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Highlights from the 2025 agenda are here. Featuring expert speakers from ACI, Corbion, Croda, Inc., Soane Materials, IFF, Green Seal and more!

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Opening Remarks
  • Brittany Onslow | Conference Producer, Smithers
  • Brian Sansoni | Senior Vice President, Communications, Outreach & Membership, ACI
ACI Update
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Session I: Market Trends & Industry Overview
Consumer Behavior: TBD
Defining a Safer, More Sustainable Cleaning Product
Retailers, regulators, and ecolabels all have different definitions of a more sustainable cleaning product, making it hard for consumers to know what to look for. With no industry-wide agreement on the attributes of a green product, it's no wonder we see a big gap between the number of shoppers who say they want to be seen as buying eco-friendly products and those who actually do. This session will cover consumer research on the cleaning product attributes shoppers care about most, a framework for evaluating whether products are truly safer and more sustainable, and a collaborative initiative underway with retailers, brands, and policy advocates to form a meaningful, marketable category of safer and more sustainable everyday products.
 
Doug Gatlin | CEO, Green Seal
Session II: Clothes Minded – A New Wrinkle in Washing
A New Dimension in Fabric Care: Polyesterase
Over the past decade, the demand for polyester fiber in the textiles industry has surpassed that of cotton. According to Textile exchange Materials market report, by 2024 polyester reached 57% of the global total fiber production (cotton – 20%) and is expected to stay the dominant fiber in textile industry.

In the apparel industry, that still follows a fast-fashion business model, the usage of polyester and polyester-cotton is crucial. But just like cotton, polyester-based fabrics require detergents that offer more holistic care and go beyond stain removal. The laundry process – washing and tumble drying, as well as day-to-day wear & tear, degrade polyester-based fabrics leading to the origination of fuzz and pills and giving it a worn-out look. In the end it forces consumers to consider throwing the clothes away.

To address these issues, IFF has developed a novel enzyme class that adds a new dimension to fabric care, contributing to the longevity of clothes and meeting both the budget and the environmentally conscious consumer demands. The new esterase enzyme has a mild degrading action on polyester, hereby preventing pilling of new polyester textiles, or removing already formed pills. The new to the world polyesterase has been engineered to remain stable in liquid detergent formulations. This new care enzyme will make garments last longer, decreasing the need to dispose of clothes frequently, thus contributing to a more sustainable textile industry. Performance. Naturally Better.

Presented by IFF
 
Kris Bosma | Regional director HPC EMEA, IFF
Networking Break
Turning Laundry into a Sustainable, High Performing Revolution
The cleaning industry is at a pivotal juncture, facing demands to lower emissions and phase out single-use plastics while still delivering performance and value to consumers. Traditional liquid detergents, with their bulky packaging and heavy water content, are sustainability challenged. Laundry pods lower water content and reduce energy consumption in shipping but still rely on plastic for both product packaging and the pod material itself. Enter laundry sheets – once a niche innovation, now a crucial solution. A step forward in compact shipping in plastic-free packaging, early iterations of laundry sheets use the same petroleum-derived plastic as pods, leaving a gap in the sustainability story of laundry sheets.

We are witnessing a significant leap in detergent technology. Soane Materials has developed a next generation of water-activated laundry sheets that advance both the sustainability profile and performance of the format. These sheets offer a polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) alternative and pivot to a fully biodegradable, bio-based, dispersible matrix. This new matrix carries higher surfactant loading and can deliver enzymes effectively thereby creating laundry sheets with cleaning performance superior to PVA-based sheets and options to rival liquid detergents.  This matrix technology not only offers detergent brand-owners and manufacturers a versatile, robust solution to deliver a plastic-free product with consumer desired cost and performance but also significantly reduces the environmental footprint through decreased plastic use and reduced transportation emissions.

Participants from manufacturing, business development, and operational backgrounds will explore the competitive and ecological merits of plant-based, biodegradable laundry sheets. Attendees will learn details of the product design and performance attributes that would be accessible to a brand owner or manufacturer and enable them to replace PVA or enhance their product offering with plant-based biodegradable alternatives in their laundry sheet product. The session aims to equip attendees with insights into transforming industry norms, achieving substantial cost efficiencies, and fostering significant environmental stewardship, ultimately catalyzing a shift towards more sustainable consumer products on a global scale.
 
Elizabeth (Liz) Huth-Helriegel | Business Development Director, Soane Materials
Session III: Holy Sheet – Innovation in Laundry Sheets
New Innovations in Laundry Sheets: TBD
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Lunch Break
Return by 1:45 PM
Session IV: Eye and Eye Opener
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Natural Glass Cleaning Products: Maintaining Antifog Properties & Reducing Lime Deposition
In this topic we will explore innovative approaches to developing natural and effective glass cleaning formulations with improved performance and reduced product waste. I will highlight the multifunctional benefits of key ingredients such as xanthan gum and lactic acid, which contribute to antifog capabilities, lime scale prevention, and optimized spray behavior.
 
Elvin Servellon | Market Development Manager, Jungbunzlauer
Session V: Global Regulation – Detergents and Microplastics
Updates from Canada (TBD)
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Updates from Europe (TBD)
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Updates From the US: TBD
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Session VI: Communicating Product Safety
Networking Break
PANEL: Communication on Product Safety
Session VII: Sustainable Feedstocks
Sanitation Solutions by Corbion: TBD
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Bio-based and biodegradable liquid blend for thickening high surfactant Home Care formulations
With increasing demands for more sustainable ingredients from brands and formulators, there are limited options for thickeners that are liquid, biodegradable and effective in high surfactant formulations like laundry and dishwash liquids. Croda has now developed an easy-to-handle polymer/surfactant liquid blend that can be added to home care formulations without need for pH adjustment or pre-solubilization. The thickening performance is provided by a highly ethoxylated ester-based polymer technology that is pre-solubilized with a custom designed alcohol ethoxylate. The resulting liquid blend can be added directly to surfactant rich home care formulations to give cold processable, thickened products. By starting with plant sourced raw materials in combination with Croda’s novel bio-based ethylene oxide, the resulting blend is produced with a bio-based content of 97%. The blend provides a sustainable and effective thickening option for laundry, dishwash, and other surfactant rich products, particularly for high nonionic formulations where salt thickening is not possible.
 
Scott Jaynes | Senior Research and Technology Manager for Home Care, Croda, Inc.
Evening Networking Reception
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Opening Remarks
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Session VIII: Power of Global Partnerships
PANEL: Cleaning is Caring
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Networking Break
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Closing Remarks by Brian Sansoni, ACI