Spanish plastics technology centre Aimplas (Valencia; www.aimplas.net) is holding the third edition of its international seminar on new materials, entitled “Plastics are Future” (www.plasticsarefuture.com), on 6-7 October 2021, at Aimplas’ Plastics Technology Institute in the Valencia Technological Park.

The seminar is being divided into four sessions. The first two, to be held on the first day, are to discuss the response plastic materials can provide to address environmental challenges in sectors such as mobility and construction, and how polymers can help fight resistant viruses and bacteria, and diseases such as cancer. On the second day, solutions for agricultural production and food safety through packaging are expected to be presented. The seminar will conclude with a session on a new concept: Industry 5.0, said Aimplas. A total of 20 presentations will be given by industry experts from all over Europe, and the event is expected to be a hybrid one, where participants can also take part is all sessions virtually.

Some of the sessions expected to be held are, Climate Change: An Opportunity to Reconcile Ourselves With the Planet, Plastics as a Revolutionary Vector for Food Production and Food Safety, Biomedicine: Forging the Health of the Future, and The Tissue That Generates the Future: Connectivity, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence.