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EDITORIAL Where are the great minds?

Doris Fischer: fischer@hbmedia.net
Michael Maruschke Financial and strategic investors are increasingly dabbling in the PET
Ruari McCallion sector. It happened to Sidel with its sale to Tetra Pak; or Husky, sold off to
Waldemar Schmitke financial investors; Krupp/SIG, now broken up into separate divisions. Net-
Ilona Trotter stal was one of the last to succumb, but was finally absorbed by Krauss-
Wolfgang von Schroeter Maffei. KraussMaffei in turn was acquired by the former owner of Husky.
Anthony Withers Now Mold-Masters and Milacron are also in the hands of a single investor.
MEDIA CONSULTANTS Who still remembers the great minds that made these companies big
Ute Andrä names? Francis Olivier of Sidel, Werner Fielmann of Krupp, Dieter Klug of
andrae@hbmedia.net Netstal or the Gellert family at Mold-Masters. Robert Schad seems to be
Martina Hischmann the last surviving member of this pioneering group, with his new venture,
hirschmann@hbmedia.net Athena.
Roland Loch
loch@hbmedia.net Increasingly, professional managers are heading up these companies,
not necessarily managing less well but using a distinctly different manage-
phone: +49(0)6221-65108-0 rial style. What is lacking are the rough edges that give the individual firms
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France, Italy, Spain, UK A glance at the south of Europe shows that there are still PET com-
Elisabeth Maria Köpke panies with these rough edges; the Italians, in particular, with teams of
phone: +49(0)6201-878925 mechanical engineers who are constantly changing the face of the sector.
fax: +49(0)6201-878926 We think of Sacmi with their new preform system or Sipa with their new
koepke@hbmedia.net cooperative venture with Robert Schad.
LAYOUT AND PREPRESS And if we delve further into the machinery it is here that we discover
Exprim Kommunikationsdesign the mould. It is here that we find ingenuity still flourishing amongst these
Matthias Gaumann | www.exprim.de companies. Otto Hofstetter without whom PET moulds would not look the
way they do today or Romeo Corvaglia without whom we would not have
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advanced as far as we have today with lightweight closures.
Shiraz El Goudi
reader@hbmedia.net Where processors are concerned, there are two families that dominate
the sector: the Lehners at Alpla and the Krautkrämers at Bericap. And let
us not forget Volker Kronseder, who has successfully built up a stretch blow
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Werkstr. 25
67454 Römerberg We probably need both kinds of manager. The great minds, who have
Germany the staying power to focus intently on their vision and who drive the sector
forward technologically. And then the shrewd and dispassionate managers,
whose main objective is to ensure continuity in engineering.
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05/13
INSIDE TRACK
3 Editorial Page
4 Contents 29
6 News
38 Products
40 PET bottles for beverages
and liquid food
42 PET Bottles in health and
beauty care packaging MATERIAL / RECYCLING
44 Patents
12 Growth of PET capacities -
shortage in raw material
PET 2013 conference ion Moscow
EDITOUR REPORT
14 Russia / Ukraine
Part 5
MARKET SURVEY
23 Suppliers of preforms
BOTTLE MAKING
29 Reduced electricity consumption in
the preform oven
Energy saving potential in SBM
machines - Part 2/2
Page
30 Noblesse oblige
20
Triangular PET water bottle for S.E.A.B,
designed by Sidel
BOTTLING / FILLING
32 Meet the Specialist
Sacmi Open Day in Imola, Italy
BUYER’S GUIDE
45 Get listed!
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PETnews
Sipa’s XForm preform
PET-Verpackungen GmbH Deutschland systems in SE Asia
to acquire hot fill business of PET preform production companies in South-East
Asia are adopting Sipa’s new entry into high-output, high-
LOG GmbH flexibility production systems, the XForm. Sipa launched
the 500t injection moulding system last year, and the first
With effect from 2nd January 2014, PET-Verpackungen systems are now being installed. A major multinational
GmbH Deutschland, headquartered in Grossbreitenbach, food and beverage company based in the Philippines, a
Germany, will be acquiring, under the terms of an asset deal, key converter to a Indonesian drinks supplier, and a pre-
the production of hot fill bottles from Log GmbH in Grabsle- form producer for a top green tea supplier in Thailand are
ben, a subsidiary of the LOG Plastic Products Company Ltd. among the first companies in South-East Asia - and the
As of April 2, 2013, all sales and marketing activities will be world - to order the equipment. In fact, five XForms have
handled exclusively through PET-Verpackungen. “With the either already been installed, are in the process of being
production of hot fill bottles we are opening up an interesting commissioned, or will soon be delivered to Sipa customers
niche for ourselves in the fruit juices and foods sector which in the region. The XForm 500 systems ordered all include
represents the perfect complement to our existing portfolio“ preform moulds built by Sipa. The moulds have either 96 or
says Oliver Wiegand, one of the two Directors of PET-Ver- 128 cavities. The preforms produced on the equipment will
packungen. PET Verpackungen manufacture preforms and be for carbonated soft drinks, aseptically-filled drinks and
bottles and boast many years of experience with a very wide hot-filled drinks. The XForm can handle moulds with up to
range of barrier technologies. According to Jonathan Schanin 128 cavities, made by Sipa or any other mould maker.
(CEO Log-Plastic Products Company Ltd.), Log will be con-
centrating more on the production and marketing of plastic www.sipa.it
packaging for the pharmaceuticals industry in the future.
www.logpac.com
www.pet-verpackungen.de
Clariant installs PET blowmoulding

machine in Chicago
Clariant, the speciality chemicals company, has installed
a new production-scale stretch blow-moulding machine and
Uhde Inventa-Fischer to
ancillary services at its ColorWorks Design & Technology build Indian PET plant
Center in West Chicago, Illinois. The company says that the
new machinery enables PET packaging developers to evalu- Uhde Inventa-Fischer has been awarded a contract by
ate its colour and special-effect masterbatches in full-size, Micro Polypet Pvt. Ltd to build a plant for the production
three-dimensional bottles instead of flat injection-moulded of high-quality PET for bottling and packaging applica-
chips. The machine is typical of those used in actual package tions. The plant will be located in Panipat, India. It will
manufacturing and means that realistic sample containers have a production capacity of 216,000t/a and will use
with colour and special effects can be produced, on a single terephthalic acid feedstock supplied “over the fence” from
site. The company further asserts that colour changes can an adjacent plant by specialist producer IOCL. The plant
be made quickly and that it is now possible for customers to will use Uhde Inventa-Fischer’s patented Melt-To-Resin
complete their work in as little as “a day or two”, and to have (MTR) technology; it has also been designed for the inte-
production quantities of masterbatches delivered to their con- gration of a second, identical line and can be retrofitted
verters soon afterwards. The blow-moulding machine is cus- with Uhde Inventa-Fischer’s Flakes-To-Resin (FTR) recy-
tom-fitted with a single-cavity mould to produce a 250-ml oval cling technology. Micro Polypet is a joint venture between
bottle with one flat side, a shape that Clariant has adopted two chemical companies: RLG Group and Action Petro-
throughout its global network. The company claims that this chem Pvt. Ltd.
kind of container is ideal for simulating the look of a wide
range of packaging shapes commonly used in personal care, www.uhde-inventa-fischer.com
beauty and cosmetics, as well as beverage applications. The
company also has extrusion blow-moulding machines avail-
able.
www.clariant.com

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NEWS
Maag supplies screen changer PET

production line in Middle East
Maag has developed tailor-made filtration units in close
co-operation with Uhde Inventa-Fischer for an expansion Krones officially better in 2012
project at a major facility based on the MTR process in
the Middle-East. Completed in 2012 with a total additional Krones has officially reported growth in 2012 and a
capacity of 500,000t/a of PET bottle grade resin, the plants strong start to 2013. Revenue increased by 7.4% over
have been equipped with Maag melt pump equipment. The the previous year and an increased dividend of €0.75/
reactors are now joined by a number of continuous screen share has been proposed to the Board. Consolidated
changers, whose arched filters (patent pending) maximise revenue rose from €2,480 million to €2,664 million; 62%
the filtration surface available. This ensures a very low melt of revenues came from emerging markets, the shares
residence time, especially in high viscosity resin applica- generated in Asia increased again, while Europe’s share
tions, yet they incorporate a compact footprint. Arched filters decreased. New orders were 8.2% higher, at €2721.1 mil-
utilise “one way filters”, that can be disposed of after use. lion, with emerging markets again contributing a signifi-
This eliminates the entire process of cleaning the candle filter cant amount. As at 31 December 2012, orders on hand
bundles. Changeovers now take less than 10min, with only totalled €999.3 million (2011: €942.4 million). The settle-
one operator, without requiring cranes or complex tools, thus ment of the Le Nature’s dispute in the US resulted in a
guaranteeing constant operation of the system from process €37.8 million charge against earnings before taxes (EBT)
to process. The screens can also be made out of Woven Wire for 2012 (2011: €36.7 million). After these charges, EBT
Mesh (WWM) or Fibre Metal Melt (FMM). rose from €74.6 million to €97.9 million, and with a higher
www.maag.com margin in 2012: 5.1%, against 4.5% in 2011. Net income
rose 53.3% to €67.0 million. Earnings per share for 2012
amount to €2.22 (previous year: €1.45). The company’s
drinktec goes to Africa tax rate decreased from 41.5% to 31.5%. Positive free
cash flow of €30.6 million was generated, after capital
Messe München has announced that its third international expenditure (2011: –€7.4 million). Cash and cash equiva-
offshoot, «food & drink technology Africa» (fdt Africa), will make lents were up from €125.5 million in the previous year to
its premiere at the Gallagher Convention Centre March 18-19, €132.9 million, with no bank debt. Figures for Q1 2013
2014 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Messe München described show revenue up 5.4% (€648.6 million to €683.4 million),
this new exhibition as the next phase in the “internationalisa- new orders 3.9% higher (€685.2 million from €659.8 mil-
tion of drinktec”, the trade fair for the beverage and liquid food lion) and EBT at €38.9 million, up 19.7% from Q1 2011’s
industry. The conceptual sponsor is the Food Processing and €32.5 million. EBT margin was 5.7%, in line with the com-
Packaging Machinery Association of the VDMA (German Engi- pany’s aim of 5.5% for 2013 as a whole. Krones’ process
neering Federation). The event is scheduled to take place every technology and Kosme segments posted minimal losses
two years. The first edition will take the form of a congress with in the first quarter of 2013 and are on track to break even
accompanying exhibition, the same format as was used in 2007 in 2013. The Executive Board expects revenue to grow by
for the launch of drink technology India (dti) in Mumbai. Exhibi- 4% in 2013.
tors at fdt Africa in Johannesburg will be presenting beverages
technology as well as food and packaging technology. The event www.krones.com
will be targeted specifically to the needs of South Africa, the
regional market. The conference program will be supplemented
by a series of workshops.
www.fdt-africa.com ■ www.drinktec.com
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NEWS
Erema reports positive 2012/13
Erema, the Austrian recycling machinery manufacturer, has reported
increased sales revenues in the year to the end of March 2013. Consolidated
group sales, including Erema North America Inc. and 3S GmbH in Roitham near
Gmunden were in the region of €117 million, an increase of approximately 10%
over the previous year. The increase has been ascribed by the company to rising
demand for plastic as a secondary raw material and the company’s growth strat-
egy, which included the launch of new products, the opening of its new customer
centre, and the installation of a new ERP (enterprise resource planning) system.
Erema has invested €4.5 million in the expansion of its headquarters building and
plans to present new products at the K 2013 trade fair.
www.erema.at
Constantia
takes Spear
Austrian company Con-
stantia Flexibles Group has
signed a deal to acquire global
label manufacturer Spear
Group. Spear has been a
leading supplier of pressure
sensitive labels to the bever-
age industry since 1982. The
company has sales of approxi-
mately US$ 195 million with
650 employees located at four
facilities in North America, one
site in Europe (Wales/UK), one
site in South Africa and a sales
office in Singapore. It also has
a growing business providing
re-sealable products primar-
ily for the food and snack
markets. Constantia Flexibles
supplies customers across the
world in the food, pet food,
pharmaceutical and beverage
industries with flexible packag-
ing. It employs more than 6500
people in 20 countries. This
acquisition, which is subject
to regulatory approval, is part
of its ongoing international
growth strategy. The compa-
nies agreed not to disclose the
price of the transaction.
www.spearsystem.com
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CCMA to join ISBT
NEWS
The Closure and Container Manufacturers Associa-

tion (CCMA) has announced that it has become part of the
International Society of Beverage (ISBT) Technologists, with
effect from April 2013. A group will be formed with represen-
Kobusch expands rPET with Erema/
tatives from both organizations to facilitate the transition. SML machinery
The move will make CCMA part of a larger organisation and
provide access to greater resources, including technical sup- Kobusch UK, a member of Sun Capital Partners, Inc.,
port. The two organisations have been cooperating for some is expanding its rPET operations with the installation of a
time, in initiatives such as the Threadspecs committee, which new inline sheet facility at its facility in Stanley, near New-
works on finish standards. CCMA member company repre- castle-upon-Tyne, NE England. The new system includes
sentatives will be invited to join ISBT as individual members. a Vacurema Basic 2016T from PET recycling equipment
Key initiatives previously supported by CCMA, including manufacturer Erema, together with downstream equip-
sustainability and recycling, will be integrated into ISBT com- ment supplied by Austrian company SML Maschinen
mittees. GmbH, which specialises in custom-made coex-castfilm-
www.bevtech.org lines, coex-calendering-lines, extrusion-coating-lines and
multifilament-spinning-lines. The new line, which is part
of a £3 million investment by Sun Capital Partners, will
provide Kobusch UK with throughputs of up to 1,400kg/h
at the Stanley plant and enable it to produce 100% food-
contact compliant rPET flat sheet. The company has been
running a Vacurema inline sheet system at its factory in
Livingston, Scotland, since 2007, and the new line will go
KHS partners with Ruhr university in into operation in the first half of 2013.
www.erema.at
“rebas” resource efficiency project
KHS and the Department for Production Systems of the
Ruhr-Universität Bochum have announced the launch of a
new R&D project aimed at cost reduction and sustainability.
The project is supported with state and EU funds within the
Ziel2-Calls “Ressource.NRW” and by the North-Rhine West-
phalia State Agency for Nature, Environment and Consumer
Protection. Phoenix Contact, MPDV Mikrolab, C & A Veltins
brewery, and Warsteiner brewery are also participating in Erratum
“the rebas joint research project”. The project, expected
to run until mid-2015, will begin by carrying out studies of In the article “Performance boost for installed perform
refillable glass bottling and packing lines at the Veltins and systems” about Mold-Masters (PETplanet insider issue
Warsteiner breweries. This is to be followed by identification 4/13, page 24) we inadvertently gave the incorrect name
of smart operating points in the lines along with optimisa- of the company and of the Global Vice President MPET.
tion of resources used during various operational states. The The correct designation is Mold-Masters and the Global
next step will be generation of resource-conserving control Vice President MPET is Richard Sieradzki.
circuits. The final phase will determine ideal system layouts
for new lines, in terms of conservation of resources and
preparing automation requirement specifications for efficient
operation. KHS says that implementation of rebas’ findings
will lead to greater sustainability in its line concepts, including
reduction in energy use and consumption of raw, operating
and process materials, for the same level of output.
www.khs.com
Procap acquire Schoeller Cap Systems

