News & Events

“Offsite On Stage” was the title of the event organised on 14 April 2026 in Brussels by Eurogypsum, the European association representing the gypsum and gypsum product manufacturing industries.

Emmanuel Normant is the new president of Eurogypsum, the Brussels-based European association representing the gypsum supply and processing industry.

Eurogypsum participated in the European Industry Summit in Antwerp, joining calls for urgent action to restore industrial competitiveness, safeguard European jobs and turn the Clean Industrial Deal into investment.

The 2025 Eurogypsum Biodiversity Photo Contest Awards ceremony took place in Brussels on 19 November 2025, as part of the Eurogypsum policy event "Building Blocks for Europe's Future".

Eurogypsum organised the 7th edition of the European Gypsum Recyclers Forum in Brussels on 19th November 2025.

Europe’s growing demand for affordable housing calls for new construction, renovation and urban densification. To meet our housing needs, stable access to essential raw materials – like gypsum – is crucial.

On 24 September 2025, Eurogypsum, in collaboration with Aggregates Europe and Euromines, hosted the Late Summer Reception under the theme "Straight from the Source: Open Dialogue with Policymakers".

On 5 June 2025, industry representatives, environmental organisations, scientists and policymakers convened in Kraków, Poland, to discuss collaborative approaches to nature restoration.

The event explored how lightweight vertical extensions can create housing more quickly by adding storeys to existing buildings while limiting land use and embodied carbon.

Eurogypsum supports a Clean Industrial Deal which promotes European industries’ competitiveness and accelerates decarbonisation, and calls for further attention to buildings’ construction and renovation.

Eurogypsum is thrilled to announce that we are joining the Renovate Europe campaign in 2025!

One day after the first-ever EU Commissioner-designate for housing was heard by the European Parliament, Eurogypsum launched the BUILD LIGHT campaign in Brussels on 6th November 2024.

A picture is worth a thousand words! This is why Eurogypsum has organised the first edition of its Biodiversity Awards, asking members to send pictures illustrating various aspects of biodiversity in Europe's gypsum quarries.

Eurogypsum and Aggregates Europe - UEPG organised a Late Summer Reception in Brussels on Wednesday, 25 September 2024.

Christoph Dorn, a Member of the Group Management Committee for the Knauf Region Central Europe, takes over from Dr. Jörg Ertle, Head of Gypsum Resources at the Belgium-based Etex Group.

Eurogypsum supports the Antwerp Declaration and calls for an Industrial Deal that commits to achieve the European Green Deal.

Eurogypsum organised a breakfast event in Brussels for the launch of its climate neutrality roadmap on 1st February 2024, with the participation of Alexandre Paquot, Director of Innovation for a Low Carbon, Resilient Economy at the European Commission's DG CLIMA.

Eurogypsum held the 6th Edition of the European Gypsum Recyclers Forum on 16th November 2023 in Brussels, from 13.30 to 17.00 hrs, as part of the Eurogypsum Day at EU Raw Materials Week.

As part of the EU Raw Materials Week, Eurogypsum hosted an event dedicated to the secured supply of raw materials essential to the European Green Deal, which took place in Brussels on 16 November 2023, from 9.30 to 12.30 hrs.

Eurogypsum launches #EG60 Anniversary Guide.

On the 28th of October 2021, BirdLife, HeidelbergCement, CEMBUREAU, Eurogypsum, and UEPG released the “Extractive Sector Species Protection Code of Conduct” – a guidance for the management of temporary habitats linked to the extractive sector.

Eurogypsum organised the 5th European Gypsum Recyclers Forum on 26 May 2021 in the form of an online webinar, including presentations by institution and industry representatives and a moderated discussion on circularity in construction and the way towards increased recycling of gypsum.

Can we secure the supply of raw materials for the European Green Deal while keeping biodiversity alive? How do we face this challenge?

Eurogypsum, the European Manufacturers Association for Plaster and Plasterboard Products, held its 4th European Gypsum Recyclers Forum in Brussels on 5 November 2019.