PETpla.net Insider 09 / 2014

PET news 6 PET planet insider Vol. 15 No. 09/14 www.petpla.net Sidel appointments in senior positions Sidel has made two appointments in senior positions. Pavel Shevchuk becomes Zone Vice President for Europe and Central Asia, heading up the team at the recently opened regional headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany. Alessandro Paini has been appointed Vice President of Product Management at Sidel’s global headquarters in Switzerland. Ukrainian born Pavel Shevchuk was previously Managing Director at Sidel Vostok, the company’s base for operations in Russia, having also spent twelve years at Sidel sister company Tetra Pak where he held leadership roles in both Ukraine and Indonesia. Alessandro Paini has over 20 years experience with Sidel, bringing extensive management knowledge to his new role as Vice President of Product Management. In 2008 he was appointed Zone Vice President for Western Europe and Africa, before taking up his most recent position as Zone Vice President for Europe and Central Asia, the role now fulfilled by Pavel. www.sidel.com Doehler and Afriplex form joint venture for integrated ingredients Doehler is expanding in South Africa and has founded a joint venture with the food and beverage division of Afriplex. Located in Paarl, South Africa, Afriplex is one of the market leaders in natural extracts in Africa. Alongside its core competence in the field of manifold high-quality botanical extracts, Afriplex also provides emulsions and compound solutions for national and international customers in the food and beverage industry. The common goal of the joint venture is to deliver integrated ingredi- ents that are tailored to the needs of Southern African markets in terms of taste preferences and technological and regulatory requirements. Doehler has been active in South Africa with its own sales office since 2009. The joint venture is expected to have multiple synergies for both of the companies. Thanks to an own application centre in Paarl, Doehler is now able to develop region-specific solutions and deliver customised product samples within a very short time. Afriplex produces more than 100 different plant extracts. Backed by its own cultivation technology, the company produces a vari- ety of indigenous plant extracts, with a focus on rooibos, hon- eybush, hoodia, pelargonium, buchu, baobab and a selection of African aloe species. Making use of the Doehler Group’s supply chain network and distribution channels, customers of the food and beverage industry all around the globe will have access to this extraordinary extract portfolio. www.doehler.com China Brew & Beverage 2014 China Brew & Beverage (CBB), the international exhibition for brew and beverage processing technology, will take place on October 13-16, 2014 in Beijing. The exhibition is regarded as the most important event for this sector in China and Asia. More than 700 exhibitors are expected to attend on a hall space of 80,000m 2 . Messe München International, the organiser of drink- tec, has been a co-organiser of CBB since August 2011. The close cooperation between drinktec and CBB has achieved a great success in 2012. Compared with CBB 2010, the number of international exhibitors and exhibi- tion space grew by 17.2% and 40% respectively. Exhibi- tors from 22 countries attended CBB 2012 to display their latest products and technologies for the beverage and liquid food industry. Six halls were occupied at the New CIEC exhibition centre, using a total of 70,000m 2 . 51,428 visitors from 74 countries attended CBB 2012. www.chinabrew-beverage.com/english Indorama Ventures sees strong year-on-year growth H1 2014 Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited, a verti- cally integrated polyester value chain producer, saw total revenues of THB125.7 billion in the first half of 2014, a 12% rise over the same period in 2013, with Core EBITDA growing 44% to THB 10.2 billion. Net profit corre- spondingly grew by 163% to THB 1.8 billion over 2013. According to Indorama, the Chinese PTA overcapacity continues to depress the company’s feedstock segment but is optimistic that the bottom has been reached with most producers operating at below cost over the last two years, which has led to industry restructuring and better producer discipline. 2014 has been positive for all seg- ments of the business and especially the focus on High Value Add (HVA) products continued to gain traction and are now contributing to about 40% of the core EBITDA. The company also announced that it has started PET packaging business in the Philippines and Nigeria. www.indoramaventures.com PET Network Day Petcore Europe, the Brussels based European PET value chain association, will hold the annual PET Net- work Day conference on October 9, 2014 in Brussels. The event is supported by eight leading European associa- tions representing manufacturers, converters, packers, fillers, and recyclers. Last year’s event showed a strong and growing interest in PET value chain issues with over 100 participants from across Europe. Building upon that experience, this year the conference will discuss whether PET as a packaging material could impact its future and ongoing success. www.petcore-europe.org PETnology, PET Arena and Passion for PET The first “PET Passion Week” will combine the PETnology Conference (10-11 November 2014) and PETarena exhibi- tion at Brau Beviale 2014. Presented by PETnology/tecPET GmbH, the industry meeting is aimed at all suppliers and cus- tomers involved with PET value chain. www.pet-arena.com  www.petnology.com