Luxembourg-based Procap, manufacturers of plastic caps and closures, has taken
over Schoeller Cap Systems, a medium-sized company from Schwerin, Germany, which
has a turnover of €12m. In addition to the sales office in Germany, Procap will now also
have its own production workshop trading under the name of Procap Schwerin. As SCS
is located in the north of Germany, this acquisition will also sustain Procap’s ambitions
for growth in Scandinavia and Poland. All the existing 40 employees of SCS are being
taken on by the Procap Group. Procap has its headquarters in Luxembourg with further
branches in France, Ireland, Hungary, Spain and Belgium.
www.procap.com

NEWS
IVL to build second plant in Alabama
Governor Dr. Robert Bentley, Governor of Alabama, recently made the formal
announcement that Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL) is to invest $190 mil-
lion in building a new manufacturing plant alongside to its current site in Decatur, Alabama.
The new facility will be capable of producing approximately 500,000t/a and employ an
additional 100 full-time workers, taking the total number of employees on the site to close
to 650 when complete. Construction is expected to commence during 2013, with comple-
tion anticipated for Q4 2015. IVL has been operating in the USA since 2003 and currently
employs around 1,000 people. The Decatur site also hosts a PET recycling plant.
www.indoramaventures.com
Sidel gets new MD

in Germany Think about it.
Sidel has announced
the appointment of Rüdi-
ger Hilbert as Commercial
and Managing Director for
its German subsidiary. He
joined Sidel after more than
ten years at packaging sys-
tems provider Elopak, where
he held several positions Are your standard PET preform
in engineering and man- molds making you as much
agement, before becoming money as they should?
Global Head of Project Man-
agement. He was responsi-
Innovation doesn’t happen in isolation. It happens
ble for managing Elopak’s
when blue-sky thinking meets down to earth know-
entire Equipment Supply
how and exceptional supply chain execution. The sort
Support department and was of innovation that Mold-Masters is known for, now
heavily involved in the devel- applied to PET tooling for industry-leading results.
opment of two new aseptic Introducing MPET – the new PET preform tooling
filling machines. Sidel says solution designed for the standards of tomorrow.
that the appointment is
intended to help strengthen Ask how MPET with iFlow
its position in the German technology improves production and
market. achieves greater quality results.
www.sidel.com
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MATERIAL / RECYCLING
The PET market in Russia – The PET 2013 Conference in Moscow
Growth of PET capacities

– shortage of raw materials
On February 20, the Ninth International «PET 2013»
Conference took place, organised by the Inventra
company, part of the Creon Group. Major trends for
the Russian PET industry were discussed by industry
experts: the Russian PET industry is becoming less
dependent on imports due to the gradual growth of
domestic capacities. At the same time there are signs
of shortages in the raw materials required for the
production of PET and this opens up new investment
opportunities for the leading Russian oil companies.
In his welcome address, Sandjar

Turgunov, General Director of Creon
Energy, suggested that the key play-
ers of the market share their forecasts
on market development and reveal
their plans for the diversification of
production bearing in mind a possible
ban on PET for packaging of alcoholic
beverages.
PET markets worldwide

David Swift, Managing Director of
PCI PET Packaging and a traditional
participant of the Conference, spoke
about the influence of the global
oversupply crisis on PET business
in Europe and presented data on the
world PET market. In 2012, the high
cost of PET raw materials, especially,
paraxylene, resulted in a slowdown
in the developed economies, which
fostered growth of local producers
in emerging markets. Thus, some
regional markets were now becom-
ing self-sufficient in raw materials.
Asia-Pacific countries were the growth
leaders. Their share in total volume of
world production capacities reached
54.7%. Leading positions are occu-
pied by China: it accounted for 18%
of the world demand in 2012. In his
presentation the speaker also pre-
sented data on the dynamics and the
main components of price spreads
on PET. In particular, he noted that in
November 2012 the margin of PET
manufacturers in Asia and elsewhere
was typically below full cash cost.

Currently, the situation has returned to The Russian PET market lem of component supplies: there is
normal, but remains fragile. a shortage of both terephthalic acid,
Alexander Shkurin, Senior Ana- and MEG.
Joy Mukherjee, Head of Poly- lyst of Kortes Research and Infor-
meric Business at Amgulf Polymers mation Center, continued the over- Russian imports amounted to
& Chemicals, added that PET prices view of the Russian market. In 2012 184,000t. PET preform production
remained low because of market satu- PET production volume amounted accounted for 91.8% of the total
ration, and that is why the producers’ to 4,526,000t, consumption was at volume, while the share of grades for
margins have been decreasing. But 5,661,000t. He underlined the short- polymer fibres was a mere 8.2%. Main
producers in the Middle East countries age of feedstock. The future of newly suppliers are China (41%) and South
have gained a predominant position announced projects (total capacities Korea (32%). The export volume was
because of prime low cost positioning may exceed 1.5 million t/a by 2015) is 70,500t.
and in-house raw materials avail- unclear due to the unresolved prob-
ability, especially of MEG.
In addition, their favourable
geographical location allows
them to cut down logistics
costs. Joy Mukherjee spoke
about Middle East production
capacities, and also high-
lighted the desire of Gulf pro-
ducers to become leaders in
export. In 2013 the total pro-
duction in the Gulf will reach
1.985 million tons. However,
due to the limited size of the
local market, the Middle East
producers are relying on the
volume of exports. Taking into
account the situation in Euro-
pean countries, exporters are
investigating new markets.
Global PET
recycling data
PET recycling issues were
also raised at the Confer-
ence. David Swift noted that
the collection rate for recy-
cling in China is estimated
at 85%, in Japan it is about
50% (8.1 million tons). Almost
22% of the volume collected
is lost during processing. In
contrast, Konstantin Rzaev,
Member of the Board of
Directors of Ekotekhnologiya
Plant, spoke about the recy-
cling industry in Russia where
the average quantity of useful
material from solid municipal
waste amounts to between
5-15%. In Russia there are
about 900 official disposal
sites and fewer than 40 waste
switching stations, therefore
the price for recycled plastics
is higher than in the major-
ity of other countries. In 2012
Russian consumption of recy-
cled PET amounted to about
94,000t, whilst production
was at about 80,000t.
PETplanet insider Vol. 14 13

Statistics reveal that the PET ten times lower than the rate permit- eral Director of Etana Clean Polymers
preform market is approaching ted by Rospotrebnadzor (the Federal Factory, the goal of establishing the
saturation point. However, produc- Consumer Rights Protection Body in agro-industrial park is the develop-
ers are unanimously agreed that the Russia). In response, Khalidya Kha- ment of agriculture and the creation of
Russian market is growing. Alexan- midulina, the Expert of Rospotreb- a raw materials base and textile indus-
der Igoshin, Marketing Specialist nadzor, who had been appointed to try production in Kabardino-Balkar
of Europlast Holding considers that respond to this appeal, spoke in detail Republic with a capacity estimated at
the growth in Moscow and Saint- about the dangers of dibutyl phthalate 580,000t. The structure of the Special
Petersburg is about 4-5%, but that and promised to follow up the matter Economic Zone will include a textile
it is impossible to monitor market thoroughly, taking into consideration cluster, clusters of plastic packing
figures in the regions for a number of the data revealed at the Conference. (including recycling), food processing,
reasons. Vera Zaryanova, Market- power generation, and also infra-
ing Director of the Retal Company, Danil Polyakov, Head of Sales structure projects. In particular, the
by contrast, has seen growth in in Russia & CIS at Buhler AG, spoke technologies of producing regener-
the regions for several years now. In about the strategy of PET producers ated polyester fibres from recycled
2012 Retal noted growth in milk and and the development of technologies PET raw material will be implemented
mineral drinking water consumption. in Russia and the CIS. As part of the within the Plana project. All interested
The share of the beer segment was process of equipment production, manufacturers of packaging and agri-
25-30%, so the controversial ban the following factors are considered: cultural production are welcome to the
on PET-packing in this sector would minimising raw materials consump- new industrial park. The PET plant
lead to a strong oversupply which the tion, reducing capital expenditure and with Renaissance Heavy Industries as
PET-market will have to overcome in operating costs. SSP technology: contractor is already under construc-
about ten years, assuming the aver- detailed features of this technology tion. The production capacity will be
age annual growth rate estimated were presented by the speaker. at 486,000t/a; 30% of production will
by Retal at 3-4%. According to Olga be fibre grades. The Uhde Inventa-
Rykova, Commercial Director of the Many experts at the conference Fischer AG company is the General
Alpla Company, the two largest suppli- noted the lopsided development of the EPC contractor for plant construction
ers in the PET preform market - Retal PET industry in Russia and called for and the supplier of the «liquid» phase
and Europlast - have a market share diversification. Emil Aizenstein, Head of the technological process, while the
of about 50%. Alpla supplies relatively of the Polymer and Textile Department Buhler company is the supplier of the
small volumes of PET-preforms, and at Koltech International, underlined «solid» phase.
expects some growth in 2013. that 70% of PET globally is processed
into fibre and yarns. In 2011 the world The main idea of ChemTerra
Andrey Erin, Corporate Affairs market for textile fibres of all types industrial park, also under construc-
Director at Sun InBev commented on increased by 6% and reached 84.2 tion in the Republic of Bashkorto-
the situation concerning the possible million tons in which the share of poly- stan, is to create new segments
ban on PET packaging for alcoholic ester was 38.7 million tons. Leading in PET applications. The Develop-
beverages. The share of PET packag- positions are held by China (68%) and ment Corporation of the Republic
ing that is consumed at breweries is India (8%). In 2011 the volume of Rus- of Bashkortostan is engaged in the
about 30% of the entire PET packag- sian polyester fibres market grew by organisation and management of this
ing market. In Russia 50% of beer is 18.4% and amounted to 2.114 million industrial park. The park is planned
sold in PET bottles, in Belarus – about tons; of which artificial wool amounted to be launched by the end of 2013.
80%. In Kazakhstan, where plastics to 1,675 million tons, technical yarns Svetlana Kochkayeva, Deputy Gen-
packaging for alcohol beverages is 1,23 million tons, textile yarns was eral Director for Development and
already banned, a novel solution has 3,16 million tons. The launch of new Administrative Support to Business at
been found. Beer and bottles are sold production capacities in Russia is not Sibur-PET, spoke about residents and
in different corners of the shop. Thus, expected before 2016. infrastructure in detail.
in Kazakhstan the share of beer in
PET packaging is no less than 25%. Sergey Nikolaev, Deputy Gen- Fares Kilzie, Head of Creon
The vested interests of glass and eral Director and Project Manager of Group considers that the slow pace
metal bottle and can producers, as Ivregionsintez Cluster Textile Corpora- of the major Russian oil companies
well as vodka producers are possibly tion, said that the Federal Program for in taking investment decisions on
behind the regular attacks on PET Industrial Development and Raising PET opens up a gap in the market for
packaging. Reports of alleged dibutyl Competiveness was complemented independent players, who can act as
phthalate content in PET-packed beer by a draft Project of PET-fibre produc- accelerators. «This is a complicated
are not supported in the scientific tion plant in the Ivanovo Region in task, but it paves the way for creating
data. Besides, Andrey Erin consid- December 2012. workplaces in those regions where
ers that the results of laboratory tests they are desperately needed. Etana is
were obtained in violation of the regu- Another large-scale project is one of such projects», - summarised
lations governing the use of PET in the launch of the Special Economic Mr Kilzie.
packaging. And even in this case, the Zone «Agro-industrial Park PLANA». www.creonenergy.ru
concentration of dibutyl phthalate was According to Sergey Ashinov, Gen-

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Part 5 Michael Maruschke
Waldemar Schmitke
After many weeks full of interesting impressions and interviews, in this issue we now take our leave
of Russia and head for Ukraine. We would like to thank all our interview partners for their construc-
tive support which has helped us better understand the PET market in this vast country and enabled
us to obtain a perspective of where our journey may take us. Our last two interviews were con-
ducted in Rostov-na-Donu. Here we interviewed the water bottler Aqua Don, and finally the Baltika
brewery, before moving on to the Ukraine, where Team 3, consisting of Alexander Büchler and Wal-
demar Schmitke took over the reins of the Editourmobil. The excitement continues.
July 30, 2012 springs. That for its premium brand, “Drop of Living Water”,
is extracted from the deepest spring, about 60m down. We
Aqua Don were invited to a “water testing” to sample the different tastes
We met: of the bottled mineral waters. We discovered that there were
Sergey Zaichenko, General Direktor remarkable differences between the different waters, which
Oleg Bondarenko, Production Manager all come from the same underground springs but from differ-
Marina Dementjewa, Head of Quality Control ent depths. As well as still and carbonated mineral water, the
company also produces so-called “Enhanced Waters”, which
Water is life – but it must be high quality are made up of to 10% other ingredients, such as natural
flavourings, probiotics and selenium (Se). The consumer can
On October 1, 1996, the first 1.5l PET bottle left the easily recognize these enhanced water as the bottles, caps
production line of the newly-formed Aqua Don company. and labels are more colourful than the standard range.
This was the start of its journey to become the leading bot-
tled water supplier in the region, with a total annual output The company purchases preforms from external sup-
of 100 million litres in 15 million bottles. Bottle sizes today pliers and processes them on the its three blow-moulding
include 0.2, 0.33, 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 5.0 and 19l, the 1.5l bottle machines: a SIG Blomax 6 (about 10,800bph); one Sipa
remains the most popular size. Aqua Don employs about 320 machine for the 0.5l bottles (about 7,000bph); and a second
people and its water comes from three different underground Sipa for 5l bottles (1,000bph). The bottles are filled on a

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Procomac HAL PET filling line and labelled on a Sacmi
machine. Stacking and wrapping is fully automated, as is
elevation of the pallets to another floor. Another filling line
is dedicated to 19l (5 gallon) containers.
Big plans: Aqua Don’s new production facility. Sergey Zai-

chenko, General Director (right) and Michael Maruschke
Aqua Don has one of the most modern and highly

automated production facilities in Russia and is ISO 2000
and HASP certified. As quality has the highest priority, its
modern lab can be considered as the “heart” of the com-
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pany. Here, water samples are tested for mineralisation reduced plastic volumes
under 40 different parameters every 60min; water aimed
at the children’s market is tested every 30min. The bottle
samples which the company plans to show at Brau Bevi- Save ENERGY
ale were neatly packed in a carton box, with a printed test less energy consumption
certificate for all of them lying on the top!
During our discussion, General Director Sergey Save TROUBLE

Zaichenko stated that the trend in Russia is towards more quality and higher performance,
still water – an assertion confirmed by other compa-
nies. There are two trends in bottle sizes: the overall
guaranteed by a sole supplier
trend is towards smaller bottles but, on the other hand,
there is now a popular “family format”: the 5l container. Full INSPECTED
Aqua Don has purchased new premises, with three new
springs, just across the street from its current plant. A online quality control / stand alone
new line, dedicated to the production of 5l containers, is
scheduled to start operations next year.
With Sacmi, the beverage specialists are always at your side.
When Sergey Zaichenko was asked if he could imagine With our unbeatable technological know-how and continuous
expansion to other beverages outside water, he hesitated research we are creating new containers and closures
before saying: “Maybe juice, BUT only of highest quality”. designed to ensure outstanding performance. The new IPS
Asked for a final statement for our PETplanet readers, he
injection system for preforms, the CCM compression press for
says “the producers of water shall put more focus on quality”.
caps and the quality control systems fully designed and built
info@akvadon.ru by Sacmi, allows for large-scale production with considerable
July 30, 2012 advantages in terms of efficiency and flexibility. The outcome?
Reduced plastic volumes, less energy consumption and lower
Baltika running costs.All in a bottle: the one you’ll soon be making.
We met:
Dmitry Mitskevich, Public Relation Department Preform & Closure technologically together
Journey through the Russian beer history

