Events
CEWEP Residues Conferene
Below you will find the list of speakers and panellists that will participate in the CEWEP 2024 Residues Conference.
Welcome Address
Paul De Bruycker is CEWEP president since 2017. Paul obtained a master’s degree in bio-engineering at the UGent. He joined Indaver at its start in 1986 and held different management positions before he became CEO of the Indaver-group in 2011. As CEO he focuses on innovation and entrepreneurship to put the circular economy into practice.
With a career of over 30 years in the waste industry, Paul is a respected senior expert in waste management and waste legislation. He has contributed to several books and published a large amount of articles that are considered to be references in the environmental field and waste treatment industry. He holds board mandates both in companies and joint-ventures associated with Indaver as well as in federations and associations in the waste treatment and chemical industry. He is chairman of Vlaanderen Circulair, a partnership of the government, companies, civil society, and the knowledge community that together form the Flemish transition platform to the circular economy.
Indaver is a leading European waste management company specialised in the treatment and management of industrial and municipal waste. With 2000 employees Indaver generates a turnover of 650 mio EUR and manages about 6 million tonnes of waste.
Keynote Speech
Claudia Mensi has extensive experience in environmental safety, waste management, and laboratory operations, with a career spanning nearly three decades. From 1995 to 1996, she served as a consultant for environmental safety, focusing on risk assessments and technical reporting for various industries. Subsequently, Claudia served as laboratory manager at SISTEMA AMBIENTE s.r.l., overseeing safety protocols, emissions analysis, and waste disposal compliance.
In 1998, Claudia started as consultant at HYDRAE s.r.l., focusing on environmental remediation, business organisation in terms of environment, quality & safety, emissions analysis, application of new laws in the field of waste and their disposal. Later in 2005, as Technical Director at FERTILVITA s.r.l. and A2A Ambiente, Claudia managed several waste treatment plants for urban & special waste and industrial waste.
Currently, as Technical Manager at A2A Ambiente, Claudia plays a pivotal role in national & international regulatory activities, waste classification, and quality control. She is a key figure in FEAD (European Waste Management Association) and actively contributes to national and international regulatory developments.
Claudia holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from the University of Pavia and is a licensed chemist. Fluent in Italian and English, with conversational French, she is recognized for strong leadership, team coordination, and effective communication skills.
Keynote Speech
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rüdiger Deike was born in Berlin 1959 and studied from 1979 to 1985 Foundry Science at the TU Clausthal. He worked at the Institute of General Metallurgy from 1985 to 1991. He received his doctorate on reactions between liquid silicon and graphite concerning alternative processes for producing silicon for solar cells. In 1991, he started working for DK Recycling and Roheisen GmbH in Duisburg, a medium-sized company that recycles filter dust (about 450.000 t/a) from the steel industry, from which pig iron is produced again with a blast furnace. He became deputy CEO in 1999, with full responsibility for the whole technique. He left DK in 2003 and founded DEIKE Iron Metals Services GmbH. In 2007, he was appointed professor for iron and steel technology at the University of Duisburg Essen. Since then he has worked on sustainability issues, in particular recovery of metals from dissipative distributions in industrial waste (filter dust, slag, bottom ash, etc.), and the processing of mineral fractions into secondary building materials. He has also been involved with developments in the raw materials markets for 20 years. His most essential publications can be found here.
Outlook on EU Policy in Relation to Waste-to-Energy and Recycling of Residues
Dr. Wolfgang Trunk > graduated in agronomy from the University of Hohenheim, Germany. Subsequently, he did his PhD thesis about “Economic evaluation of strategies to reduce emissions of harmful gases, including greenhouse gases, from dairy farms”. He served for six years in the Federal Ministry for Agriculture before becoming agricultural and veterinary attaché at the Permanent Representation of Germany to the EU. In March 2005, he moved to the European Commission`s DG SANTE to work in the field of food and feed safety. Since 2022, he works in DG Environment in the area of circular economy. In May 2023, he was appointed team leader for the Waste Framework Directive, including related waste streams such as biowaste, construction & demolition, textiles and waste oils, the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive and the EU rules on sewage sludge, hazardous substances in waste and landfilling.
Case Study UK & the Netherlands
Neil Nolan is a proven Technical and Sustainability professional with over 25 years’ experience working in the construction and waste management sectors. In addition to managing a team covering regulation, export, product quality and sustainability, Neil has been instrumental in implementing standardised processes and management systems. This ensures that the UK business is always consistent in its operations. The creation and maintenance of this structure has been fundamental in supporting the integration of new projects into the Blue Phoenix way of working.
Beyond the role of Technical Director for the UK, Neil has been a key part of the global BPG team in developing the business across Europe and into new markets. Most recently, he has supported the implementation of Australia’s first IBA facility in Perth, Western Australia, and is involved in the development of a regulatory framework for the use of IBAA as a secondary aggregate in Dubai, UAE.
Neil is also an active member of several trade associations including MIBAAA, ESA, MPA and European Working Groups TC154 – WG12 and WG13.
Mark van Kempen started to work in 2008 at Blue Phoenix Group (Inashco) which was -at that time- a start up from the TU Delft, after working for 10 years for a worldwide operating cement and concrete multinational in the Netherlands, Bangladesh and China Anno 2024. Blue Phoenix group is a respected international operating service supplier to the Waste to Energy industry with more than 20 production sites in Europe, USA and Far East and 600 employees.
From the beginning (2008-2024) his focus was on the validation of the minerals fraction and finding high value applications for the processed bottom ash. This led to the creation of new products -including national technical and certification guidelines- as sand/aggregate substitutes in road works or concrete application and substation of cement in earth moist concrete.
Mark has a background in construction engineering, concrete engineer (Dutch concrete association) and Master of Business Administration.
IBA panel
Amalia Cerdà Lacaci holds a PhD in Chemical Sciences and a Master Degree on Environmental Sciences and Engineering from the University of the Balearic Islands (Spain)
Since 1997, she has held several positions focused on Environmental and Business Management fields at TIRME S.A., the company responsible for the municipal waste management of Mallorca. Here, she currently serves as the Chief Strategy Officer, working on topics related to Sustainability, Circular Economy, Environment and Climate, Quality, Human Resources and Occupational Health & Safety. She is also a professor lector at the University of the Balearic Islands in the Chemistry Department.
On behalf of the Spanish Association of Municipal Waste to Energy Plants (AEVERSU), Amalia participates in meetings and working groups at national and European level, amongst which as chair of CEWEP’s Working Group Emission Control. She has acted as advisor in the last revision of both the Waste Incineration and Waste Treatment BREF documents, being member of the corresponding Technical Working Groups set up by the European IPPC Bureau.
Amalia co-authored three books related to the automation of environmental analytical methods, and has several environmental research articles to her name. She has participated in several research projects of the European Union, Spanish, and Regional Governments.
Jakub Bator currently holds a position on the Management Board of Krakowski Holding Komunalny S.A., responsible for the operation of the Thermal Waste Treatment Plant
in Cracow (Eco-incinerator). As co-founder and Vice President of the Association of Energy Producers from Waste (SPEO), and Vice President of the Confederation of European Waste-to-Energy Plants (CEWEP), his responsibilities include shaping the future of energy production from waste. Active membership in the European Federation of Local Energy Companies (CEDEC) further extends professional engagement. Since 2011, his responsibilities have included the role of Measure Authorising Officer for the construction of the Waste-to-Energy Plant, with a focus on managing resource distribution and securing project authorizations. Currently Jakub is also engaged in PhD studies at AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow and his research is directed towards utilizing high-calcium fly ash from thermal waste processing in carbonation processes. Jakub’s career is focused on consistently improving management methods and supporting new, sustainable practices in the waste-to-energy field.
Nicole Neukirchen studied waste management engineering at RWTH Aachen University, specialising in solid waste materials. At that time, she also worked as a student assistant at the Department of Processing and Recycling. Her master’s thesis at Steinert GmbH in Cologne, Germany, focused on the sorting of heavy metals.
After her studies, she started working as a project engineer at the waste treatement center Asdonkshof. She worked there for eight years as a project engineer in the areas of slag treatment, landfill expansion, biowaste treatment and sorting. In addition to her work as a project engineer, she served as the head of the slag treatment plant for three years.
Following her time at Asdonkshof, she worked at Uniper Biomethan for over a year in the area of project development.
She is now an authorized signatory at WVW Wertstoffverwertung Wuppertal GmbH, which operates a slag treatment plant in Wuppertal, Germany, and is also an authorized signatory at BRA Bodenrecyclinganlage Wuppertal GmbH, which is currently under construction and will process excavated soil. In addition, she is a project engineer in charge of the development of a mono landfill mine and a multifunctional area.
