Soaring fuel prices combined with increasing awareness of the need to adapt for a low-carbon future has brought sustainability to the forefront of every manufacturer’s agenda. How can regulators and manufacturers  integrate sustainability in to industrial policy and practice? Following up my previous post on sustainable supply chains, I’d like to promote the Sustainable Manufacturing Summit Europe, taking place in Brussels, Belgium, 19-20 November 2008.

Goal of the summit

The Sustainable Manufacturing Summit Europe brings together Europe’s policy makers and business leaders to provide both practical and strategic information to manufacturers facing sustainability challenges.

Learn from case studies

• Innovative environmental strategy and management
• Manufacturer renewable energy strategies, energy efficiency and water management
• Product life cycle analysis
• Product eco and energy labelling
• Manufacturing design for “reduce, reuse, recycle”
• The possibilities of industrial symbiosis
• SME case studies

Why should you attend?

• Hear from the European Commission  – what do manufacturers need to know?
• Examine the sustainability strategies of Europe’s leading companies
• Discuss options for renewable energy and enhanced efficiency – how will an expanded
• How will the Eco-Label scheme be widened – will your products be included?
• 15 corporate sustainability case studies – benchmark your own activities
• Meet Europe’s senior sustainability civil servants at a specially arranged reception

Conference website

Read more at the Sustainable Manufacturing Summit Europe website, or download the summit brochure.