PETpla.net Insider 03 / 2015

EDITOUR REPORT 10 PET planet insider Vol. 16 No. 03/15 www.petpla.net Nuremberg Milan Rome Naples Palermo Tunis Al giers Rabat Casablanca Marrakech Seville Madrid Lisbon Bologna Monastir Agadir Tan gier Valencia Cordoba Bilbao Oporto Andorra La Vella Venice Turin Florence Messina Barcelona Zaragoza ITALY Part 6 One division, two product groups by Waldemar Schmitke Netstal-Maschinen AG En route to Italy, we now stop off in Näfels, Switzerland, situated in the mountainous canton of Glarus, where we visit Netstal, part of the Krauss Maffei Group Munich. Surrounded by 2,400m high peaks, Netstal manufactures and installs injection moulding machines and system solutions in the high-performance segment for the beverages, packaging and medical equipment sector. This visit has particular resonance for me as I worked here for 15 years, and had the great good fortune during this time to build up and lead the PET Preform Systems division. It is a real pleasure not only to see again my former colleagues and employees, but also exciting to see how the division has evolved from a structural point of view. I am especially delighted to meet once more my former colleague, Markus Dal Pian, now Netstal’s Vice President of Sales and Marketing. In addition to his cur- rent responsibilities, he also heads up the management of the PET (preforms), CAP (caps machines) and PAC (packaging applications) business units. Markus Dal Pian is thus directly responsible for the PET preform and caps machines of Netstal, bringing both product groups under one management. Preform systems The preform system portfolio includes the horizontal and vertical clamping unit injection moulding machines and the Prelactia range, special machinery division for two-layer preforms. PET-Line In the classic horizontal Netstal PET Preform systems division, PET-Line, we find today two new models, PET-Line 2400, which supersedes the PET-Line 2000, and PET-Line 4000. PET-Line 2400 covers preform applications up to 72 cavities and the PET-Line 4000 to 128 cavities. The PET-Line 6000 preform system (up to 192 cavities) is no longer offered and is no longer part of the preform machine portfolio. A 144 cavity solution will be introduced in the market soon and will complete the range for high volume markets. According to Markus Dal Pian, “With the three PET-Line systems we are now strongly positioned in the current preform market place, and well-placed to meet customer requirements.