Wim Ooms graduated in 1994 as an engineer in electromechanics and welding techniques. After several jobs in the metal processing sector and in the engineering office, he ended up in the waste sector at Indaver where he has been working for 23 years now. At Indaver, he worked as an engineer on the design and realization of several large waste treatment plants. Since 2007, he has had an operational management role at various waste incineration plants. His experience is situated both in hazardous waste incineration and, for the last 7 years, non-hazardous waste incineration. Since 2017, he is Site Director of Indaver’s integrated waste treatment site in Doel where he holds responsibility for 7 incineration lines with a total capacity of 1 250 000 tons, a bottom-ash treatment plant, a lamp recycling plant and a landfill.
Inge Johansson has been working in the field of WtE for over 20 years. Currently he is working as a senior scientist at the innovation department of NOAH, where he is exploring the possibilities to recover different resources from the fly ash/Air Pollution Control residues. Before his position at NOAH he has worked the in RISE-Research Institutes of Sweden with waste related research and at Avfall Sverige – the Swedish waste management association – where he was active within the work of both ISWA and CEWEP.
Henrik Jilvero currently holds the position of Engineering Director at HaloSep AB. He has over 10 years of work experience in developing technologies in the field of recycling and has a doctoral degree in Energy and Environment. Henrik focuses on the engineering and chemical aspects of fly ahs treatment, as well as how the fractions from the HaloSep process can be turned into valuable products.
Cristian Tunsu currently works as Laboratory Manager and Senior R&D Engineer at EasyMining Sweden, an innovation company specialising in developing, designing, and building patented processes for production of clean commercial products from waste.
Cristian is an expert in separation technologies, and processing of secondary sources and waste streams. He has worked for over 13 years with decontamination topics and recovery of critical and non-critical elements from primary and secondary sources. Examples include removal of heavy metals from waste and contaminated soils, processing of electronic wastes, and chemical treatment of production residues, mine tailings and ashes. He is currently working with, among others, processing of ashes, for example, after incineration of municipal solid waste, biomaterials, biomass, animal litter or sewage sludge. Emphasis is placed on developing and scaling up industrial processes to recover valuable commercial compounds from these materials.
Karen De Boeck – Veolia
Gert Van Hoof graduated as a industrial engineer Chemistry in 1991 and obtained a master in Environmental Management at the KU Leuven in 1992. He started his professional career in R&D at Procter & Gamble Brussels. In 1997, he moved to the Sustainability Department, where since 2012 he led the team in charge of Life Cycle Assessment activities (LCA). In 2018, he moved to Umicore as a manager LCA & Recycling, where he is now active in the ESG (Environment Social Governance) department. Gert was also active in the SETAC Europe LCA steering committee (2009-2016) and has several LCA related publications.
Manon Willems – CO2logic
Lionel Kosior holds the position of Lead Expert in Thermal Treatment & Energy from Waste at Suez since April 2023. In parallel he has been serving as a regulation lobbyist in several national and European associations (SVDU, FNADE, FEAD, CEWEP, member of the European Working Group for the BREF Incineration Review).
Lionel served as French Navy Officer for 1 year, as deputy chief engineer (exploitation and maintenance onboard). He first joined the Suez group in 1989 as project manager in heating networks and boiler rooms and oversaw the planning of 2 coal fluidized bed installations. As from 1991 onwards he has held several positions at Novergie: EFW plants project manager, deputy responsible of project service, exploitation responsible (set up of exploitation & maintenance procedures, CMMS, audits …), quality safety & environmental responsible, optimization & performance responsible for the French EFW plants.
Lionel has substantial technical experience in EFW plants design, energy calculations, maintenance & exploitation procedures, environment & safety procedures, KPI’s expertise, French & European regulation linked with EFW plants.
by CEWEP
Anne Kulmala currently holds the position of Strategy and M&A Manager for Fortum Recycling & Waste in Finland, and also acts in the role of the Growth Portfolio Manager. With a curiosity and passion to make the world more sustainable and resource efficient, she is an advocate of sustainable growth of the Nordic recycling and waste management company. With 15 years of experience in developing solutions in the area of challenging waste management, the main focus of her career has been on waste-to-energy residues treatment. Anne has experience in practical research and development, acting as expert advisor in waste regulation, in strategy formation, implementation and management, and in M&A projects. Anne has been a member of CEWEP’s Working Group Residues since 2016 and has been acting as the chair of the working group for the past two years. Anne lives in Finland and is passionate about continuous self-development, both in work life and in her free time.
