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Meeting #

Meeting - Y2018

GPCA Plastics Committee

Thursday, 15th March, 2018

14:00 – 17:00

40

1

GPCA Offices, Business Bay, Dubai, UAE

Meeting OpeningChairman

New Member - Sameh Attalah

Sales Director

Middle East, Africa & Turkey

Dow Packaging & Specialty Plastics

• Bachelor degree in Chemistry: American University in Cairo

• MBA: ESLSCA Business School in Paris

• Joined Dow (Egypt) in 2002: Account Manager, Polystyrene &

Engineering Plastics

• Relocated to Dubai in 2006: Basic and Performance Plastics Businesses

(MEA)

• In 2008, relocated to Houston: North America LDPE Product Director

• In 2010, moved to Horgen, Switzerland: LDPE Product Director, EMEA

• Member of EMEA Packaging & Specialty Plastics Leadership Team

• Member of EMEAI Sadara Steering Team

• Leads the interface between Dow and Sadara

Attendance Review

3

Total members 21

Quorum needed 14

Confirmed 18

Regrets 2

Tentative -

Awaiting Response

1

# Name Company Status

1 Ahmed Omar Abdullah (C) Borouge Confirmed

2 Abdulwahab Al-Khaldi (VC) Sadara Confirmed

3 Tilman Ehret Astra Polymer Confirmed

4 Abdullah Al-Zahrani Al-Watania Plastics Confirmed

5 Frank Fasdernes BASF Confirmed

6 Craig Halgreen Borouge Confirmed

7 Khalfan Almhairi Borouge Confirmed

8 Walid Najjar Cosmoplast Confirmed

9 Sameh Attalah DOW Chemical Confirmed

10 Muayad Al Faresi EQUATE Petrochemicals Confirmed

11 Manfred Klepacz Ingenia Polymers Confirmed

12 Mohamed Azougagh LyondellBasell Confirmed

13 Yousef Fakhro Muntajat Regret

14 Issam Chaaya NAPCO Confirmed

15 Hamed Al Rumhy ORPIC Confirmed

16 Abdulaziz Bashraheel QAPCO Regret

17 Mubarak Al-Mubarak RCJY Awaiting Response

18 Ayoub Al Ghamdi S-Chem Confirmed

19 Awadh Al-Waridah SABIC Confirmed

20 Sultan Al Zahrani Tasnee Confirmed

21 Roberto P. Ribeiro Townsend Solutions Confirmed

Meeting Protocol

4

Do Don’t

Ensure strict compliance to the following steps to minimize the risk of violating competition laws

Prior to meetings:

• Draft detailed agenda that accurately reflects what is to be discussed. Agenda and meeting documents must not include issues relevant to competition law

During meetings:

• Limit discussions to topics included on the agenda• Take minutes of the full meeting• In case of spontaneous statements relevant to

competition law, react immediately and actively dissociate yourself from the violation:

o Point out to participants that this issue must not be discussed

o If necessary, postpone the discussion until you have received relevant legal clarifications

o If the discussion continues, notify your objection in the protocol, suspend the meeting or leave the meeting space

o Inform the GPCA Secretary-General or your company about the incident

After meetings:

• Minutes of meetings should be short and straightforward

Discuss, formally and informally, exchange information

about or reach agreement with competitors about:

Prices:

• Pricing, price differentials, and pricing strategies

• Individual sales and payment terms, individual discount, credits and credits conditions

Production:

• Production capacity, design plans, production rates, production methods and proposed changes thereto

Transportation:

• Rates or rate policies for shipments, including zone prices and freight charges

Future Market Behavior, in particular:

• Plans of individual companies concerning technology, investment, design, production, distribution and marketing of certain products

• Agreement on market allocation either geographically or by costumers

• Matters related to actual or potential suppliers or customers, particularly if this might have the effect of excluding them from any market or influencing the business conduct of other companies toward them

Agenda

# Agenda Item Objective Time Presented byPre-reading required?

1

Meeting opening • Welcome Note• Attendance Review• Introduction of New Member• Agenda Review• Action Items Review

• Opening • Alignment

1400 – 1410Chairman &

Sec. Gen. Actions Register

2PlastiCon 2018• Highlights• Delegate Registrations

• Review• Discussion

1410 – 1450 Sec. Gen. -

3Recycling Landscape Report• Detailed Scope• Proposals from Consultancies

• Update• Discussion

1450 – 1515Manfred

Klepacz & Udit Arora

Scope

Coffee Break 1515 – 1530

4 Waste Free Environment 2018 • Update 1530 – 1550 Dima Horani -

5 Business Plan 2017 • Review 1550 – 1600 Udit Arora -

5

Agenda (cont’d)

