Tangui Van der Elst

Member of the Board at Keiryo Packaging

Brussels Region, Belgium

About

Lawyer | EU Affairs Expert | Sustainability Champion | Co-founder of Keiryo Packaging Pioneering sustainable packaging solutions through innovative polymer processing technology. At Keiryo, we're revolutionizing the plastic packaging industry by: Enhancing material performance without additives, reducing environmental impact and manufacturing costs. Utilizing our patented Flow-Enhanced Nucleation and Induced Crystallisation (FENIC) technology to improve barrier properties, thermal resistance, and mechanical strength. Developing a scalable, cost-effective solution compatible with existing industrial assets through 3D-printed inserts2. Our technology enables reduced virgin material usage, increased recycled content uptake, and improved recyclability – accelerating the transition to a circular economy. With my background in law and extensive experience in Public Affairs for leading FMCGs and packaging groups, I bring a unique perspective to addressing global packaging challenges.

Experience

  • Co-Founder at Keiryo Packaging Technologies
    Sep 2018 - Present · 7 yrs 11 mos

    Great people, bold ideas to deliver a scalable and cost-efficient solution to the plastic packaging sustainability issue: this is Keiryo Packaging (www.keiryopackaging.lu) Keiryo Packaging is developing a proprietary plastic manufacturing technology to improve the performance of injection- and blow-moulded polymer articles. This allows manufacturing plastic packaging using less virgin materials and more recycled materials, with improved recycling capability. It is great to be part of this project and work with the investors and entrepreneurs towards its success. #Packaging Sustainability, #EU Plastics Strategy, #Investing with Impact

  • Director Government Relations Europe at WestRock Company
    Feb 2012 - Sep 2018 · 6 yrs 8 mos

    WestRock is a leading global packaging company focused on customers, innovation and operational excellence. WestRock aspires to be the premier partner of paper and packaging solutions in global consumer and corrugated markets. The 42.000 team members support customers around the world with about 275 operating and business locations in 30 countries spanning North America, South America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. WestRock is a new company with a long and storied history in the paper and packaging industry. The two companies that came together to form WestRock, MeadWestvaco and RockTenn, have been operating in some form for longer than a century.

  • Director Government Affairs Europe at MeadWestvaco
    Feb 2012 - Jul 2015 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Independent consultancy work: Project management in Public Affairs, Internal Communication. at Koch Industries
    Sep 2011 - Jan 2012 · 5 mos

    Koch Industries is a US privately owned conglomerate with subsidiaries operating in energy, chemicals, manufacturing , trading and farming. The company has $90 billion revenues and more than 80.000 employees, of which 8.300 in Europe. European operations are coordinated out of Geneva Switzerland.

  • Corporate Affairs Advisor to AB InBev at Anheuser-Busch InBev
    Sep 2009 - Sep 2010 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Independent consultancy work for to AB InBev on alcohol and trade policy issues and lobby Geneva based Institutions WHO,WTO