PETpla.net Insider 09 / 2013

EDITOURS REPORTS 20 PET planet insider Vol. 14 No. 09/13 www.petpla.net Coca Cola were able to resume their full range of deliveries – they stayed with Backus’ own brands. This generated increased growth for the company of the order of 40% per year in the water and CSD sectors. Production now stands at around 1200 million litres of CSD and 800 million litres of water per year. The main size for water is the 600ml bottle and, for CSD, the 500ml bottle. All the plants are operating at full capacity with these. This contributed to the company achieving a 14% market share in Peru in 2012. The controlling factors in this success story are not only external ones either; the rapid growth has been possible solely due to a good on-site team. And this is something that Jorge Ayestas, who is responsible for water and CSD production, is working at intensively. “Everyone in the oper- ation, from the operative to the director, must try, within his own sphere of activity, to optimise quality, quantity and cost and not just focus on one of the three targets“ is his stated objective. For this reason, the company regularly passes on the target and actual figures to its employees. In turn, the employees work to a continuous improvement process that is also displayed on charts so as to ensure transpar- ency for everyone concerned. At the end of the line is the shrink packer. To the immediate right of this is the beginning of the line, the labeller and, still further to the right, the mixer. In the plant the maxim is “A place for everything and everything in its place“. From the largest machine right through to the smallest dustpan everything is documented, where it is and how it is to be used / set up. This means that even new employees have no problem finding their way about the installations with no adverse effect on any one of the three target areas of quality, quantity and costs. Although there are plenty of other plants all over the world that adopt a similar approach, Jorge Ayestas and his team seem to implement the system more consistently and with a greater degree of success. They regularly scoop first place for the most efficient CSD plant and second place for the water plant. He is justly proud of having achieved this accolade and, most of all, of being able to maintain it. And he does not work with the latest or, technically- speaking, the most lavish equipment either. The water plant that achieved the distinction is more than ten years old (supplied by KHS) and the CSD plant that took the award is from Sipa (three years old). As is standard prac- tice in Peru, the bottles come from an external supplier. In this case, SMI Peru have installed an in-house production facility with two Sipa stretch blow moulders (12- and 8-cavi- ties). Having received the empty bottle from SMI, Backus first of all label it ready to go into the rinser/filler/capper block with 135 valves. An SMI (Italy) shrink packer groups the bottles into 6-packs or larger packs. In the middle of the installation is the mixing area. Intelligent logistics ensure that a change of format takes place only once every two days. Various CSD drinks and alcohol-free beverages are bottled. With its focus on quality, quantity and cost optimisation, Backus was the first in Peru to opt for the lightweight 1881 closure. The conversion took place in September 2011. The water plant in San Mateo was converted by the team there themselves; in the case of the CSD plant in Lima, the Sipa service personnel were enlisted to help. www.backus.com.pe Bolivia February 26 Ecovecindarios La Paz We met: Mrs. Ximena Ayo, Anna Apel Collecting PET in Bolivia Where and how are PET bottles collected in Bolivia? Indeed, are they collected at all? For answers to these questions, we sought out an organisation based in La Paz called swisscontact (the not-for-profit Swiss Foundation for Technical Cooperation), who, since 2009, have been Right in the heart of the bottling plant is the team responsible for ensuring that the CDS plant in the SAB Miller Group is the No. 1 world-wide. Behind the team is the labelling operation for the empty bottles, further to the right is the bottling area and, even further to the right, the mixer. 360° 360°