EuPC European Plastics Converters

EVENTS Plastics Summit 2025 to tackle sustainability challenges in Lisbon	20.08.2025
PLASTIC PACKAGING EuPC warns reusable alternatives to SUP pallet wraps could backfire / Study estimates added annual costs at EUR 4.9 bn in eight sectors	14.07.2025
MICROPLASTICS Joint technical paper to help companies with new REACH labelling requirement	09.07.2025
EUPC New films group formed within plastics converters' association / Zelcher elected founding president	08.07.2025
PET RECYCLING Industry collaboration aims to streamline certification for rPET / EPBP liaises with European Committee for Standardisation	01.07.2025
EUPC Federica Gallicchio appointed managing director / Association launches European Plastic Films group	19.06.2025
POLYMERS FOR EUROPE ALLIANCE Best Polymer Producer Awards winners announced at EuPC annual meeting / Industry leaving Europe overarching issue	13.06.2025
UK PLASTICS INDUSTRY From shop floor to top floor / EU leads global raw material imports / Interview with new BPF president Martin Hitchin	02.06.2025
PACKAGING EUROPE Trade groups criticise European Commission plans to greenlight state-run PROs / Move “will be a tax on producers”	21.05.2025
BPF Hitchin ascends to presidency of UK trade group / New leader familiar with processors' issues	16.05.2025
EUPC European converters annual conference to focus on circular, competitive plastics industry	02.05.2025
TRADE IMPACT EUROPE How strongly do European plastics processors estimate the impact of US tariffs? / Results from industry association survey	17.04.2025
TRADE WAR US punitive tariffs cause uncertainty among plastics processors / Numerous materials exempt from duties	08.04.2025
TRADE WAR How strongly do European plastics processors estimate the impact of US tariffs? / Industry associations launch survey	07.04.2025
POLYMERS FOR EUROPE ALLIANCE 2024 Polymer Producers Awards: Voting open for plastics converters / ‘Commitment to the European market' as new criteria	28.02.2025
PLASTICS AND HEALTH EFSA says styrene not gentoxic / First-ever food-contact migration limit expected / EuPC welcomes approach	27.01.2025
EUPC Paolo Bochicchio appointed new managing director	12.09.2024
INTERVIEW “The government wanted to ban importation of waste, but we said no” / “Inflation aids plastics industry” – interview with Pagev president Yavuz Eroglu	29.08.2024
EUROPEAN CONVERTERS “Let's please collaborate”: Industry representatives stress on need to work together at EuPC annual meet / Decarbonisation, regulation, competitiveness major topics	28.06.2024
UPDATE - POLYMERS FOR EUROPE ALLIANCE Best Polymer Producers Awards 2023: European processors select top suppliers in eight polymer categories / Vinnolit scores in decarbonisation	18.06.2024
LABOUR SHORTAGE EUROPE “We do not orient our search in terms of a particular industry, but by types of job most needed” / Online recruiting more difficult for blue collar workers / PIE interview with ZAV spokesman Marcel Schmutzler	26.04.2024
LABOUR SHORTAGE EUROPE “Plastics sector is competing for talents across Europe” / Joint educational programmes needed to hire young people / PIE interview with the MD of EuPC, Bernard Merkx	25.04.2024
LABOUR SHORTAGE EUROPE “We need to recruit from non-EU countries in the long term” / Only half of open positions filled in 2023 / PIE interview with Polyvia COO Jean Chaillet	24.04.2024
LABOUR SHORTAGE EUROPE Critical skill shortage in plastics processing industries intensifies / Germany needs almost 500,000 foreigners per year; shortage of working migrants in Italy and Spain – study / PIE talks to industry experts	23.04.2024
PLASTICS AND ENVIRONMENT Parliament's ENVI committee backs EU's Zero Pellet Loss proposal / NGOs not fully satisfied	02.04.2024