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Wells Plastics Limited attended the recent BOPET Film 2016 conference organised by AMI in Cologne, with Technical Manager, Dr Gary Ogden FIMMM, CSci, presenting a paper entitled “Oxo-biodegradable BOPET film

During the 4th Speciality Films & Flexible Packaging, Global Conference John James, Export Manager of Wells Plastics gave a presentation entitled “The Use of Oxo-biodegradable Packaging in Flexible Films - Dealing with the Issue of Plastic Litter”.

Wells Plastics were delighted to participate in a Green Sustainability Seminar entitled ‘ReverteTM oxo-biodegradable multi-layered packaging for Green Sustainability’ on the 16th June 2015 at Kementrian Lingkungan Hidup (Ministry of Environment), along with our distribution partners PT Neochem Indonesia, our exclusive distributor in the region since 2011.

Agricultural Film 2014 International industry conference on silage, mulch, greenhouse and tunnel films used in agriculture 15-17 September 2014, Crowne Plaza Barcelona Fira Center, Barcelona, Spain.

Andrew Barclay, Technical Director of Wells Plastics Ltd in his capacity as Chairman of the Bio-based And Degradable Plastics Group (British Plastics Federation) will be presenting at the ‘Plastics and the Environment’ conference held by the Association of Hellenic Plastic Industries (AHPI) in Athens, Greece.

In March 2010 the UK Dept of the Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) published a report, EV0422, 'Assessing the environmental impacts of oxo-degradable plastics across their life cycle' written by researchers at Loughborough University with no expertise in oxo-biodegradable (“OBD”) plastic technology. Its publication raised a number of concerns for those who specialise in the technology.

The 3rd annual Wells Plastics LA distributor conference was held on 10th and 11th March 2011 at the Camino Real Hotel in Antigua, Guatemala.The conference was attended by representatives from most of Wells’ distributors in Central and South America, and individual market presentations were given by all.