PETpla.net Insider 10 / 2011

NEWS 8 PET planet insider Vol. 12 No. 10/11 www.petpla.net Engel adds technical centre and teaching to Indian sales office The Austrian injection moulding machine manufacturer Engel is extending its sales base in Mumbai, India, to include a technical centre and a seminar centre. Expansion in the Indian market is being driven by strong domestic demand in the automotive, packaging, white goods, agricultural and construction sectors. In order to accommodate the additional functions Engel India’s headquarters has moved to larger premises in the Andheri East district, near Mumbai Interna- tional Airport. The technical centre will be used for machine demonstrations, customer trials, pre-production and running mould trials. Courses offered at the new training centre will lead to qualifications for machine operators and maintenance technicians; basics of plastics processing will also be taught. Engel India plans to invite customers and other interested parties in the plastics processing field to regular technology seminars. The spare parts warehouse is also expanding with the relocation. www.engelglobal.com Marc Ville is Cermex’s new Managing Director A new Managing Director was appointed to Sidel sub- sidiary Cermex on July 1 2011. Marc Ville succeeds Jean- Félix Lesueur, who has been given a new assignment within Sidel. Mr Ville will report to Philippe Lejeune, Cermex Group Chairman & EVP in charge of Sidel’s Food Home Personal Care (FHPC) division. Mr Ville has been with the Tetra Laval Group for the past twelve years, most recently as Vice- President of the Industrial Program for Sidel. A graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie in Paris, he has worked for Michelin, Lafarge and in the automotive parts industry. He has been Director of the Tetra Pak plant in Dijon, Managing Director of Sidel Malaysia and Vice-President of Industrial Operations in Beijing. For the past two years, he has been Vice-President of the Industrial Program for Sidel. www.cermex.fr Petainer appoints new group finance director Specialist plastics packaging technology business Petainer has appointed Mark Ellis as group financial direc- tor. He previously spent 20 years with RPC Group, a supplier of rigid plastic packaging, where he was general manager of two manufacturing sites and was group finance manager and corporate development director. Ellis is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA). www.petainer.com EREMA Engineering Recycling Maschinen und Anlagen Ges.m.b.H. A-4052 Ansfelden . Austria . erema@erema.at . www.erema.at We know how. PET Extrusion System VACUREMA ® Prime to produce food contact approved BTB pellets Input: Washed PET flakes Output: rPET pellets Batch process i guarantees defined decontamination time for each PET flake • FDA and brand owner approved • Efsa approval requested via customers CIC compact inline crystallisation i • lower AA ( < 1 ppm possible) • higher crystallinity • space-saving equipment Permanent monitoring for direct food contact and IV i Very low energy consumption, 0.30 to 0.34 kWh/kg i Visit us at Fakuma hall A6 booth 6011