Today, in any of the top five steel recycling countries in Europe, over nine out of 10 items of steel packaging put on the market will be effectively recycled and made available for the manufacture of new steel products. The role of steel in the...... Read more
Marco Clemente, parlimentary assistant at the European Parliament, has won a hamper full of food, beverage and household goods all packed in fully-recyclable steel. The recent MEP Awards ceremony in Brussels, where APEAL was sponsoring the Environment category, hosted a sea-horse structure made from...... Read more
Alexis Van Maercke joined keynote speakers Michele Amigoni (Technical Development Director Packaging Design & Standards, Barilla group) and Toine Timmermans (project manager REFRESH and Programme manager sustainable food chains Wageningen University and Research) as well as host Michael Nieuwesteeg (Managing Director NVC Netherlands Packaging Centre) and co-moderator Marco...... Read more
Secretary general Alexis Van Maercke joins the line up of distinguished speakers at this week’s Associations World Congress, taking place this year in Antwerp, Belgium. Find him on Wednesday 14th March in stream F on demonstrating ‘thought leadership’ and gaining visibility for an association. More...... Read more
APEAL will be supporting the Netherlands Packaging Centre’s conference entitled Fighting food waste together: how to open the potential of better packaging at the forthcoming Anuga FoodTec (20-23rd March in Cologne), on Thursday, 22.03.2018, 10.00 am – 12.00 noon. Insight will be shared on a range of...... Read more
We are delighted to announce that Mark Demesmaeker MEP (ECR, Belgium), Nils Torvalds MEP (ALDE, Finland) and Tibor Szanyi MEP (S&D, Hungary) will be joining our speakers’ panel at the forthcoming high-level conference on the advancement of good practices in recycling of steel for packaging. The...... Read more
The Parliament Magazine’s MEP Awards recognise the hard work of members of the European Parliament while also celebrating their achievements across a wide variety of policy areas ranging from the environment to global trade agreements and from digital technology to farming. The awards, often styled as Brussels’...... Read more
This coming 11th April, APEAL joins forces with the Parliament Magazine for the organisation of a high-level,invitation-only conference focused on the advancement of good practices in recycling of steel for packaging. Focusing on the role of recycling in the transition towards a more circular economy in Europe,...... Read more
At the forthcoming Aerosol & Dispensing Forum in Paris 31st Jan – 1st Feb, Alexis will present on behalf of APEAL on the subject “Steel for Packaging, model material for a circular economy”. His presentation will provide an overview of the advances made within European...... Read more
APEAL has welcomed the announcement of a balanced Circular Economy Package, following the considerable progress made during the last Trilogue discussions under the Estonian Presidency on 18 December. Even if the final compromise still has to be formally adopted by the European Parliament (EP) and...... Read more