The first shipment of beer from the Baltika factory
to the Russian market – just 27,000l – was supplied in
November 1990. The Baltika brand did not actually exist
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at that time: the plant was producing beer under the 4.1 - C41/C49

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widely-known trademarks of that time, such as Zhigulevs- nezh, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Chelyabinsk, Krasnoyarsk,
koye, Rizhskoye, Admiralteiskoye and Prazdnichnoye. Khabarovsk and Novosibirsk. It also operates a brewery in
Times change and Baltika now has a market of 37% of the Azerbaijan. More than 30 brands of beer, including Tuborg,
Russian beer market. Carlsberg, Kronenbourg 1664, and a number of regional
brands, as well non-beer brands are distributed all over
The company can look back on an illustrious history. Russia.
It embarked on the process of privatisation in 1992 and it
was at about that time that the idea to create a proprietary We met Dmitry Mitskevich from the Public Relation
“Baltika” brand emerged. The company began its regional Department in the Baltika-Rostov factory. It employs 650
expansion in 1997 when it purchased a controlling interest people and has an annual capacity of 4.5 million hectoli-
in the Donskoye Pivo factory in Rostov-on-Don, where it tres, bottled in two PET lines, two glass lines, one filling
installed a production line for non-alcoholic beer and equip- cans and another charging 30l kegs. Preforms, which are
ment to produce 1l PET bottles. also distributed to two other Baltika factories, are produced
in-house on Husky machines. Ingredients for the brewing
process are both imported and locally sourced; the malt
comes from Baltika’s own agriculture division in Russia.
According to Dmitry, the most popular size is the 1.5l

PET bottle. This is mainly due to price; for example, a 1.5l
PET is about 10 Roubles cheaper than three 50cl glass
bottles. Asked whether the much lower weight of PET
would be another sales point for the consumer, Dmitry
reiterated that, in his opinion, it is just a matter of price. The
shelf live of beer bottled in PET is between two and nine
months.
We also learned some other interesting facts about

Michael Maruschke in talks with Dmitry Mitskevich, Public beer in Russia. For example, during the Soviet era only
Relation Department (right)
one beer, named “Zhigulevskoye”, was allowed to be
Baltika became part of the Carlsberg Group in April brewed in the 735 breweries nationwide. We were also
2008. The company is not only a market leader in beer but advised that the first Russian brewery was founded in St.
is also the largest FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) Petersburg by Abraham Kron under the name of Alexander
company in Russia. It owns eleven breweries in total, Nevskiy in 1795. It was not, back then, bottled in PET.
which are located in St. Petersburg, Yaroslavl, Tula, Voro-
www.baltika.ru
Ukraine: Saturated
market, weak demand
In early September 2012, the Editourmobil “Go to Brau Beviale” Tour reached the Ukraine, from
where it would head back to Germany via Poland. Our travels coincided with the European Football
Championship which of course was held jointly in Poland and the Ukraine and from which Spain had
just emerged as winners. To prepare for the Euro 2012, both countries had invested heavily in infra-
structure projects. For us, the inestimable advantage of this investment was the luxury of travelling
on decent roads, something seriously lacking in previous visits.
Surprisingly, and very much contrary to expectations, PET usage in the Ukraine will only develop when the eco-
Euro 2012 had little or no effect on the PET market. Since nomic situation improves. Ukrainians’ natural optimism is
the financial crisis struck, per capita consumption has tempered by the realisation that the upturn may be some
stagnated at a low level, and the Euro Championship did time in coming. The revelation for us was to see how the
nothing to stimulate demand. With the benefit of hindsight, major players in the market were coping with the situation, a
as Yuriy Khmara of Retal ruefully acknowledged, it was stark contrast with the explosive growth of just a few years
blindingly obvious. Spectators did indeed consume signifi- ago. Sandorra, a 100% subsidiary of Pepsi, is now run-
cant quantities of drink, mainly beer, but overwhelmingly in ning iced tea on its aseptic line, after the juice market failed
the stadiums themselves out of cups, or later in the restau- to live up to expectations. Slavutich, part of the Carlsberg
rants. Thus, there was no additional business in PET. group, is concentrating on cost savings, in particular the

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transition to the PCO 1881 closure. For Retal, new pastures away as the Ukraine and Russia“. Per capita consump-
are beckoning in the shape of preform and cap production, tion is stagnating.
and the company is also exploring the market for films.
Even Euro 2012 has not improved matters. Sponsors
Carlsberg served the drinks in the stadiums in cardboard
September 4, 2012 beakers and, although consumption of beverages boosted
the statistics, there was no benefit for PET.
Retal
“If the ban on beer in PET comes into force, it would
We met: have a big effect on us because we would not be able
Yuriy Khmara to make up for the beer preform through growth in other
Alexandr Grynko beverages segments“. But Yuriy smiles mischievously and
goes on “then we will have to think about doing something“.
Pastures of plenty
The summer break is
over and our first stop is
Retal, one of our spon-
sors. The Retal Group with
a total of more than 200
SGMs all over Europe is
one of the leading manu-
facturers of preforms.
In Eastern Europe they
have, depending on the
country, a market share
of more than 50%. Here
in the Ukraine, in one of
the nucleii of the former
Uniplast (now the Retal
Group) their share is
around 70%. This 70 %
corresponds to 3.5 bil-
lion preforms. 1 billion are
made in Kiev, 2.5 billion
in Dnipropetrovsk. At the
main location there are 22
Husky preform lines and
ten Husky closure cap
installations. On these,
Corvaglia moulds run for
the beverages industry. For
Russia and the Ukraine
Corvaglia and Retal have
agreed on exclusivity.
“This agreement gives
us a good edge. We can
focus on offering the single
piece PCO 1881 for PC
and CC for the western
markets in Russia. In the
east we can also replace
the BPF with the classic
PCO 1810!” This is what
Yuriy Khmara told us in
the course of the inter-
view. In the caps market
Yuriy still sees potential
for growth, whereas the
preform market has been
stagnating for years. “Here
we notice the Euro crisis
quite clearly and this is
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Ukraine Tour Blog committed to
The summer break is now over and the Editour- your success
mobil is waiting expectantly for us in in the
Ukraine, or more precisely at the Retal plant.
For Team 3, led by Alexander Büchler and Walde-
mar Schmitke, the last leg of the tour, through
the Ukraine and Poland, lies before us. Imme-
diately after slipping into the driving seat,
our first concern is to make sure the Editourmo-
bil’s fresh water tank is topped up. Contrary to
expectations, this turns out well - with engine
cooling water! But no worries, because the water
comes from bottlers Biola. It’s probably the
best water we have ever had in the tank!
Straight after the Retal interview, we head

off to Interpet. At least that was the idea.
Sadly the satnav said no, and a call to Interpet
didn’t help much either, as no-one there spoke
English. We took an executive decision to abort
the interview for the time being and drive over
instead to the Slavutich Brewery. That evening
we sampled the delights of Ukrainian cuisine in
Research
a typical restaurant charmingly situated on an
and Development
island on the river Dnieper.
Developing closure solutions to
meet your specific requirements
The following day, we resumed our mission
Mould Technology
to locate Interpet, and eventually we suc-
A detailed understanding of
ceeded. A further challenge confronted us when
mould design with in-house
we got there, which was to conduct an interview mould making facilities in
entirely by means of gestures and a lot of arm- Hungary and Germany
waving. It remains to be seen whether we have
Global Presence
understood everything when the interview finally
Local production in 21
goes to print. After that, we have our first strategically located factories.
longish stretch of the tour, the 350km or so to An on-going strategy of
the beverage company Sandora in Mykolayiv. Prog- stregthening our global presence
ress is deadly slow, and after 3 hours, having
Capping Technology
covered a mere 100km, we decide to put back the and Know-How
interview to the next day. Once again, the won- Special advice on capping
ders of satellite navigation let us down and we technology with on-going
are forced to fall back on good old paper maps, technical support
and some helpful members of the local constabu-
Innovation and Flexibility
lary. Thanks to this old-fashioned “technol- Our broad range of plastic
ogy”, we find ourselves by evening at the factory closures is the basis for
gates, looking forward to enjoying a peaceful generating new innovation.
night’s sleep. The interview on the following Our expertise covers aseptic,
day with manufacturing director Volodymyr Yeho- hot fill, barrier, anti-counter-
renko is, to our delight and astonishment, vir- feiting TE-systems, consumer
tually “print-ready”. So much information, we convenience and child resistance
hardly need to ask any questions.
by Alexander Büchler

www.bericap.com
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September 5, 2012 September 5, 2012

Inter-PET, Ukraine Slavutich Brewery, Carlsberg
We met: We met:
Alexander Gaponenko, Plant Manager Maxim Bugrov, Head of Packaging Plant
Anastasiia Oguzlimanova, Interpreter
From used PET bottles to PET preforms,
everything under one roof
Inter-PET manufacture PET preforms for use in technical
applications. Amorphous flakes are produced from used PET
bottles, in a subsequent step pellets and finally processing
takes place on a preform injection moulding machine. The
manufacture of the 12mm-sized PET flakes is carried out
in their own factory on a recycling system. For reasons of
safety, we were not allowed to view the installation.
The Editourmobil has brought us safely to the Slavutich Brew-

ery. F.l.t.r.: Anastasiia Oguzlimanova, Maxim Bugrov and Walde-
mar Schmitke
Switching from the standard PCO 28 to the lightweight

PCO 1881 does not require any brand new equipment.
Bugrov Maxim, Head of the Bottling Plant at the Slavutich
Brewery in Zaporishsha, demonstrates that it will even
work with equipment that was not originally designed for it.
Switch cabinet from Erema with Siemens control
The Slavutich Brewery concentrates on beer produc-
tion and packaging using recyclable cans and PET. Forty
In the system PET bottles that have been compressed years ago, production amounted to around 0.7million hl,
into bales are shredded, foreign matter is separated out now, 3.3 million hl are despatched from the plant annually.
and washed. The interim product is amorphous flakes. In The company has a 28% share of the Ukrainian market. If
the next stage, the Vacurema system from Erema pro- we add the production of the other two Carlsberg brewer-
cesses the amorphous flakes into pellets. In a high vacuum ies in the Ukraine, their combined share of the market will
the flakes are decontaminated und condensed to a higher be over 50%. Carlsberg has only had its hands completely
IV level and melted directly in a de-gassing extruder com- on the tiller for the past two years; before this the brewery
plete with vacuum de-gassing. The extruded strands are belonged to the BBH (Balik Brewery Holding), which sold
conveyed to the granulator via a water bath and cut to form all its beer-brewing activities in Eastern Europe to Carls-
pellets. The extruder installation has a capacity of 200kg/h. berg and Heineken.
Mr Gaponenko is particularly proud of the Siemens control For five years now, Maxim Bugrov has been respon-
and the Siemens motors which are a feature of the Erema sible for supervising the filling plants. There are two PETs
system. These had been in operation for eleven years within operation, each with a capacity of 20,000bph, two
out breaking down. In the next stage crystallisation of the glass recyclables each with a capacity of 50,000 b/h and
amorphous pellets takes place with de-dusting on a sepa- one KEG plant. Although the output of the PET plants is
rate system in a 4-hour rhythm. Now crystallised, the pel- nominally less, they package 57% of the volume of beer.
lets are available on an injection moulding machine for the Only 0.5l and 0.33l volumes go into glass whereas, for
standard preliminary drying and processing procedure. The PET, they package all sizes up to 2.5l. Almost everything
material dryer on the injection moulding machine installed comes from KHS, only the stretch blow moulders still come
operates with a proportional valve and is able to take up from SIG (Blomax 14 and Blomax 16). Not that this really
PET raw materials and mix them. Preform production takes counts, since Corpoplast is now part of KHS. The odd
place on a Husky 16-component index machine with a one out, so to speak, in not being KHS, is a shrink packer
preform format. According to Mr Gaponenko, depending from SMI and a labelling machine from Krones. “The SNU
on the customer requirement, up to 100% own manufac- equipment was a left over from an old system; we bought
ture pellets are processed into PET preforms.These are the labelling machine new“, is how Bugrov explains the
intended for use exclusively in the technical packaging non- KHS machines to us. The PET systems date back to
sector, such as for example, engine oil containers. From 2007 and we were amazed to learn that Bugrov himself
the used PET bottle to the PET preform. A string of con- had converted all bottle sizes up to 2l to the lightweight
secutive processes within a well laid-out area. PCO1881 closure in March. A current argument in the
sector against the 1881 is that only new plants are said to
www.interpet.com.ua be able to operate with the necessary precision to process

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the delicate closure and ensure that it will work without In fact, for the Slavutich Brewery, closures are a key
any problems. When we ask about problems during the topic. As a promotion they are putting real coins onto a
conversion, Bugrov gives a guarded response “the plants certain proportion of the closures. This is going very well,
are now working“ – no ifs or buts. Nevertheless, now and although when the stage is reached to affix the coins, there
again he scales back the plants to the PCO 1810. When are more security staff around than machine operators.
he packages the big 2.5l pack he always goes back to the
old format. “We buy preforms and closures from Retal but The plant configuration is made up of three parts, the
they are still unable to supply us with the big preforms“ blow moulding section is in one room, the same applies
says Bugrov. Until they get to that point he always goes for to the wet section and the dry section. The bottles end up
a conversion job. Depending on the other format changes, in the filler block via the rinser but they are not actually
this can take three to eight hours for the entire plant. rinsed. Up to now this has posed no problems. 108 valves
fill the flash pasteurised beer into the PET bottles. The
capper gets on with its capping, it is only the labeller that
consistently seems to generate problems. Now that the
Krones labeller is in position, many of the problems have
been overcome. Almost all brands feature a round plastic
label around the body; only “Baltika“ is the exception. Here
the marketing strategists have devised a 3-section decora-
tion made from paper. A front label, a label at the rear and
– of course – a label on the shoulder. And the new Krones
labeller has its own labelling station specially for this.
In the drying stretch the bottles are assembled on trays

to form multipacks. The shrink film comes from Retal, as do
the preforms and caps.
www.slavutich.ua
At the shrink tunnel Maxim Bugrov demonstrates the use of
the Retal films
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Bottle-to-bottle recycling plants
Preform and single stage machinery
05/2013  Preforms
Preform / Stretch blow moulds
Two-stage SBM machinery
Suppliers of preforms Filling equipment
Resins / Additives
This year’s Market Survey for preform producers features a plethora of
Compressors
suppliers,20 = in total from 11 countries. These include global suppliers
as well as local producers. In each case we have simply indicated the Closure systems
location of the head office excluding any branch offices.
The participants are (in alphabetical order):