# Agenda Item Objective Time Presented byPre-reading required?

6 Business Plan 2018 • Update 1600 – 1645Sub-

Committee Leaders

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7

Meeting Closing• Any Other Business• Meeting Review• 2018 Meetings Calendar • Closing Remarks

• Closing• Alignment

1650 – 1700Chairman,

Sec. Gen. &Udit Arora

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6

PlastiCON 2018: ReviewChairman

Session 1: Keynote SessionsSession 2: International polymer producer experience in the circular economySession 3: Regulating the plastics recycling industry in the GCCSession 4: Global brand owners and the circular economy GPCA Plastics Excellence Awards Ceremony & Gala dinner

Session 5: Leadership with recycling in the global plastics industrySession 6: Export Opportunities for the GCC plastics processing

Day 1

Day 2

9th PLASTICON Highlights

• Dates - 14th-15th March 2018

• Venue: The Oberoi, Business Bay, Dubai, UAE

• Theme – “Sustainable Plastics Innovation: Closing the Loop”

• Content Partner - Nexant

Stellar Speaker Line-up

13

5

9

7

Regional International

Speakers

2017 2018

Leaders of Tomorrow

Leaders of Tomorrow

12

Dr. Fahad A Al-Sherehy, VP – Technology and

Innovation, SABIC

Dr. Moayyed I. Al-Qurtas, Chairman of Research & Innovation

Committee, GPCA

• Dates - 13th March 2018

• Time – 1400 - 1700


Students Sponsored by:• Borouge: 2• Natpet: 3• ORPIC: 11• SABIC: 10

Attendance Trends

*As of 15th March 2018

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299

277

222 227

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2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Regional Breakdown and Attendee Types

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Delegates Speakers Media

2017 2018

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GCC N. America Europe Asia N. Africa South

America

2017 2018


Value Chain Breakdown

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40

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2017 2018


Member Company Attendance

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2017 2018

Plastics Excellence Awards 2018• Dates - 14th March 2018

• Time – 1900 - 2200


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Category 1 Category 2 Category 3 Category 4 Category 5 Category 6

Nominations

2017 2018

Category 1: Joint Development & Improvement of a new product

or application – risen producers and plastics converter.

Category2: Joint Process Improvement projects from an

international machinery manufacturer and local plastics converter.

Category 3: Innovation and new plastics products and processes.

Category 4: Best sustainability Initiatives in the plastics conversion

Industry

Category5: Best Researcher in plastics and plastics conversion

Category 6: Fikra – Rising Stars of the plastics Industry

Recycling Landscape ReportUdit Arora

The first step towards this goal would be consolidation of waste

data reporting – “if we can’t measure it, we can’t manage it”.

Global GCC

10% solid waste generated is Plastic 18% solid waste generated is Plastics

14% Plastic Packaging Recycling 9% Plastics Packaging Recycling

US$80-120 Billion loss to economy Business Opportunity

Why Recycling?

Reduce

Landfill

Diversion

Recycling

Facility

3R

Framework

Circular Economy: Business Opportunity

Value creation:

1) Direct & Indirect Job Creation

2) Transformation in consumer perception and

environment awareness

3) Driving Research and Innovation by maximum

utilization of available resources

4) Developing recycling facility at minimal cost and

boosting profit margin

Trends & Drivers:

1) Forthcoming Resources Shortage

2) Increase rapidly commodity and

energy prices

3) Better Technology available

(Disruptive Technology)

4) Urbanization

5) New Consumer notions of value and

materialism

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Study Scope# Item Responsibility Support & Review

1 Executive Summary Partner Sub-Committee

2 Introduction, highlighting the issue Partner Sub-Committee

3

About the GCC waste generation and waste management infrastructure

(Current waste management practices in the six countries), incl.

stakeholder map

Partner Sub-Committee

4About the GCC Plastics Industry (production and captive consumption per

application) with a focus on packagingSub-Committee Partner

5Current state of the plastics recycling sector in the GCC (surveys, visits, etc.

with recyclers and converters) - understand challenges and opportunitiesPartner Sub-Committee

6Current regulations that support/ discourage the recycling sector in the

GCCPartner Sub-Committee

7 Benchmark against global best practices/ baselines (Austria, Belgium, etc.) Partner Sub-Committee

8Changing global waste trade (e.g. China blockade, India, etc.) and it's

impact on the GCCPartner Sub-Committee

9

Recommendations and call-for-action to regulators and industries that

support the establishment of a sustainable recycling sector in the GCC

(socio-enviro-economic benefits) - strategies and link to Circular Economy.

