The ECMA Congress for 2023 will take place in Sevilla, Spain on 21 & 22 September 2023.
The strapline for this year's folding carton industry event of the year will be:
'Circular Cartons & Beyond'.
The 2023 European Carton Excellence Award is now open for entries!
The deadline for online entries is 26 May 2023.
Click on 'Enter Now!' to check the rules and how to enter.
The European Carton Makers Association brings together folding carton converters, cartonboard mills, national associations and suppliers to the folding carton industry. ECMA represents over 500 carton producers with a current workforce of 60,000+ located across nearly all countries in the European Economic Area – this equates to over 80% of the €12.2 bill European folding carton market.
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ECMA Food Safety Committee Meeting
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ECMA Executive Committee Meeting
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ECMA Pharma Forum Meeting
As the representative body for the folding carton industry, the European Carton Makers Association published the first version of its Good Manufacturing Practice Guide for food safety in 2011.
In March 2021 ECMA released an entirely new version of the GMP.
In September we will present the bi-annual European Carton Prospects report. For the 1st time, we will include a section on the ‘Green Transition’ from plastic to fibre, that the folding carton sector is seeing. In 2021 we published an in-depth study which gives a deeper understanding of the elements influencing our industry over the last 2 years and shows trends up to 2025