FEFCO May event looks at cardboard’s future

Brussels-based FEFCO, an association for the European corrugated board industry, says it will hold its 2022 FEFCO Summit May 18-20 at the NH Collection Amsterdam Barbizon Palace.

FEFCO calls its summit “the event to attend to meet the European corrugated manufacturers and their suppliers.” Insights will be offered, says the group, “about EU issues impacting the paper and board value chain, global packaging trends, retail and customer issues [and] the challenges and opportunities for corrugated manufacturers and their customers.”

The theme this year is “Fit for the future,” and the program will address “challenges related to the implementation of the Circular Economy Action Plan, notably the Sustainable Products Policy and the Revision of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive, as well as the pathway of the corrugated industry towards climate neutrality.”

FEFCO says, “The Green Deal and the Circular Economy are strategically important policy issues for the corrugated packaging industry. They have been our driver for many years and continue to lead the industry forward. Corrugated packaging is one of the best examples of a circular economy being 100 percent recyclable and recycled in reality.”

Panel discussions are being planned on decarbonizing the corrugated industry; efforts by the corrugated packaging sector to support the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) retail supply chain to improve sustainability; and how corrugated packaging can fulfill single-use, reuse and recycling expectations.