ICDLI European HPL Summit
October 07 to 09, 2026 | Helsinki, Finland
Wednesday October 07, 2026
19.00 Meet & Greet
Thursday October 08, 2026
09.00 Opening by President
Miguel Nogueira, President of the ICDLI
09.15 Designing Beauty, Sustaining the Earth
Elke Malek, Hadi Teherani
09.45 AI & HPL
Atte Virtanen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
10.15 Coffee Break
10.45 EU chemicals policy with a focus on melamine
Gundula Wagner, Pfleiderer (requested)
11.30 How will the EUDR concretely impact the wood and paper supply chain – and what challenges will arise for downstream industries such as HPL?
N.N., Finnish Forest Industries Federation
12.00 Lunch
13.30 Sustainability in decors and colours
N.N.
14.00 Paper supply in Europe: secure or at stake?
N.N., MM Kotkamills
14.30 ICDLI Market Report
Markus Höchli, ICDLI Market Research Group
14.45 Closing remarks
Miguel Nogueira, President of the ICDLI
15.00 Coffee Break
15.30 Plenary Assembly (Members only)
16.30 End of lecture day
18.00 visit tour
19.30 Dinner
23.00 Return to hotel
Friday October 09, 2026
09.00 Departure to Kotka by bus
11.00 Plant tour MM Kotkamills Absorbex Oy
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Depature to Helsinki airport
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