PETpla.net Insider 03 / 2013

NEWS 8 PET planet insider Vol. 14 No. 03/13 www.petpla.net Krones’ Klug stake Krones AG has acquired a 26% stake in Klug GmbH, of Teunz, Germany, a supplier of intralogistical solutions featur- ing software systems developed in-house. Its 2011 turnover was about €25 million and it has around 250 employees. Krones intends to increase its stake in the medium term, with the eventual aim of acquiring a majority of the stock. This option has been contractually guaranteed but its sub- ject to approval by the German anti-trust authorities. The company will in future be offering customers intralogistical solutions through its new partner. The Executive Board has decided to discontinue the firm’s own material flow tech- nology and intralogistics operations, which had employed around 70 people and reported a €19.3 million pretax loss in 2011. www.krones.com Sidel opens up in Pune, India Sidel has set up a dedicated Packaging & Tooling Centre in Pune, India. The new centre is intended to offer customers an improved regional service, in a market that is seeing soft drink sales growing at an annual rate of 9%. The site was officially opened at the end of 2012 as part of its ‘Value Creation Day’, which gave invited cus- tomers the opportunity to see round the facility and expe- rience some of its capabilities, including demonstrations of some recent innovations in the liquid foods packaging industry. The company is currently operating six similar Packaging & Tooling Centres around the world, which offer services ranging from bottle design to line engineer- ing, from offer to commissioning and complete lifecycle management. The newly-built mould shop at Pune has a capacity of 1,500 units/a. www.sidel.com RPC Group gets Manuplastics UK-listed company RPC Group plc has acquired specialist injection moulding plastic packaging manufacturer Manuplas- tics Limited, which operates from a purpose-built factory, in London, England. Manuplastics specialises in the manufacture of plastic packs for the personal care and food markets. Its principal products including cream jars in sizes from 15 to 500ml for several leading brands including Body Shop; pots for the Hartley’s brand of jelly desserts, and Sweetex containers for Reckitt Benckiser. RPC is acquiring Manuplastics for a cash-free, debt-free consideration of £7m. In its last financial year the com- pany reported sales of £7.8 million. The company will become part of the RPC Bramlage-Wiko cluster. www.rpc-group.com