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Over the last 56 years, PRIMA has established a reputation as the go-to network hub for the entire fibre value chain – from forestry, minerals and chemicals companies through to pulp and paper makers, merchants, publishers, printers, packaging producers and consumers of paper and board products.
PRIMA 2025 is taking place as a strategically focused one-day event, this year's event will provide delegates with the opportunity to get the latest developments in the fibre network, in-depth background information and a clear understanding of future challenges and solutions from top leaders in the industry. Designed for CEOs and high-level senior executives within the pulp and paper industry.
Last year, we had the privilege of hosting CEOs from the following esteemed companies, Sappi Europe, Heinzel, Qwarzo, Alstoff Recycling, Glocell, Arbonics, Delfort Group, Horizon Pulp & Paper and many more.
Alongside an award-winning programme, PRIMA provides the perfect environment for you to connect with senior decision makers and key players from across the industry and build on those all-important business relationships.
In 2025, delegates will...
Martin Zahlbruckner is Chief Executive Officer at delfort since March 2006. His professional career started in 1989 at the Institute for European Law, Johannes Kepler University in Linz/Austria. From 1995 to 1997 he was responsible for Legal and M&A at Trierenberg Holding in Traun, Austria. In 1997 he was appointed Managing Director or OP papìrna, s.r.o., Czech Republic. From 2000 till 2006 Martin held the position of CFO of Trierenberg Holding, including the business responsibility for the Graphical Business and Pressure Sensitive Industry.
Martin holds a Ph.D. in Law from Johannes Kepler University in Linz/Austria and followed executive management courses at St. Gallen (Switzerland), IMD Lausanne and Columbia University to name a few. Further, he is Chairman of the Association of Austrian Paper Industry as well as a Board Member of CEPI and serves as member of Supervisory Boards in Financial Institutions.
Marco Eikelenboom is Chief Executive Officer at Sappi Europe since April 2021. His professional career started in 1992 with KNP Fine Paper in The Netherlands and after several commercial positions in Maastricht and Paris, he was appointed Manager Corporate Planning when KNP Leykam was acquired by Sappi Ltd. in 1997.
Following this corporate strategy position, Marco took on the role as Managing Director of Sappi Benelux and left in 2002 to Sappi’s global Head Office in Johannesburg to become Marketing Director. Marco came back to Brussels as Director Marketing & Sales in 2005 and after the acquisition and integration of M-real Graphics In 2008, he assumed the global commercial responsibilities for the Graphics business of Sappi Europe as Vice-President Marketing & Sales.
Marco holds a Master of Science in Business Administration from the Erasmus University Rotterdam and followed executive management courses at INSEAD, IMD and MIT Sloane School of Management. He lives with his wife Renée and dog Dingo in Brussels and has 3 sons, of which one is an associate at The Boston Consulting Group in Amsterdam and 2 are at University in the Netherlands.
PhD in Paper Engineering with total professional experience of 20+ Years. Currently leading the fiber based packaging R&D team at the Nestlé in the Institute of Packaging Sciences located in Lausanne, Switzerland and working on high impact cross category projects at a global landscape and steering the concept-to-market journey of recyclable fiber-based food packaging solutions. Prior to Nestlé have worked at DIAGEO where have set up a world class packaging R&D center. Before DIAGEO have spent 10 years at ITC Limited in the Paper business where have worked on the development and commercialization of paper & paperboard grades for wide range of packaging applications.
Hanna Kalliomäki (M.Sc. (Econ.)) works as Chief Sustainability Officer at Paptic Ltd, a Finnish innovation and growth company for replacing the use of plastic with fiber-based and recyclable packaging materials in global market. Ms. Kalliomäki is an experienced sustainability professional with a background in Finnish forest-based biomaterials’ value chains and related regulation. She’s been working with sustainable forest management, production related sustainability performance as well as product specific calculations, testing and claims. Prior to working for forestry sector, she’s been working as strategic sustainability consultant for several industries. In private life, Ms. Kalliomäki is a sailor and carries a great concern of the condition of the Baltic Sea.
Dr. Anne Lamp is CEO and Co-Founder of the Hamburg-based traceless materials GmbH. Holding a PhD in process engineering, she is the inventor of the traceless® technology - an innovative process to turn agricultural residues into a natural biomaterial. Describing herself as an environmental scientist by conviction and a tech enthusiast by heart, she dedicated her work to solving the global plastic pollution: Guided by the principles of her voluntary work at the Cradle to Cradle NGO, she can benefit from her broad experience in biorefinery processes, commercial product development and process scale up as well as scientific impact assessment.
