Knowledge hub
Guidance documents for Afera members
- Afera Position on PCF Calculation of Adhesive Tapes
- Afera Position on Mass Balance Approach
- Afera Guidelines for Sustainable Use of Adhesive Tapes
- Afera guidance on Spanish Plastic Packaging Tax (members only access)
- Afera position on UK Plastic Packaging Tax (members only access)
- ISCC Plus Certification guidelines (members only access)
- Position paper on colour of paper release liner of adhesive tapes: Impact on material circularity
- Position paper on the impact of SUPD on adhesive tapes
AFSP Sustainability Stories
- Sustainability Story July 2025: Driving decarbonisation of the adhesive tape industry
- Sustainability Story May 2025: Debonding on Demand
- Sustainability Story February 2025: Navigating Regulatory Changes: A Tape Industry Perspective
- Sustainability Story October 2024: Accelerating Collaborative Sustainability in the Tapes Industry
- Sustainability Story July 2024: How Adhesive Tapes support the Clean Energy Transition
- Sustainability Story April 2024: Sustainable Tape Solutions for the EV Batteries Market
- Sustainability Story December 2023: Harmonised PCF data: Addressing the complexity of Scope-3 accounting
- Sustainability Story October 2023 - Tape liner waste management: Tracing the path to circularity
- Sustainability Story July 2023 - Sustainable Pathways for Adhesive Tapes: Interview with Evert Smit
- Sustainability Story April 2023 - Packaging Sustainability: The Role of Adhesive Tapes
- Sustainability Story December 2022 - Eco-design of adhesive tapes: Towards circularity
- Sustainability Story May 2022 - EU Green Deal: Analysing the Regulatory Impact on Tapes Industry
EU Sustainability initiatives affecting the adhesive tape value chain
- European Green Deal
- Circular Economy Action Plan
- E.U. Plastics Strategy
- Ecodesign
- Sustainable Products Initiative
- Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability
Afera sustainability resources
- Afera statement “Adhesive tapes are the hidden drivers of industry towards climate neutrality by 2050” detailing the European adhesive tape industry’s support of the EGD
- Afera launches Flagship Sustainability Project on European Green Deal, holds online Q&A session for Members during latest Webinar
- Afera online Annual Conference 2020 focussed on sustainability and circularity
- Why sustainability is important to the adhesive tape industry
- European tape businesses cue in on sustainability in waste processing infrastructure and ‘enabling’ function of tape technologies