Jan Willem Slijkoord is a material scientist and entrepreneur. During his 25-year career, he has worked in process technology companies such as Akzo Nobel, Tata Steel, Norit Activated Carbon and for the Dutch National Laboratory of applied sciences, TNO. There, he was active in various roles as a materials scientist, marketing manager or business development manager. During his career, Mr. Slijkoord has gained extensive experience with developing new PET recycling technologies. Since 2020 Mr. Slijkoord is active as business development manager for GETEC PARK.EMMEN. In this role he is engaged in consulting customers to improve their PET product quality control and expand the analyses portfolio of GETEC.

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Emiel Klootsema is manager of the laboratory of GETEC PARK.EMMEN. For 30 years he has been working in the laboratory which specializes in PET and PA6 polymer analyses. He has extensive experience with various analysis techniques for polymer production control and polymer product development. More than 20 years ago he was one of the founders of the so-called Partisol analysis. The Partisol analysis is nowadays widely used to provide insight into particles present in (r)PET recycle streams. Today he has led the development of the analysis methodology for detecting BPA in PET.