PETpla.net Insider 04 / 2012

EDITOUR REPORTS 20 PET planet insider Vol. 13 No. 04/12 www.petpla.net Turkey At the time of our last visit in 2005, preform manufac- turers in Turkey were processing around 130,000t. When we visited again in 2011 it was 350,000t. Even if around 20% of this goes for export as preforms, that still leaves just under 300,000t in the country today. This is used to cater essentially for just 3 segments – ahead of every- thing else comes water, then the CSD sector and, last of all the variables worthy of note, the edible oil sector. If we reckon with 20g as the average weight, this works out at 15 billion bottles or 200 PET bottles per inhabitant. By comparison to other, more western European coun- tries, it can be seen that, despite the progress in terms of growth, there is a lot more potential. In the edible oil sector PET is ubiquitous, as it is for the water sector. It is only where the big 19 litre con- tainers are concerned that a proportion of PC reusable containers can still be identified. PC has, however, had problems from a health point of view, so PET dispos- able has been gaining in popularity for the past two years. This would seem to indicate that, in the near future, the big water containers will all be PET. It is only in the CSD sector that the can is bravely hanging on; nevertheless, here the big brand names have intro- duced the 0.2l PET bottle on a large scale. The juice and milk products sector seem to be prac- tically free of PET. Here there are tentative attempts being made to counteract the reinforced carton and the HDPE bottle but so far these have not met with any major degree of success. Coca Cola basically produces its preforms itself, Pepsi Cola has chosen Alpla as its preferred supplier. Danone and Nestlé purchase on the free market. Hence the independent converters have to make do without the large CSD volumes. Two of the biggest A market opens up Five years ago, the Turks would only reach for the PET bottle something like twice a week. Today they empty a bottle every second day. This rapid growth is, of course, having an effect on the overall PET chain. We paid a visit to Turkey on the occasion of our Go to Brau Beviale Tour and asked around. Nuremberg Ljubljana Saedinenie Istanbul Yerevan Baku Beograd Novi Sad Subotica Cegled Dulo Selo Mirna Peˇc Radenci Gorica Sveto jansk Plovdiv Gaziantep Ingöl Ploiesti Ankara