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FEVE The European Container Glass Industry

05.12.2023

New leadership team appointed at FEVE Flaconnage Board of Directors

FEVE announced the new chairmanship for the Flaconnage Board of Directors, elected at their meeting on Thursday 23rd November

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13.09.2023

Just one week to go!

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03.07.2023

EU’s glass value chain confirms glass collection rate steady progress at 80.1%

The EU average collection of glass packaging for recycling was 80.1% in 2021, according to the latest data released today by Close the Glass

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23.05.2023

Recognising the contribution of packaging design to innovation, competitiveness & sustainable growth

Our associations, representing the spirits, wine and container glass sectors support the objectives of the Packaging & Packaging Waste Regulation

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27.04.2023

EU packaging regulation threatens Belgian business innovation – warning comes as MEP Frédérique Ries visits Belgian glassmaking & recycling facilities

As attention in Brussels turns to the proposed revision of EU Packaging and Packaging Waste (PPWR) rules, a Belgian glass factory illustrates how

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25.03.2023

Container glass industry welcomes green claims proposal

The European Container Glass manufacturing industry supports the intention of the European Commission’s Green Claims proposal (1) to ensure

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27.02.2023

Half Year 2022 glass packaging production at highest levels

Industry working at maximum capacity to meet record high

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09.02.2023

Half Year 2022 glass packaging production at highest levels

Industry working at maximum capacity to meet record high

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04.07.2022

EU Container Glass Industry Records Highest Ever Growth in Production

New 2021 data points to highest production growth ever recorded for food and beverage glass packaging. Despite increasing challenges in crisis times, glass industry remains resilient in face of exceptionally high market

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  • Hollow, Tableware, Technical Glass

30.06.2022

FEVE discusses container glass decarbonisation strategy

The European Container Glass Federation’s (FEVE) discussed the sector’s decarbonisation strategy during a presentation at the Sustainable Industrial Manufacturing conference in Brussels

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  • Products

09.06.2022

GLASS SAFEST PACKAGING FOR FOOD NEW RESEARCH SAYS

International research found that nearly 3000 chemicals can potentially leak from packaging into food, making human exposure to these chemicals highly

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03.03.2022

Episode 6: Communicating about recycling: How to get consumers into the loop?

The quality of glass collection depends very much on glass bottles being properly disposed of at

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16.11.2021

‘Future Made Clear’: Glass industry launches new manifesto

The Glass Industry’s Manifesto for the

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  • Hollow, Tableware, Technical Glass

08.11.2021

FEVE & FERVER joint position paper on Recycled content

FEVE & FERVER joint position paper on Recycled

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25.10.2021

Raise Your Glass: Decarbonising Production for the Container Glass Industry

Challenges that were unimaginable just a short while ago can be faced through human ingenuity and collaboration. Factories today are running around the clock to help meet the urgent demand for glass vials for Coronavirus vaccines. Container glass

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  • Hollow, Tableware, Technical Glass

22.10.2021

The Furnace for the Future

A Fundamental Milestone Towards Climate-Neutral Glass

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  • Hollow, Tableware, Technical Glass

02.07.2021

Furnace for the Future Project: Final Application Submitted

The Furnace for the Future was selected in March 2021 as one of the top 70 projects from 311 applications submitted for the EU Innovation Fund (1), one of the world’s largest funding programs for the demonstration of innovative, low-carbon

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23.06.2021

New Leadership Team Elected at the European Container Glass Federation

FEVE – the European Container Glass Federation has elected its executive team for the 2021-2023 term of office at its Annual General Assembly last Friday 18th

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11.06.2021

Boosting closed loop glass recycling in Europe: Why Deposit Return Schemes are not the way forward

Evidence across Europe shows that DRS does not maximise quantity or quality of recycled glass and we consider that including glass in a DRS could have a range of negative consequences and put existing collection and recycling systems at

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16.02.2021

Packaging Industries Coalition Jointly Welcome European Parliament Support to Permanent Materials

Aluminium, Glass and Steel Packaging Industries Jointly Welcome the Plenary Vote on the Circular Economy Action Plan 2.0 REPORT in support of permanent

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30.03.2020

The Furnace of the Future - A vision for climate neutral packaging

For the first time ever, European container glass manufacturers have come together to build the world’s first large-scale hybrid electric furnace to run on 80% green

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  • Hollow, Tableware, Technical Glass

24.03.2020

FEVE programme to provide platform to discuss glass collection & recycling

The Close the Glass Loop programme from FEVE will provide a stakeholder workshop on glass collection and recycling in Brussels on 22nd

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28.01.2020

The European Container Glass Industry fully supports the recently published Commission Circular Economy Roadmap and Action Plan

By having fully integrated glass recycling into our industrial processes for more than 50 years and advocating for separate collection systems of glass across the EU, the industry is a pioneer of the Circular Economy model for packaging in Europe

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09.12.2019

FERVER – THE EUROPEAN FEDERATION OF GLASS RECYCLERS – JOINS THE “CLOSE THE GLASS LOOP” PLATFORM

FERVER – the European Federation of Glass Recyclers (1) – joins “Close the Glass Loop” – the major industry stewardship programme for glass packaging recently kicked-off by FEVE

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22.11.2019

European Glass Packaging Industry to Boost EU Glass Collection

The European glass packaging industry sets in motion “Close the Glass Loop” - a major stewardship programme to boost glass ´collection for recycling´ rates to 90% by 2030 in the

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31.10.2019

RECORD COLLECTION OF GLASS CONTAINERS FOR RECYCLING HITS 76% IN THE EU

This represents a growth of more than 1% compared to 2016 performance. A strong proofpoint of the well performing EU glass packaging circular economy. However, more needs to be done to bring the remaining 24% of glass back into the

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27.06.2019

MICHEL GIANNUZZI ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN CONTAINER GLASS FEDERATION (FEVE)

FEVE – the European Container Glass Federation has elected its executive team for the 2019-2021 term of office at its Annual General Assembly held in

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19.02.2019

GLASS PACKAGING DEMAND CONTINUES TO GROW IN EUROPE DRIVEN BY CONSUMER ENGAGEMENT IN SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION LIFESTYLE

Glass packaging production in Europe grew by 1% in volume (tonnes) and by 1% in unit terms in the first half year 2018 compared to the previous half year according to data published today by the European Container Glass Federation,

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  • Hollow, Tableware, Technical Glass

15.01.2019

Glass packaging: the key to connecting with Millennial beauty consumers?

Sustainability sells – and has the potential to sell big. That’s the message Friends of Glass want you to take away from a recent consumer survey which found that 9 in 10 millennials have become more conscious of their own environmental impact in

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