Alpla (Austria), AMD (India), Appe (UK), Etalon (Russia), Gulf Packaging
(Saudi Arabia), IntraPac (Canada), Manjushree (India), NovaPET (Spain),
Parle Agro (India), PDG Plastiques (France), Pearl Drinks (India), PET
Verpackungen (Germany), Plastipak (Italy), Pramia (Finland), Resilux
(Belgium), Retal Iberia (Spain), S.B.E.C.M (France), Societé Générale
des Plastiques (France), SundiaPET (India) and Terrachim (Bulgaria).
The companies appear in the order in which their details were received
by the editors.
Although the publishers have made every effort to ensure that the information in this survey is up to date, no claims
are made regarding completeness or accuracy.
Company name IntraPac Canada - O/S West- AMD Industries LTD . Société Générale des Techniques (SGT) Pramia Plastic Oy
bridge PET Containers
Postal address 3838E - 80 Avenue SE 18, Pusa Road, 1st Floor, Karol Bagh, 3 Rue de l’Île Macé Juustotie 25
Calgary, Alberta T2C 2J7, Canada New Delhi - 110005, India 44412 Rezé, France 69300 Toholampi, Finlanddorisf
Telephone number +1 403-248-1513 +91 11 46830202 (30 line ) +33 2 40 05 09 37
Web site address www.westbridge.ca www.amdindustries.com www.sgt-pet.com/ www.pramiaplastic.fi
Contact name Sharon Pokolm N.K. Kumar Martine Le Claire Marko Mäkinen
Function Sales Manager GM Exports Sales Administration Managing Director
Direct telephone number +1 403-207-7720 +91 9871199322 +33 2 40 05 02 88 +358 400 187 826
Fax +1 403-248-1199 +91 11 28753591 +33 2 51 70 01 55
E-mail spokolm@intrapacgroup.com nkkumar@amdindustries.com m.leclaire@sgt-France.com marko.makinen@pramiaplastic.fi
Preforms
Multilayer preforms (Yes/No) No No No No
PEN prefoms (Yes/No) No No No No
Preforms in alternative materi- No No No
als (PP/PLA/PEF) Which?
Preforms incorporating rPET 20 % No Yes, from 0% to 100% 20 - 100%
(rPET content in %)
List of additives available Bio-degradable, UV, oxygen scaven- AA reducer, slip agents, UV stabilisation All colours, UV blockers, AA reducers, O2 scavengers, According to customer requirements
ger, colours CO2 scavengers, reheat additive, white colour for UHT
milk, gliding agents
Preform range 24mm 410 - 20, 23; Water : 23, 22( neck size 30/25 ) 30/25 High neck and low neck:13 - 44g/ 21,2 - 85 g
28mm 100 - 34, 40, 47;g 20.3g (neck size 29/25 ; 29/25: 10,5 - 33g;
28mm 400, 410, 415 - 36, 42, 47, 49; CSD: 25 - 54g (1810 neck size ) ; PCO 1810: 16 - 52g;
28mm 400 - 46g short taper; CSD: 23.7 - 52.7g (1881 neck size ) ; PCO 1881: 21g
33mm 400 - 19, 30, 36, 54; Juices: 25 - 54g (PCO 1810) for warm BPF: 20,5 - 52g
33mm 400 CRC - 46, 56; fill application; 38mm: 14 - 25g
38mm 400 - 66g, 120g; Juices: 27 , 30 and 48g ( Thick neck ) 28/410: 19,5- 54g
29 mm Rical - 36, 41; for hot application CRC63: 445g
32mm Rical - 48; Size: 125ml to 20l
28mm Kerr - 39, 45, 86; Weight: 1 - 450g
33mm Kerr - 83, 90; Neck: more than a dozen types
33mm Kerr - 97g Long Kerr;
38 mmPortola SCIII - 59, 75, 83;
30mm Stelvin - 65, 70;
38mm Alcoa - 87;
28mm PCO 1880 - 19, 24, 34, 36,
42, 47, 55, 76;
28mm PCO 1881 - 19, 24, 34, 46

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MARKETsurvey 05/2013
Company name Plastipak Europe Pearl Drinks Limited Alpla-Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & NovaPET, S.A. Su
Co. KG
Postal address Viale Azari 110, Verbania-Pallanza, 28922 702-Ansal Bhawan, 16-K.G.Marg, Mockenstrasse 34 Zaragoza 50001 - Spain PL
Italy, New Delhi-110001, India 6971 Hard, Austria Office: Paseo Independencia, 21, 3rd floor. Ro
Telephone number +39-3235-18111 +91 11 46470200 +43 5574 6020 + 34 976 216129 +9
Web site address www.plastipak.com www.jaipuria.co.in www.alpla.com www.novapet.es ww
Contact name Marc Jacobs Vijay Walia Hermann Riedlsperger Mr Miguel A. Arto / Mr Antonio Lázaro Sa
Function Vice President Sales & Marketing Europe Marketing Head of Corporate Sales - PET Business Development Dir. / Preforms Sales Manager Di
Direct telephone number +352 35 87 19 202 +91 99811020870 +43 5574 602 515 +34 976 216129 +9
Fax +352 35 87 19 208 +91 1123327747 +43 5574 62017 515 +34 901 021138 +9
E-mail mjacobs@plastipak.eu vijay.walia@ckjpearl.com hermann.riedlsperger@alpla.com marto@samca.com /alazaro@samca.com su
Preforms
Multilayer preforms (Yes/No) No No Yes No No
PEN prefoms (Yes/No) Possible conicle preform/eco base No In project No
Preforms in alternative materi- Possible No Yes No
Preforms incorporating rPET up to 100% for any application 100% Yes 10.0-25.0% No
(rPET content in %)
List of additives available Colours, oxygen scavengers, light barri- Emerald green colour All customary additives Colours, lubricants, nucleants .
ers, AA scavengers
Preform range Up to 500g for water / CSD / food / beer / 20.66g; 3-start Alaska; For softdrinks: from 0.25 to 2.5l.; for water; Ø 29/25 W (short neck) from 330 - 2,000ml/ 10 - 32g Ne
alcohol / edible oil / personal care / home 21.5g; 30/25 neck; various neck versions from 0.25 to 5l; Ø 30/25 W (std neck) from 330 - 2,500ml/ 12.5 - 35g 19
care / industrial / hotfill / cold aseptic / 25.5g; 30/25neck; for edible oil: from 0.5 to 10l; for milk: various Ø 48mm W from 5.000ml to 6.500ml/ 77.0 + 82.0g 25
specialties; 21.4g; 1881 neck PCO; neck versions (2-start, 3-start); Ø PCO 1810 (std neck) 500 -3,000ml/ 18.5g - 54.0g 28
25.5g; 1810 neck PCO; for personal care, home care, lubricants: Any other shape and weight required by customers 28
25.5g hotfill; 1810neck PCO; various neck versions 53
52g: 1810 neck PCO 63
73
83
96
12
55
Company name Resilux NV S.B.E.C.M. PET-Verpackungen GmbH Deutschland Appe Ma

Postal address Damstraat 4, Rue de la plaine Gewerbegebiet 4, 98701 Großbreitenbach Ellice Way, Wrexham technology 60
9230 Wetteren, Belgium 47230 Lavardac, France Germany Park, Wrexham, UK Ll13 7YL Ro
Telephone number +32 9 365 74 74 +33 5 53 97 41 00 +49 3 67 81 / 4 80 - 4 57 +44 1978 317 350 +9
Web site address www.resilux.com www.sbecm.com www.pet-verpackungen.de www.appe.com ww
Contact name Philippe Blonda Jean-Luc Didouan Hubert Rebhan Kinza Sutton Ra
Function Marketing & Sales Director General Manager Projects & Sales Marketing Manager Dir
Direct telephone number +32 9 365 74 76 +33 5 53 97 41 00 +49 3 67 81 / 4 80 - 4 53 +44 1978 317 378 +9
Fax +32 9 365 74 75 +33 5 53 65 85 97 +49 3 67 81 / 4 80 - 4 52
E-mail Philippe.blonda@resilux.com jean-luc.didouan@sbecm.com hubert.rebhan@wiegand-glas.de kinza.sutton@appe.com raj
Preforms
Multilayer preforms (Yes/No) Yes No Yes Yes No
PEN prefoms (Yes/No) Yes Yes Upon request Yes No
Preforms in alternative materi- Yes Possible Upon request Yes No
Preforms incorporating rPET up to 25% - 30%; according to Upon request Yes. Proportion according to Ye
(rPET content in %) customer request. customer requirement
List of additives available UV-blockers, colours, multiple barrier additives AA scavengers, blockers, Colours, oxygen scavengers, UV-blockers, Colourants, UV blocker, O2 and CO2 Co
coloring agents (liquid or master- slip-agents, AA-scavengers, brighteners, PA- barriers, O2 scavengers, moisture ad
batch), O2 absorbers, additives, based barriers barriers oxy
blends, etc..
Preform range Standard monolayer preforms: Neck finish 30/25 high and low, Standard preforms 28mm PCO1810 and Preforms for beverage, alcohol, 1.
Weights: 9 - 124g; neck finishes: PCO 1810, PCO 1881, PCO 8- 29/25, PCO 28 (1818, 1881), PCO1881 finish from 14.5g (e.g. for 0.25l bot- food, dairy, home and personal care PC
sided, BPF, 38mm 3 & 2 thread, detergents, oil, crown cork, ketchup, BPF, 38mm, 48/41, BVS. tles) up to 54g (e.g. for 2.0l bottles); applications; PC
29-25 short, 30/25 low, 30/25 high, 48-40 Bericap, wine Study for special neck finish; 28mm PCO1810 and PCO1881 finish with standard and non-standard preforms Ala
Barrier preforms (Monolayer & Multilayer): Preform weight : 15 - 91g; octagonal neckring possible (esp. for German sizes and weights; 30/
• ResiOx 3-6-9;: protects products against oxygen ingress for any application and size: market); various necks and finishes, including
• ResiC for carbonated products; water, soft-drinks, oil, wine, dairy 38mm 2-Start and 3-Start Bericap preforms for wide-mouth;
• Resimid & Resimax; protects beer which is very sensitive to light, products, home care, etc... wide mouth applications. Hot-fill for filling up to 95°C; light-
oxygen and carbon dioxide loss; 60g, 92g and 98g preforms with Bericap 48-41 weighting
• Resiblock 0-2-4; for milk and other products that are light sensitive customized preforms up to 400g.;
Hot fill: For filling at 85°C ; Majority of preforms available as multilayer with
Refill: Wide range of bottles available tailor-made barrier properties.

MARKET SURVEY
Sundiapet Retal Iberia Slu OOO "Etalonplastservis"
PLOT No.1 & 2 Khokhani Industrial Complex No.2, Vasai Kaman Polígono Industrial Gaserans. Ctra. C-35 Km. 66,147 Sector 2 630526 Russia, Novosibirsk region,
Road, Sativali, Opp.Saibaba Temple, Vasai,(East) 401208, India Parcela 5, 17451 Sant Feliu de Buixalleu (Girona), Spain Novosibirsk district, Proezd Avtomobilistov - 12
+91-250-3208849, +91 9320724217, +91 9028012342 +34972865730 73833347155
www.sundiapet.com www.retaliberia.com www.etalon-group.ru
Sanjay Kothari Pedro Plademunt Mateu Ermolaev Oleg
ger Director General Manager Director
+91 9820036748 +34 972865732 +73.832.105.690
+91 22 23687771 +34 972865731 +73.832.105.691
sundiapet@gmail.com pere.plademunt@retaliberia.com oleg@etalon-group.ru
No No No
No No No
No No Polishield
No Yes, 25% No
. Colourants (upon client's request) Liquid colourants and MXD 6
g Neck size / weight: Neck: weight (g); 29/21 Preform (mm); Content (l) Bericap-38 :18 - 27g;
g 19mm / 7 -13 g; oil: 22 -27g; 29/25: 10,0 100,6; 1; PCO Short 1881: 20,7 - 45,7g;
25mm / 9.8 - 19g; - 29,5; 30/25: 11,5 - 39; 66 - 115,1; 0,33 - 2; PCO : 20,5 - 52g;
g 28mm PCO / 11.2 - 53g; 48/40: 79 - 100; 69,84 - 142; 0,33 - 2; BPF 22 - 51,5g;
28mm Alaska / 10.6 - 36g; BPF: 26 -51,5; 142 - 158; 5 - 8.; Bericap-48: 89g
53mm/ 9g -18g Obrist: 23; 99 /148; 0,5 - 2;
63mm / 18 - 30g PCO 1810: 20,5 -51; 95,2; 0,5;
73mm /30 - 36g; PCO 1881: 23,7 - 45,7; 97,77 - 148; 0,5 - 2;
83mm / 30 - 50g; Bericap 38: 64,0 93,7 - 144; 141 0,33 - 2; 5
96mm/ 64 - 70g
120mm /106 - 515g;
55mm / 20l, 700g, 485g
Manjushree Technopack Limited Gulf Packaging System Co PDG Plastiques Terrachim 97 AD Parle Agro Pvt. Ltd
60E, Bommasandra Indl. Area, Hosur Post Box 20266, Jeddah 21455 ZI secteur 2, 6 Kupenite str., Sofia 1618, off Western Express Highway, Sahar Chakala Road,
Road, Bangalore 560 099., INDIA Industrial City, phase 5, Saudi Arabia 45330 Malesherbes, France Bulgaria Parsiwada, Andheri East Mumbai India 400099
+91 80 43436200 +966 2 636 00 99 +33 2 38 34 61 95 +359 2 955 63 22 91 22 67348421, 91 22 67348241
www.manjushreeindia.com www.gulf-pack.com www.pdg-plastiques.com www.terrachim.com www.parleagro.com
Rajat Kedia Mr. Bader Abdullah Francois Desfretier Michail Kostov Shailesh Singhal
Director General Manager General Manager General Manager GM (Sales & Marketing)
+91 80 43436299 +966 2 6360099 ext 101 +33 2 38 34 61 95 +359 2 955 63 22 +91 22 67348241
+966 2 6082170 +33 2 38 34 63 82 +359 2 955 63 25 +91 22 66935050
rajat.kedia@manjushreeindia.com badr.abdullah@gulf-pack.com francois.desfretier@pdg-plastiques.com terrachim@terrachim.com shailesh.singhal@parleagro.com
No No Yes No No
No No Yes No No
No PP, PE, BioPET No
Yes -up to 25% No Yes, from 10% to 100%
2 Colourants, UV blockers, anti-yellow Nylon Prelactia 100% light barrier for UHT sterilized milk long Amosorb
additive, quick-reheat additive, shelf-life,
oxygen scavenger, Amosorb Oxygen, UV, CO2 barriers;
1. PCO 1810: 14.6 -48.0g ; 10.4g - 200g 29/25 shorty : 8 - 28g; PCO: 10 - 52g 28mm PCO1810: 13.5 - 48g
e PCO 1881: 16.0 - 52.7g ; 30/25 high: 17,5 - 39g; 29/21: 22 -25.6g ML 27 2-start short neck: 10.2 to 42g
PCO 1810 Hotfill: 18.5 - 47.0g ; 30/25 low: 7,5 - 39g; 30/25: 14.5 - 32g CTC preforms
s Alaska (28mm 3-start): 10.6 - 35.6g ; 38mm 3 start: 26 - 50g; Crown cork: 27.4g 83 mm wide mouth preforms
30/25 neck: 22.0g 38mm 3 start: 24/28g Prelactia 38mm: 21 - 130g
g 48/40: 55 - 62g;
27/32: 6,5g dairy and smoothies;
25/20: 6,5 - 8g dairy;
Ø28 BPF: 42 - 60g;
29/23: 24 - 33g chemical;
BVS 30H60: 50g wine (high oxygen barrier); ultra-light-
weighting 2,4g preform; standard and specific preforms for
mineral water, dairy, juice, CSD etc; overmoulding technology
for 2-layer preforms; Preblow technology for lightweigthing
bottles; coloured preforms.

