PETpla.net Insider 11 / 2010

REGIONAL MARKET REPORTS 18 PET planet insider Vol. 11 No. 11/10 www.petpla.net March 29, 2010. SBECM in Paris (Société des Bouchages, Emballages et Conditionnements Modernes) SBECM - “Markets for converters are getting smaller… we must adjust.” Jean-Luc Didouan, President of SBECM We met: Jean-Luc Didouan , President of SBECM in Paris. The head office is located in Paris, although production of preforms and caps is located in Lavardac in the South- west of France. The Paris office is not only for conven- ience, but is the commercial office for sales and company administrative functions, and for easy contact with custom- ers. History The business was started by the parents of Jean-Luc Didouan in 1961. Initially caps and closures made from aluminium and steel were manufactured but rapidly plastic manufacturing became the core business. At the same time, the Perrier Group, looking for a safe, secure and reli- able supplier, took a participation in SBECM, but left the management with the founders. In 1983 SBECM entered the PET market and was the second company in France purchasing Husky preform systems. Jean-Luc Didouan took over in 1994 as president and has been running the business since that time. Product and production 70% of turnover is preform business, 30% caps and clo-  sures and other minor products About 10,000t of PET are converted per annum but so  far very little recycled material is used. About 600 million preforms were injection moulded in  2009 (available capacity near 1 billion). Would you like your products to stand out from the crowd? Thanks to the technology of Holland Colours you can turn your PET bottles into almost any colour. Our outstanding experience and efficency in producing colouring additives guarantees that your product will differ from your competitors’. Would you like to renew your PET bottles with unique shades? We can provide the solution for your business success. Holland Colours European Division Halvemaanweg 1, 7323 RW Apeldoorn, P.O.Box 720, 7300 AS Apeldoorn, The Netherlands I Tel: 31(55)368 0700 I Fax: 31(55)366 2981 I E-mail: info@hollandcolours.com SILK SCARVES? COLOURFUL BALLOONS? A MODERN STATUE PERHAPS? Or eye-catching PET bottles that are good to grab?