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.

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