Bernhard Borgardt has been unanimously elected as President of European Plastics Converters (EuPC) for two-year term beginning June 2008. He succeeds David A. Williams as EuPC President, who served for the past 6 years. Prior to his election, Bernhard Borgardt was a former Member of the Board of the British RPC Group.

Borgardt was elected at, EuPC’s, General Assembly, which was held on 23 May 2008 in Athens Greece. The event was organised in collaboration with the Association of Hellenic Plastics Industries and over 180 participants from all over Europe active in different markets of the plastics converting industry took part in this yearly event.

Bernhard Borgardt has a long background in the packaging industry, as manager in the parental company Bebo Plastik GmbH, in big enterprises such as PLM, Schmalbach-Lubeca and as a former Member of the Board of the British RPC Group. Borgardt is also President of the German Association of Plastics Packagaing since October 2002.

Claude Thibaut de Maisières (INERGY) has been unanimously relected as EuPC Treasurer for two-year term (2008-2010). Philip Law (BPF) and Heinz-Gunther Sauerhoff (TERHELL) were unanimously elected as Budget Committee Members for 2008 -2010. The new EuPC Steering Committee is composed as following, David A. Williams (BPF) has been elected as Packaging Division Chairman, Alain Requillart (Fédération de la Plasturgie), has been elected as Building and Construction Division Chairman and Claude Thibaut de Maisières (Federplast.be). has been elected as Automotive & Transport Division Chairman Furthermore, Inigo Duque (CURVER) will represent ANAIP at the EuPC Steering Committee.

The 2008 General Assembly was sponsored by LyondellBasell and BASF. Alexandre Dangis, EuPC managing director, thanked Mr. Anton de Vries President of Polymers Division Lyondellbasell, and Michael Stumpp, Group Vice President, Global Business Unit Specialty Plastics BASF SE, for their companies’ active and financial support for making this event a big success.

The next EuPC Annual Meeting will take place in Caiscais, Portugal on 3-5 June 2009. EuPC will be celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2009.