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Return to Aluminium For Future Generations The AFFG 2011 programme Sustainability Development Indicators (SDIs) 2011 was a year marked by a key event: the launch in the European Parliament of the 2010 report on sustainable development indicators (SDIs) entitled Sustainability of the European Aluminium Industry 2010. The event, Aluminium’s Performance Towards a Sustainable Europe, was […]

Return to Aluminium For Future Generations The AFFG 2010 programme As announced in the 2009 report, 2010 was to be a year dedicated to communication campaigns; the core objective of the AFFG programme was dialogue with stakeholders. Sustainability Development Indicators (SDIs) As announced, the 2010 edition will for the very first time include SDIs for […]

Return to Aluminium For Future Generations The AFFG 2009 programme It essentially involved the following types of activities: PA coupled with PR activities supported by new communication tools, as well as the continuation of projects launched in 2008. The Museum Night EAA greeted EU Institutions at social event in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts.As […]

Return to Aluminium For Future Generations The AFFG 2008 programme A number of projects were launched, two of which were scheduled to extend over 2008 and 2009 (even 2010 for the SDI’s one): Sustainable Development Indicators for aluminium Back in 2002, EAA and its member companies embarked upon a pioneering exercise: measuring sustainability. A list […]

Return to Press Releases Aluminium industry sets out Roadmap to ‘lighten the load’ by 2050 Brussels, 1 March 2012: Today the European Aluminium Association (EAA) presented the “Aluminium 2050 Roadmap to a low-carbon Europe”. Despite the recent and announced closures and curtailments of smelters in Europe, the aluminium industry is committed to further reducing its […]

Return to Press Releases Aluminium packaging: recycling protects the climate Rate of recycling rises to new peak level of 86.4% Düsseldorf, 25 January 2012 - For aluminium packaging the positive trend in recycling continues. According to a current study by GVM Gesellschaft für Verpackungsmarktforschung mbH, Mainz, in the year 2010 79,300 tonnes of the 91,800 […]

Return to Press Releases “Permanent materials” pave the way to a true recycling and resource efficient society Brussels, 24 January 2012 – Metal Packaging Europe (MPE), in partnership with Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy MEP, today launched the concept of “permanent materials”, those preserving their material qualities with infinite recyclability. Such materials boost a resource efficient society and […]