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BOTTLE MAKING
Preform oven without optimisation Preform oven with heat shields and ceramic reflectors
Energy saving potential with stretch blow moulding machines Part 2/2
Reduced electricity
consumption of the preform oven
*by Gerrit-Mathias Spalteholz, Sales Manager, Technoplan Engineering SA
The relentless rise in energy costs over the years makes it essential for every company to seek
out opportunities to reduce its consumption wherever possible. One example of a major con-
sumer of energy is the stretch blow moulding machine. In issue 1+2/13 of PETplanet insider, we
discussed the possibility of economising on the high compressed air of the blower. In this article
we look at the possibility of reducing the power consumption of the preform oven.
Technoplan Engineering SA offers Further advantages of the system
the optimisation facility TOEO (Techno- are that the cost of maintenance Technoplan Engineering SA
plan Oven Energy Optimisation) which does not increase and the lifetime of Technoplan Engineering SA has
saves at least 25% of the electricity the lamps is extended. Technoplan been in existence since 1989 and
consumption used to heat the preform. Engineering SA measures the electric- has been operating in the energy
Practical experience shows that sav- ity consumption before and after the saving sector since 1998 with
ings can reach up to 35%. installation to prove the efficiency of the special reference to stretch blow
system. moulding machines. The com-
How has this result been achieved? Example of a machine with pany’s employees have already
High performance ceramic reflec- 20 cavities: equipped 1,000 machines with
tors with a special treated surface are  Electricity consumption: ARS, ARS+ and TOEO. The Devel-
installed. These reflectors optimise without TOEO: 158kW opment Department is constantly
the infrared short waves allowing the with TOEO: 108kW searching for and identifying pos-
centre of the preform to be heated up  Energy savings: 50kW sible ways of reducing the energy
more efficiently. Therefore the intensity  Worktime per year 6,000h consumption of the machines. In
of the lamps is reduced and as a result  Electricity costs for 1kW: €0,12 addition to compressed air saving
the energy consumption of the oven is  Savings per year €36,000 systems, Technoplan Engineer-
reduced. ing SA also offers self-developed
In this real-life example, the sav- products, spare parts and an
According to Gerrit-Mathias Spalte- ings amounts to 32%. This optimisation independent consultancy service
holz, Sales Manager at Technoplan, this can be installed in any preform oven. with comprehensive coverage of
not only delivers a cost saving in energy There is only one task remaining: the topic of energy consumption of
consumption, but also provides a bigger to monitor the systems. The energy stretch blow moulding machines.
process window which makes the consumption of the blower (see PET-
profiling easier. In addition the company planet insider issue 1+2/13) and the www.technoplan.info
integrates specially designed metal preform oven can be checked either
heat shields to obtain a better insula- at the machine itself or remotely from
tion. More importantly, the heat shields an office. Should energy consumption
optimise the ventilation and achieve the increase, the information is immedi-
right balance of air flow in the preform ately displayed and the appropriate
oven. action can be taken.

BOTTLE MAKING
Triangular PET water bottle

for SEAB, designed by Sidel
Noblesse oblige
Working with the Société des Eaux d’Aix-les-Bains (SEAB) ager at SEAB. “Turnover dropped by
in France, Sidel designed and produced a new triangu- 15% and it is at this point that we had
the idea of developing our own water
lar bottle in PET for SEAB’s still water product for the pre- source. We obtained approval in July
mium catering sector. The bottle is without a conventional 2009 and we distributed the first bot-
label: the product statutory information is engraved by laser, tles in September of that year.” Since
then, bottled spring water has been
directly into the surface of the bottle. The whole develop- distributed under the name “Source
ment was managed in nine months. des Fées” (“The Fairies’ Spring ”).
“The source of the spring water is
A market traditionally mune in the Savoy department in the 15m deep. However, the natural min-
dominated by glass Rhône-Alpes region, SEAB collects eral water is taken from the ground at
water drawn from the natural environ- a depth of 520m,” explained Mr Ger-
In France, 12% of all mineral ment of two springs, deep in the rocks maneau. The natural mineral water,
water is sold through hospitality out- of Aix-les-Bains, at the foot of the Alps which is distributed under the name
lets (cafes, restaurants and hotels): in south-eastern France, where pre- “Aix-les-Bains”, is available along with
47% of which is still water and 53% mium spring and natural mineral water the spring water in the supermarket
sparkling water. Also, 9% of custom- are produced. The balanced waters chains of SEAB’s parent company Les
ers eating in French restaurants drink contain weakly mineralised versions Mousquetaires (The Musketeers) a
water - with two out of every three of essential calcium and magnesium - French retail group.
orders for drinks including a request and no nitrates.
for water. In response to these Design challenges
requests, water is traditionally served The mineral water was used for
either in a glass bottle or a glass the first time as early as 1848. It The design brief for the new, 75cl
carafe. When SEAB decided it wanted gained official recognition as a natural bottle in PET was that it should be
to gain a share of this significant mineral water in 1906 and industrial triangular in shape to differentiate it
market within the French hospitality production eventually started only in from other established brands and
sector, the company again turned to 1986 when the Société des Eaux d’Aix simple in appearance to convey the
Sidel. Its plan was to supply its pre- les Bains was officially founded, fol- concepts of quality and purity. Also
mium water in a uniquely stylish PET lowing an agreement with the mayor included in the brief was the require-
bottle, designed to rival the aesthetics of the town of Aix-les-Bains, which ment for minimalist aesthetics to be
of the glass water bottles and carafes owns the rights to the water. The applied to the new bottle, designed
normally used, to hold 75cl of water. source of the spring water was further entirely by the Sidel team, particularly
developed in 2009. “During the heat in light of the need to overcome the
Alpine water sources wave in 2003, consumers naturally custom within restaurants and hotels
turned towards cheaper water,” said of using only glass containers. Indeed,
Located in Gresy-sur-Aix, a com- Philippe Germaneau, General Man- in Hotel Schools it is common practice

BOTTLE MAKING
SEAB’s triangular PET water bottle... ...is designed by Sidel and produced and filled on a converted line at SEAB, France
to educate students as to the benefit machine. Discussions began between new 75cl triangular format for the pre-
of perceived quality, by serving only the two parties, with Sidel entrusted mium catering sector.
glass bottles at the table. Even many with the management of the entire pro-
hotel and restaurant professionals only ject, including the design and creation Despite being part of the hyper-
realize the SEAB bottle is made from of the new packaging for the premium market sector of Les Mousquetaires,
PET when handling it for the first time. still mineral water and conversion of the new SEAB water will not be sold
With its individual shape and its exclu- the existing line. Sidel converted the in supermarkets. Instead, in order to
sive appearance showing only the whole existing production line without retain its perceived exclusivity, it will be
engraved logo of Aix-les-Bains and the having to modify any of the installed supplied only to hotels and restaurants
legally required data, the bottle fulfilled equipment, adapting certain customer- - initially in establishments such as
all requirements. specific parts to accommodate the new Poivre Rouge, the French network of
shapes and sizes instead. Three main hotels and coffee bars. The new size,
The triangular shape was not elements of the line were converted: shape and design of the PET bottle are
the easiest to produce, although the The Combi machine (personalisa- the first step towards an increase in
proportion of the height of the bottle tion of parts), the accumulation table output from Aix-les-Bains.
to the area of the base turned out to (because the customer had invested
be the main technical challenge of in a new labeler) and the end-of-line In future, SEAB, which generates
the whole project. “The bottom of the programming (semi-automatic). a turnover of 11 million Euros, intends
bottle is extremely small compared to to expand its activities, concentrating
its body. So we needed to stabilise the The line is able to blow-mould on the catering sector and focusing on
bottle on this confined area,” explained the bottles, fill and cap them in an overseas business in Asia and South
Sébastien Sergues, Packaging & Tool- integrated system that now handles America. On the production facility,
ing Sales Manager at Sidel. The PET two distinctly different products: the around 25,000bph can be filled and the
bottle has a screw cap, the new design previous commercial mineral water in company is well prepared to meet the
is reclosable and break-proof. The 50cl,1l,1.5l and 2l sizes as well as the demand.
design of the new bottle was already
nominated for its distinctive packaging
at the Sial Innovation Awards in Paris. SEAB- Part of “Les Mousquetaires”
Promotional activity and consumer
advertising began in January 2013. SEAB: produces premium spring and natural mineral water. The com-
pany also provides the cosmetics industry with the waters in spray bottles
Line conversion and atomisers as skin care products. The overall volume of sales currently
amounts to 50 million bpa. The company generates a turnover of 11 million
For production and filling of the Euros/a. SEAB is part of parent company Les Mousquetaires (The Musket-
new bottle, SEAB had the choice of eers). This is a group of French retail companies and supermarket chains
installing a completely new, high-output including Intermarché, Ecomarché, Poivre Rouge, Netto, Bricomarché, Brico
line or modifying its existing bottling Cash, and Roady, which constitute the hypermarket sector. The Pole Indus-
line. After careful consideration of the triel du Groupement des Mousquetaires, a key player in the French agrifood
financial implications, the company industry, is the industrial division. Founded on the basis of a private initiative
determined to produce the new bottle in 1969, the group today accounts for more than 3,000 independent entre-
in relatively low numbers at first, on the preneurs and a total of 130,000 employees. It comprises more than 3,500
existing equipment. The line, already points of sale throughout Europe including Portugal, Belgium, Poland and the
capable of filling up to 25,000 1l or 1.5l Balkans as well, of course, as France.
bph, was equipped with a Sidel Combi www.sidel.com

BOTTLING / FILLING
Sacmi Open Day, Imola, Italy on March 13, 2013
Meet the specialist

Sacmi – Complete solutions for the beverage industries: From pellet to pallet
By Wolfgang von Schroeter
Sacmi’s product innovations pre-

sented at the Open day event:
(F.l.t.r) Container labelled by
Formsleeve, S.U.P.E.R. preform and
closure, pharmaceutical container by
CBF, dairy conatiner by CBF
was scheduled for presentation and it attracting the attention of the markets
On the Sacmi Open Day is hard to think of anything further that to itself, but also and in particular with
Event in Imola, Italy, the could be added to this portfolio. Up to innovative products – as will become
company presented itself 2000 the Sacmi CMMs (Compression clear at the Open Day. ”The trend is
as a complete solution Moulding Machines for the manufac- away from individual machines to the
ture of caps and closures) were not supply of complete lines – machine
supplier for the beverage only highly successful but they were makers today must cover the range
industy, from the pellet to the only products for the beverages - such as blowing/filling/capping/label-
the pallet. Sacmi reinforced industry. Today the product portfolio ling, all fully integrated and emanat-
extends from the preparation of the ing from a single source - as indeed
this view with the compre- beverage to container production, and already happens today. We are partic-
hensive range of machinery from filling to closing and labelling all ularly proud of having developed over
on display at the Open Day the way to final packaging operations. the past few years a new technology
– one exhibit each for the embracing the compression moulding,
“Everything is linked in our mar- filling and capping of containers in one
Formsleeve+, IPS, CCM, kets. All equipment under one roof integrated unit all under one roof.”
SBF as well as CBF. supplied, serviced and guaranteed by
a single supplier. Sacmi has become Some 200 people travelled to
The invitation was addressed such a supplier.“ Vezio Bernardi, Gen- Imola, a small industrial town in
to a global clientele and there was eral Manager Beverage, explained Emilia Romagna. (Its most celebrated
definitely no doubt about the tone of the whys and the wherefores as well residents were Enzo & Dino Ferrari,
resolve and determination of Sacmi as the corporate strategy employed who built their famous Formula 1
that emanated from it: It was early by Sacmi in relation to compression race track here in Imola and whose
on at the start of the 2013 season moulding, injection moulding, blow presence is almost everywhere in the
– the year of the strategically signifi- moulding, filling, labelling and, finally, town.) And they came from all over
cant drinktec and K Fairs – that the packaging and how all this is going on the PET world, including the USA
portfolio of machines and “turn key“ in a hive of activity. And it is not only (Pepsi), China (Cofco), from Russia
systems for the beverages industries with its new machines that Sacmi is (Europlast), France (Danone) and

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Portugal (Logoplaste), from Venezuela (Pepsi),
Germany (Optipack) and – of course – in large
numbers from Sacmi’s home market of Italy
(San Benedetto, Guizza, etc.)
During the opening ceremony in the audito-

rium, Sacmi’s specialists explained the theory
and the intention behind the new products,
invariably with the emphasis on novelty, inno-
vation and application. After the presentation
came the tour of the factory where the products
are manufactured and, on this Open Day, were
also being demonstrated. Visitors were able to
obtain a broad-based insight into the mysteries
of product and production.
Some 200 people attended the Sacmi Open Day event
Essential highlights
Presentation of Sacmi – overview in brief

Vezio Bernardi – General Manager Beverage
The Italian economy remains mired in reces-

sion and financial pressures are causing firms
widespread difficulties. Despite this Sacmi`s
consolidated revenue rose in 2011 by a spec-
tacular 27% to €1,302 million, fell back slightly
in 2012 and is expected in 2013 to continue
at the record level of previous years. Operat-
ing results are positive in total. Approx. 10% of
revenue is generated from the Italian domes-
tic market, 90% from exports. Major export
markets are Asia (in particular China), Africa
(emerging markets), South America (in particu-
lar Brazil). The company has 4,000 employees
worldwide.
Revenues of Beverage & Packaging in 2012

totalled €328,8 million, also with a positive oper-
ating result. Growth was generated by selected
acquisitions, but also by intense efforts in the
R&D departments (approx. 7% of revenue in
2012), both of which will be consolidated in
the coming year. This is a major objective of
group management. To quote Vezio Bernardi:
”Maintaining the progress already achieved
whilst improving all products will be a continu-
ous challenge in the years to come, in particular
optimising individual machines: systematically,
efficiently and without fuss.”
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Vezio Bernardi, General Manager Beverage, Sacmi
Vezio Bernardi was nevertheless especially

keen to present the new IPS 220 – injection mould-
ing machine, 220t clamping, 48 cavities – and a
new PET processing CBF – compression blow
forming for plastics containers (wide mouth for
instance and/or for high internal pressures).
Formsleeve+
Andrea Farina – Technical Product Manager
Approx. 1,200 Sacmi labelling machines are

currently in operation in the market. The latest
technological jewel of Sacmi labelling – a project
started in 2006 - is the Formsleeve+, a modular
labelling machine that allows the application of a
tubular sleeve created on the machine from roll
fed stock. The sleeve is sealed with a laser source
or alternatively bonded before being applied to
the container and conveyed to a tunnel, where
the shrinking process is completed. “Productivity
up to 50,000cph – accuracy 1% container rejects
– efficiency minimum available time 95%”, claims
Andrea Farina. The new process is adaptable to
different film types – such as PET-G, OPS, PO,
PVC, PLA. The laser process avoids the occur-
rences of toxic gases like ozone, dioxin and chlo-
rine, which are known to contaminate the product.
Both versions of Formsleeve+ were presented, with
lasered and also with liquid bonded sleeves.
In his presentation, Andrea Farina focused

firmly on commercial exploitation: “20% cost saving
can be achieved compared to traditional sleeve
technologies for a number of reasons, for exam-
ple, reduced label cost, roll count optimisation, no
seaming, higher labelling speed and weld seam
applied during the labelling process.“
CCM – Continuous Compression Moulding for

plastic closures
Massimo Gani – Sales Manager Closures
There is a long-standing controversy raging

between those who prefer compression moulding
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machines for the manufacture of caps and closures and those
who work with injection moulding machines. Both processes
have undergone extensive development; they are extremely
productive and have proved their worth. Massimo Gani,
who left us in no doubt about his own personal preferences,
expressed himself diplomatically when he said: ”It is vital to
understand the customer, understand what he needs in terms
of the product, in terms of the markets he serves, and above
all, consider the environmental implications. If there is any
doubt, do some pilot testing before supply.”
By contrast, the facts and figures provided by the Sacmi

