Hans van de Nes is director of AP Concept and board member of the Melosch Recycling group. He has more than 25 years of experience in the recovered paper industry. In the Netherlands, van de Nes founded recovered paper company VDE Papierrecycling and secure shredding franchise Reisswolf. After the sale of his company, van de Nes is internationally active and represents in Europe the interests of the secondary paper value chain. In Germany, he is a board member of the Melosch Group in Hamburg. Melosch is one of the largest independent recovered paper companies in Germany and AP Concept is the purchase company for Europe’s market leader in copy paper produced from 100 percent recycled fibers, Steinbeis Paper.