PETpla.net Insider 04 / 2011

PREFORM PRODUCTION 22 PET planet insider Vol. 12 No. 04/11 www.petpla.net ‘Best Supplier’ award for Manjushree Technopack Bangalore-based packaging manufacturer, Manjushree Technopack Ltd, was presented with the ‘Best Supplier Performance Gold Award’ by Hindu- stan Coca Cola Beverages Ltd (HCCB), the bottling arm of Coca Cola India, at HCCB’s Second Strategic Supplier Summit, in New Delhi. The award was presented to Mr. Vimal Kedia, Managing Director, Manjushree Technopack Ltd, by Mr. Patrick Yadauga, Senior Vice President - Supply Chain Coca- Cola, India. Manjushree is involved in the manufacture of speciality plas- tic packaging products for domestic and export markets, in FMCG, CSD, pharma, alcoholic beverage and food processing sectors. The company has been a preferred supplier to HCCB for over three years. www.manjushreeindia.com ment, more than half of this is to be built on. Husky will assume responsibility for process planning. The amount of invest- ment will be 15 million US$. Despite all the euphoria about the rapidly growing beverages business, the company has still not neglected its roots in the jars and non-food sector. In the meantime the company supplies more than 400 different products. These are manufac- tured chiefly using single level equip- ment from Nissei ASB. Something else that has also grown out of this environment is PET bottles for hot/warm filling. Whereas Coca Cola and Pepsi Cola do actually bottle at high temperatures (85 °C) the regional bottling plants carry out their bottling activities at 72°C, plus they add a dash of preservative. This enables them to save themselves a few grams of PET in the neck finish area. Currently their mango juice is particularly trendy and the enquiries are rolling in at Manjushree. And there was one very special highlight that fascinated me at Manjush- ree way back on my last visit and that was their Museum of Packaging. On the ground floor there are packaging exhibits covering practically every topic imaginable and the 1 st floor is given over to matters relating to PET. More than 10,000 bottles – sorted by subject areas – provide an inexhaustible fund of new and creative ideas. In the same way that PET production is growing, the museum is also growing. At pre- From the museum - a veritable rarity: a 250ml Coca Cola bottle in PET complete with Crown Cork dating from around the year 1990. Behind it is a 200ml aluminium bottle vintage 2007, a reusable 200ml glass bottle and a present-day 500ml PET bottle still with the PCO 28 In front of the entrance to the museum: F.l.t.r.: Ankit Kedia, Alexander Büchler, Surendra Kedia and Rajat Kedia. The Husky installations are still encap- sulated in the old factory. Not night life but instead night light in the factory. The company operates round the clock. sent they are working on the 2 nd floor. Bangalore is well worth a trip if only for the Museum.