8:30 – 9:10

Registration

9:10 – 9:20

Welcome – Chimar Hellas SA activities

Eleftheria Athanasiadou, CHIMAR

9:20 – 9:40

Role of Chimar Hellas in Crops2industry

Electra Papadopoulou, CHIMAR

9:40 – 10:00

Welcome – BIOS activities

Hercules Alatsidis, BIOS

10:00 – 10:20

CROPS2INDUSTRY Project outline

Myrsini Christou, CRES

10:20 – 10:40

Coffee break

10:40 – 11:00

Herbal Research and Processing Romanian Company-Tradition, Opportunities, Challenges and Prospects

Roxana Mihailescu, PLANTAVOREL

11:00 -11:20

Vegetal Bioresources, from Ecological Cultures to Industrial Capitalization

Elvira Gille, “Stejarul”Research Centre, DACIA PLANT

11:20 -11:40

Organic herbs – Collaborations with Greek producers

George Stavropoulos, KORRES

11:40 – 12:00

Medicinal herbs and bee products in the development of natural cosmetics

Anagnostis Tsoukalas, APIVITA

12:00 – 12:20

Sustainable production of targeted green industrial products via novel consolidated biochemical processing of lignocellulosic materials

Prof. Costas Kiparissides, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

12:20 – 13:30

Lunch break

13:30 – 13:50

Glycerol as a co-product of oleochemicals /biodiesel and vegetable oil derivatives from Castor oil for the production of fine chemicals in perfume and pharmaceuticals

Jean Luc Dubois, ARKEMA

13:50 -14:10

Bio-composites based on forest derived materials and biodegradable polymers

Patrizia Cinelli,

University of Pisa

14:10 – 14:30

Bio-refinery multi-product opportunities for industrial crops as feedstocks

Ralph Sims, IPCC

14:30 – 16:00

Round Table:

Topics: 1. Restricting factors limiting broader industrial use of other specialty crops (supply, costs, physical traits, consistency in quality, technical performance, economic viability and security of the investment, etc.)

2.Prospects to widen the range of potential feedstocks

3. Research gaps and recommendations