Plastics Europe strongly supports the European Commission's competitiveness and decarbonization agenda and welcomes the Clean Industrial Deal. It outlines important and welcome measures, including initiatives to reduce energy costs, cut red tape and create the market demand needed to incentivize investment in the circular economy.
Industry associations representing EU plastics producers, processors and users have called on the European Commission to develop transparent parameters for chemically recycled products.
In a more than four-day marathon session, marked in part by acrimonious discussions, EU leaders passed both the planned €750 million coronavirus recovery package and a new €1.1 trillion seven-year budget in the early morning hours of July 21.
Markus Steilemann, CEO of German engineering plastics producer Covestro, has been appointed to a three-year term as president of PlasticsEurope, the association of plastics manufacturers in Europe.
