ANA FERNÁNDEZ
Klöckner Pentaplast
Klöckner Pentaplast –Global Innovations Director, Food Packaging Ana holds a PhD in chemistry and has over 30 years of experience in the food packaging sector. She developed her entire career with the food packaging multi-national company LINPAC Packaging as Technical and Operations Director of the Pravia plant in Spain, being responsible for product and process design, detailed engineering, plant operation and business improvement. For more than five years she was part of the Innovation Department at LINPAC being fully involved in all projects related with the utilization of post-consumer recycled materials for the production of recyclable packaging for food applications. LINPAC was acquired by Klöckner Pentaplast in July 2017, where she was promoted to Innovation Director of the Food Packaging division. As well as guest lecturing at local universities and presenting on behalf of kp at a number of speaking events, Ana is also co-chair of the PETcore thermoforming working Group and is active in other industry associations such ANEP, ANAIP amongst others.
