The waterproofing bituminous membranes sector totalled in 2021 an estimated production of 752 million sqm in Western Europe. To support this growing market and demand, EDANA introduced a brand new conference in 2019 focussing on the production of waterproofing bituminous membranes.
This 2-day conference is designed to offer great insights, best practices and information on market trends, regulatory and technical topics, environmental aspects as circular economy, as well as potential issues that could affect the whole supply chain.
“The insights and knowledge that we got in these two days were impressive. A great conference in a friendly environment in which we actually get to meet other professionals and share great ideas.”
Ines Antunes, R&D Manager, Polyglass
"Nice and pleasant event. We appreciated the diversity and quality of the presentations. Timing well managed with enough time for networking and individual discussions."
Christine Robach, Bitumen Formulation R&D Manager, SOPREMA:
"It was a pleasure to be here and to finally meet face-to-face many contacts. I learned a lot about the bitumen waterproofing membranes this will help me to expand my horizons in this sector”.
Ouahiba Kherrat, Chemist, Sud Etanche
Gilli Hobbs is an Associate Director of Reusefully Ltd and has provided technical & expert input to sustainability related projects in the built environment for over 28 years. Until 2021, this was at BRE, where she was Director in the Strategic Advisory team, working across low carbon buildings and building products, circular & lean construction, renewable energy technologies and sustainable communities, in the UK and overseas. In this role she also led BRE’s work on resource efficiency and circular economy.
Recently, she has been working as circular economy advisor to London Borough of Enfield on the Meridian Water regeneration project, undertaking numerous pre-redevelopment audits and various projects such as the ongoing EC commissioned project relating to Measurement of Circularity Approaches in the Construction Ecosystem. Gilli is a member of various standards committees including CEN TC 350 SC1 Circular Economy in Construction (Also Chair of UK mirror committee), BS 8895 Material efficiency, and B/558 Sustainability of Construction Work.
An experienced EU public affairs professional, Christophe has been working for Brussels-based European non-profit associations for nearly two decades.
He started his EU career with the raw material industry and was then invited to re-launch a construction product association. Having successfully expanded this organisation and its corresponding network, Christophe was invited in 2012 to bring Construction Products Europe to a position of European public affairs eminence.
Christophe has an extensive experience organising and chairing workshops and has the ability to address a wide range of audiences. A real team player, he enjoys leading people through change and improvement, thinking strategically about the association and how to ensure it is sustainable. He speaks French, English and Dutch. As the Director General, Christophe’s responsibilities for the association include the development and execution of public affairs strategies, network development and coalition-building, and team management.
Bio-engineer Industrial Chemistry @ Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium).
PhD on catalytical transformation of biomaterials @ University of Leuven.
2006-2018: Worked for Derbigum in Belgium, as o.a. R&D Director Innovation. During this period, he worked on developing sustainable o.a. alternatives for solvents to be used in bitumen cold adhesives, recycling technology for bitumen membranes and biobased roofing membranes.
2018 onwards: started a consulting company HAConsulting supporting companies on R&D, innovative building materials, innovation management and sustainability.
2019 onwards: Director bitumen technology at BMI Group, as part of Technical Center (R&D center for the BMI group) where he is responsible for supporting plants on their day-2-day technology needs, product development and long term technology development.
Member of the Management Team of Polyglass - Mapei. Research & Development Director SBS/SIS/SEBS/APP Self-adhesive bituminous waterproofing membranes, polyester fabric and PVC/FPO/PE/EVA synthetic membranes, with particular reference to the development of new materials and new applications.
Graduated in Civil Engineering at the Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST) of Lisbon with a thesis entitled "Life Cycle Assessment and Environmental Management of tyres"; PhD in Civil Engineering and Materials at the University of Parma with a thesis entitled "Asphalt Rubber: Study of the rheology of bitumen modified with recycled tire rubber powder".
More than 20 years of professional experience in R&D, in the design, formulation, development and dissemination of binders with polymers and rubber derivatives, in collaboration with universities and research centres.
1997 Degree in Industrial Chemistry from Pisa University
1997 Degree of Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa
2000 PhD from Pisa University
2008 MBA from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa for “Management of Innovation”.
22 Scientific papers in international Journals
Until 2003 - Contract researcher at the National Council of Research of Italy for studies about flame retardant polymeric materials.
His field of professional expertise is the construction market, where he has been doing research and prognosis during more than 30 years. During this period he has witnessed a couple of major crises that have provided clues as to how construction products manage to survive and even become a market success.
