PETpla.net Insider 06+07 / 2014

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 info@hbmedia.net EDITORIAL Doris Fischer Gabriele Kosmehl Michael Maruschke Ruari McCallion Waldemar Schmitke Ilona Trotter Wolfgang von Schroeter Anthony Withers MEDIA CONSULTANTS Martina Hirschmann hirschmann@hbmedia.net Roland Loch loch@hbmedia.net 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 koepke@hbmedia.net LAYOUT AND PREPRESS Exprim Kommunikationsdesign Matthias Gaumann | www.exprim.de READER SERVICES Heike Fischer reader@hbmedia.net PRINT Chroma Druck & Verlag GmbH Werkstr. 25 67354 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 trademarks is not an indication that such names are not registered trademarks. 3 PET planet insider Vol. 15 No. 06+07/14 www.petpla.net dear readers, Footballers are carrying 18 bottles around the pitch The World Cup is in full flow in Brazil and undoubtedly you will be cheering your team on. If you look closely, you may detect that some footballers are carrying 18 PET bottles around with them during the game. No, we are not talking about bottles of water, CSD’s or juices, but about the innovative shirts and shorts in rPET recycled for promo- tional purposes. Brazil, the host nation and a hot favourite, was one of several teams playing in Nike-branded shirts, shorts and socks made from rPET. Both England and the USA are also on board, wearing shorts and shirts made of 100% recycled polyester and 96% respec- tively, as well as socks - a first this year - incorporating 78% recycled material (see page 36). All the more reason, then, for us to take another close look at the world of recycling. An increasing number of PET recyclers are ven- turing from the bottle-to-textile stage to bottle-to-bottle recycling. For instance, Enka de Colombia S. A. in Medellin, Colombia, is expanding its existing production of fibres, filaments, yarns and resins for the tex- tile industry by bottle-to-bottle recycling (see page 24). A further trend is in-house recycling. The bottler Stute is now taking this one step further by recycling contents-contaminated bottles for its own production. In the long term this will enable the company to take back post-consumer bottles for recycling back into bottles. (see page 20). This is not quite as straightforward as it sounds. You cannot simply load contaminated bottles in at one end and extract granulate at the other. Italian company REPI may provide a solution. They have launched their advanced Anti-Yellow additives which they claim will correct the yellowish shade in contaminated bottles and improve the IV parameters of PET. Whilst you are comfortably settled in front of the TV revelling in all the action from Brazil, you might just spare a thought for all those recy- cled PET bottles running around the pitch! Yours Alexander Büchler