News & events

According to data presented on 10 May 2022 by Oxford Economics at the CEIR General Assembly, the global industrial valve market expanded 8% in 2021 to reach nearly €70 billion, above its level prior to the pandemic (...)

CEIR Marketing Commission launched a unique initiative for raising awareness of European valves and taps, beyond specific aspects of individual member-associations, that is a meeting with Euro parliamentarians on 11 May at the European Parliament.

It will be an important chance for presenting the Association and sensitiing Institutions on urgent matters.

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Dear Readers,

2022 is set to be a crucial year since while the impact of the pandemic is slowly fading, another crisis is rising to hit us: the energy prices and volatility impacting all of us hardly.

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In view of a possible rejection of the CTAC application for authorization for continued use of Chromium trioxide for functional chrome plating with decorative character, actions are necessary to collect information to support the future advocacy with the European Commission.  To support future advocacy, there’s a need for data and information on the potential impacts that such a rejection of the authorization would cause to the sanitary taps and industrial valves sector and supply chain.

In this regard, CEIR has prepared a data collection questionnaire (...)

• 25-26 May : IVS 2022, Bergamo, Italy (Industrial valves meet at Industrial Valve Summit)
• 28 June - 1st July : MCE- Mostra Convegno Expocomfort 2022, Milan, Italy (Building Valves and fittings on the stage)
• 29 November - 1st December : VALVE WORLD EXPO 2022, Düsseldorf, Germany
• 13-17 March 2023 : ISH 2023, Frankfurt, Germany
• ISK-SODEX 2023 (Istanbul, Turkey) - Healthy Indoor Climate Solutions 

Following the COVID induced postponement of the co-located events scheduled for both 2020 and 2021, CEIR is pleased to announce that it is partnering with Europump (the European Pump Association) and Pneurop (the European Compressed Air Association) to stage their respective Annual Meetings in Brussels.

From 9th to 10th May 2022 at the Hotel NH Collection Brussels Grand Sablon, the three organisations will also deliver a Joint EU Policy Conference (...)

CEIR, together with 24 European associations, co-signed a Joint Industry Statement on EU Trade agreements, urging the EU institutions to continue making EU trade agreements a priority, opening new markets for trade and investment and promoting rules-based free trade, including strengthening the role of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).

CEIR, together with 11 industry associations, published a joint statement on the EU Emission Trading System (ETS) and carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM).

While Europe is stretched between a full speed economic recovery and an unexpected strong resurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the world leaders not yet fully convinced of the urgent need to concretely address climate change, we at CEIR are betting on human’s capability of overcoming the worst crises and are determined to (...)

The 2030 Agenda and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was adopted in 2015 by all countries of the United Nations. It is often called a radical plan for humanity and a new way of ‘doing’ development. But what do we mean by that? And what can we do as individuals and as members of CEIR federation?

Let’s have a look together (...)

On 13 November, the 26th Conference of the 197 countries that are parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change UNFCCC - in short COP 26 - concluded its work with the following outcome in the three pillars of climate change action undertaken in this framework: 

On 19 October, the European Commission presented its 2022 Work Programme, outlining its legislative and policy priorities for the coming year. The text specifies the overarching objective - ‘make Europe stronger together’ - and announces the priorities: 

On 15 September, in the framework of its Renovation Wave programme initiated in October 2020, the European Commission issued a Communication highlighting the main outcome of the “co-design phase” of the New European Bauhaus, a project aimed at (...)

The next CEIR meetings (all by invitation only) will take place as follows:
 

• 18 October : CEIR BIV Technical Committee 13.30 - 16.00 CEST in Paris (Evolis headquarters, Maison de la Mécanique, Courbevoie) - hybrid meeting
• 18 October : CEIR Marketing Committee 16.00 - 18.00 CEST in Paris (Evolis headquarters, Maison de la Mécanique, Courbevoie) - hybrid meeting
• 18 October : CEIR Board Dinner, 19.30 - 22.30 CEST
• 19 October : CEIR Board Meeting, 9.00-13.00 CEST in Paris (Evolis headquarters, Maison de la Mécanique, Courbevoie) - hybrid meeting
• 20 October : CEIR SAN Technical Committee, 14.00 - 16.00 CEST online

The present price growth is fed by the demand triggered by industrial policy strategies of new emerging countries, by oil increase -  essential energy source for producing many raw materials -  and the boom of sea freights, tenfold increased in only one year. 

The situation is unprecedented, lacking historical references which could help find ways of exit from this rising spiral (...)

The Unified Water Label Association, (UWLA) has urged the European bathroom industry to support its Water Matters message as world leaders committed to tackle climate change at the G7 summit in Cornwall, England last weekend.

UWLA MD Yvonne Orgill says (...)