Full Name
Nico Van de Walle
Job Title
Leader of Work Package 2 – Digital watermarks for print
Company
HolyGrail 2.0
Biography
Nico has been working at MCC for the past 15 years.
He started as Key Account Manager for European customers with additional sales responsibilities in Latin America and Asia.
Afterwards he moved to the new position of Product & Circular Economy Manager within the business Unit Global IML
In this role he is connecting the dots between “The Market”, Product Innovation, Marketing and Sales in order to manage the product life cycle of In Mold Labels (IML) and Molded Fiber Labeling (MFL).
In his role of Circular Economy Manager, Nico is responsible for the execution of the sustainability strategy with a clear focus on Product Innovation and cross value chain collaboration.
As a Leadership Team member of the HolyGrail2.0 project, he’s strongly involved in exploring and testing more intelligent sorting of packaging waste. Within the HG2.0 project, Nico is leading the WP2 on printed digital watermarks.
Next to this, he is also a AB-representative in the Recyclass PP Technical committee and representing MCC in the NEXTLOOPP project driving the production of food-grade rPP.
Nico holds a Bachelor degree in Electronics/automation which gave him a firm base for his professional career.
Nico holds a post-academic degree Food packaging obtained at the university of Ghent.
Before Nico started his career at MCC, he worked for several years as product manager and as Area Manager for 2 different international companies based in Belgium and the Netherlands.
Passion is what drives him.
He started as Key Account Manager for European customers with additional sales responsibilities in Latin America and Asia.
Afterwards he moved to the new position of Product & Circular Economy Manager within the business Unit Global IML
In this role he is connecting the dots between “The Market”, Product Innovation, Marketing and Sales in order to manage the product life cycle of In Mold Labels (IML) and Molded Fiber Labeling (MFL).
In his role of Circular Economy Manager, Nico is responsible for the execution of the sustainability strategy with a clear focus on Product Innovation and cross value chain collaboration.
As a Leadership Team member of the HolyGrail2.0 project, he’s strongly involved in exploring and testing more intelligent sorting of packaging waste. Within the HG2.0 project, Nico is leading the WP2 on printed digital watermarks.
Next to this, he is also a AB-representative in the Recyclass PP Technical committee and representing MCC in the NEXTLOOPP project driving the production of food-grade rPP.
Nico holds a Bachelor degree in Electronics/automation which gave him a firm base for his professional career.
Nico holds a post-academic degree Food packaging obtained at the university of Ghent.
Before Nico started his career at MCC, he worked for several years as product manager and as Area Manager for 2 different international companies based in Belgium and the Netherlands.
Passion is what drives him.
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