News from EUMEPS

Building efficiency ticks the first box in the green economy. Europe has a large stock of old buildings, but only around 1% of the EU’s buildings are renovated each year.
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The coronavirus crisis has underlined the versatility and indispensable nature of expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam for packaging and medical uses.
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70 years ago the german engineer Fritz Stastny accidentally bumped into a great discovery... EPS is born!
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A great news for Power Parts: the Quality Standards Too Box is now protected with an European Patent!
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EUMEPS AMONG THE SIGNATORIES OF THE CIRCULAR PLASTIC ALLIANCE- a commitment to use 10 million tons of recycled plastic in new products by 2025
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The first annual event “The EU Plastics Industries – Towards Circularity” took place on 11 December 2018.
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The EUMEPS Pledge sets out our commitment to recycling targets of the European Union
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On 7 November, the PolyStyreneLoop Cooperative inaugurated the European EPS/XPS industry’s closed-loop solution for the recycling of polystyrene (PS) insulation foam waste.
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A industry group representing the EPS supply chain in Europe decided to taking a proactive stance by preparing and implementing a demoplant a new recycling method.
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HBCDD is no longer used in the EPS supply into Europe. A group of companies, all of them mentioned below, dropped out of the authorization to use HBCDD.
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