PETpla.net Insider 10 / 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 Chiraz El-Goudi 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. 10/12 www.petpla.net The success of PETplanet can be attributed to many things: its styl- ish design, an efficient mailing list and the support of our advertisers. Above and beyond all this, however, the key element of our success is down to the magazines’ overwhelming popularity with its readers.Our happiness will be complete only when PETplanet is the first item that you read in your morning post. You enjoy our reports from site, the well-researched technical articles and – last but not least – our market overviews. This consist- ently high standard does not come easily: we are fortunate in receiving many unsolicited, but expertly-written and authoritative articles from industry insiders, but we take particular pride in the stories that we conceive, research and write ourselves. It’s time now for the people involved to take a bow. In addition to the already familiar team made up of Doris Fischer, Wolfgang von Schröter, Gabriele Kosmehl, and Michael Maruschke, we are now pleased to report that we have suc- ceeded in persuading one more specialist to make the daunting leap from industry to print. During the coming year, Waldemar Schmitke will be strengthening our editorial team. He boasts exceptional experience in the indus- try. He was responsible for the PET sector at Netstal for a number of years. He has designed, built and sold injection moulding machines. He understands the woes that beset processors worldwide and is completely familiar with the nuts and bolts of the injection moulding machine. Recently we embarked together on an edi- torial odyssey through the Ukraine and Poland (read the reports of the Go To Brau Tour in the upcoming issues of PETplanet insider, starting in issue 11/12) and were delighted to discover that Waldemar Schmitke took to technical jour- nalism like the proverbial fish to water. Produc- ing a good story often requires the persistence of a salesman to dig out the facts, the analytical faculties of a developer to understand the back- ground, and the inspiration of an author to put the words on paper. All this Waldemar Schmitke brings with him. We know that you will extend a warm and sincere welcome to him, in the same way as you have always welcomed everyone in our team. I am confident that Waldemar Schmitke will contrib- ute a wealth of new ideas to maintain the reputa- tion of PETplanet. Yours Alexander Büchler EDITORIAL dear readers, EDITORIAL Waldemar Schmitke (right) at one of his first interviews at PET Technologies in Ukraine