APEAL (The Association of European Producers of Steel for Packaging) have recently announced that the recycling of steel packaging in Europe has hit a new all-time high of 84%. It is an increase of 1,5% and is the ninth consecutive year in which the overall...
APEAL has announced its 2025 vision for recycling – Zero steel packaging to landfill – as part of Steel for Packaging Week, a virtual event designed to showcase steel as the model material for a 21st century circular economy. The 2025 Vision is set to be supported by...
Tinplate manufacturer thyssenkrupp Rasselstein GmbH and packaging manufacturer Hoffmann Neopac AG have teamed up and developed a concept for a can that pushes recycling to the max: the RecyCan®. This is a pilot project in which 100 percent of the steel for packaging...
Hoffmann Neopac will introduce a new line of tinplate cans comprised of 100% recycled steel at the Interpack 2020 in Düsseldorf, Germany. Made possible by collecting separated consumer packaging steel from standard household recycling, the company’s...
Gesellschaft für Verpackungsmarktforschung (GVM) in its recently published annual recycling report states that 90.4% of tinplate packaging used in Germany was recycled in 2018. The recycling rate from private end use sources was as high as 92.2%, making tinplate the...
