The Packaging Federation is the representative body of the UK packaging manufacturing industry. Members include major manufacturers from all sectors of the industry, including paper and board, plastics, metals, and glass. The Federation actively promotes the industry, its economic importance, the products it produces, the benefits to the community deriving from packaging, and the industry's responsible concern for the environment and the community as a whole.
The British Plastics Federation (BPF) is the leading trade association of the UK Plastics Industry. BPF Online is the home page for the UK plastics industry - a unique portal not only dealing with industry wide issues and hosting the most detailed listing of UK Plastics businesses on the web, but providing educational and training information on Plastics Materials and Animations showing easy to understand Processing Methods. Publications, statistical information and commentary on a vast array of issues can be found in the BPF Bookshop.
The Industry Council for Packaging and the Environment is a research body set up in 1974 to study the environmental and social impacts of packaging. It promotes best practice in packaging manufacturing, distribution and use and supports research into resource-efficiency and waste recovery. Its members are international and British companies involved in all aspects of packaged goods - material suppliers, packaging manufacturers, producers and retailers of packaged goods.
EuPC
EuPC is the association which represents, in Brussels, more than 37,000 European plastics processing companies through out Europe (85% of them are SMEs with less than 100 employees). EuPC is the professional representative body of plastics converters within Europe whose activity embraces all sectors of the plastics converting industry including recycling.
EuPC Members are national plastics processing associations representing the plastics converting industry and/or the manufacturing sectors in more than 20 countries and about 25 European sectorial associations representing at a European level a particular sector/market/material of the plastics processing industry.
EuPC’s overall objective is to defend and promote the interests of the European plastics converting industry trough the following activities:
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Voicing the industry's opinion towards European and international institutions and non-governmental organizations;
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Maintaining relationships with corresponding organizations in Europe and worldwide;
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Carrying out business surveys, studies and research projects in all aspects of the plastics processing industry. |