Marketing Department provide an incontrovertible response: September 15th-17th, 2013
 450bn caps in plastic are manufactured each year.
 60% of 450bn caps use the compression moulding process. Munich, Germany,
 40% of 450bn caps are produced on Sacmi compression
moulding machines.
in parallel to Drinktec
Sacmi is the world market leader in the compression

moulding of caps and closures, and has been for very many
years.The company cannot and will not rest on its laurels even
as the market leader. To maintain and extend its market posi-
tion, innovation and development of new technologies is a vital
factor. All of which explains developments such as Cool+ and
S.U.P.E.R. as described below:
Cool+
Here the essential feature is that the cooling system is

located inside the mould. Cooling whilst the caps are being
compression moulded is the most vital element for speed and
capacity.
connecting comPETence
An ideal candidate for Cool+:
 28 mm caps without liner, with plug seal,
 weight range between 1.8g to 3.5g, Lead Sponsor
 typical cycle time with standard compression mould = 3.5s
/ cycle time with Cool+ = 1.8 to 2.1s.
Increase in productivity with Cool+ compared to standard Sponsor

compression can be up to 60%. Cool+ has passed internal
validation trials and field testing and has now been released
on the market.
S.U.P.E.R.
One of Sacmi’s key strengths is the lab, which is continu-

ously developing new packaging solutions (caps, preforms
and bottles). The latest one named S.U.P.E.R. continues this
innovative trend. S.U.P.E.R. (Sustainable.Unique.Produc-
tive.Easy.Reliable) is a new combination neck finish & cap to PETnology/tecPET GmbH
minimise personalisation costs, to reduce weight and improve P.O. Box 120 429
safety. It features an optimised geometry of preform neck D-93026 Regensburg, Germany
finish combined with light weighted caps. Superior perfor- Phone: +49 941 8702374
mance was targeted, but also commercial advantage: Light conference2013@petnology.com
weighting of both neck and cap was the objective – in particu- Sensorsysteme GmbH
lar for carbonated water.
In this solution, the band flaps are engaged into special

ribs on the locking ring. There are two important angles that
More information
influence the opening performance:
PETnology Europe 2013:
L angle (Leakage)
B angle (Breakage)

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 max. shot weight 2,880g CBF – Compression Blow Forming

 48 cavities technology
 12g preform weight for still water Luca Nanetti – Sales and Marketing
 7.5s cycle time Manager Container B.U.
 Energy consumption:
0.28kW/kg for the 12g preform The Sacmi CBF – compression
0.22kW/kg for the 25g preform blow forming - machine is based on
a unique and completely innovative
The cost effectiveness of the IPS technology, from granulated resin
220 was the basic requirement on the straight to the final container. The
part of the customer and this was met plastic material is extruded, and then
by adopting the electrical drive for cut into predetermined doses, placed
plastification but also with the recov- into an open mould and compressed
ery of electrical energy through the to obtain the final container shape.
braking actions of the robot. A further (The process is similar to Sacmi’s
Moraldo Masi, Business Manager PET new feature presented by the IPS 220 continuous compression moulding of
Division, Sacmi (left) and Wolfgang von
Schroeter lies in the possibility of a rapid mould caps and closures.)
change – something which will be of
Both angles are measured during interest for converters who are faced On the occasion of the Open Day,
the opening of the cap. The L angle with the need to frequently change the CBF machine was shown in pro-
is measured starting from the closed format and therefore moulds. A maxi- duction using Polyethylene granulate,
cap until leakage/until the point where mum of two hours is prescribed and producing small blue coloured con-
the cap starts to leak. The B angle this is achieved through designing the tainers intended for the pharmaceuti-
is measured starting from the closed moving platen correspondingly as well cal industry and white coloured bottles
cap until the bands break. In the as through the design of the inte- for dairy products.
S.U.P.E.R. solution, their difference grated terminals for compressed air
L – B (Leakage angle minus Break- and cooling water. PET represents the next step in
age angle) is > 0. This means that the terms of development: a resin suitable
bands break before leakage. Around ten systems have been for use in food containers, pharma-
supplied since the middle of 2012 – in ceutical, cosmetic and dairy as well.
S.U.P.E.R. is applicable in many particular to developing countries in The commercial success of the CBF
different applications. One of them Africa and Asia. The new IPS 400, – process - up to the present moment
has been presented at this event and as planned and projected - stands for – has been in dairy and pharmaceu-
features the situation where bottlers 96 cavities. tical applications.
are running still and carbonated water
on the same line: The new 26mm
S.U.P.E.R. is suitable for sparkling SBF – Stretch Blow Moulding End-of-line and bag-box
water up to 3vol of CO2. The neck has technology automation
the same weight and basic dimensions Moraldo Masi – Business Manager Giuliano Puglia – General Manager
as the 26mm CETIE. With minimal PET division Sacmi Packaging
changes in the bottling line it is pos-
sible to run two different products and The Sacmi SBF range of rotary End-of-the line machinery such
maintain the weight and cost savings. stretch blow moulding machines as packaging machines and handling
feature seven machines with six to systems complete Sacmi’s product
18 blow moulding stations, producing portfolio. Particularly noteworthy are
IPS – PET preforms by injection between 10,000bph and 48,000bph. conveyor systems in between the
Moraldo Masi – Business Manager machinery and automatic laser guided
PET Division The distinguishing characteristic of vehicles – so called LGVs – to trans-
Sacmi SBF machines is the possibility port the loaded pallet from the produc-
Sacmi’s Preform Machine IPS 220 of installing on each machine a mould tion/filling line to the storage or empty
– the injection moulding machine, hot with one cavity for a large bottle (up pallet from storage to line.
runner, mould and automation, all of to 3l) or with dual cavitation for small
Sacmi design and manufacture – was bottles (up to 600ml). Thus it is pos- General Manager Beverage Vezio
launched on the market a year ago. sible to process max. 2,700 small Bernardi concluded: “With this exten-
PETplanet Insider carried a detailed bottles/h/mould. Stretching is servo- sive product portfolio, we are in a
report on this in Issue 03/2012. The pro- controlled allowing variable speeds. strong position to master all technolo-
totype went to Messrs. Gardaplast, an gies and supply every piece of equip-
important Italian converter and proved The equipment has been designed ment - from pellet to pallet. Sacmi
itself in continuous operation there. to be integrated with Sacmi fillers and looks forward with confidence to the
blocked in Sacmi Combo as assem- 2013 season.”
Key technical data: bled in the Parma facility. On the
2,200kN clamping force Open Day the SBM with 14 stations www.sacmi.it
max. PET plasticising capacity and dual cavity mould was demon-
625kg/h strated.

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PET Power flips its lid
PETproducts
Bottling of still water
under ultraclean conditions
KHS has launched a new mini hygiene housing for the
ultraclean filling of water in PET bottles. The base of the mini
hygiene housing is closed. The filling area is completely sealed
and thus protected from any outside influences. The system
takes up 30% less space compared to standard systems. The
mini hygiene housing is designed for equipment where the
stretch blow moulder is monoblocked with a filling machine.
If required, it can also be used where bottles are fed in by an
air conveyor. When using the mini hygiene housing sterile air PET Power is expanding its standard range of closures
is permanently applied to the transfer stars leading to the filler to include a flip-top closure for its 82mm PET jars. This
section. Here, HEPA (high-efficiency particulate air) filters are special closure, whose dispensing hole is covered with
integrated into the system to provide a constant supply of ster- a lid, can be supplied with or without an Induction Heat
ile air. In the filler and capper area the flow of sterile air, which Seal (IHS liner), which provides tamper-evident protection.
is kept at a slight overpressure, is conducted parallel to the Tamper Evidence can also be created by a sleeve over the
bottle flow up to the point where the bottles leave the system. entire pack. The 82mm neck finish is generally used for
Pressure control and pressure monitoring equipment can be 500 ml and larger jars. The flip-top lid, in combination with
included as options. The air in the system is removed through the IHS liner, makes the jar suitable for a range of foods,
openings in the upper and lower area of the machine. After the including herbs and other powdered products. The closure
capping process the sterile air can be optionally extracted and is supplied in a range of standard colours, but any colour
discharged. The setup includes an Innofill NV filling system variant can be supplied, subject to minimum order quantity.
which processes various sizes of bottle holding from 0.1 to 3l Samples of the cap (with or without a matching jar) can be
at rates of between 15,000 to 72,000bph. Systems for different requested by email from PET Power.
types of bottle necks are available. The Innofill NV non-contact
filling process features a free-flow filling valve. The closure www.petpower.eu
system is an Innofill SV-ACF, a computer-controlled screw
capper. Capping movements are separated into rotational and
vertical motions. Cleaning nozzles for automatic sanitising of
the system have been installed. The system is fitted with glass
Dispensing valve
doors. The transfer stars and filler and capper have separate Bericap has
servo drives. The filler/capper monoblock encased in the mini announced that it has
hygiene housing and stretch blow moulder are controlled by the acquired the assets and
KHS operator panel with an integrated RFID system. technology to manufac-
www.khs.com ture a dispensing valve,
which it has named
BeriValve. It is manufac-
Thermoscan spins up tured from TPE mate-
rial, which means that it
According to Blow Moulding Technologies (BMT), tempera- will not contaminate the
ture is the most important variable in the blow-moulding pro- PET recycling stream.
cess but industry has had no means of determining an accu- BeriValve has been on
rate measurement of it – until now. BMT’s recently-launched the market for several
THERMOscan device is claimed to enable PET convertors to years prior to the acqui-
measure the temperature of the preform post-heating, enabling sition by Bericap and is
better understanding of the process. THERMOscan is the only to be found in applica-
instrument currently available that scans both the inside and tions such as ketchups,
outside surface of the preform. A plot of profiles of both surfaces chocolate sauces and bodycare products, as well as
enables the operator to make more informed decisions about being used in the pharmaceutical industry. The company
oven setup. The company says that its technology can help to says it can be used with all viscous products, including
improve process set-up, product design and resource manage- some containing solid pieces. Bericap offers a range of
ment resources, among other opportunities. BMT was formed in hinge closures for insertion of the BeriValve and also has
2012 as a spin-out from Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern the capacity to develop customised closures.
Ireland, and has already secured sales to leading companies in
the field, including converters and machine manufacturers. The www.bericap.com
research group that developed it has a strong track record in
the field of research of the stretch blow moulding process. and
is responsible for a number of innovations and improvements in
the knowledge of the process.
www.bmt-ni.com

PRODUCTS
Ultra-light closure for CSD and sparkling beverages
Closure Systems International (CSI) has announced the introduction of Omni
mini for carbonated soft drinks and sparkling beverages in the industry. Omni mini
XP is an ultra lightweight, weighing less than 2g, one-piece / linerless 28mm closure,
compatible with the 1881 bottle finish. CSI claims that its Omni mini XP meets or
exceeds all global bottler protocols across the widest range of distribution conditions.
The closure is precision-engineered to enhance capping application performance.
The company claims that customer testing has proven that this new closure reduces
cocked caps, reduces variability across colours, and reduces sensitivity to bottling line
speed changes. According to CSI, Omni mini XP also delivers high impact resistance
and industry-leading CO2 performance. Despite its lightweight design, Omni mini XP
passes extreme drop test protocols, keeping the package secure even when exposed
to harsh distribution and retail display conditions. The closure has a robust seal design to protect the integrity of the brand. It is
made using fully recyclable polyethylene resin. Omni mini XP can be used across the full range of beverage packages, ranging
from 250ml to 3l non-returnable PET bottles, and several closure knurl patterns (24, 24/120, 60, 120) are available.
www.csiclosures.com
Easier material
processing
Conair says that its two
new TrueBlend blender solu-
tions enable users to achieve
more profitable use of bottle
flake and other difficult to
handle regrind, without repel-
letising. The two blenders
take different approaches to
handling these materials in the
case of small quantities. The
blenders can be fitted with side
feeders with steeply angled
sides that help prevent the
regrind from hanging up and
bridging. The material flows
easily through an oversized
opening at the bottom to a
horizontal auger that con-
veys granules positively into
the mixing chamber. When it
comes to pipe extrusions or
other applications that require
the blending of high volumes
of regrind, the Conair blend-
ers use ‘lift augers’ to eliminate
bridging problems and pro-
mote free flow. The lift augers
are positioned at an angle in
a corner of the regrind bin and
move granules up and away
from the bottom of the bin,
rather than forcing material out,
as is the case with most con-
ventional systems. This helps
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Easy-to-identify
PETbottles
Beverages & Liquid Food
The Hermann Pfanner Beverages
GmbH from Lauterach in Austria is market-
ing, under its own name, a drink known
as “Green Apple“ with a 10% fruit content
and vitamins B,C, E. This naturally cloudy
drink is packaged in a slightly yellowish
Smoothie in limited edition format tinted, 1.5l content PET bottle shaped in a
way that is typical of the brand. The bottle
Alongside their other incorporates reinforcement grooves and
consistently available vari- is decorated with a sleeve label. A yellow
eties, Schwartauer Werke screw cap complete with tamper-proof strip
of Bad Schwartau are completes the packaging which has a strik-
selling their fruit smoothie ing effect in terms of its colouring.
“Pur Pur“ - advertised as
“fruit to drink“ – to include www.pfanner.com
a new composition which is
time-limited in terms of its
availability. The raspberry
cassis variant contains,
in addition to raspberries
Orangeade with
and cassis, banana, apple grenadine flavour
and red fruits as well. The
drink is bottled in a handy Under the brand name “Aqua Mia“,
PET bottle with a content Rewe Markt GmbH of Cologne are mar-
of 250ml, an all-round foil keting 500ml Blood Orangeade with a
label and a screw cap. flavour of grenadine in an easy to grip,
Underneath the screw cap there is a tear-off freshness mem- waisted PET bottle. This bottle incor-
brane. porates peripheral grooves and, in the
www.schwartauer-werke.de area of the base, features embossed
Rewe brand name logos. A peripheral
foil label in the waisted area conveys
the necessary retail data. A red screw
cap complete with tamper-proof guar-
antee strip acts as a seal.
www.rewe.de
Tomatoes behind the barrier

Italy’s Passata brands from Con-
serve Italia, Cirio, are now available
in a barrier PET bottle from Appe. The
bottle provides an ambient shelf life of
18 months – comparable with Cirio’s
current glass bottle and offers clarity,
light weight and high resistance to shat-
tering. The lighter weight of PET offers
a further advantage for retail markets
as it means the bottle can be offered in
a multi-pack format. The bottle incorpo-
rates the company’s Bind-Ox technol-
ogy to give the Passata its extended
shelf life. Bind-Ox is an active barrier
that traps oxygen and binds it into
the bottle wall, thus preventing it from
reaching the product. The bottle echoes
the design of the existing glass format
to ensure brand consistency and recognition on shelf.
The bottle will be aseptically filled at Conserve Italia. In
addition to Yoga and Derby brands, the new PET bottle
extends the working partnership between Appe and Con-
serve Italia to the famous tomato Cirio brand.
www.appe.com

