PETpla.net Insider 01+02 / 2013

EDITOUR REPORTS 14 PET planet insider Vol. 14 No. 01+02/13 www.petpla.net associated uncertainty in the market (we carried a detailed report on this in PETplanet Insider No. 12, 2012). Since last November this dis- cussion has been off the table: Thanks to wiser counsels prevailing, the beer ban has been lifted and the way to stimulate new investments in the beer bottling sector has been smoothed. As regards the first segment of our Russian trip, we begin with the interviews conducted at pre- form manufacturers APG (Advanced Packaging Group), the kvass brewery Deka, the consult- ing firm Inventra and the preform manufacturer Alfatechform. Russia The first part of our Go to Brau Beviale Tour took us from St. Petersburg all the way to that mecca of manufacturing, Moscow, via Gatchina and Veliky Novgorod. Back at the time when we were holding our initial meetings and discus- sions with processors and bottlers, it rapidly became clear that PET and its development play a significant role as far as the Russian market is concerned and will continue to do so in the future. During the whole of the interview trip, one persistent feature was the discussions that had already been going on for some years on the threat to ban the use of PET bottles in the beer industry – the so-called “Beer Ban” – and the by Kay Krüger Part 2 PET from St. Petersburg to Moscow 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