PETpla.net Insider 09 / 2012

imprint EDITORIAL PUBLISHER Alexander Büchler, Managing Director HEAD OFFICE heidelberg business media GmbH Häusserstr. 36 69115 Heidelberg, Germany phone: +49(0)6221-65108-0 fax: +49(0)6221-65108-28 info@hbmedia.net EDITORIAL Doris Fischer: f ischer@hbmedia.net Michael Maruschke Ruari McCallion Ilona Trotter Wolfgang von Schroeter Anthony Withers MEDIA CONSULTANTS Ute Andrä andrae@hbmedia.net Martina Hischmann hirschmann@hbmedia.net phone: +49(0)6221-65108-0 fax: +49(0)6221-65108-28 France, Italy, Spain, UK Elisabeth Maria Köpke phone: +49(0)6201-878925 fax: +49(0)6201-878926 koepke@hbmedia.net LAYOUT AND PREPRESS Exprim Kommunikationsdesign Matthias Gaumann | www.exprim.de READER SERVICES Kay Krüger reader@hbmedia.net PRINT Chroma Druck & Verlag GmbH Werkstr. 25 67454 Römerberg Germany WWW www.hbmedia.net | w ww.petpla.net PETplanet insider ISSN 1438-9459 is published 10 times a year. This publication is sent to qualified subscribers (1-year subscription 149 EUR, 2-year subscription 289 EUR, Young professionals’ sub- scription 99 EUR. Magazines will be dispatched to you by airmail). Not to be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher. Note: The fact that product names may not be identified as trade marks is not an indication that such names are not registered trademarks. 3 PET planet insider Vol. 13 No. 09/12 www.petpla.net As you do the weekly shop, do you ever find your gaze straying to the PET bottles on the shelf? The cap, the label, the size of the bottle and form of presentation all seem to induce a kind of fascination in me. The spell is even more pronounced as you stroll around the aisles of a foreign supermarket, admiring the exotic PET display. And after you return, what impressions will you have brought back? If your holiday involved a plane journey, you may well have spent some time eyeing up the PET bottles in the aircraft, perhaps reflecting on the manufactur- ing processes that ended with the bottles at 30,000 feet above ground. But have you ever asked yourself what happens to the bottles at the end of the flight? When you touch down, there will still be bever- ages containers in the trolleys, some of which will still be closed, others already opened and the rest empty. These need to be disposed of. It used to be only the sealed casks that were removed whilst the other containers had to be disposed of as expensive wet waste. LSG Sky Chefs, the catering arm of Lufthansa, has now addressed the problem. In association with a granulator manufacturer from Gland- orf, they have developed a system that collects up the bottles and punches holes in them before compressing them slightly. Doing this means that the beverages packaging can be sent for recycling, thus avoiding expensive wet waste disposal. LSG service up to 350 flights, seven days a week. Not only that but the company packs 20,000l of beverages into 1,600 trolleys every day. In order to accommodate the returns, the granulator runs a 2-shift operation. This leaves 500kg of emptied containers and huge quantities of aromatized and sweetened liquids. However, as our magazine is principally addressed to producers we have in this issue also looked at beverage ingedients. The world of aromas and sugars and their processing in syrup and mixed rooms is now a regular part of PETplanet Insider. Yours Alexander Büchler EDITORIAL dear readers, EDITORIAL Right: the trolleys, in the middle the granulator; left the conveyor belt for the unopened faulty products- Emptying residual quantities at LSG Sky Chefs (photo Strautmann)