PETpla.net Insider 07+08 / 2011

REGIONAL MARKET REPORTS 9 PET planet insider Vol. 12 No. 07+08/11 www.petpla.net The three breweries are Hartwall, part of the Heineken Group, which has the Pepsi Cola licence; Synebrychoff, which belongs to the Carlsberg Group, bottles Coca Cola. Finally there is Olvi, the smallest of the Big Three, which is a wholly independent Finnish brewery. All three compa- nies have already installed plants from Krones and KHS in the glass and cans sector. To handle PET containers, the three companies have each taken an individual approach. The minnow of the three, Olvi has installed a Corpoplast stretch blow moulder with a KHS bottling plant. This is designed for 18,000bph, and can handle a number of different formats. Olvi’s subsidiary company, A le Coq, based in Estonia, uses the same configuration, and produces a similar number of products. Over the season this means 40% is spent on format changeover. Hartwall took a slightly different tack. They have two plants and this significantly reduces the time taken to change formats. Between the Sipa stretch blow moulder and the Krones filler there is a conveyor with several minutes’ installed buffer-capac- ity. The plants operate at a maximum output of up to 44,000bph. Perhaps the neatest solution is the one adopted by Synebrychoff. They purchased each of the system com- ponents from a different supplier and thus succeeded in putting together the best system configuration for them at the time. For example, they opted for bottle silos as buffers between the Sidel stretch blow moulding and the Krones filler. This has enabled them to create buffers of up to one hour which gives them the opportunity to convert the stretch blow moulding to other formats. The maximum output of the two plants is 36,000 bph in each case. Macro-economic data Area 538,144 km² Population 5,4 millions (2010) GNP US $ 239 billions MHT MOLD & HOTRUNNER TECHNOLOGY Dr. Ruben-Rausing-Str. 7 | D-65239 Hochheim/Main Tel. +49(0) 6146-906-0 | www.mht-ag.de Make the most of your machine – with a mold from MHT! For many machine types, we supply the mold with the highest cavitation, thereby enabling optimum preform output. For the Husky HyPET machine, we offer an upgrade set for 33% more preforms, without refitting on the machine! • 60 cavities for Netstal PETline 2000 • 96 cavities for Husky HyPET 300 • 112 cavities for KraussMaffei 350 Engineering made in Germany Patent pending: MHT cool MAX ® post mold cooling Weight saving We have used our comprehensive bottle database PETplanet Zoom to evaluate the bottles currently on the market in Finland, which has enabled us to document pre- cisely the shifts in weight. With the changeover to the one-way deposit system an enormous potential for savings in terms of preforms has been opened up, not only in relation to the bottles themselves, but also in the weight and therefore in the consumption of raw materials. In the case of the 0.5 litre bottles it was noted during the evaluation that a broad range of weights is possible. Among these are lightweights weighing no more than about 21g, going up to bottles that tip the scales at up to approx. 36g. Compared to refillable refillable refillable bottles – which weigh anything from 53 to 57g, weight savings of up to 63.5% are now achievable. Similar savings are possible in the 1l bottle, with reduc- tions of up to 2/3 of the weight of the refillable bottles. The largest bottles in the study (with a 1.5l fill volume) weighed in at anything from 37g to around 48g. Here the savings poten- tial by comparison with the refillable bottle at around 121g was just under 70%. These savings are good for sustainabil- ity, and the environment, but it also demonstrates how flexible plastic can be in terms of usage and strength.