PETpla.net Insider 07+08 / 2013

NEWS 10 PET planet insider Vol. 14 No. 07+08/13 www.petpla.net Sidel, SBA renew partnership Sidel has announced that it is renewing an agreement with long term partner SBA, with whom it has worked closely since 1999. The collaboration is intended to improve access to local resources for Sidel customers in East Africa, Ethio- pia, West and Central Africa. SBA has offices in Nigeria, Kenya, the Ivory Coast and Congo, along with subsidiary operations in the DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo), Cameroon and Angola. www.sidel.com Engel turns over a new record Engel, the Austrian packaging machine manufacturer, has reported record revenues of €950 million in financial year 2012/2013. This is a 14% increase over the previous year and an overall increase of 165% since 2009/2010. Engel says that it expects to generate further growth of about five per cent for each of the next three years. The company increased its market share across the world and now claims 10% of the Asian market for European and Japanese technology; 18% in America and 30% in Europe. It reports that more than half of all its hydraulic machines are now equipped with ecodrive. Around 12% of injection moulding machine sales in Europe are to customers in the packaging sector, with a rising number of large machines, able to work with a high number of cavities, being sold in the region. A total of 65% of the company’s total revenues are generated in Europe, with approximately 20% of global turnover coming from Germany. Turkey and Russia follow, in terms of sales volume, with American and Asian mar- kets responsible for 17 and 18%, respectively. Revenues from Asia were €145 million, another new record, and the company has tripled turnover in SE Asia over the past two years. Sales to India are expected to increase in the short term. Engel has invested over €57 million in various sites during 2012/13 (see separate story). www.engelglobal.com Döhler expands in Brazil DöhlerGroup, an international producer of technol- ogy-based natural ingredients, systems and technologies headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany, has invested in additional capacity at its Döhler América Latina plant in Limeira, Brazil. The company says that the site’s new, multipurpose distillation columns will allow greater pro- duction flexibility and enable it to broaden its citrus keys portfolio, as well as expanding capacity. Natural Isolates and keys such as octanal, decanal, linalool, valencene, ethyl-butyrate, sinensal, hexanal and others derived from oranges are processed at Döhler América Latina. Tailor- made Isolates can be processed and directly supplied from the plant, which was chosen as Döhler’s Centre of Excellence Citrus because of its location in the heart of Brazil’s citrus-growing area. All relevant technologies for its Natural Flavour extract portfolio are available at the site, which exports direct to customers around the world. www.doehler.com SGT goes three up in Algeria Société Générale des Techniques (SGT), which spe- cialises in the manufacture of PET preforms for packag- ing liquids, has opened a new factory in Sétif, Algeria, to meet increasing market demand. The company already has a plant in Rouïba, Algeria, and its original facility in Rezé, France. SGT says that the new plant will enable it to provide more local service and effective response to its customers in the region. The factory is equipped with three types of 72-cavity moulds and nine presses. It has the capacity to produce 2 billion preforms/a; with the 15 presses at the Rouïba site, production capacity is now 3.8 billion preforms/a. The new facility now has 175 Alge- rian employees and is already operational. The official inauguration will be in September 2013. www.sgt-pet.com ProTec gets new MD ProTec Polymer Processing GmbH, of Bensheim, Germany, has appointed Peter Theobald (54) to the position of Managing Director. His experience includes technical and sales positions with leading manufacturers of pumps and fittings, machine tools and plastics engi- neering companies in Europe, China and Asia. He joins Christian Bennhold and Alfred Kimpel on the company’s management team. www.sp-protec.com