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

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

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

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

POLYVIA

Leduc tapped as new president of French processors' association

FRANCE

Industry to tackle reuse of plastic packaging / R3Emballe iInitiative invites market players to join

EPS RECYCLING

Collaboration aims to increase EPS/XPS recycling in France / Pilot project for sorting and processing EPS packaging waste in Germany

FRANCE

Court expands ban on plastics packaging for fruit, vegetables / Ruling said to impact French food competitiveness / Recyclability should play a role, business groups say

POLYVIA

French processors' association appoints Xavier Chastin as general director

EUPC

Benoît Hennaut from Herige elected new president

PLASTICS RECYCLING

Umbrella certification PolyCert adds German, French schemes to portfolio

FRANCE

Ban on plastic packaging for wide range of fresh produce starts in 2022 / 20% reduction in SUP packaging by 2025 planned

POLYCERT

Four independent certification schemes join quality-compliance programme / Aim to harmonise verification of recycled content across Europe

POLYCERT

New steering board members elected / WFO joins European programme to track ocean plastics

PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS

European processors' associations voice displeasure over forces majeures being used as a tool for negotiation

PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS

European plastics processors alarmed by forces majeures / EuPC and French umbrella organisation Polyvia reminded of 2015 / German engineering plastics converters see signs of bottlenecks