[CANCELLED] 2026 IPRIME Mid-Year Workshop
This event has been cancelled. Please contact [email protected] with any questions.
Dear IPRIME Colleagues,
I am excited to invite you to attend the IPRIME (Industrial Partnership for Research in Interfacial and Materials Engineering) mid-year workshop. IPRIME workshops bring together experts from both industry and academia on focused topics of mutual interest. All events will be located on the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus. Registration is required by Friday, Jan. 16.
Plastic Film Circularity: Ambition, Reality, and Opportunity
Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026
2 p.m.-Local facility tours (optional)
Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026
Health Sciences Education Center (HSEC)
526 Delaware Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
8:30 a.m. Registration and light breakfast
9 a.m.-Session begins
3 p.m.-Workshop concludes
This workshop aims to move beyond why we must act and focuses on what challenges persist and how we can collectively succeed. The goal is to identify and map the hurdles being faced today within plastic films, and collaboratively outline the reseach, development, and innovation needed to overcome them. Topics include:
- view from across the plastics value chain
- technical experts panel: feedstocks, processing, and performance
- lightening pitches from startups
The full agenda and speaker details will be updated on the IPRIME Mid-Year Workshop web page as they become available.
Sponsored by IPRIME, M-SPIRE, and the Center for Sustainable Polymers (CSP), the intent of the workshop is to convene technical leaders from across the value chain, from material suppliers and converters to consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands and academic researchers.
Workshop attendance is included in your organization's IPRIME membership. Please distribute this to other interested colleagues in your organization so we can continue to bring together experts from both industry and academia around this topic of mutual interest.
If you are not an IPRIME member or M-SPIRE partner, please contact [email protected] or Chris Ellison at [email protected] to inquire about membership or attendance as an invited guest.
For more information, visit the IPRIME website.