{"id":95703,"date":"2024-09-18T14:57:43","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T12:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/?p=95703"},"modified":"2024-09-18T14:57:43","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T12:57:43","slug":"ik-has-a-new-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/ik-hat-neuen-praesidenten\/","title":{"rendered":"IK has a new president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Georg Pescher, Managing Director of Alpla Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, has been elected as the new President of the IK Industrievereinigung Kunststoffverpackungen. In his new role, Pescher wants to advocate for balanced regulation and the promotion of sustainable plastic packaging.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Georg Pescher, Managing Director of <a href=\"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/?s=alpla&amp;cat=-1&amp;date-all=all&amp;begin=&amp;end=\">Alpla Group<\/a> for Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, was elected as the new President of the <a href=\"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/?s=ik+industrievereinigung&amp;cat=-1&amp;date-all=all&amp;begin=&amp;end=\">IK Industrievereinigung Kunststoffverpackungen e. V.<\/a> elected. Pescher has been involved in the association for several years, particularly in the<strong> Forum PET beverage bottles<\/strong>. As a qualified engineer for technical healthcare, he has been working at Alpla for 15 years, where he initially worked as a plant manager.<\/p>\n<p>In his new role, Pescher plans to campaign for a fair public <strong>Perception of sustainable plastic packaging<\/strong> and in favour of balanced regulation in the interests of climate protection. \u201eThe same rules for everyone must be the order of the day,\u201c he explained in his inaugural speech. According to Pescher, European packaging regulation should become an integral part of the Green Deal and the EU single market, with facts taking centre stage.<\/p><div class=\"packa-in-post-alle\" style=\"text-align: center;\" id=\"packa-24607844\"><div id=\"packa-3490119911\"><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>Pescher succeeds Roland Stra\u00dfburger, who held the position for six years. Christian Claes and Hans Bresele were also confirmed in their positions as Vice President and Treasurer respectively at the IK General Meeting.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kunststoffverpackungen.de\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IK Industrial Association for Plastic Packaging<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Georg Pescher was elected as the new President of the IK and wants to advocate for a balanced regulation of sustainable plastic packaging.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","rank_math_description":"Georg Pescher wurde zum neuen Pr\u00e4sidenten der IK gew\u00e4hlt und will sich f\u00fcr eine ausgewogene Regulierung nachhaltiger Kunststoffverpackungen einsetzen.","rank_math_focus_keyword":"ik,pr\u00e4sident","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":[112],"tags":[57582,54,59464],"class_list":{"0":"post-95703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personen","8":"tag-ik-industrievereinigung-kunststoffverpackungen","9":"tag-kunststoff-und-verbunde","10":"tag-personen","11":"cs-entry","12":"cs-video-wrap"},"acf":[],"vimeo_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95703","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=95703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}