PETpla.net Insider 11 / 2012

EDITOUR REPORTS 32 PET planet insider Vol. 13 No. 11/12 www.petpla.net Go to Brau Beviale Tour 2012 During the course of this eight week-long tour, we visited more than 30 large and small companies operating within the PET sector. The journey took us through the entire value-added chain; from the materials manufacturers and machinery suppliers, on to processors and bottlers and cul- minating with the recyclers and PET consultants. The whole team collected material by the tonne, in text as well as in product form. Read the exciting country report on Russia, Ukraine and Poland, starting in PETplanet Insider Issue 12/2012. All interviews and other interesting key facts on the tour will be available for your persual on a continuous basis, in the section “Editour Reports“ of PETplanet insider. And, in the meantime, why not visit our stand and the Editourmobil at the Brau Beviale from November 13 to 15 in Hall 7A, Stand 515 and 516. All the information on the tour as well as an exhibition of all the products gleaned from the companies visited on the tour will be waiting there for you! In the meantime, please read the chronological sequence of our interviews along the Tour. Kay Krüger Russia, Ukraine, Poland With three teams of reporters from PETplanet insider, we embarked at the end of June on our tour by Edi- tourmobil, which was to take us on a round trip of some 11,000km. Starting at the Nuremberg Fair, Team 1, consist- ing of Kay Krüger, Rolf Sinkovec and Felix Popp, set out on the first stage from Lübeck by ferry to St. Petersburg, then on through Moscow, Nizhniy Novgorod and Kazan as far as Ekaterinburg. Here, at the turning point of the tour, Michael Maruschke and Torsten Strauss from Team 2 took the wheel, driving the Editourmobil on via Ufa, Kamenka, Lipetsk and Rostov-on-Don as far as Dnipropetrovsk in the Ukraine. Having treated the vehicle to a month-long summer break, Team 3, Alexander Büchler and our newly-recruited member of the editorial team, Waldemar Schmitke, contin- ued their journey to Zaporishsha, Mykolaiv, Kiev and on to Zywiec in Poland, and from there back to Germany. All this was achieved in spite of numerous mechanical glitches, an unpredictable or non-existent navigation system, the occasional unbelievably bad road conditions, and to cap it all, temperatures of 40°C, against which the air-conditioning battled in vain. An adventure indeed! A lengthy planning phase, extensive contact with local experts, supporters and advocates, as well as a motivational aim: to understand the markets of Russia, Ukraine and Poland of today.This time too, the second big Go to Brau Beviale Tour turned out a resounding success. Nuremberg Nizhny Novgorod Kazan Perm Yekaterinburg Chelyabinsk Yaroslavskaya Moscow Ufa Samara Saratov Volgograd Rostov-on-Don Dnipropetrovsk Kiev Warsaw Novgorod Saint Petersburg Gatchina Fryazino Kamenka Lipetsk Zaporishsha Mykolaiv Kharkiv Chernihiv Kalinovka Lübeck