Charles Paul's Approach to Sustainability and Packaging

Charles is in charge of new business development and venture capital investment in Henkel Adhesive Technologies. I admire his approach to sustainability and packaging, and with his years of experience and knowledge, I think it's something worth paying attention to.

On this episode, we'll talk about:

• How did Charles end up in his current position at Henkel?
• What have been some of the most significant changes or advancements, or types of challenges that he has witnessed during the last 30 years?
• Plastic Bank
• Does he believe that any of the plastic producers or brands should be involved in developing a more robust waste system to deal with the waste that they are partially or entirely responsible for producing in the first place?
• What is he most excited about or where does he think the greatest innovation will come from as we are looking at the current situation and looking toward the future?
• What are his thoughts on reusable or refillable packaging options that are becoming popular?
• Has he kind of seen that gap as well between the interest and the desire for change, but the reality is significantly less?
• With the desire for more sustainable packaging and cleaner earth, what does he think the future is going to look like? 
• What is a mass balance?
• Sequestration issue

Dr. Charles W. Paul, Vice President – Technology, Henkel Adhesive Technologies, is responsible for technology assessments for M&A and Venturing, and supports Open Innovation within North America for the R&D teams.

Since joining Henkel in 1988 he has held a number of positions within R&D. His experience covers almost all categories of adhesive and wide ranging applications: from jet engines to hair spray, polyimides to starch. Chuck holds over 50 US patents and coauthored numerous publications including five book chapters on adhesives.

Chuck has a BS in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University and a PhD from the University of California at Berkeley, College of Chemistry.

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