{"id":10491,"date":"2018-05-22T07:25:41","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T05:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/?p=10491"},"modified":"2020-08-21T17:04:28","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T15:04:28","slug":"michael-zobel-new-chairman-of-plastics-europe-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/michael-zobel-neuer-vorsitzender-plastics-europe-deutschland\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Michael Zobel to head Plastics Europe Germany in future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\">Plastics Europe Deutschland, the association of plastics manufacturers in Germany, has a new chairman. Dr Michael Zobel (left) was elected as the successor to Dr Josef Ertl by the members' meeting in Cologne.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Dr Ertl has been Chairman of the association since 2013. Born in 1969, Michael Zobel holds a doctorate in chemistry and began his professional career at Bayer, later <strong>Lanxess<\/strong> graduated. He has been Global Head of the Lanxess High Performance Materials division since 2010. He became a member of the Steering Board of Plastics Europe in Brussels in 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">\u201e As the new Chairman of Plastics Europe Germany, I would like to raise awareness among consumers, political decision-makers, industry and the academic world with regard to the <strong>Advantages of plastics<\/strong> and their contribution to <strong>Resource efficiency<\/strong> \u201c, said Dr Zobel on taking office. He spoke in favour of <strong>Circular economy<\/strong> expand.<\/p><div class=\"packa-in-post-alle\" style=\"text-align: center;\" id=\"packa-1459180241\"><div id=\"packa-2097688598\"><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/newsletter\/\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"PJ Self-promotion English 03\"><!--noptimize--><img src=\"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03.png 840w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03-300x75.png 300w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03-768x192.png 768w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03-18x5.png 18w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03-332x83.png 332w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03-664x166.png 664w, https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PJ-Eigenwerbung-English-03-688x172.png 688w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" width=\"840\" height=\"210\"  style=\" max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" \/><!--\/noptimize--><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Michael Zobel (left) was elected successor to Dr Josef Ertl by the general meeting of Plastics Europe Deutschland.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_title":"","csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[28,114,112],"tags":[43,54,56349],"class_list":{"0":"post-10491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-aus-dem-magazin","8":"category-aus-den-unternehmen-news","9":"category-personen","10":"tag-aus-den-unternehmen","11":"tag-kunststoff-und-verbunde","12":"tag-plasticseurope-deutschland","13":"cs-entry","14":"cs-video-wrap"},"acf":[],"vimeo_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}