PETpla.net Insider 01+02 / 2011

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 [email protected] EDITORIAL Doris Fischer f [email protected] Michael Maruschke Ruari McCallion Tony O´Neill Ilona Trotter Wolfgang von Schroeter Anthony Withers MEDIA CONSULTANTS Ute Andrä [email protected] Miriam Kiesler [email protected] 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 [email protected] LAYOUT AND PREPRESS Exprim Kommunikationsdesign Matthias Gaumann | www.exprim.de READER SERVICES Kay Krüger [email protected] 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. 12 No. 01+02/11 www.petpla.net After a break of over ten years PETpoint is once again back in Nurem- berg at the Brau Beviale. Its precursor started life in 2000 as the “tender- est of shoots” in Hall 8 in the shape of a joint stand covering 450m². and shared with 18 other firms in Nuremberg. Even at this initial event the full spectrum of the PET industry was represented, from the materials side and extending to machinery and culminating in the converter. Two years later and we find PETpoint taking place as an independent event in Essen in close proximity, both temporally and spatially, to Interpack and side by side with Metpack, a canning industry exhibition, taking place simultaneously in the adjacent halls. Three years on and 2005 marks PETpoint’s debut in Munich under the drinktec umbrella. This time PETpoint occupied the whole of Hall A6. Four years further down the line and both exhibitors and visitors were forced to mark time pending the next PETpoint in 2009, this waiting period was only interrupted by the overseas events in Mumbai in 2007 and 2008. PETpoint migrated from the edge of Hall 6 into Hall B3 in the central area of drinktec. Many exhibitors were unhappy with the constantly increasing intervals between PETpoints (from 2 to 3 and now 4 years). Finally, their voices are being heard. Now PETpoint will be taking place every four years to coin- cide with drinktec in Munich and annually in Nuremberg to cover the years in between. Dr. Reinhard Pfeiffer Director of Messe München GmbH, sums the situation up as follows: “The PET industry is well known for its spirit of innovation and its fast pace. The exist- ing 4-year cycle meant that drinktec was unable to do full justice to the requirements of the PET sector. Collaboration between Messe München and NürnbergMesse means that the PET industry will in the future be able to demonstrate its powers of innovation each year under the joint banner of PETpoint“. As founders and strategic partner of PETpoint we look forward to a reunion at the birthplace of PETpoint. Yours, Alexander Büchler EDITORIAL dear readers, EDITORIAL