2025 Sustainability Summit
Hotel Cleveland, Autograph Collection
24 Public SquareCleveland, OH 44113-2214
United States
Help Map the Future of Sustainability for Your Company and the Industry!
About the Summit
The 2025 ASC Adhesive & Sealant Sustainability Summit continues to advance the discussion of sustainability in our industry with a program designed to provide maximum knowledge sharing, networking, and collaboration on sustainability strategies for resiliency amid the changing geopolitical landscape. Throughout the summit attendees will identify several impactful sustainability action items for ASC to accomplish over the next year.
Get involved and elevate your sustainability journey with your peers through understanding and consensus. We need your voice!
This highly interactive summit presents many opportunities for learning, sharing and networking with experts and colleagues during the daily program and at the evening activities gatherings.
Who Should Attend
This industry summit is ideal for business, marketing and technical professionals responsible for setting strategic goals and metrics, leading or managing their company's sustainability program, downstream end users, academia, and those who are seeking to learn more about sustainability role within the adhesive and sealant industry.
REGISTRATION
CLICK ON THE REGISTRATION BUTTON ABOVE TO PROCESS YOUR REGISTRATION.
Registration Fees
Member/End-User: $675 (per person)
Group rate (3 or more) - $575 (per person) - (must be processed together in order to receive the discount)
Nonmember: $975
Student/Press: $350
Speaker One Day: $300
Note: Regular registration ENDS August 29, 2025. Rates go up 20% afterward. No refunds after August 29, 2025.
If you have questions, please contact Malinda Armstrong, CMP at Malinda.Armstrong@ascouncil.org.
KEYNOTES ANNOUNCED…
Building and Leveraging Safe and Sustainable Chemistry: Ensuring Business Resilience – Rui Resendes PhD, Director of Partnerships and Business Development with Change Chemistry
The Future Packaging Landscape - What Should We Strive Towards and How Can Our Industry Help to Achieve It? – Charles Paul, Adhesion and Adhesives Consulting with Angel Investing
Preliminary Schedule...
Monday, September 22, 2025
Meet & Greet Reception in the Evening
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
KEYNOTE: Building and Leveraging Safe and Sustainable Chemistry: Ensuring Business Resilience – Rui Resendes PhD, Director of Partnerships and Business Development, Change Chemistry
PANEL: Challenges and Solutions for Industry
Panel of suppliers, manufacturers, and end users from diverse backgrounds will discuss their sustainability program, including trends, harmonization, impact and challenges that ASC can potentially undertake to drive solutions. The panel will follow up with Q&A from the audience.. Interested in being a panelist? Sign up during registration.
MATERIAL SELECTIONS AND ACCOUNTING ACROSS APPLICATIONS
Secret Sauce in the Age of Transparency: The What, Why, When of Product Ingredient Disclosures – Mike Johnson, Senior Director, Materials, International Living Future Institute
Mass Balanced Polymers for Sustainable Sealants and Adhesives – Johanne Wilson, Business Development Manager ChemCycling®, BASF
Establishing Clear Standards for Reporting Product Carbon Footprint – Lukas Jongkind, Sustainability Director - Adhesive Solutions, Synthomer
Building Transparency: Advancing an Industry-Wide EPD for Sealants – Monica Morano, Product Sustainability Specialist, Sika Corporation
Navigating Uncertainty: A Strategic Framework for Business Decisions in a Rapidly Changing Landscape - Christopher White, Senior Managing Scientist, Ramboll
Facilitated Breakout Groups:
Facilitated breakouts to follow the Material Selection and Accounting session where small groups interrogate and share challenges and perspective on topics pulled from session presentations and attendee requests. The report-out to a full audience is intended to provide understanding and direction to assist companies in building a strong business case for sustainability relevant to products and markets.
