This year’s programme set the tone for its positive agenda ahead as we enter 2017. At this year’s event attendees were provided with the opportunity to meet CEPI’s new Director General, Sylvain Lhôte as well as its Chairman, Peter Oswald (CEO Mondi Group, Europe & International Division).

The highlight of this year’s event, the high-level session included notable speakers such as Gideon Rachman, chief foreign affairs commentator of the Financial Times, Lucrezia Reichlin of the London Business School, Signe Ratso, Director, DG TRADE, the EIB as well as Moody’s. The discussion refleced on global economic trends and the investment implications for the European paper industry.

As an indication of the strides forward industry has made on the innovation agenda this year’s event opened with ten young researchers showcasing their industry-changing ideas. Three of them will be in line for the prestigious global Blue Sky Innovation Award to be launched for the first time in 2017.

More in the next issue of bio-fibre / ipw magazine.