Recovered Carbon Black Europe Conference returned in 2023, with over 380 rCB representatives. As Europe's leading rCB industry event, the conference provides a unique opportunity for delegates to get the latest industry information and network face-to-face with global experts
2024 highlights include:
Workshop Focus - The "Product commercialisation workshop” has four experts covering all commercialisation aspects for both recovered Carbon Black and recovered Oil including:
Who Should Attend - The "Product commercialisation workshop” is highly recommended to everyone interested to understand product valorisation from ELT pyrolysis, especially founders, investors and equipment suppliers.
Why Should You Attend - With this workshop you get a solid overview on product commercialisation of recovered carbon black and recovered oil and you can have your questions answered by four of the top subject matter experts on recovered carbon black and recovered oil.
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Yongrak ("RK") Choi is the Chief Strategy Officer at LD Carbon where he oversees equity financing, strategic planning, partnerships, transaction structuring, business development and M&A, including vertical integration.
Before joining LD Carbon, Yongrak developed his expertise in equity research, investment banking, and strategy across various professional firms. He has led multi-billion-dollar initiatives, including global private equity transactions, post-merger integrations, and government-led industry restructuring.
Yongrak holds a B.A. in Economics with Honors from Washington University in St. Louis, where he graduated early with Summa Cum Laude distinction. He also studied at Fudan University as an exchange student. His achievements include being named in Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia and working as a consultant(BA) at McKinsey & Company.
Dave Abdallah has over 30 years professional experience including 5 years of synthetic organic chemistry prior to joining the tire industry. He spent over 21 years at Bridgestone Americas in various management and executive roles in materials & compound technology, process engineering and technology acquisition, which included the joint venture that became the Delta-Energy group. He has held various sales leadership roles at Delta-Energy, Bolder Industries and Thomas Swan. His passion for sustainability and experience with tire pyrolysis led Dave to found Abdallah Consulting whose mission is to help clients grow the tire pyrolysis industry as well as assist other sustainability businesses.
Franz holds a PhD in aerosol science from ETH Zurich. During several years of analysing airborne nanoparticles in the laboratory, he developed an analysis concept to measure the mass of single particles. As a co-founder and CEO of femtoG, a Swiss start-up, he set out to revolutionize the analysis of pigment particles and nanostructured materials.
Paul Ita runs Notch Consulting, a Massachusetts-based research company dedicated to the market research needs of the global specialty chemicals industry. Mr. Ita focuses on raw materials for the global tire and rubber industries, with a particular focus on carbon black, silica, and rubber chemicals. Through Notch, he publishes the Carbon Black World Data Book and the Carbon Black Quarterly Newsletter.
After finishing his studies in Vienna and Krakow Michał founded a number of companies in the textile and real estate sectors in Poland. In 2009, he founded Reoil Sp. z o.o., which, together with a group of close friends, he turned into one of the industry's leaders in waste tyre processing. He still continues to manage Reoil Sp. z o.o. today. The project has been, and continues to be, developed on the basis of contributed equity and from current cash flow without the involvement of funds, banks or strategic partners thereby making it unique in this market.
Technical Service & Development Manager for Arlanxeo.
Graduated from the London School of Polymer Technology in 1987.
42 years experience in the rubber industry – last 17 years for Arlanxeo.
Provides technical support to our SBR / BR and Butyl customers in Europe and translates their requirements into new products through working closely with R&D.
Hobbies include walking and playing golf.
Holds the English and Dutch nationalities
After achieving a summa cum laude M.Sc Degree in Chemical Engineering in Rome in 1994 on organic Materials, Mr Cialone devoted himself to the tire industry from 1995 until today. Over the last 29 years, Massimo has worked for international global companies in different roles in R&D, where he was able to gain expertise in both raw materials to compounding as well as processing. He joined Hankook - European Technical Center in 2015, where he serves a Material and Compounding Chief Specialist. Since 2019 his major focus is the development of innovative materials in the field of sustainability as well as coordinating research project in the EU area.
Alex finished his PhD at Imperial College London last year, where he published six papers related to tyre recycling, recovered carbon materials, and waste treatment in internationally recognised journals. Alex undertook numerous consultancy projects alongside his PhD and was awarded the departmental prize for the best thesis submitted in 2023. Alex now works as a Process Engineer at Orion Engineered Carbons, a major manufacturer of carbon black, where he contributes to a range of Innovation projects.
In April 2022 Frank joined Bolder Industries as Technical Sales Manager, BolderBlack Europe where is responsible for sourcing clients and selling BolderBlack to the EU market.
Frank’s career started in a lab for Melchert Electronik (electroplating), Degussa, Evonik and Orion Engineered Carbons. He then moved on to sales with Azelis, Black Bear and Philips Carbon Black Ltd (now PCBL Ltd.).
Frank has a chemical and technical background and work in the Carbon Black industries since 1994.
His Carbon Black journey started at Degussa AG in the QC lab (Carbon Black and Carbon Black oil) and moved then to QM and R&D (CB production). In 2011 he moved to the R&D and application department and trained customers and employees in using and producing Carbon Black. At this stage he was the deputy head of the application department (Rubber, Specialties and R&D).
Frank has also an education as a firefighter and was the deputy head of the Kalscheuren plant fire department from Orion Engineered Carbons in Cologne.
Frank lives in Germany, speaks German, English and French. He enjoys time with his family, music, cooking and hiking in his spare time.
Until 2019 he was involved in the volunteer fire brigade as Fire Chief Inspector in his home town.
Raffaele di Ronza is the senior application and technical solutions manager for the
Reinforcement Materials business segment at Cabot Corporation. He currently leads the EMEA technical team, which is focused on reinforcing carbons and elastomer composite solutions for tire and industrial rubber applications. With over 20 years of experience in the chemical industry, specifically in rubber value chains, he has also held various roles in R&D, particularly in tires. Raffaele earned an Executive Master of Business Administration from Politecnico di Milano and a master's degree in Industrial Chemistry from the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico.
Prof. Dr. Jorge Lacayo-Pineda is Head of the Expert Field for Materials Evaluation at Continental, Tires, and has hold different executive positions in the Materials Labs of Continental since 1998. He is Honorary Professor at the Leibniz University of Hanover and Visiting Professor at the Qingdao University of Science & Technology. He is Chairman of Sub-Committee D11.20 Rubber Compounding Materials & Processes of ASTM International, member of the US Delegation to ISO TC 45 – Rubber & Rubber Products, Convener of the ISO Working Group TC45/SC2/WG5 Chemical Tests of Rubber, and member of the Board Council of the German Rubber Society.
Pieter ter Haar is Director Sustainable carbonaceous materials for Circtec, and an expert in recovered carbon black (rCB), pyrolysis, and a former rubber compounder. He is also one of the founding members of ASTM committee D36 on recovered carbon black, and in his current role as ASTM D36 Chair he leads this committee. He holds a Chemistry degree and has over 12 years of experience in using and producing rCB.
Circtec converts ELT into renewable transport fuels, circular chemicals and recovered carbon black. Circtec is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with activities in 5 European countries. Circtec has invested significant resources the last 15 years into developing and maturing proprietary technology and products.
Pieter is also part of the Advisory committee of the Smithers Recovered Carbon Black World conferences in Europe.
