PETpla.net Insider 05 / 2013

NEWS 10 PET planet insider Vol. 14 No. 05/13 www.petpla.net CCMA to join ISBT The Closure and Container Manufacturers Associa- tion (CCMA) has announced that it has become part of the International Society of Beverage (ISBT) Technologists, with effect from April 2013. A group will be formed with represen- tatives from both organizations to facilitate the transition. The move will make CCMA part of a larger organisation and provide access to greater resources, including technical sup- port. The two organisations have been cooperating for some time, in initiatives such as the Threadspecs committee, which works on finish standards. CCMA member company repre- sentatives will be invited to join ISBT as individual members. Key initiatives previously supported by CCMA, including sustainability and recycling, will be integrated into ISBT com- mittees. www.bevtech.org KHS partners with Ruhr university in “rebas” resource efficiency project KHS and the Department for Production Systems of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum have announced the launch of a new R&D project aimed at cost reduction and sustainability. The project is supported with state and EU funds within the Ziel2-Calls “Ressource.NRW” and by the North-Rhine West- phalia State Agency for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection. Phoenix Contact, MPDV Mikrolab, C & A Veltins brewery, and Warsteiner brewery are also participating in “the rebas joint research project”. The project, expected to run until mid-2015, will begin by carrying out studies of refillable glass bottling and packing lines at the Veltins and Warsteiner breweries. This is to be followed by identification of smart operating points in the lines along with optimisa- tion of resources used during various operational states. The next step will be generation of resource-conserving control circuits. The final phase will determine ideal system layouts for new lines, in terms of conservation of resources and preparing automation requirement specifications for efficient operation. KHS says that implementation of rebas’ findings will lead to greater sustainability in its line concepts, including reduction in energy use and consumption of raw, operating and process materials, for the same level of output. www.khs.com Kobusch expands rPET with Erema/ SML machinery Kobusch UK, a member of Sun Capital Partners, Inc., is expanding its rPET operations with the installation of a new inline sheet facility at its facility in Stanley, near New- castle-upon-Tyne, NE England. The new system includes a Vacurema Basic 2016T from PET recycling equipment manufacturer Erema, together with downstream equip- ment supplied by Austrian company SML Maschinen GmbH, which specialises in custom-made coex-castfilm- lines, coex-calendering-lines, extrusion-coating-lines and multifilament-spinning-lines. The new line, which is part of a £3 million investment by Sun Capital Partners, will provide Kobusch UK with throughputs of up to 1,400kg/h at the Stanley plant and enable it to produce 100% food- contact compliant rPET flat sheet. The company has been running a Vacurema inline sheet system at its factory in Livingston, Scotland, since 2007, and the new line will go into operation in the first half of 2013. www.erema.at Erratum In the article “Performance boost for installed perform systems” about Mold-Masters (PETplanet insider issue 4/13, page 24) we inadvertently gave the incorrect name of the company and of the Global Vice President MPET. The correct designation is Mold-Masters and the Global Vice President MPET is Richard Sieradzki. Procap acquire Schoeller Cap Systems Luxembourg-based Procap, manufacturers of plastic caps and closures, has taken over Schoeller Cap Systems, a medium-sized company from Schwerin, Germany, which has a turnover of €12m. In addition to the sales office in Germany, Procap will now also have its own production workshop trading under the name of Procap Schwerin. As SCS is located in the north of Germany, this acquisition will also sustain Procap’s ambitions for growth in Scandinavia and Poland. All the existing 40 employees of SCS are being taken on by the Procap Group. Procap has its headquarters in Luxembourg with further branches in France, Ireland, Hungary, Spain and Belgium. www.procap.com