PETpla.net Insider 01+02 / 2015

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 Heike Fischer Gabriele Kosmehl Kay Barton Michael Maruschke Ruari McCallion Waldemar Schmitke Wolfgang von Schroeter Anthony Withers MEDIA CONSULTANTS Martina Hirschmann hirschmann@hbmedia.net Johann Lange-Brock lange-brock@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 Werbeagentur Matthias Gaumann | www.exprim.de READER SERVICES Till Kretner 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. 16 No. 01+02/15 www.petpla.net Our reports from Italy and Spain are still appearing in the cur- rent issues, but already, since the beginning of the year, the Edi- tourmobil has been girding up its loins for another major tour, this time destination North America. In cooperation with our colleagues at the NPE in Orlando we will be visiting the PET industry in North America. The tour actually begins in Canada, at the docks in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where we are confidently expecting to be greeted with temperatures of minus 20, plus plenty of snow. Getting the Editour- mobil suitably equipped to cope with these Arctic conditions has been a major task for us in Germany: anti-freeze to cope with tem- peratures at minus 30, snow chains, jump leads, jump start spray all packed. Hopefully all this will see us safely through. I will be in charge of operations as we negotiate the snow drifts and the freez- ing temperatures. Watch this space for our reports. Our first appointments are in the Greater Toronto area. From there Waldemar Schmitke will be travelling down the eastern side of the USA and steering a consistent course in the direction of the NPE in Florida. With every mile covered in the southerly direction we can look forward to warmer weather where we can hopefully ditch the winter clothes and start unpacking the T-shirts. Once at the NPE we shall be looking forward to your visiting us in the South Hall. It is here that you will have the opportunity to experience our Editourmobil live, to have a look at the mementos we have gathered from our visits to date and, of course, have a chat with us, the people we have met and the things we have seen during our tour. In the summer and the autumn we shall be continuing the tour in the direction of the west coast, returning to base before the winter really sets in. Come and experience with us the Canada and USA PET world! Yours Alexander Büchler dear readers,