PETpla.net Insider 05 / 2011

NEWS 9 PET planet insider Vol. 12 No. 05/11 Think about it. Is your hot runner supplier just a supplier, or your partner ? moldmasters.com/thinkaboutit info@moldmasters.com Mold-Mastersand theMold-Masters logoare trademarksofMold-Masters (2007)Limited. © 2011Mold-Masters (2007)Limited.All rights reserved. Large or small, complicated or simple, Mold-Masters has the depth, breadth and innovative problem solving to bring all your designs to production. As the world’s leading hot runner manufacturer with the most responsive customer service in the industry today, Mold-Masters offers a level of harmony you know you can trust. APPE gains Pan European BRC certification APPE (Artenius PET Packaging Europe) is the first major PET producer to gain the BRC/IOP Global Standard for Packaging and Packaging Materials across all of its European plants. The BRC (British Retail Consortium) Global Standards are a global product safety and quality certification programme used by 14,000 certificated suppliers in over 100 countries. The BRC/IOP Packaging and Packaging Materials Standard forms part of a suite of four technical standards, including food safety. Consumer Products and Stor- age and Distribution standards enable certification of the entire supply chain. BRC Global Standards are used by leading global retailers in supply chain management and for legal compli- ance. Certification verifies technical and functional performance and aids manufacturers’ fulfilment of legal obli- gations. All APPE’s plants in the UK, France, Spain, Belgium, Germany and Turkey were independently audited and current systems and practices, from factory hygiene to quality and the technical aspects of packaging, were assessed against the requirements of the Standard. www.packaging-int.com R&D/Leverage increases manufacturing and support capacity Four consecutive years of double-digit growth has led R&D/Leverage – UK to expand its manu- facturing capacity by 40% percent in 2010. Recent new business wins in the UK and continental Europe have prompted the company to install another injec- tion stretch blow moulding machine to its Product Solutions Laboratory (PSL), to further increase capacity. The PSL is a building-within-a-building that offers customers training modules and the capabil- ity to provide first-to-market samples. The company says that it can now qualify almost any product, including extreme shapes and extreme specifica- tions, in-house. Earlier in 2011, the company added two new sales account managers to handle custom- ers throughout northern and central Europe. Successful collaboration for R&D/Leverage – UK and Argo S.A. R&D/Leverage and Argo S.A. have successfully completed initial assignments for customers in three market sectors: personal care, health care and crop protection products. Argo S.A. is a single-source plastic packaging solutions provider serving custom- ers in more than 30 countries throughout southern and eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Based in Greece, it operates production facilities in its home country, Romania and Egypt. Its services include extrusion (and co-extrusion) blow moulding, injection blow moulding, injection stretch blow mould- ing, printing/labelling and assembly. www.rdleverage.com  www.argo-sa.gr