Packaging steel group appoints new MD

Europe’s lobbying group for the packaging steel producers has appointed its new managing director: Philip Buisseret.

Apeal, the Association of European Producers of Steel for Packaging, is a federation of four multi-national producers of steel for packaging ArcelorMittal, Tata Steel Packaging, Rasselstein-ThyssenKrupp and US Steel Kosiçe. It has been without a managing director since Philippe Wolper left in March 2010.