K 2022 officially opened today, and our first daily newspaper covering the news and events here is now out.
We open with an item on Arburg, and that company’s steady pursuit of circularity, side by side with coverage on the joint briefing yesterday from the German Association of Plastics Converters (GKV), the plastics and rubber division of the VDMA and Plastics Europe. High energy prices and material shortages are causing disruptions and slowing growth, the associations said. The new “We are plastics” collaborative initiative, formed in May 2021 to communicate the value of plastics and the transformation to a circular economy, will also be using its clout to convince politicians of the industry’s need for ‘energy and gas price relief and a consistent flow of affordable energy’.
Read the Wednesday K Show daily here.