Extrusion International 6-2018

14 Extrusion International 6/2018 INDUSTRY NEWS After a long and severe illness our dear colleague Dr. Yury Kravets died on October 24, 2018 Yury Kravets was born and raised in a small town in Ukraine. After graduating from secondary school with honors he, as many of his peers did, moved to a bigger city to pursue higher education. His first alma mater was the Leningrad State Uni- versity where he acquired fundamental knowledge of chem- istry. Yury continued his education in the Kazan Institute of Chemical Engineering and Technology and made a career from a lab assistant to candidate of science and leading as- sociate professor. With keen interest to progress and innova- tions he developed new course programs and taught lectures in physical chemistry of polymers, chemistry of composite ma- terials, environmental protection technologies. Being a young associate professor during the period of transition of Russia to market economy with no specialized literature available in the Russian language he elaborated the first ever course in Basic Marketing for engineers and technical specialists. Diverse in- terests, decisiveness and ability to build solid teams of profes- sionals were his distinctive qualities for years. Dr. Kravets’ expertise was sought abroad, in particular in Ger- many where he moved in 1998. VM Verlag Publishing House in- vited him to a science editor position in a new specialized journal EXTRUSION Russian Edition. Dr. Kravets was Editor-in-Chief till 2018. When in 2014 a new journal EXTRUSION International was launched, Dr. Kravets enthusiastically dived into work to later be- come Editor-in-Chief and hold this position till the end of his days. Work in a publishing house was his new professional experi- ence and life passion. This is where Dr. Kravets’ ability to focus on a given task and to notice interesting details and potential in ordinary things were truly revealed. By joint efforts with Ukrainian colleagues he came up with the idea of Interna- tional Polymer Conference and successfully brought this idea to realization. The First International Polymer Forum took place in Saint Petersburg in 2013 and was followed by 7 more conferences in the next years to become a significant regular event in the Russian polymer industry. Dr. Kravets’ active participation in polymer industry events in Germany, Austria and Russia, high professional expertise and strong work ethics gained recognition and respect among col- leagues and partners. Dr. Kravets had multiple interests, for example, his passion for travel was matched by his other hobby – photography. Our heartfelt condolences go to Dr. Kravets’ family. We will forever keep grateful memories of our dear colleague and friend. Editorial team, VM Verlag Publishing House Circular Economy in Action EREMA North America’s (ENA) recent Discovery Day generated a great deal of interest. The Technical Center in Ipswich, Massachusetts, became the meet- ing point for well-known companies spanning all sectors of the plastics industry. The focus of the dis- cussions and demonstrations was on post-consumer recycling. “Our goal is to take advantage of the growing aware- ness of the necessity of plastics recycling and drive for- ward networking within the industry. We managed to achieve this at our Discovery Day on 25 September,” says a delighted Martin Baumann, VP Sales of ENA, referring not only to the speakers who were pleased to take part but also the impressive flow of visitors. 130 guests from all areas of the plastics scene accepted EREMA’s invitation. The focal theme was the recycling of post-consumer waste, with the circular economy being a possibly path if raw material producers, processors, brand article manufacturers and recyclers pursue it together. This was also underscored by the external speakers from En- vision Plastics, Exxon Mobil and Interseroh Dienstleis- tungs AG, who presented outstanding projects in their talks. Efforts to improve recyclate quality were at the centre of analysis and discussion. Attendees were able to experience three recycling sys- tems for different applications in action in the course of the machine demonstrations and see close-up the con- vincing quality of the recyclates produced. The HDPE bottle recycling System (INTAREMA ® RegrindPro with ReFresher and EREMA Laserfilter) presented stands out