PETpla.net Insider 01+02 / 2013

EDITOUR REPORTS 19 PET planet insider Vol. 14 No. 01+02 July 9, 2012 Alfatechform We met: Mr Alexander M. Korotov, Vice-General Director Mr Oleg Sidorenko, Chief of Technical Bureau Ms Svetlana Ansimova, Sales Manager, Netstal Consistent, step by step growth The complex belonging to the plastics producer Alfa- techform in Klimovsk is certainly out of the ordinary. The company has two large production facilities catering for its various divisions dealing with preform and caps production, as well as for bottling of domestic cleaning products. Ignoring the Russian financial crisis at the time, the company was set up in 1998 to pursue the idea of capitalising on the requirements of Russia’s PET market, which was still in its infancy. Mr Oleg Sidorenko was in on the act right from the start, in those days with respon- sibility for production mat- ters. Today he is the Chief of the Technical Bureau. In the discussion with Mr Alexander M. Korotov, the Vice-General Director and Oleg, it emerged that Alfatechform is focussing on flexibility and consistent but considered growth. Since the company was established, it has benefited from the rise in the number of qualified skilled work- ers to 400 as well as seeing the number of its machines increase from a single Netstal HP-3500 line to a total of nine machines today. There has also been an increase in the flexibility associated with this which is needed in order to manufacture a very wide range of preforms. Initially the plant was capable of produc- ing a maximum output of 90 million preforms per year, but this increased to 1.56 million using moulds mainly from Otto Hofstetter, but also from MHT. Since 1998 production of pre- forms has increased 16-fold. The growth was gradual, achieved by the purchase, every year, of new equipment. This increase in production went hand in hand with an increase in the range of pre- forms the company was able Are your standard PET preform molds making you as much money as they should? Ask how MPET with iFlow technology improves production and achieves greater quality results. Innovation doesn’t happen in isolation. It happens when blue-sky thinking meets down to earth know- how and exceptional supply chain execution. The sort of innovation that Mold-Masters is known for, now applied to PET tooling for industry-leading results. Introducing MPET – the new PET preform tooling solution designed for the standards of tomorrow. Mold-Mastersand theMold-Masters logo are trademarks ofMold-Masters (2007) Limited. ©2013Mold-Masters (2007) Limited.All rights reserved. Think about it. moldmasters.com/thinkaboutit [email protected] F.l.t.r.: Kay Krüger, Alexander M. Korotov and Oleg Sidorenko