PETpla.net Insider 03 / 2012

NEWS 7 PET planet insider Vol. 13 No. 03/12 www.petpla.net Mold-Masters and theMold-Masters logoare trademarksofMold-Masters (2007) Limited. ©2012Mold-Masters (2007) Limited.All rights reserved.17237 moldmasters.com Introducing IRIS Technology, barrier solutions for food and beverage containers. Break through the barrier and meet IRIS at NPE 2012, Mold-Masters booth 4463. At NPE 2012, Mold-Masters will unveil our new IRIS Co-Injection Technology. This revolutionary solution will forever change the way you make barrier closures and thin wall packaging. Husky sells Injectoplast to Alpla Husky Injection Mold- ing Systems has announced that it has signed an agree- ment to sell Injectoplast, the former closure injection moulding operation of KTW, to Alpla Holding GmbH. Injectoplast was a division of KTW, a closure mould maker that Husky acquired in early 2011. Its intended disposal was announced at the time of the acquisition. The deal is anticipated to complete before the end of the first quarter of 2012. www.husky.ca Noventum offers business transforma- tion services to PET market Noventum research has shown that as PET converters look at ways of avoiding being squeezed out of the value chain by brand owner’s insourcing manufacturing, many are offering services such as design consultancy or ‘hole-in- the-wall operations’ to develop closer partnerships with key clients. However this represents a significant shift in activity to business leaders who have established their careers in a plastics industry orientated around technology and manu- facturing, according to service management consultants Noventum. Businesses can fail to appreciate that develop- ing services requires a change in orientation of thinking from delivering ‘hard’ products to a more service-oriented activ- ity. Noventum has identified five key steps that it says are essential to successful service transformation. First, get closer to key customers & take an ‘Outside-in’ approach; second, strengthen your service propo- sition; third, focus on high quality service delivery; fourth, use a service development process; and fifth, establish more effective remote sup- port. Noventum says it can help PET Converters to speed up the transformation process by avoiding the pitfalls seen in other industries. www.noventum.eu Packaging prize for Krones’ FlexWave The German Packaging Institute has awarded Krones the German Packaging Prize for its FlexWave heating system. FlexWave, which is incorporated in Krones’ stretch blow-moulding machines, uses microwave technology to heat PET preforms. Krones says that this technology offers advantages over conventional infra-red heating methods in terms of sustainability, energy efficiency, flexibility and speed. The system allows the heating process to be indi- vidually set and monitored for each PET preform, enables the production of multicoloured bottles and requires only three seconds for heating up. www.krones.com