PETpla.net Insider 11 / 2012

NEWS 7 PET planet insider Vol. 13 No. 11/12 www.petpla.net DEUTSCHE EDELSTAHLWERKE, Obere Kaiserstr., D-57078 Siegen / Auestr. 4, D-58452 Witten Whatever you want to knock into shape. Our all-stainless-package offers the solution – always efficient and secure. Euromold 2012: hall 8, stand L10. Octal triples PET resin capacity Middle Eastern producer Octal has tripled its annual production capacity of PET resin with the commissioning of two of the world’s largest vertical reactors at the com- pany’s complex in Salalah, Sultanate of Oman. With a total system output of over 1 million tonnes of PET bottle grade resin, Octal is now the world’s largest single site PET producer. The company is now halfway through its previ- ously-announced investment plan, with additional capacity scheduled for 2015 and 2016. When complete, the site will manufacture a total of 2.5 million t/a of PET resin and PTA. www.octal.com Experts discuss European, Spanish PET market On September 26 and 27, NovaPET, Spain invited around 100 industry professionals to a special confer- ence entitled “3 rd Chips & Grapes - PET in the Vineyards” in Barbastro, Aragon, Spain . The professionals were provided with information on figures on the European and Spanish PET market and on new applications. A full report will appear in PETPlanet issue 12. www.novapet.es/noticias.do Coke finds things go better with Appe Appe, the packaging division of LSB, has estab- lished a joint venture with Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) in France that will lead to a further expansion of its PET recycling facility in Beaune. The site’s capacity will rise from 28,000 to 48,000t/a of SuperCycle food-grade PET (SSP), an increase of 70%. This means that an extra 390 million PET bottles will be recycled every year. The joint venture between Appe and CCE involves a programme of research and development into new advanced technolo- gies for recycling. The two companies are investing around €9 million in the pro- ject, which includes the instal- lation of a new SSP tower at Beaune. The tower, supplied by Bühler, incorporates the latest advanced recycling technology and will enable Appe and CCE to trial new recycling techniques. www.appepackaging.com