Members Newsletter 9th September 2014

Introducing 'Meet the Toolmaker' - a New Concept Event from the BPF and GTMA
Aimed at assisting moulders and toolmakers to get together and engage with one another, Meet the Toolmaker will take place on Tuesday 21st October at the Manufacturing Resource Centre in Warwickshire. Make sure you sign up today to avoid disappointment.

Recoup Launches 'Pledge4Plastics' Campaign
Pledge 4 Plastics is a government backed national initiative which aims to boost recycling of plastic packaging in the UK. Led by Recoup, it has been developed with partners including Coca Cola Enterprises, Marks & Spencer, Unilever, Nestle Waters, Nestle UK, RPC, Veolia, Closed Loop Recycling, Valpak, Kent Resource Partnership, Surrey County Council, PlasticsEurope, WRAP and Defra.

NEW Publications from WRAP; End Markets for Recycled Household Plastic Film
A report investigating the potential end markets for post-consumer recycled polyethylene derived from kerbside collected co-mingled film.

Pre-packs - Do They Have a Future?
In June this year, Teresa Graham published her Report on Pre-pack Administrations. As Vince Cable noted in his foreword to the Report: 'Pre-pack administrations has been much criticised in some quarters in recent years'…

?Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS)
ESOS is a new UK scheme to encourage large organisations to save energy and money. It does this by requiring that organisations undertake regular assessments to identify cost-effective energy saving measures on supplies to buildings, industrial processes and transport.

Market Data on Central and Eastern Europe Available For BPF Members
The BPF have partnered with www.myceppi.com and in the coming months we will be publishing various updates on the polymer market in CE Europe.  The following reports are available now free of charge to BPF Members...

Development of PP production and consumption in the CEE region...
Development of LD and LLDPE production and consumption in the CEE region...

PolySolve Demonstration Event
The PolySolve project is holding a FREE to attend seminar on 24th September in Munich Freising. This free event will draw together experts from across the recycling industry, together with TWI and Fraunhofer IVV, who will be facilitating the event.

Exclusive BPF Member Event to look at Chemicals in Plastics
On 23rd October 2014 the BPF is hosting a 'Chemicals in Plastics' event in London which will examine topics including Endocrine Disruption, Flame Retardants and Risk Communication. This event is exclusively available only to members of the BPF and costs just £199 + VAT.

Our sponsors and over 400 of your peers will be there, will you?
Join us on Thursday 16th October at the Lancaster London Hotel for the BPF's 81st Annual Dinner.

Kindly sponsored by;

Seminars
Chemicals in Plastics
(23 Oct 2014 - The BPF Offices, London)

REPLAST 2014
(6 Nov 2014 - 1 Carlton House Terrace, London)


Trade Shows
Plastimagen - UKT&I Grant £3000
(18 - 21 Nov 2014 - Mexico City, Mexico)

PlastEurasia
(04 - 07 Dec 2014 - Istanbul, Turkey)

PlastIndia - UKT&I Grant £3000
(05 - 10 Feb 2015 - New Delhi, India)


Industry Events
Engineering Design Show
(22 - 23 Oct 2014 - Ricoh Arena, Coventry)

Interplas
(30 Sep - 2 Oct 2014 - NEC, Birmingham)

ADDCOM (Additives and Compounding Conference)
(21 Oct - 22 Oct 2014 - Novotel Barcelona City, Spain)

FDF Sustainability
(21 Oct - 2 Nov 2014 - British Museum, London)

Plastics Recycling Conference Europe
(29 Oct - 30 Oct 2014 - Milan Marriott Hotel, Italy)

Advanced Engineering UK 2014
(11 Nov - 12 Nov 2014 - NEC, Birmingham)


BPF Annual Dinner
BPF Annual Dinner
(16 Oct 2014 - Lancaster London Hotel, London)