National Newsbrief

Acting on behalf of the Federal Cabinet, the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety has drawn up a proposal for a National Resource Efficiency Programme – known as ProgRess for short. This was presented to the Cabinet in October for discussion and approval.

Editorial

Welcome to a new edition of “Steel for Packaging Update” - your insight into the issues impacting packaging today, brought to you by APEAL, the representative voice of the major Steel for Packaging producers in Europe.

The Interview Chris Homfray, Metal Packaging Europe

Metal packaging Europe, “MPE”, was created end 2010. By whom and why? Metal Packaging Europe has been formed by a group of senior executives to take a lead in the metal packaging chain. It is an umbrella organisation that brings together ...

A long history of community involvement: Tata Steel and CSR

Corporate social responsibility is a modern term. But some companies have been practising it for a very long time. Tata Steel is one of them. Over 100 years ago the Group’s founder Jamsetji Tata wrote that “the community is not another ...

Steel: Latest figures confirm steel is still the most recycled packaging material in Europe

Steel proves yet again that it is indeed the most recycled packaging material, underlining an upward trend that has existed now since 2002. When the 2009 recycling figures were revealed in Dusseldorf at Interpack 2011, Hugo Loudon, Chairman of APEAL, ...

Recycling in Spain APEAL supports the campaign against a Spanish deposit system

The adoption of the Waste Framework Directive (2008/98/EC) into the Spanish legal system required profound changes to the 1998 Spanish Waste Act. One of the issues represented by the new legislation was the eventual mandatory establishment of a deposit-refund scheme for ...

Steeling the show at Interpack 2011

The Metal Packaging Plaza, newly created at the Interpack show in Dusseldorf, hosted the panel debates and meetings of the APEAL Interpack 2011 Steel Day. Visitors came from all over Europe to listen to the debates, meet with representatives of APEAL ...

New APEAL team

Philip Buisseret
• Managing Director
• p.buisseret@apeal.be
• Tel : + 32 (2) 535 72 07
Joris Nachtergaele
• Deputy Managing Director
  & EU Public Affairs
  
• j.nachtergaele@apeal.be
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