BOTTLES
Vitasnella restyled
When Ferrarelle acquired Vitasnella, its fellow Italian water brand, the company decided
that the brand’s packaging needed to be reconsidered and updated. Although well-estab-
lished it was not perceived as being in line with the style of advertising campaigns. The brief
for the restyling was to create an updated image that would use aesthetic and iconographic
codes to portray the brand’s promise and also to improve the performances and ergonom-
ics of the packaging. The intention was to pull the image into line with its 25-45 sporty and
health-conscious consumers’ perception of quality. P.E.T. Engineering was commissioned
to undertake the restyling. The new package has a shape that is described as “tapered and
harmonious”, resulting from a change to the proportions of the upper and lower parts of the
bottle. The complex decoration of the previous version has been removed and a graphic
“garnish” has been inserted, which starts from the shoulder and flows across the bottle’s
main structure. It is intended to symbolize the flow of water into the body but it also performs
a structural function, in strengthening the grip area. The light-weighting of the bottle and the
modification of its handling are asserted to make it more ergonomic and easier to use.
www.petengineering.com
Shaped bottle for

still waters
The French company
Celtic La Source is selling a
1l bottle of natural still mineral
water, brand name “Celtic“ via
its own home retail trade out-
lets. The product, which incor-
porates the suffix “Prestige“ as
part of its name, is specially
designed for special occa-
sions and is therefore bot-
tled in a PET bottle moulded
into a particular shape. The
slightly waisted bottle fea-
tures a narrow neck area and
grooves that are reminiscent
of high quality crystal glasses.
A tamper-evident screw cap
made from plastic serves as a
closure.
www.eauceltic.com

PETbottles
Home + Personal Care
Shapely shampoo bottle
The tapered PET bottle for Guhl
Shampoo “Pure & Invigorating“ with a
content of 200ml shows how a prod-
uct can be packed to give an impres-
Washing foam with glitter sion of exclusivity. The transparent
The drugstore discount bottle is filled with the slightly bluish
chain dm is continuously tinted product so that it is impossi-
expanding its Princess ble to discern the filling level. A shiny
Star Magic range. A recent silver screw-on hinged lid that can
addition to the well-known be operated with one hand and two
shower gel featuring a crown translucent shaped labels made from
cap and packaged in a PET plastic round off the ‘cool’ impression.
bottle containing 200ml is a
magic washing foam com- www.guhl.de
plete with glitter effect. Shak-
ing the bottle allows the glit-
ter particles to be released
and distributed around the
contents. The product which
features extract of buddleia An all-round good thing
flowers is discharged via a
lockable pump dispenser. Sonax, the specialists in
www.dm.de motor vehicle care prod-
ucts, have recently been
marketing their windscreen
wash “Sonax Extreme“,
which is specially designed
Winter edition for the summer months, in a
transparent PET bottle with
Bearing in mind that many products a content of 3l. The bottle
incorporate packaging that is coordi- incorporates a base on
nated with the time of year or adapted which it can stand upright
to take account of the season, Colgate- and a pouring surface at
Palmolive introduced a ”Winter Limited an angle to this. The bottle is formed with an integrated
Edition“ of its transparent liquid soap. handle enabling targeted pouring into the screen wash
The white tinged bottle in PET with a container. The container is sealed with a tamper-proof
content of 250ml and a gold-coloured screw closure complete with carrier. Self-adhesive labels
pump dispenser complete with actuation to front and rear complement the packaging.
lock has been made available with four
different front labels by way of collective www.sonax.de
appeal.
www.colgate.de

BOTTLES
Green PET for Bio
Following the insolvency of Schlecker, the other
participants in the market are broadening their cos-
metics ranges and expanding existing product ones.
One example of this is the discount chain Netto which
is listing the Aloive range of natural cosmetics in
green PET bottles as of the beginning of March 2013.
The bottles with their individually distinct shapes and
containing 250ml of product are closed by means of
a colour-coded hinged lid which can be operated with
one hand and is supported in its end position. Non-label look labels to front and rear
convey the retail data.
www.netto-online.de
Closure molds
Haircare with argan ail
Schwarzkopf & Henkel have recently been featuring a styl-
ing oil for unmanageable hair in their range under the brand
name of “Schwarzkopf got2b“. A small, handy PET bottle with
a content of 50ml serves as packaging. This small bottle also
includes a manually operated screw-on pump dispenser in a
matching colour which incorporates a removable protective cap
and two self-adhesive labels.
www.schwarzkopf.de
More frog for your money

Erdal-Rex is running a promotional campaign and marketing its
Citrus Cleanser for Shower & Bath in a 750ml PET bottle obtainable
from retail outlets. Despite offering 250ml more in terms of content,
the bottle is no different as far as handling is concerned.
The neck of the bottle has been moulded so that it grips easily
and sits comfortably in the hand. For sealing the container there is
a green pump dispenser complete with lock and this also provides a at the drinktec in Munich
surface to which a sticker drawing attention to a recent “Good” test (Sept. 16-20), booth B3/414
evaluation is securely attached.
www.frosch.de
at the K in Düsseldorf
Body spray Liquid soap in green (Oct. 16-23), booth 1/1A40
200ml of refreshing Brazil-Mango body The dis-

spray is being marketed by the discount count drug-
drugstore dm in a 200ml PET bottle under store dm is
the brand name of marketing,
Closure Molds
“Balea”. The slim bottle under its own Developments
is tinted a light shade label brand
of orange. The refresh- name “alverde
ing product is applied Naturkosme- Closure Systems PET Systems
directly on to the skin by tik“, 300ml of
means of a screw-on, liquid soap
colour-matched pump with cucumber PET Molds Design and Patents
spray. The dispenser is and Aloe Vera
protected by a transpar- in an easy-to-
ent protective cap and handle PET bottle. The tinted bottle
a self-adhesive label is fitted with a screw-on, transparent
transmits the retail infor- pump dispenser. The dispenser can CCT Creative Competence Technology GmbH
Idsteiner Strasse 74
mation. be unlocked by turning through 90°
D-65527 Niedernhausen, Germany
to the front.
r.steinmetz@cct-systems.com
www.dm.de/balea www.dm.de/alverde www.cct-systems.com

PETpatents
Plastic bottle Modified container
Europ. Grant of Patent No. Europ. Grant of Patent No.
EP 2331412 B1 EP 2117937 B1
Applicant: Colgate Palmolive Applicant: The Coca Cola Comp.,
Comp., New York (US) Atlanta (US)
Date of Application: 12.7.2010 Date of Application: 17.1.2008
Several sections of a plastic bottle The problem of how to accommo-

made from PET are moulded in such date large-volume bottles (1.5l and
a way as to maximise the bottle’s abil- more) in the refrigerator safely and
ity to counteract the forces that act on making the most of space is solved
it during manufacture, filling, trans- by this bottle, the shape of which
port and storage without sustaining has been modified so that it can be
damage. accommodated horizontally on a
shelf in a refrigerator.
Bottle with bottom Plastic bottle

section as in champagne bottle FR - Patent No. FR 2954287 A1
Applicant: Sidel Participations, Octeville-sur-Mer (FR)
Europ. Grant of Patent No. EP 2125533 B1 Date of Application : 17.12.2009
Applicant: SA des Eaux Minerals D’Evian Saerne,
Evians-les-Bains (FR) Application for a plastic bottle with
Date of Application: 10.12.2007 zones shaped to ensure improved
grip and zones for absorbing
Grant of European patent in excess pressure due to carbon-
respect of the shape of and the ated contents.
process for the manufacture of a
plastic bottle where the bottom
section is reminiscent of the dome-
like shape of a champagne bottle.
Tamper-evident band
Irregular plastic bottle
Intern. Patent No. WO 2012 / 136417 A1
Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart (D) Intern. Patent No. WO 2012 / 131198 A1
Date of Application: 29.2.2012 Applicant: Sidel Participations,
Octeville-sur-Mer (FR)
The international applica- Date of Application: 3.1.2012
tion describes a screw clo-
sure complete with tamper- Plastic bottle made from PET, on which
evident band where the the peripheral reinforcement grooves and
band is modified in such a compensation fields run irregularly so
way as to enable it to read- as to ensure optimum absorption of any
ily ”absorb“ any forces that forces that may be released.
may be released when it is
placed on a container ori-
fice for the first time. Any potential damage at the point when
it is placed in position is avoided.
de
ungspatente.
www.verpack

Buyer’sguide
BUYERS GUIDE
1.0 MATERIALS
1.1 Materials for bottle

and cap production PET Preform
Plastic cap and closure Has Plastik San. Tic. A.S.
1.1.9 Additives and colorants GABRIEL-CHEMIE Rue de la plaine Esenyurt Fabrikalar yolu No: 50
Gesellschaft m.b.H. (Zentrale) 47230 Lavardac - France 34325 Avcilar
Industriestrasse 1 Tel.: +33 (0)5 53 97 41 00 Istanbul, Turkey
A-2352 Gumpoldskirchen Fax: +33 (0)5 53 65 85 97 Tel +90 212 695 50 00
Tel.: +43 (0)2252 / 63 630-0 www.sbecm.com Fax +90 212 694 97 24
Fax: +43 (0)2252 / 62 725-0 info@hasplastik.com
e-mail: info@gabriel-chemie.com www.hasplastik.com
Americhem Europe Ltd www.gabriel-chemie.com
Custom colour and additive
masterbatches
Pierre Vandekerckhove Preform manufacturer
Tel.: +44 782 541 9086 3 Rue de l’île Macé
pvandekerckhove@americhem.com 44 412 REZE France
www.americhem.com Tel: + 33 (0)2 40 05 09 37 NOVEMBAL SAS
HOLLAND COLOURS NV Fax: + 33 (0)2 51 70 00 55 5 route du Pérollier
P.O. box 720 sgt.mail@sgt-france.com 69570 DARDILLY, France
7300 AS Apeldoorn, Netherlands www.sgt-pet.com Tel: +33 (0) 4 72 54 96 00
0031-55 3680700 Fax: +33 (0) 4 72 54 96 95
0031-55 3662981 www.novembal.com
Clariant Masterbatches info@hollandcolours.com 1.2.4 Caps and Closures
(Italia) S.p.A. www.hollandcolours.com
Via Lainate, 26 2.0 MACHINES AND
20010 Pogliano Milanese (MI) EQUIPMENT
Italy
Tel +39.02.9918.7558
Fax +39.02.9918.7552 2.1 Preform production
italy.mb.marketing@clariant.com Creative Dispensing Solutions (machines and equipment)
http://mb.clariant.it Liquid colours and additives D94078 FREYUNG
Tel: + 49 8551 975 234
REPI S.p.A. Fax: + 49 8551 975 180
Via B. Franklin 2 infobev.gbl@aptar.com
21050 LONATE CEPPINO VA www.aptar.com
ITALY
tel. +39 0331 819511
Advanced Colorants and Additives fax +39 0331 819581
COLORMATRIX EUROPE LTD. repi.italia@repi.com Idsteiner Strasse 74
Knowsley Business Park, www.repi.com D-65527 Niedernhausen,
Knowsley, Merseyside. Germany
L34 9GT. UK BERICAP is a globally acting Tel. +49 6127 8954 + 8850
Tel: 0044-151 632-8800 1.2 Packaging components manufacturer of plastic closures Fax +49 6127 78189
info@colormatrix.co.uk and accessories with 21 factories in 19 countries. info@cct-systems.com
www.colormatrix.com www.cct-systems.com
1.2.1 Preforms
PET PREFORMS AND CLOSURES www.bericap.com
SACMI IMOLA
www.sacmi.com
colorplasticchemie Future Plast Industries L.L.C
Albert Schleberger GmbH P.O. Box 341034
Schlosserstrasse 5 Dubai, UAE
42899 Remscheid, Germany Tel: +971 4 607 0280
Tel: +49-2191-5619-0 Fax: +971 4 607 0220 www.corvaglia.ch
Fax: +49-2191-54075 petinfo@enpigroup.com
info@colorplasticchemie.de www.futurepet.com SIPA S.p.A
www.colorplasticchemie.de via Caduti del Lavoro,3
31029 Vittorio Veneto, Italy
Tel. +390438911511
Fax +390438912273
sipa@zoppas.com
PDG PLASTIQUES CLOSURES | EQUIP | TECH SERV www.sipa.it
F-45330 Malesherbes - France
Tel. 00 33 2 38 34 61 95 www.csiclosures.com
info@pdg-plastiques.com Europe: +34 93 891 62 49
www.pdg-plastiques.com Global Headquarters:
+1-317-390-5000

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2.1.1 Injection moulding 2.2.3 Coating systems

machines
SACMI IMOLA No. 688-1, Zhong-shan road,

www.sacmi.com Sec. 3, Wuri, Taichung,
414, Taiwan
Tel: 886-4-23388289 KHS Plasmax GmbH
NETSTAL-MASCHINEN AG Fax: 886-4-23380219 Meiendorfer Str. 203
Tschachenstraße servers@chumpower.com 22145 Hamburg
8752 Naefels, Switzerland www.chumpower.com Deutschland
Tel. 0041-55-618-6111 T +49 40 67907-102
Fax 0041-55-618-6605 F +49 40 67907-100
pet@netstal.com Eugen Seitz AG E-Mail: info@khs.com
www.netstal.com Spitalstrasse 204 www.khsplasmax.com
8623 Wetzikon, Switzerland
phone: +41 44 931 80 80
fax: +41 44 931 80 90
2.2 Bottle production ffini@seitz.ch 2.2.4 Compressors
(machines and equipment) www.seitz.ch Stretch Blow Molding Machines,
Preform Molds & Cap molds
Tel: +86-576-84020122
Info@HyMega.com
www.MegaMachinery.com
SIPA S.p.A
Nissei ASB Machine Co., Ltd. via Caduti del Lavoro,3
4586-3 Koo, Komoro-shi, 31029 Vittorio Veneto, Italy ARIZAGA BASTARRICA Y CIA, S.A.
Nagano-ken 384-8585, Japan Tel. +390438911511 www.abc-compressors.com
Tel. 0081-267-23-1565 Fax +390438912273
Fax 0081-267-23-1564 sipa@zoppas.com
sales@nisseiasb.co.jp www.sipa.it www.petkamold.com
www.nisseiasb.co.jp info@petkamold.com
www.atlascopco.com/petcompressors
SMI S.p.A.
PET NECK CRYSTALLIZER Via Piazzalunga, 30
Tel: +886-49-2258335 I-24015 S. Giovanni Bianco (BG) ,
marketing@bottop.com Tel. +39 0345-40111
www.bottop.com Fax +39 0345-40209 SIAPI S.r.l.
info@smigroup.it Via Ferrovia Nord, 45 Oil free compressors for
www.smigroup.it 31020 San Vendemiano (TV), Italy PET bottle blowing
Tel: +39 0438 4096
Fax: +39 0438 401016 Gardner Denver Ltd.
info@siapi.it  www.siapi.it Claybrook Drive, Redditch,
2.2.1 Single stage stretch Worcestershire, B98 0DS, England
blow moulding Tel: +44 (0) 1527 838600
equipment Fax: +44 (0) 1527 838630
KHS Corpoplast GmbH belliss.red@gardnerdenver.com
Meiendorfer Str. 203 www.gardnerdenverproducts.com
22145 Hamburg
Deutschland 2.2.2 Two stage stretch blow UROLA S.C.
T +49 40 67907-0 moulding equipment 20230 Legaz pi, Spain
F +49 40 67907-100 Tel. + 34 943 737003
E-Mail: info@khs.com Fax + 34 943 730926
www.khscorpoplast.com legazpi@urola.com
www.urola.com Reciprocating Oil free Compressor
for PET bottle blowing
Kwangshin Machine Ind. Co., Ltd.

