January 2018

Brussels, 16 January 2018 – EUROPEN welcomes the EU’s Plastics Strategy as an important contribution towards achieving the objectives of a Circular Economy and tackling (marine) littering. EUROPEN will support and actively contribute to additional EU measures that may flow from the Strategy with regard to packaging to leverage the recently strengthened Waste Framework (WFD) and Packaging and Packaging Waste Directives (PPWD).

Wolfertschwenden, 16. January 2018 – Thanks to the use of innovative shaped contour cutting, it is now actually economical to produce shaped contour packs in small batches on thermoforming packaging machines. At Anuga FoodTec 2018 MULTIVAC will be presenting the new cutting system on a compact R 145 thermoforming packaging machine, which also offers other options for efficient thermoforming packaging in addition to this innovative cutting system.

Düsseldorf (Germany), January 15, 2018 – According to research of the MacArthur Foundation (EMF), merely 14 percent of the plastic packaging used globally makes its way to recycling plants, while 40 percent ends up in landfill and only 1/3 in fragile ecosystems. By 2050, it is estimated there will be more plastic than fish in the world's oceans. Contributing to the transformation of global plastic packaging material flows is essential for each stakeholder of the plastics value chain.

Leading industry professionals and experts from around the world will come together in Vienna, Austria, on 24-25 April 2018 for Plastic Pouches, organised by specialist plastics industry consultancy AMI.

Plastindia 2018, the area's biggest plastic industry-dedicated event, will see the Group play a leading role with solutions for the manufacture of caps, containers and preforms, all characterised by unbeatable standards in terms of productivity, reliability, precision and energy savings.