Call for regulators and industry to join hands in this effort

Partner Sub-Committee

10 Conclusions Partner Sub-Committee

Project Timeline

Recycling Landscape Study - Project PlanSelect a period to highlight at right. A legend describing the charting follows. Period Highlight: 1

Plan Duration

Actual Start

% Complete Actual (beyond plan)% Complete (beyond plan)

ACTIVITYPLAN START

PLAN DURATIO

N

ACTUAL START

ACTUAL DURATIO

N

PERCENT COMPLETE

PERIODS

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142

White Paper 1 2 1 2 100%

Draft the scope (covers entire GCC) 3 1 3 1

100%

Finalise scope w/ Partner 4 20%

Complete work on UAE data for presentation 6 7

0%

Presentation at PlastiCon (only UAE data) - 13-14 March 2018 13 1

0%

Complete work on remaining GCC countries 14 24

0%

Draft report for presentation to Plastics Committee 38 1

0%

Final report 39 4 0%

Proposals

Proposal Comparison EY PWC Frost

Mobilization

Current State Assessment

Primary Data Collection(Desk research only

from available sources)

Stakeholder Engagement

Benchmarking and assessment

of waste trade

Recommendations and call for

action

Project Timeline 18-24 Weeks 18 Weeks for UAE only 18-24 Weeks

Report Language English English English

Proposed Cost:(Inclusion of 5% VAT)

USD 80,850/-USD 390,000 – 485,000

(UAE only)USD 81,650 -

Waste Free Environment 2018: ReviewDima Horani & Sophia-Lara Abdullah

18- 22 February, 2018

Waste Free Environment – 2018

• In numbers

Countries: 10

Regional: UAE, KSA, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait

International: India, Germany, Morocco, Malaysia (New!)

Members

KSA: NATPET, Sahara, Sadara, S.A Talke, S-Chem, SABIC (TBC)

UAE: Borouge, GPCA

Bahrain: GPIC

Kuwait: EQUATE

Oman: ORPIC

Qatar: QAPCO, Muntajat

International: Borouge, Muntajat, OXEA

• Activities

Globally – Pending projects:

USA, Canada, The Netherland and China (Sabic, Borouge, Dow and Equate)

• School visits

• Beach clean ups

• Community events

• Office activity

• Community clean up

• Walkathon

• Competitions

WFE 2018 - Dubai

• School visits • Community outreach

• 18-21 February

• 4 schools, 1,500 students in total

• Conducted presentations, interactive

sessions, competitions, edutainment

• School plastic collection competition to

encourage students to responsibly

dispose their plastic

• 22 February

• Community mall – Mercato

• Around 250 participants

• Awareness sessions, recycling crafts for kids

and adults to promote re-using plastic and

all other material

• Recycling partner Be’eah

• RVM machine to push people to bring their

plastic with the chance of winning a prize

• Pledge wall

Benefits of Plastics booklet – fully

Arabized

For the first time, booklet that

explains the recycling codes –

identifying the codes and

recyclability – also full Arabized

Publications

Schools this year

Mall activities

Business Plan 2017: ReviewUdit Arora

Sub-Committee Structure

Effective Networking Advocacy Thought Leadership

Mohamed Azougagh (L) Craig Halgreen (L) Manfred Klepacz (L)

Issam Chayya Hamed Al Rumhy Roberto Ribeiro

Walid Najjar Awadh Al Waridah Yousef Fakhro

Khalfan Al-Muhairi Mubarak Al-Mubarak Dr. Raed Al-Zubi

Sultan Al-Zahrani Ali Al-Luqman

Rami Al-Zahrani

Hassan Mahmoud

Shaima Al-Aufi

Business Plan 2017

Effective Networking

• PlastiCON 2017

Advocacy

• Advocacy with GCC Regulators

• Benefits of Plastic Brochure (var. applications)

• Image Survey Brochure (DROPPED)

• PEA 2017

• WFE 2017

Specific Topics - SASO:

