PETpla.net Insider 05 / 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 info@hbmedia.net EDITORIAL Doris Fischer f ischer@hbmedia.net Michael Maruschke Ruari McCallion Ilona Trotter Wolfgang von Schroeter Anthony Withers MEDIA CONSULTANTS Ute Andrä andrae@hbmedia.net Martina Hischmann hirschmann@hbmedia.net Ursula Wachter wachter@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 Chroma Druck & Verlag GmbH Werkstraße 25 67354 Römerberg 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. 05/11 www.petpla.net For a number of years now PET bottles have been acquiring an ever-increasing share of the market. What exactly is the reason for their obvious success? The consumer of course is the ultimate judge of cans, bottles, beverage cartons and PET bottles at the point of sale, but consistent improvements in technology developed by machinery and toolmakers are making the PET bottle better and lighter. These superficial arguments represent just one side of the coin. On the other side are the people in the background who promote the PET bottle with lots of good ideas plus a dash of boldness and persistence. We have met people like this all over the world. I would, however, like to take this opportunity of singling out two friends who, together, have succeeded in PET-ising an entire country. Yuriy Khmara and Felix Nosov have known each other since they were at school and have been jointly responsible for the introduction of the PET bottle in the Ukraine. Yuriy concentrates on preform pro- duction where he makes every individual gram count (see PETplanet issue 4/11); as for Felix, he focuses on the bottling side of the opera- tion (see page 30). The photograph shows the two engaged in amicable, in-depth technical discussions on world matters and, of course, PET. Despite their friendship, we understand from sources close to both of them that Felix is one of Yuriy’s most demanding custom- ers. This no doubt has something to do with the successful approach adopted by the pair in consistently presenting each other with new challenges and thus promoting the world of PET. Let’s wish them both many more years of friendship in the future! Yours Alexander Büchler EDITORIAL dear readers, EDITORIAL