PETpla.net Insider 10 / 2013

imprint EDITORIAL PUBLISHER Alexander Büchler, Managing Director HEAD OFFICE heidelberg business media GmbH Häusserstr. 36 69115 Heidelberg, Germany phone: +49 6221-65108-0 fax: +49 6221-65108-28 [email protected] EDITORIAL Doris Fischer: f [email protected] Michael Maruschke Ruari McCallion Waldemar Schmitke Ilona Trotter Wolfgang von Schroeter Anthony Withers MEDIA CONSULTANTS Martina Hischmann [email protected] Roland Loch [email protected] phone: +49 6221-65108-0 fax: +49 6221-65108-28 France, Italy, Spain, UK Elisabeth Maria Köpke phone: +49 6201-878925 fax: +49 6201-878926 [email protected] LAYOUT AND PREPRESS Exprim Kommunikationsdesign Matthias Gaumann | www.exprim.de READER SERVICES Heike Fischer [email protected] PRINT Chroma Druck & Verlag GmbH Werkstr. 25 67454 Römerberg Germany WWW www.hbmedia.net | w ww.petpla.net PETplanet insider ISSN 1438-9459 is published 10 times a year. This publication is sent to qualified subscribers (1-year subscription 149 EUR, 2-year subscription 289 EUR, Young professionals’ sub- scription 99 EUR. Magazines will be dispatched to you by airmail). Not to be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher. Note: The fact that product names may not be identified as trade marks is not an indication that such names are not registered trademarks. 3 PET planet insider Vol. 14 No. 10/13 www.petpla.net dear readers, Many thanks to all of you who came to visit us on our stand at PETpoint. Our intensive discussions with you have demonstrated that we consistently have our finger on the pulse of the sector with our magazine and the regional reports based on our excur- sions in the Editourmobil. We were particularly delighted to renew our acquaintance on the stand with a number of the people we visited on our South America tour. There was invar- iably a cheery “Hello!“ Overall, our subjective impression was that we held more talks and established more contacts than in the crisis year 2009, the date of the last drinktec/ PETpoint. Our impressions were con- firmed objectively by Messe München. The event closed with the number of visitors up by an impressive 13%. The international flavour of the show was underlined by the fact that visitors came from a total of 182 countries. Even the Managing Director of Messe München, Dr. Reinhard Pfeiffer, a man used to success, admitted that he was impressed “... that a good third of the foreign visitors came from overseas ...“. The absence of Husky and Sidel did not cast a shadow over the event: indeed competitors indicated that they were more than pleased with the show. This was confirmed by Dr. Golz, CEO of Netstal and KraussMaffei Injection Moulding, who informed us that, in view of its high level of popularity with visi- tors, he would be back again with two lines in 2017. It was evident that the majority of exhibits featured PET lines, even amongst all the companies offering complete systems, and this was not just confined to PETpoint Hall B3. What was striking was the high proportion of aseptic PET lines. We were able to admire a few systems - GEA Procomac, KHS, Krones and Serac. Also on view were a number of exhibitors showcas- ing solutions on the theme of the PET recyclable container. It would seem that beer in PET is now on its way following in the footsteps of PETkeg. We will be returning to the topic of beer in the keg in the coming issues, in preparation for which we will be kitting our Editourmobil out with a system. There’s nothing to beat hands on experience! Yours Alexander Büchler In the editorial for the last issue of PET Planet insider 9/2013 it was possible to get the impression that the heading “Lies, damned lies and ...” referred to the work of the respected market research companies Euromonitor International and Canadean. This was not the impression we intended to convey. The analysis provided by Euromonitor and Canadean has for many years been and continues to be of great help to us in compiling our regional reports from around the globe. We would also like to inform our readers that the Euromonitor data was inaccurately quoted in our article on Peru and Bolivia on page 15 of the last issue. We apologise for any confusion caused. PETkegs were a major topic at drinktec/PET- point, here the”keykeg” Team, winners of the “Beverage Innovation Award” in the”Best Distribution Innovation” category. In order to conduct an in-depth test, we shall be install- ing Keykeg in the Editourmobil and carrying out some extensive tests on it during our 2014 Tour which is scheduled to take us through Italy, North Africa, Spain and France. 360° (Coverpage Photo: BASF/Emeco, 2013)