{"id":17380,"date":"2018-10-17T15:00:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/?p=17380"},"modified":"2020-08-11T13:43:30","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T11:43:30","slug":"roland-strassburger-new-ik-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/roland-strassburger-neuer-ik-praesident\/","title":{"rendered":"Roland Stra\u00dfburger is the new IK President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Vice President Roland Stra\u00dfburger is the new President of the Industrievereinigung Kunststoffverpackungen. He succeeds Roland Roth, who held the office for eight years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Strasbourg<\/strong> has been CEO of the <strong>Contactor<\/strong> GmbH &amp; Co. KGaA. Mr Stra\u00dfburger has been a member of the IK Board since 2009 as a representative of the IBC specialist group. The new chairman wants to improve the public perception of <strong>Plastic<\/strong> especially its contribution to climate protection and resource conservation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201eWhile the often emotional discussions surrounding <strong>Plastic packaging<\/strong> to the undoubtedly important issue of marine litter,<br \/>\nwe want to give the actual function of plastic packaging more space again,\u201c says Stra\u00dfburger about the challenges in the association's work.<br \/>\nHe identified the following topics as important fields of action for the plastics packaging industry <strong>Sustainability and recycling<\/strong>. These are of particular importance against the background of the EU plastics strategy and the German Packaging Act.<\/p><div class=\"packa-in-post-alle\" style=\"text-align: center;\" id=\"packa-3962149327\"><div id=\"packa-1161788600\"><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>\n<p>At the same time, Stra\u00dfburger wants to focus on the <strong>Competitiveness<\/strong> industry, which is characterised by medium-sized companies.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Vice President Roland Stra\u00dfburger replaces Roland Roth as President of the Industrievereinigung Kunststoffverpackungen (IK).","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17383,"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":[43,57582,54],"class_list":{"0":"post-17380","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-ik-industrievereinigung-kunststoffverpackungen","12":"tag-kunststoff-und-verbunde","13":"cs-entry","14":"cs-video-wrap"},"acf":[],"vimeo_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17380","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=17380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}