PETpla.net Insider 06 / 2013

EDITOUR REPORTS 15 PET planet insider Vol. 14 No. 06/13 However, at the heart of the company is its own tool manufacturing facility for blow moulds. These are fab- ricated not only for the company’s own blow moulding machines but also for all established suppliers of rotary stretch blow moulding machines. This means that PET Technologies is always up to date and in touch with the latest trends in the PET market. Around 80% of production is exported, predominantly to Eastern Europe, CIS countries and Middle East. The sales and service network that has been built up is also enabling the company to open up new markets. To cope with the increas- ing demand, a new factory with a 3,000m² production and assembly area is cur- rently under construction next door, and will be capa- ble of manufacturing up to twelve stretch blow moulding machines a month. Asked about the secret of the company’s success, Mr Poliansky responded: “With the exception of bought-in parts, PET Technologies manufactures all the machine components itself, from the machine framework right down to final painting. In our view this is the only way to provide a guarantee of quality”. PET Technologies offered us this perspective of the Ukrainian market. Target customers are medium-sized enterprises that have a capacity require- ment of up to 12,000 PET containers per hour. There are some 50 to 60 of these companies in the Ukraine. In this sector the proportion up to 10l capacity PET bottles for drinking water is 85%, a proportion that has shown a steady increase since 2008, in particular the 5-6l bottles. PET milk packs have a 15% share of the market and are showing slight growth whilst edible oils are flatlining at around 10%. Machines for other PET applications such as, for example, household packs, is a sector that PET Technolo- gies sells to only infrequently. Another special feature of the Ukrainian market is the consumption of fresh fruit in August and September over the harvest period. In these two months the consumption of bottled drinking water falls dramatically. This also has an impact on the utilisation of capacity in engineering plants, and this provides an opportunity for PET technology to explore new markets, offering clever solutions to problems. www.pet-eu.com