Metal Packaging Europe, the trade body representing the united interests of producers and suppliers of metal packaging across Europe, has brought together key influencers to promote metal resource efficiency in a sustainable Europe, at an event hosted in partnership with Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy Member of the European Parliament in Brussels, 24th of January 2012.

The event reinforced Metal Packaging Europe's ambition to establish the metal packaging sector as a permanent and valuable contributor to sustainability in public policy.

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Tinplate production in Kazakhstan fell last year, against the trend in other steel products, according to official statistics reported by Interfax. Tinplate production in 2011 is provisionally reported at 190,746 tonnes, down by 9.3% on the previous year. Meanwhile crude steel production rose by 12% to 4.8078 million tonnes, flat rolled steel output was up 6.6% to 3.092 million tonnes and galvanized steel production was up 2.5% to 598,281 tonnes, the Kazakh State Statistics Agency reported.

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