PETpla.net Insider 07+08 / 2013

EDITOURS REPORTS 16 PET planet insider Vol. 14 No. 07+08/13 www.petpla.net Maintaining the company’s competitiveness and margins is the first pri- ority, especially in a stagnating market such as Poland. Here Alpla makes use of the strength of the enterprise as a whole, together with its long years of experience in PET processing and product development, to retain its position as market leader. However, if sales are to be increased, other sec- tors of the market need to be opened up. For this reason, the investment in PET recycling systems represents a logical step towards further extending business activities in relation to PET within Poland. In addition Alpla sees the increased usage of recycled PET as their contribution to sustainability and protection of the environment, both topics in line with Alpla’s company strategy. www.Alpla.com September 11, 2012 Hanex Dabrowa Gornicza Poland We met: Dr. Dariusz Lizak Vice President (from left to right) Dr Dariusz Lizak and Alexander Büchler From seasonal PET business to all the year round capacity utilisation. Hanex is one of the established PET processors in the Polish market. Since 1992 Hanex has been offering its customers PET preforms, PET bottles and since 1997 PET film. 50% of turnover is accounted for by the sales of pre- forms. Continuous expansion of preform capacity to 1 billion preforms a year has today secured a market share of over 20% for Hanex. Production is car- ried out on twelve Husky PET injection moulding systems. “A highly competitive market calls for constant innovations“ says Dr. Lizak. What he means by this is not only optimisation in the machinery sector but also own development preforms. HDN stands for“ Hanex Drink Neck“, a devel- opment by Hanex themselves featuring reduced preform weight on the neck finish. Whilst maintaining the same function, the “ HDN“ neck finish weight is, at 3.2g, 0.7g lighter than the standard 1810 version. A new development, fea- turing a further weight reduction on the neck finish to 1.6g, is being prepared for release. However, the high season as far as beverages in Poland are con- cerned is short and highly dependent on the weather. In addition the current market is close to saturation. The plant cannot run at full capacity on preform production alone. Here Hanex has opted to manufacture PET containers for applications which display a uniform consumption trend over the course of the year. These are predominantly containers for milk, ketchup, mayonnaise, cos- metics and household products. Production is carried out on 13 single-stage PET machines from Nissei ASB, 2 Mag and 1 Sipa. The annual manufacturing output in this division of the company is 100 million PET containers, corresponding to 20% of the com- pany’s turnover.