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For the series «Unternehmergespräche» of the Basler Zeitung, which primarily examines the effects of the Covid 19 pandemic on Swiss SMEs, business journalist Felix Erbacher spoke with Roland Tanner, Managing Director of Müller Packaging. The article was published in the August 27, 2020 issue under the title «Müller Verpackungen profits from orders from early 2020».

The Covid19 pandemic has severely restricted the public life and the economy throughout the world. The Swiss Federal Government attested Müller Packaging's systematic relevance. Concretely, this means that the Swiss Bundesamt für wirtschaftliche Landesversorgung BWL (Federal Office for National Economic Supply) is interested in keeping Müller Packaging's activities running – even if further more stringent measures were to be taken because of the pandemic.

Müller Packaging customers benefit from a very wide range of steel drums. They nevertheless regularly come up with special requirements requiring an "upgrade" of existing containers or even a completely new development. These challenges can be taken up in an uncomplicated and efficient manner by Müller Packaging's own design department, together with the own tooling department and the internal UN type examination section.

Müller Packaging is known worldwide as a quality leader in the production of industrial packages out of mild steel. What is less known is that the whole mild steel containers range can also be produced in stainless steel – and also UN type-tested.

The industrial states have various approaches to climate protection. In Switzerland, the CO2 law is considered the core of the climate policy. It defines emission targets, also for the economy. The Confederation founded the Energie-Agentur der Wirtschaft (Energy Agency for the Economy) in 2001 to implement this law. Müller Packaging is cooperating with this Agency on a voluntary basis. The individually defined targets are binding.