European FIBC Association confirms and strengthens the board

The members of the European FIBC (Flexible Inter-mediate Bulk Containers*) Association – EFIBCA – confirmed the Council and has been strengthened by the addition of two new members.

At the EFIBCA Annual General Meeting in Amsterdam in mid-October, the previous President Roelof Veld (Boxon GmbH) was unanimously confirmed for two more years in his post. In addition to the two Vice-Presidents, Seref Orhun (Chempack) and Christian Leeb (Starlinger & Co. Gesellschaft m.b.H.) as well as the other Council members, who were also re-elected, the board will be strengthened by two additional members. Marcel Schouten (LC Packaging International) and Lou Blockx (Louis Blockx nv) are with immediate effect Council Members to support the previous members in their work and to set new impulses. EFIBCA Open Meeting: FIBC Workshop und Circular Economy On the second day, the traditionally following EFIBCA Open Meeting also convinced the numerous non-members with practical presentations from the FIBC world. The new training workshop of the 1st FIBC Academy was presented, which will be offered monthly by EFIBCA together with FIBC expert Dr. Amir Samadijavan from November 2019. In three different modules, the participants learn all about the manufacturing processes of FIBC and also receive instructions on how to select the right FIBC for their respective applications. All further information can be found on the EFIBCA homepage: https://efibca.com/news/fibc-workshop Furthermore, the presentation to the circular economy was of wide interest. Christoph Noppinger and Horvath Martin from Starlinger impressively demonstrated in their presentation that it is already pos-sible to recycle used FIBCs and produce new FIBCs from them. The most important prerequisite for this is the design for recycling of FIBCs, so next year EFIBCA will spend more time on this issue and develop a recommendation about it.