He holds a PhD in architecture, which has given him a technical background to understand not just how building materials work, but also the balances of power in the building site that condition how materials are chosen.
He is currently in charge of the market consultancy services of ITeC, which include the Euroconstruct reports that track the situation of the European construction sector in 19 countries.
B.S in Civil Construction Engineering from Polytechnic of Madrid, Spain.
David has been working in the construction industry for +20 years, mainly for Cement chemistry, Concrete Admixtures, Oil & Field, Bitumen, Paints and Coating segments.
Most of his experience is in R&D, product and application development. He has been with Omya for 2.5 years starting as Global Application Manager and promoted on January 2022 as Director Global Business Development leading the technical development of lightweight fillers /microspheres for all market segments and regions.
After10 years as energy correspondent for Reuters, Keyvan joined Argus Media in 2007 to report on European oil products markets, from gasoline and distillates to fuel oil and refinery feedstocks. He has also been reporting on bitumen/asphalt markets since 2009, editing the Europe/Africa section of the global Argus Asphalt Report until the launch of Argus Bitumen in 2015 since when he has been exclusively covering bitumen markets in Europe and Africa. Keyvan had, perior to Reuters, reported on petrochemicals and oil products markets at the London offices of Dow Jones.
Dr. Vanessa Matteucci is a PhD student at the Ipool laboratory in Pisa, Italy. Vanessa received her master's degree in Industrial Chemistry at the University of Pisa. Vanessa began working at Ipool in 2021 as a master's student and continued to cooperate with it as a researcher. Now she is doing a PhD in collaboration with Ipool. In particular, her thesis is focused on the study of controlled thermolysis of recycled polymeric materials within bitumen.
Erik Scholten is Sales Director Performance Products for Kraton Polymers, leading the EMEA and India sales teams. Performance Products entail the Unhydrogenated Styrenic Blockcopolymers that are apart from bitumen applications, also used in adhesives and various other applications. He has been in this role since 2022.
Erik completed his Master Thesis in Civil Engineering at Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands in 2003. He joined Kraton Polymers in the same year and worked in various roles in Research & Development and market development for bitumen applications. In 2012 he moved to the commercial team as sales manager for the adhesives markets.
Anne graduated as chemical engineer from CPE Lyon, France and has a Master of Sciences from University of Houston, USA. She spent more than 20 years of experience within ExxonMobil Chemical from 3 European locations, mostly in Sales, Marketing and Technology functions. She worked for various product lines including elastomers, polyolefins, basic chemicals, synthetics, fluids and plasticizers to meet evolving customer needs in different markets.
After leading the polypropylene automotive application development team in Europe, Anne joined in November 2022 the Construction & Specialties application development team as EMEAF Senior Market Developer and Construction & Specialties Lead for the Polypropylene Vistamaxx Exact business unit within ExxonMobil Product Solutions. She is also a member of EDANA Bitumen Roofing Membranes working group.
Fees include entrance to the conference, lunches, coffee breaks, a cocktail reception, and conference presentations in digital format. Fees exclude 21% Spanish VAT
Note: Benefit from a 10% discount by registering a minimum of 3 delegates (note: registrations must be done simultaneously to benefit from the discount).
| Members | Non-members |
| Early bird (until 25 March): 1.000€ | Early bird (until 25 March): 1.200€ |
| Regular fee (after 25 March): 1.150€ | Regular fee (after 25 March): 1.350€ |
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EDANA closed the first 2019 IMPERVIUS™ conference with a request from the participants to organise it again.
The 2019 IMPERVIUS™, the first Bitumen Waterproofing Membranes Conference, organised in Baveno, Italy on 5-6 June, attracted 93 key players from 61 different companies and 24 countries. Presentations focused on raw material development, processes, development in the MENA region, regulation and environmental opportunities.
There was a general sentiment of deep satisfaction among participants regarding the content of the conference and the networking. The conference opened with a keynote speech on the “Future-Proofing construction in the age of change” given by Frank Hatzack, senior advisor at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies.
“For EDANA and its members in this sector this conference is the natural extension of a 20 years-long history of unique cooperation in non-competitive areas such as sustainability and market prospectives. This is also a unique example of dialogue between proponents of all technologies for the bitumen waterproofing membranes, including but not exclusively nonwovens ones, in line with EDANA’s Outreach policy” said Pierre Wiertz, General Manager of EDANA. Read more
2019 Programme
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