Today, June 6 2025, on occasion of the EUROMAP General Assembly in Stuttgart, Germany, the European plastics and rubber machinery manufacturers have elected their new Presidency.
Tobias Baur, CSO of the German injection moulding specialist ARBURG GmbH & Co KG, is the new President of the European umbrella Association. Alessandro Grassi, share holder and CEO of FRIGOSYSTEM srl, the Italian temperature control equipment manufacturer, is on board as Vice President.
They succeed President Luciano Anceschi, TRIA spa, and Vice President Michael Baumeister, Brückner Group.
The new Presidency promotes closer cooperation between industry at European level. Europe and the plastics industry are facing challenging times, and the industry must act as one. The important transformation of the plastics industry towards a circular economy needs a roadmap that is ambitious but also takes the industry along and involves it. This will be even more successful the more consistently the industry positions itself. The successful work to date in the direction of standardisation (EUROMAP standards), data collection and exchange as well as trade fair cooperation is to be continued consistently.