Roberto Tangorra is Quality and R&D Group Manager at Dentis Group, a multinational Italian company, specialized since 1987 in PET packaging waste collection, sorting and mechanical recycling. He actively coordinates the Quality Department of the three production sites (Italy, Spain and France) and leads actively projects in developments of new recycled PET based applications, supporting the implementation of the R-PET market.
He graduated in Chemistry in 2011 at University of Bari (Italy) and received his Ph.D in Chemical Sciences in 2015 with a specialization in organic chemistry.
Roberto, since as an early scientist, has been always focused on the study of new plastic packaging resins and their recyclability as well as the development of new packaging applications especially in the field of polyester resins.