ICPP - Internation Confederation Of Plastics Packaging Manufacturers

About ICPP

Founded in 1997, ICPP International Confederation of Plastics Packaging Manufacturers is an international organization of national and regional associations of plastics packaging manufacturers. The association's commitment is to impede the tightening of frame conditions for the international transport of dangerous goods in plastics packagings.

ICPP at a glance

Founded in 1997 upon an initiative of European and American manufacturers of plastics packagings for dangerous goods, ICPP International Confederation of Plastics Packaging Manufacturers is an international organization of national and regional associations of plastics packaging manufacturers.

Foundation members:

ADM, The Association of Drum Manufacturers, UK
NRK, Netherlands
CSEMP, Chambre Syndicate des Emballages en Matière Plastique, France
IK Industrieverband Kunststoffverpackungen e. V., Germany
SPI The Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc., USA (later PDI)

Consultative status with the UN-Subcommittee of Experts for the Transport of Dangerous Goods since 1997

Liaison status with ISO/TC 122 since July 2001

Tasks and Targets

At present the work of ICPP is concentrated on three main fields which are relevant for world-wide co-operation of the plastics packaging industry:

Regulatory aspects of the transport of dangerous goods
International standardization
Environmental aspects

ICPP-Mission:

"to promote the safe and efficient manufacturing, use and recycling of plastics packaging, e. g. in the fields of international transport of dangerous goods with plastics packaging or in the international standardization of plastics packagings and test methods. ICPP encourages environmentally sound practices in the management of the packaging life cycle"
(excerpt from the ICPP-statutes, Art. 2.1)

General Assemblies

27.06.1997	ICPP Kick-Off-Meeting	Bad Homburg/Germany
11.05.1999	General Assembly	Duesseldorf/Germany
12.09.2000	Board Meeting	Tampa, FL, USA
04.04.2001	General Assembly	Chicago, IL, USA
16.05.2002	Board Meeting	Washington D.C., USA
07.11.2003	General Assembly	Paris, France
12./13.10.2004	General Assembly	Washington D.C., USA
26.04.2005	General Assembly	Duesseldorf, Germany
12.04.2006	General Assembly	Bonita Springs, FL, USA
04.05.2007	General Assembly	Phoenix, AZ, USA
23.04.2008	General Assembly	Duesseldorf, Germany

Membership

ICPP is an international confederation of national or regional associations. Individual manufacturers of plastics packagings of any country in the world can directly join ICPP if there is no national association interested in membership or if such an association does not exist. Members will find in ICPP an organization of international importance and a platform for their international interests.
If you wish more information about ICPP membership please e-mail to info@icpp.org or contact

ICPP
International Confederation of Plastics Packaging Manufacturers

Kaiser-Friedrich-Promenade 43
D-61348 Bad Homburg v.d.H.
Germany

Tel: ++49 6172 926673
Fax: ++49 6172 926670

Activities

The activities of ICPP are concentrated on the world-wide co-operation of manufacturers of plastics packagings for dangerous goods in view of non-restrictive transport conditions.

General

Accredited as observer in the UN-Subcommittee of Experts for the Transport of Dangerous Goods since 1997, ICPP has supported in many cases the interests of its members by

proposing special regulations if needed
claiming moderation of existing recommendations if reasonable
rejecting unnecessary design types and packaging provisions

Examples for activities of ICPP in the UN Sub-Committee

1999: ICPP submitted a first proposal to the UN-Subcommittee in 1999, regarding "Pressure relief devices for rigid plastics IBCs and composite IBCs with plastics inner receptacles" which was adopted (see number of document ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/28).

2000: ICPP was involved in the controversial discussion about definitions of "routine maintenance, repair and remanufacturing of IBCs". It was on initiative of ICPP (see Bad Homburg meeting) that the interests of the different industrial parties were co-ordinated in a common proposal of the associations CEFIC, ICCR, ICIBCA and ICPP, adopted by the UN-Subcommittee in July 2000 (see number of document ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/2000/14) . The document was taken up in the ADR/RID on 1.1.2003.

2002: A similar proposal on the remanufacturing of FIBCs was presented by the associations ICCA, ICCR and ICPP on the UN meeting in July 2002. With some modifications submitted with the additional paper Inf. 64 the proposal on the "Multiple use of flexible IBCs" was adopted by a large majority. The proposed requirements were taken up in the ADR/RID from 1.1.2005. Central part is the new definition for routine maintenance of FIBCs in chapter 1.2.1. (see UN document ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/2002/40).

2005/2006: As a member of the IBC Working Group of the UN Sub-Committee ICPP was actively involved in the introduction of a vibration test and the performance of other design type tests.

2007/2008: Rebottling / Cross-bottling of IBCs. ICPP submitted substantial proposals to the Correspondence Working Group of the UN Sub-Committee which were taken over by the UN Sub-Committee to amend the Model Regulations.

Further issues - which are still discussed in ICPP - are

how to deal with the introduction of a vibration test and other design type tests for IBCs
standardization of the conductivity of IBCs
round robin tests about the inner pressure of composite IBCs