A report has praised the ability of steel cans to protect valuable minerals and nutrients in vegetables. The findings of the research, carried out by SGS Fresenius Institute, show that canned vegetables’ vitamin and mineral levels are just as high as freshly cooked vegetables. In...... Read more
Steel for packaging industry leaders have welcomed the announcement of the European Circular Economy Package, saying the announcement will help to drive cultural change in the way products are manufactured, used and recycled. Higher recycling targets within the package will, according to APEAL, encourage an...... Read more
Ambitious recycling targets must be included in the impending European Circular Economy Package to drive a cultural change in the way products are manufactured, used and recycled. That’s the key message from APEAL, the Association of European Producers of Steel for Packaging, ahead of the...... Read more
APEAL has confirmed that its latest tinplate Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) data is International Life Cycle Database (ILCD) compliant and now accessible. The latest study from APEAL, conducted in 2014, evaluates the European production of tinplate in a cradle to gate analysis and is composed...... Read more
Steel packaging’s high recycling rates offer an ecological and economical solution for the transition to a Circular economy in Central Europe, concluded the “Steel Packaging – Green Solutions for Central Europe” summit in Poland last 8 October.... Read more
Minister Maciej Grabowski, Minister of the Environment and Marshal Adam Struzik, Marshal of the Mazovia region, are amonsgt the delegates confirmed for the forthcoming, invite only “Green Solutions in Central Europe “event organsed by APEAL in Warsaw this 8th October.... Read more
APEAL has confirmed 2013 as the best year ever for steel packaging recycling in Europe. An average European-wide recycling rate of 75% was achieved in 2013, 1 percentage point up from the previous year. The methodology and data sources used for the calculation of the...... Read more
APEAL has long shared the opinion that all EU member states should expand their efforts to reach higher recycling targets for all packaging materials, in the interest of recognising waste as a resource whose recovery and reinjection into the EU economy contributes to resource efficiency,...... Read more
Dr Ulrich Roeske, Chairman of the Executive Board of ThyssenKrupp Rasselstein, will take over the presidency of APEAL from 1 January 2015. Dr Roeske was elected unanimously by the Board and General Assembly of APEAL and succeeds Christian Korn of U. S. Steel. His nomination...... Read more
Higher recycling targets for all materials, a more level playing field for all materials and a ban on landfilling of recyclables are just some of the proposals that APEAL was pleased to see in the Packaging and Packaging Waste directive reform announced last week. “Steel...... Read more