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European Paper Week: ‘Building on paper’s values’

Date

06 Oct 2009

Sections

Climate & Environment
Sustainable Dev.

New Venue, New Sponsor, Register Now!

Registration for this year’s European Paper Week has started. The networking event of the year within the pulp and paper industry will take place in Brussels at a new venue the Marivaux Hotel and the Palais de la Bourse under the theme ‘Building on paper’s values’. From 17-19 November more than 300 participants will come together to discuss and debate the latest key issues and challenges facing the industry.

European Paper week is open to all and paper industry stakeholders can attend its meetings. The main events include the CEPI Dinner and CEPI Annual meeting as well as several seminars on current topics of interest, such as ‘Water Footprinting’, ‘Benchmarking ETS’, ‘Promoting Biodiversity’, ‘Research in Biorefinery’, ‘Paper and ICT’ as well as a ‘Strategic Research Workshop. For more details on the registration policy and to access the registration form, visit www.cepi.org/epw

We are also please to announce a new collaboration with our
Platinum Sponsor of this year’s European Paper Week: Eka Chemicals.

Eka Chemicals support of this year’s event shows the continued
importance of European Paper Week as well as Eka’s continued
commitment to the paper industry. We hope that their sponsorship will
bring a new dimension to the event and we look forward to working with
them to ensure the sustainability of the pulp and paper industry as well as promoting their own initiatives in that area.

“Paper Week gives the entire European pulp and paper industry a once a year opportunity to meet and debate issues pertinent to it. Companies such as Eka Chemicals which sponsor this debate and help us organise a memorable event for all participants are extremely important and we are extremely grateful to them,” remarked Martyn Griffiths, CEPI Communications and Public Affairs Director.

For more information with regard to the European Paper Week, please contact Daniela Haiduc, CEPI Communications and Public Affairs Manager at +32 2 627 49 15 or d.haiduc@cepi.org

For information with regard to Eka Chemicals, please contact Lotta Bülow , Market Communication Manager, +46 31 587260, lotta.bulow@akzonobel.com, http://www.akzonobel.com/eka