PETpla.net Insider 03 / 2014

CAPPING / CLOSURES 36 PET planet insider Vol. 15 No. 03/14 www.petpla.net BMB We met: Nigel Baker, Managing Director UK & Ireland Stewart Leng, Area Sales Manager UK & Ireland Among the Italian machine manufacturers, BMB is the upmarket address when it comes to packaging, including the injection moulding of caps and closures. The company (400 employees, annual turnover approx. € 90 million) is privately owned by the Marco Bugatti family, who was doing the honours on the BMB stand with his resplendent machine. At the same time the British BMB representatives did the utmost to explain the technol- ogy of the equipment as well as the glamour and glory of the company – in the motivated and enthusiastic manner that we have come to expect from the Italian company. A PETplanet study at K 2013 Caps and closures In part 2 of our study we continue to describe the state-of-the art technology and the devel- opments, strategies and competitive differentiation of the companies involved in the market of suppliers of systems and moulds for the production of caps and closures. Stewart Leng quote: “We sell what our customers want to buy. Every machine is tailor made to our customers’ requirements. The prime consideration of BMB engi- neering is that the machine performs perfectly for the application whilst at the same time ensuring that the lifetime performance of the mould is not detrimentally affected. For clean Stewart Leng