Product Carbon Footprint – Lukas Jongkind, Sustainability Director - Adhesive Solutions, Synthomer
Lessons Learned – Stephen Sepulveda, Head of Sales AME Industry, medmix
Framework for Developing Sustainability Strategies as a Business Case – Christopher White, Senior Managing Scientist, Ramboll
Produce Ingredient Disclosers and Transparency – Mike Johnson, Senior Director, Materials, International Living Future Institute
AFTERNOON SESSION
The Critical Roles of Performance Minerals in Driving Sustainability in Adhesives & Sealants – Jerry Lai, S&T Director, Sustainable Construction, Imerys Institute
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
DESIGN FOR SUCCESS; MARKET TRENDS AND SUSTAINABILITY
Building in Shelf Appealing Packages that Checks all the Boxes – Sal Pellingra, Vice President Global Package Design, Applications & Business Development, ProAmpac
Addressing Sustainability and Design in Processing Systems – Giancarlo Caimmi, Commercial Director, Nordmeccanica Spa
Evolving Innovation Into Real Products - RFID Labels Designed for PET Recycling – Matt Wilkinson, Senior Manager with Avery Dennison
Do Adhesives Help or Hinder Compliance with EPR Laws? Perspectives On the Role of Adhesives in Recycle-Ready Packaging for Consumer Goods – Ashley Kresen, Global Marketing Manager, Barrier Coatings, H.B. Fuller
Table Topic Discussions: Design Workshop Prompt – Salvatore Pellingra, Vice President, ProAmpac & Giancarlo Caimmi, Commercial Director, Nordmeccanica Spa
Engineering Copolymer Blends Targeting Degradable Pressure Sensitive Adhesives – Alex Nyarko, Research Associate, Avery Dennison
KEYNOTE: The Future Packaging Landscape – What Should We Strive Towards and How Can Our Industry Help to Achieve It? - Charles Paul, Consultant, Angel Investing
SUMMIT CLOSE
Wrap up discussion to reflect on developing resilience with smart sustainability programs within varied market applications. Identify needs for our industry to address through specific action items for ASC’s Sustainability Committee to champion and advocate for the next year.
Registration Options
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Registration Options
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ASC Member/End User
Registration Ends 9/5/25 at 12:00 AM EDT
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$675.00 |
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Nonmember
Registration Ends 9/5/25 at 12:00 AM EDT
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$975.00 |
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Group Rate (group of 3)
Registration Ends 9/5/25 at 12:00 AM EDT
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$1,725.00 |
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Group Rate (group of 4)
Registration Ends 9/5/25 at 12:00 AM EDT
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$2,300.00 |
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Group Rate (group of 5)
Registration Ends 9/5/25 at 12:00 AM EDT
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$2,875.00 |
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Group Rate (group of 6)
Registration Ends 9/5/25 at 12:00 AM EDT
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$3,450.00 |
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Trade Press
Registration Ends 9/25/25 at 12:00 AM EDT
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$350.00 |
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Student
Registration Ends 9/5/25 at 12:00 AM EDT
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$225.00 |
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Speaker Speakers ONLY - One Day
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$300.00 |
Hotel Cleveland, Autograph Collection
24 Public Square
Cleveland Ohio 44113
Phone: (216) 696-5600 reference the "ASC 2025 Sustainability Summit"
ASC Discounted Group Rate: $199 Single/Double
Hotel Deadline: Monday, August 29, 2025
Reserve Your Room at the group rate. The hotel and does not work with third parties working on behalf of the hotel and/or the Council. Be sure you contact the hotel directly. Also, ASC does NOT sell attendee lists from an ASC event to third parties.
The group rate is available until 5:00 p.m. ET on August 29, 2025. Reserve your room as soon as possible as the group rate will not be available if the ASC room block sells out prior to the deadline. Reservation requests received after August 29 will be charged standard rates as rooms are available. If you call the hotel directly be sure to mention that you are attending the ASC 2025 Sustainability Summit to receive the discounted rate.
ASC kindly asks that you only reserve the number of rooms you need, so other attendees will not be turned away because the ASC hotel room block is full. We appreciate your consideration.