Flexible packaging suppliers need urgent, workable and homogeneous implementation guidance to ensure PPWR integrity
Flexible Packaging Europe (FPE) reiterates its strong opposition to any attempt to reopen or delay Regulation (EU) 2025/40 on Packaging and Packaging Waste (PPWR), following recent calls from parts of industry to postpone its application and review key provisions.
Flexible Packaging Europe welcomes decision of the European Commission to defend the integrity of PPWR under the Environmental Omnibus
FPE welcomes the European Commission’s choice not to reopen Regulation (EU) 2025/40 on Packaging and Packaging Waste (PPWR) under the Environmental Omnibus
Leaders of the Flexible Packaging Industry to Meet in Düsseldorf in May 2026
Registration now open for the 4th Global Flexible Packaging Executive Forum at interpack!
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Karri Koskela elected as new Chair of Flexible Packaging Europe
At the FPE Summer Conference, which took place in Ljubljana at end of June 2025, Karri Koskela, CEO of Wipak, was unanimously elected as the new Chair of the European association Flexible Packaging Europe (FPE). He succeeds Jakob A. Mosser, who has held the position with great commitment over the past five years. At the same time, Michele Guala was re-elected as Vice-Chair.
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FPE publishes guidance for life cycle assessment of flexible packaging
A guidance to support the environmental assessment of flexible packaging solutions from a life cycle thinking perspective has just been provided by the European flexible packaging industry. It was elaborated by the environmental sustainability consultancy Quantis in collaboration with experts from six European flexible packaging converting companies and the association Flexible Packaging Europe (FPE) and its content is publicly available.
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European Parliament’s vote on PPWR is a step forward to encourage resource efficient packaging and boost packaging circularity
Today, the European Parliament approved the provisional EU agreement on the Regulation on Packaging and Packaging Waste (PPWR). Flexible Packaging Europe (FPE), representing flexible packaging suppliers across materials, welcomes this important step forward in the legislative process.