Amsler Equipment Inc. 180-12 Okog-Ri, Haman,
Swiss Engineered - Gyeongnam, Korea
Norgren AG Canadian Built T +82 55 589 8100
Ventilfabrik 1245 Reid St, Toronto, F +82 55 589 8020
Postfach Canada L4B1G4 sales@kwangshin.co.kr
8362 Balterswil, Switzerland Phone 905 707 6704 www.kwangshin.com
Tel +41 71 973 83 00 sales@amslerequipment.net
Fax +41 71 973 83 01 www.amslerequipment.net
sbmproducts@norgren.com
www.norgren.com/sbm

BUYERS GUIDE
2.5 Ancillary equipment 2.5.3 Dryers
for the production of
SIAD Macchine Impianti S.p.A. preforms, caps and crates
Via Canovine, 2/4
24126 Bergamo, Italy
Tel. +39 035 327611
Fax +39 035 316131 www.cct-systems.com
info@siadmi.com 200 West Kensinger Drive
www.siadmi.com Cranberry Township, PA 16066, USA
Tel.: +1-724-584-5500
info@conairgroup.com
Werner Koch www.conairgroup.com
2.2.5 Heating boxes for blow Maschinentechnik GmbH
molding machines Industriestraße 3
Tel.: +49 (241) 9126-0 75228 Ispringen / Pforzheim
info@intravis.de Tel.: +49 72 31/80 09 0 3.0 SUPPLIERS FOR
www.intravis.de Fax: +49 72 31/80 09 60 STRETCH BLOW MOULDS
E-Mail: info@koch-technik.de AND PREFORM MOULDS
Industrial Heating Controller www.koch-technik.com
SIPLUS HCS
www.siemens.com/siplus-hcs
siplus-hcs.industry@siemens.com
2.2.8 Unscramblers NETSTAL-MASCHINEN AG drying-dosing-conveying-crystallisation Molds, Change Parts, SBM and

Tschachenstraße Tel: +49 6181 916 00 0 Injection Molding Machinery for
8752 Naefels, Switzerland info@lanco.de | www.lanco.de the PET/Bioplastics Industries
Tel. 0041-55-618-6111
Fax 0041-55-618-6605 284 Pinebush Road
pet@netstal.com Cambridge Ontario
Unscramblers, Silos and Air www.netstal.com Canada N1T 1Z6
Conveyors for empty plastic bottles Tel: 001-519-624-9720
Av. Arraona 23, 08210 Barberá Fax: 001-519-624-9721
del Vallés, Barcelona, Spain ProTec Polymer Processing GmbH info@hallink.com
Tel. +34 93 729 76 16 info@sp-protec.com www.hallink.com
sales@posimat.com www.sp-protec.com
www.posimat.com
Packsys Global (Switzerland) Ltd.
Phone: +41 55 25 33700
info@packsysglobal.com
2.3 Cap production www.packsysglobal.com
(machines and equipment)
Production of blow moulds and
PET mould parts
Moretto S.p.A. tel.: +359 32 606 821
Tel. +39 049 9396 711 fax: +359 32 606 888
info@moretto.com office@itd.bg
www.moretto.com www.itd.bg
SACMI IMOLA
Via Selice Prov. le 17/a
40026 Imola BO, Italy
Tel. 0039-0542-607-111
Fax 0039-0542-642-354
BMB SpA valentina_gollini@sacmi.it
Via Enrico Roselli 12 www.sacmi.com
25125 Brescia (BS) - Italy
Tel.: 0039 030 2689 811 motan-colortronic gmbh KHS Corpoplast GmbH
Fax: 0039 030 2689 880 Otto-Hahn-Straße 14 Meiendorfer Str. 203
info@bmb-spa.com 2.3.4 Printing equipment 61381 Friedrichsdorf 22145 Hamburg
www.bmb-spa.com Tel.: +49 6175 792 167, Deutschland
Fax +49 6175 792 284 T +49 40 67907-0
2.4 Crate production www.motan-colortronic.com F +49 40 67907-100
(machines and equipment) E-Mail: info@khs.com
www.khscorpoplast.com
www.bortolinkemo.com

Huayan PET Preform Injection

Molding System Guangzhou, China
via Caduti del Lavoro,3 www.petkamold.com
31029 Vittorio Veneto, Italy Manufacturer of High Precision info@petkamold.com
Tel. +390438911511 www.wtbvc.com High Performance PET Preform
Fax +390438912273 Injection Molds and Machines;
info@sipamolds.com Blow Molds for All Technologies, Tel. +86 20 3263 9288 ext. 8111
www.sipamolds.com All Machine Types, All Sizes. Email: huayan@gzhuayan.com 3.2 Stretch blow moulds
Highest Quality, Fastest Delivery, Website: www.gzhuayan.com
Lowest Cost.
Canada - 905-574-0010 Awanti Polymoulds
sales@wentworthmold.com Pvt. Ltd.
Poland - 48-81-820-5730 25/5A/1/2, Nanded, Sinhagad Rd.,
info@wt.com.pl Pune - 411 041, INDIA
UK - 44-1623-658-416 Single & Two Stage PET Molds Telefax: - 91 20 24392805
sales.europe@wentworthmold.com 33-4, Wonmi-Dong, Wonmi-Gu shirishk@vsnl.com
R&D / Leverage China - 86-137-646-05384 Bucheon City, Kyunggi-Do www.awantipolymoulds.com
Hamilton Road phu@wtbvc.com Korea 420-110
Sutton-in-Ashfield Argentina - 54-11-4753-1111 Tel.: +82-32-663-6377
Nottinghamshire, NG17 5LD simkosa@simko.com.ar inq@ksmold.com
England www. ksmold.com
Tel: +44 1623 556287
Fax: +44 1623 552240
www.rdleverage.com
3.1 Preform moulds PET engineering, bottle design,
1009 SE Browning Avenue Prototyping, industrial blow
Lee’s Summit, Missouri mould and services -
MO. 64081, USA MHT MOLD & HOTRUNNER Tel : 0033 (0)5 45 36 63 50
Tel: +1 816 525 0353 TECHNOLOGY AG www.sa-comep.fr
Fax: +1 816 524 5068 www.mht-ag.de accueil@sa-comep.fr
www.rdleverage.com
Acme Die Systems Pvt. Ltd

C-207, Mayapuri Phase II,
New Delhi-110064, INDIA
Tel: +91-98104 18975
+91-98110 39129 DEMO Design and Moulds
PREFORM MOULDS / +91-11-47718888 Mold-Masters Europa GmbH 31020 San Vendemiano (TV) - Italy
STRETCH BLOW MOULDS sales@acmedisys.com Postfach/P.O. Box 19 01 45 Tel.: +39 0438 409048
Tel: 0039 071 7500214 www.acmedisys.com 76503 Baden-Baden, Germany Fax: +39 0438 409046
Fax: 0039 071 7501958 Neumattring 1 info@designandmoulds.com
info@simexitaly.it · www.simexitaly.it Tel: +49 7221 50990 www.designandmoulds.com
Fax: +49 7221 53093
info@moldmasters.de
www.moldmasters.com
TOOLING PREFORM
SYSTEMS BV
Moulds & Robotics PET Preform and Blow Molds www.petkamold.com
PET-related Services for Different Application Otto Hofstetter AG info@petkamold.com
& Technologies Zürcherstrasse 73
C. Houtmanstraat 42 Guang Dong Xing Lian Precise 8730 Uznach, Switzerland
Emmen, The Netherlands Machinery Co., Ltd. Tel. +41 55 285 22 11
Tel +31 (0) 591 679768 Baoshi Rd, Xiabei, Pingzhou, Fax +41 55 285 22 44
Fax +31 (0) 591 630616 Nanhai, Foshan, Guangdong, China hofstetter@otto-hofstetter.ch
sales@tps.nl · www.tps.nl Tel: (86-757) 8677 7168 www.otto-hofstetter.com
Fax:(86-757) 8623 3168
E-mail: xinglian@gdxl.com
Website: www.gdxl.com RÖDERS GMBH
Scheibenstr. 6
29614 Soltau, Germany
Tel. 0049-5191-603-53
Fax 0049-5191-603-36
No.1517, Sec.8, Huanjhong Rd, Wurih mold@roeders.de
Stretch Blow & Injection molds Township, Taichung 414, Taiwan www.roeders.de
Mobile: 00359- 888-518782 Tel: +886-4-2335-9689
llvitalii@mbox.contact.bg chad@passcard.com.tw
www.vitaliiandson.eu www.passcard.com.tw

BUYERS GUIDE
4.0 FILLING / BOTTLING
www.sidel.com
P.E. LABELLERS S.p.A.
PET Packaging design and Via Europa 25
development, blow molding 46047 Porto Mantovano (MN), Italy Herbold Meckesheim GmbH
equipment and molds Tel.: +39 0376 389311 PET Granulators, Agglomerators,
pelabellers@pelabellers.it Shredders, Complete PET
Blow molding, filling, packaging
North America www.pelabellers.it washing and recycling lines
+1 678 221 3000 Via Fedolfi, 29 Industriestrasse 33
Central America 43038 Sala Baganza (Parma) - Italy 74909 Meckesheim
+52 33 3952 0324 Phone +39 0521 839411 Tel.: 06226 - 932 – 0
Latin America sales.procomac.it@geagroup.com 4.5 Downstream equipment Fax: 06226 - 932 – 495
+55 11 4668 7000 www.procomac.it herbold@herbold.com
Western Europe, www.herbold.com
Northern Europe, Africa
+33 232 858 798
Eastern Europe, CIS, Middle East
+43 1 370 1661 105 ZECCHETTI S.R.L.
Asia Via Galileo Galilei, 1-1A
+86 21 5048 4088 42027 Montecchio Emilia RE,
Italy PET Chemical treatments:
www.tech-long.com Tel. 0039-0522-867-411 Cleaners, flotation compounds
Fax 0039-0522-866-034 and additives
3.3 Cap moulds sales@zecchetti.it
www.zecchetti.it Via Vigevano 61
28069 - San Martino di Trecate
Novara - Italy
Tel. 0039-0321789770
SIPA S.p.A 5.0 RECYCLING Fax 0039-0321789765
via Caduti del Lavoro,3 salesmet@macdermid.com
31029 Vittorio Veneto, Italy
www.corvaglia.ch Tel. +390438911511
Fax +390438912273
sipa@zoppas.com 5.8 Complete recycling plants
www.sipa.it
4.3.4 Aseptic filling lines

Erwes Reifenberg GmbH & Co KG Automatik Plastics Machinery GmbH Complete PET recycling plants,
High Precision Mould Maker Ostring 19, 63762 Grossostheim FDA approved, integrated IV
www.erwes-reifenberg.de Germany increase without Pellet-SSP,
T +49 6026 503 - 0 process features lowest overall
F +49 6026 503 - 110 energy consumption, more than
info@maag.com 140 plants supplied to industry.
Aseptic & Ultra-clean filling lines www.maag.com EREMA GMBH
12 route de Mamers - BP 46 Unterfeldstr. 3
www.schoettli.com 72402 LA FERTE BERNARD 4052 Ansfelden/Linz, Austria
Cedex Tel. 0043-732-3190-0
Tel.: (33) 2 43 60 28 28 Fax 0043-732-3190-23
serac@serac.fr erema@erema.at
www.serac-group.com www.erema.at
Bühler Thermal Processes AG
CH-9240 Uzwil
Tel. +43-5572-7272-720 T +41 71 955 3466
office@z-moulds.com 4.4.1 Labelling machinery F +41 71 955 3440
www.z-moulds.com thermal.processes@buhlergroup.com
www.buhlergroup.com
PET-Recycling Plants “PET washing and recycling

Consulting & Engineering plants, turnkey and modules for
Complete Solutions B2B, fiber, sheet”
GERNEP GmbH SOREMA division of PREVIERO N.srl
Benzstraße 6 Via per Cavolto 17,
D-93092 Barbing 22040 Anzano del Parco (Co) -Italy
Tel: +49 9401/9213-0 Tel:+39 031 63491250
Fax: +49 9401/9213-29 sales@sorema.it · www.sorema.it
Email: info@gernep.de
www.gernep.de

6.1.2 O2 barrier measurement 6.3 Contract manufacturers
lonely 6.3.2 Suppliers of custom

designed bottles
in space – PET recycling technology:
Recycling extruders with inline SSP
(IV increase, food-contact, FDA) Non-invasive oxygen/
7.0 USED MACHINERY
Starlinger & Co. Ges.m.b.H. pH measurement
or plugged in to the world- www.recycling.starlinger.com PreSens Precision Sensing
GmbH Germany
wide PET community? info@PreSens.de
Tel +49 941 94 27 21 00 MachinePoint Used Machinery
A few ways to benefit from www.PreSens.de/PET Parque Tecnológico de Boecillo
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magazine‘s Buyer‘s Guide with applications inspection equipment pet@machinepoint.com
your company logo and contact TECNOFER ECOIMPIANTI SRL www.machinepoint.com
information (includes printed and Via Calto, 409/28
online version). For only EUR 45030 Ceneselli (RO) - Italy
5,70 per mm you can be present Tel: +39 0425 849090
among top suppliers of PET pro- info@tecnofer.biz
cessing materials – in every issue www.tecnofer.biz
of the year.
T +44 (0)845 1285501
T +34 676 986962 (SPAIN)
Price of the entry: 6.0 OTHER sales@agrintl.com E sales@petmachinery.com
www.agrintl.com www.petmachinery.com
number of lines
x 3,2 mm line height
x 5,70 EUR
= entry per issue
EMPTY BOTTLE
Example: PTI-US: +1 419 867-5400 INSPECTION SYSTEM
PTI-Europe: +41 24 423-9530 P&S technology Co. Ltd
1,824.– EUR/year info@plastictechnologies.com #326-1, Taejeon-dong
www.plastictechnologies.com Gwangju-si, Gyeonggi-do
464-805, Korea
Tel.: 0082-31-763-5621
Fax: 0082-31-763-5623
6.1 Laboratory equipment pnstech@pnstech.co.kr
PETplanet Insider www.pnstech.co.kr
32 mm
Häusserstr. 36
69115 Heidelberg, Germany
Tel. 0049-6221-65108-0
Fax 0049-6221-65108-28
info@hbmedia.net
www.petpla.net Tel: +86-758-2788469
info@canneed.com SACMI IMOLA
1 Line = 3,2 mm
www.canneed.com www.sacmi.com
contact
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D 51178; ISSN: 1438-9452

innovative concepts for increasing material and energy

efficiency. A truly unique opportunity to experience live pre-

exhibitors from over 50 countries will be spotlighting the very

International Trade Fair

THE NO.1 FOR WORLD

International Trade Fair

Messe Düsseldorf GmbH

EDITORIAL Where are the great minds?

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Clariant installs PET blowmoulding

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Maag supplies screen changer PET

Engineering made in Germany

For many machine types, we supply the mold with

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The Closure and Container Manufacturers Associa-

Procap acquire Schoeller Cap Systems

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Sidel gets new MD

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The PET market in Russia – The PET 2013 Conference in Moscow

Growth of PET capacities

In his welcome address, Sandjar

PET markets worldwide

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Monitor the overall energy utilization per kg/h

Control of material batch traceability

Management of production lots

Nizhny Novgorod Yekaterinburg

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Big plans: Aqua Don’s new production facility. Sergey Zai-

Aqua Don has one of the most modern and highly

During our discussion, General Director Sergey Save TROUBLE

Journey through the Russian beer history

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According to Dmitry, the most popular size is the 1.5l

We also learned some other interesting facts about

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RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

Straight after the Retal interview, we head

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September 5, 2012 September 5, 2012

The Editourmobil has brought us safely to the Slavutich Brew-

Switching from the standard PCO 28 to the lightweight

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In the drying stretch the bottles are assembled on trays

The participants are (in alphabetical order):

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Company name Resilux NV S.B.E.C.M. PET-Verpackungen GmbH Deutschland Appe Ma

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