PETpla.net Insider 11 / 2012

REGIONAL MARKET REPORTS 13 PET planet insider Vol. 13 No. 11/12 www.petpla.net Hangzhou Wahaha The big boys among the bottling fraternity have now emerged as self-sufficient suppliers of PET preforms and bottles. We met: Shao Jin Rong, Machinery & Engineering Department together with William Pasquali, Managing Director of Sipa Here at Wahaha, the prominent Chinese manufacturer of beverages and bottler into PET bottles, the Chinese economic boom of the past six years becomes a tangible, understandable and starkly obvious reality. Shao Jin Rong, Machinery & Engineering Department Wahaha Even your faithful chronicler – despite long years of experience – struggles to keep up. Growth rates from 2008 to 2009: 40% from 2009 to 2010 (a bad year): 20% from 2010 to 2011: 32% (Figures from Wahaha) Products: bottles: 35 bn PET bottles in 2011; (in 2006 it was 10bn PET bottles). beverages: water (35%), milk based juices (50%) and RTD tea (15%, hot fill). Material consumption: 450,000t PET in 2011; (in 2006 it was 150,000t). Factories : 70 plants/installations spread throughout China with 30,000 employees today; in 2006 it was 42 installations with 20,000 employees. Investing for growth Currently Wahaha has 103 Sipa single step systems in operation – in 2006 it was 88. In 2006 Wahaha decided to resolve the constantly growing problem of too little capacity by introducing two- stage technology into their plants. In the years to date the following purchases have been made:  100 Husky preform systems, 96-cavity and 144-cavity  100 Krones blow moulding machines, 36,000bph  100 Krones fillers with the same capacity. T he s p e c i a l is t s i n p l a s t i c r e c y c l in g s y s t e m s. VA CU R E MA ® – P ET e x t r u si on t ec hn ol og ie s Choose the Number One.