PETpla.net Insider 03 / 2013

NEWS 9 PET planet insider Vol. 14 No. 03/13 www.petpla.net Starlinger & Co. GmbH opens office in Indonesia As of December 2012, Starlinger has opened an independent regional office in Surabaya to enhance sales and service support for customers in South East Asia. PT Starlinger SEA has been founded in response to the growing woven packaging market in South East Asia and is operating as an independent company. It handles sales and service activities of both business areas of Starlinger, textile packaging machinery and plastics recycling lines, and is headed by Mr. Hengky Senjaya. The strong eco- nomic growth in the South East Asian countries during the past years have made this region an important market on national as well as international level. 95 % of all agricul- tural products destined for the local markets are trans- ported in woven plastic bags; Starlinger customers thus produce packaging mainly for the agricultural sector. But also the cement and chemical industries are steadily growing and, together with fast growing export rates, provide further markets for flexible woven packaging. www.starlinger.com SIPA S.p.A. - Via Caduti del Lavoro, 3 - 31029 Vittorio Veneto (TV) - Italy Tel. +39 0438 911511 - Fax +39 0438 912273 - e-mail: sipa@zoppas.com www.sipa-xform.com NEW PREFORM SYSTEM Designed to adapt. Built to last. Imagine using any preform mold in one system. Now you can. The new XFORM PET preform system gives you unprecedented flexibility combined with the highest running efficiency: it accepts the mostly used molds (old and new generation) present in the market. So you can feel free to innovate and grow without penalizing your existing assets. KraussMaffei UK reorganises With effect from January 1, 2013, Netstal UK will be moved from Stone, in Staffordshire, to Warrington, Chesh- ire. This will bring Netstal, KraussMaffei and KraussMaffei Berstorff under the organisational umbrella of KraussMaf- fei (UK) Ltd., while maintaining the brands’ independent presences in the marketplace. The company says that the reorganisation will enable it to retain its recognised prod- uct portfolio while taking advantage of synergies within the group in areas such as expertise and skills. Mike Bate will continue as managing director of KraussMaffei (UK) Ltd but Nigel Baker, managing director of Netstal Ltd., has decided to leave the company. The former Netstal office in Stone will be closed and the spare parts warehouse will be moved to Warrington. www.kraussmaffeigroup.com Petainer gets more Husky Petainer is to invest in additional capacity at its Nordic plant in Lidköping, Sweden. The investment will cover new injection mould- ing plant and machinery from Husky, which is claimed to offer ecological advan- tages. The project is part of Petainer’s ongoing investment strategy, which has seen a first tranche of installation of new Husky machinery in the second half of 2012 and will continue during 2013. www.petainer.com