PETpla.net Insider 10 / 2013

EDITOUR REPORTS 27 Finally the companies agreed to work towards estab- lishing a Joint Venture in Argentina. Bericap imported the equipment to produce plastic closures for beverages. The bureaucracy and paperwork involved in importing and exporting is, according to Bericap Argentina, a horrendous and cumbersome headache. So much so that importing the plant into Argentina cost Bericap the loss of a good year’s production. “This delay cost us a substantial amount of money and we needed a fair amount of patience” says Günter Krautkrämer. Since then, the two Bericap lines, complete with integrated Nets- tal injection machines, have been installed with the help of Bericap technicians at Pilar and they are producing the 2.4g closure for the PCO 1881 neck finish in the CSD sector as well as the 1.8g still water closure for the PCO 3025 neck finish. Capacity here, amounting to around 700 million units per year, is to be expanded. On the remain- ing equipment, which dates back to the days of the crown corks factory, there are 1 billion 2.85g closures for the PCO 1810 and the 1816 neck finish and a fliptop cleaning agent cap for Procter & Gamble coming off the line in addition to the Bericap closures. Permanent technical support is given by Bericap do Brasil located at Sorocaba SP. Being used here in the areas of compression and slit- ting are machines from Nissei ASB, Ferromatik Milachron and Sacmi. The moulds come from Husky and Marlan, as well as from Bekomold, a subsidiary of Bericap in the two new lines. In the copolymer-PP sector the company Prepare for Life! Visit our booth 11/A58 at the K-Show and see our brand new preform inspection system PreWatcher III sources 70-80% from Braskem Brazil. The requirement for organoleptic HDP is met by Ineos. It is the intention of both joint venture partners to set up a totally separate stand-alone plant for closures in a couple of years. www.bericap.com March 22, 2013 Reciclar S.A. We met: Mr Erwin Auspitz, Commercial Director Added value for PET street refuse The story of the PET recycling company, Reciclar S.A. Buenos Aires, begins (as interview partner Mr Erwin Aus- pitz, responsible Commercial Director, explains), with its establishment by the Italian Marcelino Casella. These two gentlemen have been friends for more than 50 years. Around 1960 Marcelino embarked on an incarnation as a dealer in the glass bottles sector, such as, for example, wine and champagne bottles which he used to buy in and sell on. After around 30 years of operation, Marcelino had advanced to become one of the most important dealers in this sector. As time went on, however, the competition became fiercer and there were more and more glass bottle