"Digital technology will revolutionize the food sector"
The opportunities afforded by digitalization center around three pillars: sustainability, profitability, and transparency, says Dr. Martine van Veelen, Director of EIT Food West.
"Digitalization is not the aim – delivering customer value is"
Digitalization enables Huhtamaki to meet its ambitions in terms of growth, competitiveness, developing talent and embedding sustainability in everything it does, states Antti Valtokari, Executive Vice President, IT and Process Performance.
"Manufacturers must change both their technology and their culture"
A first step is for companies to evaluate where they are currently and map out exactly where Industry 4.0 can provide the best input to their work, suggests Joe Young, a Senior Research Engineer at the Manufacturing Technology Centre.
How can digitalization deliver circular and sustainable manufacturing?
The virtual roundtable discussion with a focus on the use of digitalization in manufacturing and its operations, data collection and analysis to deliver more sustainable operations was held on April 15, 2021.
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Alexandre Affre
Deputy Director General, BusinessEurope
Lorenzo Allio
Senior Policy Analyst, European Regulation and Innovation Forum
Caesaré Assad
CEO,
Food System 6
Annica Bresky
President and CEO,
Stora Enso
Patrick ten Brink
Deputy Secretary General, The European Environmental Bureau
Kate Daly
Managing Director of the Center for the Circular Economy, NextGen consortium & Closed Loop partners
Tobias Eriksson
Head of Efeso Nordics, and of the Forest and Packaging Industry Team
Steve Evans
Professor and Director of Research, Centre for Industrial Sustainability at Cambridge University
Darragh Flynn
Managing Director, The Happy Pear
Ray Georgeson
Trustee, WasteAid
Ali Harlin
Research Professor at VTT & Lead of Package Heroes
Charles Héaulmé
President and CEO, Huhtamaki
Frank Heidlberger
Director of Global Packaging, McDonald's
Thomasine Kamerling
EVP, Sustainability and Communications, Huhtamaki
Jyrki Katainen
President, Sitra
Tim Marsden
IT Director - Supply Chain, Coca-Cola European Partners
Andy Parton
Vice President Petcare Commercial, Mars
Fatma Sahin
European External Affairs Manager, Unilever
Heikki Salmela
Chairman of the Board and Founder, Hesburger
Petri Sarvamaa
Member of the European Parliament
Antti Valtokari
EVP, IT and Process Development, Huhtamaki
Martine van Veelen
Director, EIT Food West, European Institute of Innovation & Technology
Henna Virkkunen
Member of the European Parliament
Maria Wetterstrand
Former Head of the Swedish Green Party,
CEO Miltton Europe
Michelle Wilson
Lead of Circular Economy Network, WasteAid
Joe Young
Senior Research Engineer, Manufacturing Technology Centre
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