About

João is the Mine and Cullet Operations Manager in Iberia at BA GLASS.

Since 2019 João assumed the coordination of the mine and cullet operations in Iberia and the role to help BA Group define the cullet operations strategy towards our commitments in terms of environmental sustainability for the future.

João's background is Mechanical Engineer with over 20 years of experience in the industry and more than 13 years in the glass industry in several areas (Investments, Maintenance, business startup, moulds, mines, cullet).

Outside the glass industry, João has worked in the automotive industry, metalworking for electricity generating boilers and Cutlery production.

Nuno is the Sustainability Manager at BA Glass. He supports the company's strategies and activities toward a sustainable process aligned with the science-based targets for climate change.

Since 2019, he has taken on the role of coordinating sustainability activities, including conducting the first comprehensive CO₂e inventory, managing the company's commitments, and developing a roadmap for CO₂ reduction.

Nuno joined the BA group in 2018 as a Continuous Improvement Manager, in 2021 and for nearly one year assumed the role of Quality Manager on a group manufacturing plant.

Besides sustainability, Nuno has an extensive experience in deploying continuous improvement programs, quality management, and R&D.

Prior to his time at BA, Nuno held various roles in Quality Assurance, Process Engineering, Continuous Improvement, and R&D in the food and non-food retail business and in the industrial manufacturing sector of the semiconductor industry.

Oscar Gómez-Prieto leads the waste statistics and circular economy team in Luxembourg. Oscar has a background on environmental sciences (oceanography). He has worked at Eurostat for the last 10 years, and as EU civil servant at the JRC in Ispra and at the European Environment Agency. At the beginning of his career, Oscar worked for almost 10 years in private and public sectors in Spain, on science, IT, remote sensing, public health, agriculture and environment

Ruud is working within Sibelco Green Solutions and is responsible for technical service and support across several different glass markets (including Float, container, fiber & specialty glass) mainly focusing on glass cullet. He has been working for more than 13 years in several parts of the glass industry.

After studying Chemical Engineering Ruud took part on several courses to improve his knowledge on Glass. Currently he is working on several projects to further increase the recycled content in glass furnaces and at the same time reducing the emissions, without jeopardizing the glass quality or production.

Stefano holds a Master of science degree in Engineering from Milan Polytechnic. After a long experience as Head of Purchasing of Italian subsidiary of Saint Gobain glass containers division, he moved to Paris headquarters to take care of new challenges. Following the launch of Verallia as the spin-off brand of SG packaging division, he took over global responsibility of raw materials and packaging procurement. Since June 2021, he is the global director of cullet topics coordination in Verallia. Since June 2020, he is the Chair of the Circular Economy Group inside FEVE – the European Container Glass Federation.