efficiency in the Can Washer and Inside Can Coating.

Room 2

Presentation: Gerhard Grossman, KBA MetalPrint
Multi-Color Metal Decoration - More Added Value with Single-Grip, Single Pass Production
The traditional one or two colour printing process is the bottleneck in the canmaking process. The single-grip process for multi-colour jobs is the key for higher productivity with lower costs per can.

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Room 1

Technical Forum: Coolants and Cleaners: Troubleshooting, Do’s and Don’ts
Pierre Noltinck, Director, Global Can Business, Quaker Chemical
Andy Hatch, R&D Technical Director, Henkel Surface Technologies

Room 2

Technical Forum: Converting your Process to UV / Process Control for Running UV Inks / UV
Inks and Coating Systems for DRD Cans
Jack Knight, Senior International Technical Services Manager, Inx International Ink Company
Andrew Stott, General Manager, Metal Decorating, IST Metz GmbH
Nick Hammer, International Sales Manager, Watson Standard Company

11:30 am - 12:00 pm

Room 1

Technical Forum: Decorating Issues; Wet-on-Wet, Screens, etc.
Equipment Standard and Specifications
Joe Finan, Manager, Special Project, Inx International Ink Company
Berty DeJong, Director, UnimaQ Limited

11:30 am - 11:45 am

Room 2

Presentation: Jack Knight, Secretary General, International Metal Decorators Association
The Benefits of Membership in the IMDA

11:45 am - 12:00 pm

Room 2

Presentation: Martha Rojas, UTC Overseas
Transportation Perils: Logistics Solutions for a Successful Project
Developing a smart transportation strategy “CAN” help you meet your production schedule.

12:00 pm

Room 2

Presentation: Cao Ming, Deputy General Manager, FoShan Rocklink Chemical Co. Ltd.
The Information of Metal Decorating UV Ink and Varnish
Characteristics of Rulin UV ink and overvanish, synthesized benefit analysis on UV metal printing.

12:00 pm

Check-out for attendees leaving today

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Lunch

2:00 pm

Conference concludes