EMPPA Association Day 2022
EMPPA’s inaugural Association Day took place on October 13, 2022.
The Association Day is the premier event for professionals moulded pulp producers in Europe. It presents strategic opportunities to network with producers, suppliers and service providers. It provides an opportunity for members to join and connect with peers across Europe to create a dynamic environment driving innovation and research, while accessing opportunities to shape the European moulded pulp industry on the legislative level and beyond.
We thank all participants in this successful gathering for a sustainable future and advancing industry.
Please find our membership application form as PDF for download on the left. Send it together with the SEPA form to the known email address: info@emppa.eu
Fritz Rudolf Körper
Former Parliamentary State Secretary, Chief Executive Manager EMPPA, co-founder and shareholder of friedrich30. Thanks to decades of experience at various levels in politics, he has a holistic understanding of political and economic decision-making processes and can draw on a strong network.
Dr. Monika Griefahn
She was co-founded Greenpeace Germany and the first woman on the board of Greenpeace international. Monika Griefahn was Minister of the Environment in Lower Saxony, Member of the Bundestag and worked in the private sector and founded the Institute for Media, Environment and Culture. She volunteers in several non-profit organizations and foundations and was a co-founder of the Cradle to Cradle NGO.
Siân Sutherland
Siân is co-founder and of A Plastic Planet and Plastic Free. She is a serial entrepreneur and believes passionately in the power of business to create positive change. She founded A Plastic Planet 6 years ago to focus on materials and system solutions working with industry and governments to accelerate plastic reduction. Their campaigns include the Amsterdam Plastic Free Aisle, Sack The Sachet and Plastic Free Fashion. Sian also sits on the Global Advisory of the UN Plastic Treaty Dialogues.
Franz Jaeger
Franz Jaeger is the managing partner of Pulp-Tec, a specialist in technical packaging made from pulp. The versatility of the possible applications, the complete sustainability in the sense of a circular economy and the naturalness of the products have inspired him from the first moment for paper pulp. It is a matter of the heart to establish moulded fiber as an ecological alternative to plastic packaging and to make our world more sustainable and ecological.
Tahsin Dag
Tahsin is founder and managing director of PAPACKS®. He is a developer, inventor and driving force for innovative raw materials, coatings and the production of climate-neutral and sustainable packaging and products. His many years of professional experience in managerial positions furthered his ambition to create a packaging world without plastic. Today, Tahsin is a trusted advisor on sustainability issues to his customers, numerous companies and politicians throughout Europe.