PETpla.net Insider 11 / 2010

imprint EDITORIAL PUBLISHER Alexander Büchler, Managing Director HEAD OFFICE heidelberg business media GmbH Landhausstr. 4 69115 Heidelberg, Germany phone: +49(0)6221-65108-0 fax: +49(0)6221-65108-28 info@hbmedia.net EDITORIAL Doris Fischer f ischer@hbmedia.net Michael Maruschke Ruari McCallion Tony O´Neill Ilona Trotter Wolfgang von Schroeter Anthony Withers MEDIA CONSULTANTS Ute Andrä andrae@hbmedia.net Miriam Kiesler kiesler@hbmedia.net phone: +49(0)6221-65108-0 fax: +49(0)6221-65108-28 France, Italy, Spain, UK Elisabeth Maria Köpke phone: +49(0)6201-878925 fax: +49(0)6201-878926 koepke@hbmedia.net LAYOUT AND PREPRESS Exprim Kommunikationsdesign Matthias Gaumann | www.exprim.de READER SERVICES Kay Krüger reader@hbmedia.net PRINT WDW Druck GmbH Gustav-Throm-Straße 1 69181 Leimen-St.Ilgen Germany WWW www.petpla.net | in dia.petpla.net PETplanet insider ISSN 1438-9459 is published 10 times a year. This publication is sent to qualified subscribers (1-year subscription 149 EUR, 2-year subscription 289 EUR, Young professionals’ sub- scription 99 EUR. Magazines will be dispatched to you by airmail). Not to be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher. Note: The fact that product names may not be identified as trade marks is not an indication that such names are not registered trademarks. 3 PET planet insider Vol. 11 No. 11/10 www.petpla.net EDITORIAL dear readers, EDITORIAL This edition of PETplanet Insider 11/10 contains part 3 of our regional market report on France with reports on Evian and Danone, the Alma Group-Roxane, SBECM and Valorplast. The final Part 4 of “Focus on France” will follow – with reports on APPE in Beaune and Bierne and on Retal. We are gratified to have received so many positive comments from the market about our publications so far and thus feel that we should express our gratitude to those, who have made such reporting possible. At the risk of repeating ourselves, we have to say once again that in- depth and comprehensive regional PET market reporting is possible only with the help and support of those industries actively working in these markets. In most cases the highest level of support comes from companies, mostly makers of machines and systems, who are successfully involved and eagerly engaged in their markets, and who, as a spin-off from the investigations carried out by PETplanet Insider, can see an opportunity to communicate with their customers. Referring to “Focus on France” readers should know: We owe our thanks to Eddy Fery from Husky and Bertrand Guillet from Sidel for their readiness to open discussions, as well as for organising tours and most of our visits. With them we took an insight look into PET France and visited prominent converters and fillers. (See our visit reports in PET- planet 10/10, to be continued in issues 11/10, and 12/10) Alain Viron from Netstal joined us at our meeting with PDG. The efforts of Martina Bottarel from Sipa were appreciated - shining an Italian light on this complex French PET market - , despite the fact that Schweppes-Oran- gina, Sipa’s important customer did not open the gates for PETplanet. The role of Krones in the PET markets of France may (we admit) be understated. We saw impressive Krones equipment in operation at Coca- Cola in Bierne and heard the controversial comments of Pierre Papillaud of Alma Roxane about the Krones recycling plant, but we failed to listen to the o-tone (o for original) from the local Krones people in Paris. Amongst others one more gentleman should be mentioned here: Geraud Delorme, Director General of Valorplast. Thanks are due to him for explaining concepts and systems of recycling PET in France. We under- stood through him that the re-processing and re-use of PET bottles is cru- cial for the future of the entire PET industry especially in this country. We are certain that only by these joint efforts and friendly co-operation could we write our stories and do justice to the French PET market and its participants. Yours, Wolfgang von Schroeter