PETpla.net Insider 09 / 2013

NEWS 13 PET planet insider Vol. 14 No. 09/13 www.petpla.net THE MISSING LINK HAS BEEN FOUND SACMI IMOLA S.C. Via Selice Provinciale 17/A C.P. 113 40026 Imola (BO) Italy Tel +39.0542.607111 | sacmi@sacmi.it www.sacmi.com EXTREME FLEXIBILITY OPTIMIZED LOGISTICS CONTROLLED CONTAMINATION HALL B5 STAND No. 302 SACMI CPB LINK The Sacmi Cap and Preform Buffer is an automatic cap and preform storage system that provides the final link between cap/ preform production and stretch-blowing/ filling.The result is thefirst fully comprehensive beverage production line, frompellet to pallet. INJECTION PREFORM PRODUCTION CPB LINK COMPRESSION CAPS PRODUCTION BLOWING AND FILLING Clarification drinktec preview issue 7+8/13: PET Engineering’s EvoLight bottles are available only in 0.5l (for still water and still with nitrogen filling) and 1.5l (for still and sparkling water) formats. The 1l and 75cl bottles, for milk and juices respectively, are different projects. We are happy to pro- vide this clarification. NGR on the up NGR, the Austrian recycling machinery manufac- turer, reported increased sales in financial year 2012/13 compared with the previous year. The improvement was in excess of 20%, rising from €24 to €29 million. The company says that the improvement was because ongo- ing expansion of its product portfolio, along with technical enhancements of NGR equipment, led to new recy- cling applications. The modular design of the equipment platforms and the use of standardised components has shortened the steps in the development process, allowing the company to increase the speed of implementation of new recycling applications and speed up its response to special requests from customers. NGR says that demand has in part increased dramatically for integrated recycling systems that take up and treat process-related produc- tion waste and re-introduce the recycled material into the plastics stream. The company says that it will present the first results of its acquisition of Britas, the filter manufac- turer, at the K 2013 trade show in Dusseldorf. www.ngr.at Separate recycling for PET trays vital Plastics Recyclers Europe says that PET trays must have their own recycling stream in order to ensure resource efficiency. Casper van den Dungen, Plastics Recyclers Europe PET Chairman, said that “trays and bottles cannot be recycled in the same line. Their designs and chemical compositions are not the same and can create quality problems for existing PET recyclers.” The 700,000t of PET trays consumed in Europe each year can be recycled effectively if they are properly separated from other streams such as PET bottles or polyolefins. Plas- tics Recyclers Europe has called for a joint value chain approach and warned that unilateral actions could endan- ger recycling of this material. www.plasticsrecyclers.eu