• Plastic Pipes Specification

• Plastic Bags

Developing the Regional Plastics Processing Sector

Thought Leadership

• Report: Eco-Profile Study (TBC)

• Report: Facts & Figures 2016

• Report: Thermoplastic Elastomers Industry in the GCC Region

• GCC Recycling Landscape Report

• Plastics Perception Survey and Report

Plastics Committee

Legend: Not Started On-Track Some Concern Not Achieved Achieved Under Discussion

ACTION - 1

Continue dialogue with SASO regarding pipes specifications and update the Committee at next meeting

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EFFORTS IN PIPE STANDARDIZATIONSESMA

• Borouge provides ESMA with technical expertise in

PE&PP Pipe & Fittings.

• Continuous dialogues in reviewing standards.

• Borouge represents the UAE in plastic pipe related

technical committee TC138 through ESMA


EFFORTS IN PIPE STANDARDIZATIONSSASO

• There was an initiative under the umbrella of the GPPA with participation from Borouge, Sabic,

Tasnee, and local producers in Saudi Arabia to bring up the quality of plastic pipes industry in

Saudi Arabia.

• This initiative was shifted to Sabic post-GPPA.


Item Status

ISO 4427 – Part 1 (General) Approved

ISO 4427 – Part 2 (Pipes) Approved

ISO 4427 – Part 3 (Fittings)

ISO 4437 – Part 1 (General) On-Going

ISO 4437 – Part 2 (Pipes)

ISO 4437 – Part 3 (Fittings)

• Aim is for SASO to adopt International Standards

(ISO 4427 & ISO 4437)

EFFORTS IN PIPE STANDARDIZATIONS


WAY FORWARD

Action-A: GPCA Plastics sub committee to lead the dialogue with SASO to schedule

Technical Workshops on reaming Pipes & Fittings Specifications as part of sharing best

practices and highlighting benefits of plastics pipes in utilities (Water & Gas)

Action-B: Leverage on recent MoU between GPCA & GSO to ensure the adoption of

ISO 4427 (Water) & ISO 4437 (Gas) standards.


Business Plan 2018Sub-Committee Leaders

Business Plan 2018

Effective Networking

• PlastiCON 2018 & Review

• PlastiCON 2019 Preparations

• Workshop on Plastics Waste Management in collaboration with GCC regulators

Advocacy

• Advocacy with GCC Regulators:

Plastics Standards RT with GSO

UAE Plastics Working Group

• SASO Plastics Specifications

• Oxo position paper (Update)

• Pipe specifications SASO

• OpEds on behavioral change / better waste management infrastructure

• Benefits of Plastic Brochure

Developing the Regional Plastics Processing Sector

Thought Leadership

• GCC Recycling Landscape Report

• Plastics & the Circular Economy Report

• Plastics Indicators 2017 (T/F& GPCA)

Plastics Committee

Advocacy: Strategic Priorities

Increase and enhance relationshipsand briefings with GCC regulatorybodies prior to the UNEA 4 meeting inMarch 2019 on strategic key messages

Improve communications from GPCAon the Circular Economy and how itbenefits society/industry – Recycle/Reuse

Collaborating with WPC to engageglobal initiatives such as the MarineLitter Challenge

Call for Action: Creating commonpresentation template for eachcountry focused on UNEA issues forRegulators RT

Call for Action: To be addressed atnext WPC meeting. List and align withpotential global initiatives on MarineLittering

Priority 1

Priority 2

Engagement with NGOs such as EllenMacArthur Foundation

Meeting the expectations of the GCCconversion industry to stimulategrowth.

Call for Action: Prepare plan toincrease engagement

Call for Action: Workshop withConvertors to identify issues,opinions, challenges.

Priority 3

Priority 4

Advocacy: Strategic Priorities

Meeting ClosingSec. Gen.

2018 Calendar

# Events Date Venue

1 9th Plastics Convention 201814th – 15th March 2018,

Wednesday – Thursday Dubai, UAE

2 Plastics Committee Meeting 1/Y2018 15th March 2018, Thursday Dubai, UAE

3 Plastics Committee Meeting 2/Y2018 2nd September 2018, Sunday Dubai, UAE

4 GPCA Annual Forum 26th – 28th November 2018,

Monday – Wednesday Dubai, UAE

5 Plastics Committee Meeting 3/Y201813th December 2018,

Thursday Dubai, UAE

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