PETpla.net Insider 03 / 2015

PET TOP TALK 30 PET planet insider Vol. 16 No. 03/15 www.petpla.net Growing strategies at GDXL 2015, reaching a step further Locating in the heart of China’s Pearl River Delta at themanufacturing center of Foshan, Guangdong Province, GDXL has been building a solid foundation of its expertise to be a trustfull engineering partner and service provider in the PET packaging industry since its establishment in 1993. For bringing out design and manufacture innovations of PET bottle, preform and cap, GDXL proudly deliver corresponding blow mould, preform mould, and closure mould, as well as implementation, optimisation and retrofit conversion solutions to production lines for PET containers. With strong technical capability, top-notch quality products and high efficient services, GDXL has success- fully served more than 600 customers in over 40 countries and regions, com- bined with the endeavor from more than 430 professional employees including 100 engineers and techni- cians. GDXL’s Deputy General Manager, Mr. Xiaoping Jiang, introduced that GDXL offers mould products to major beverage brands and bottlers, which include preform moulds suitable for up to 144 cavity single-stage and two- stage machines; blow moulds for high speed multi-cavity cold and hot filling blow moulding machines; closure moulds up to 72 cavity; and the corre- sponding components and parts. GDXL receives market recognition from being customer’s 360-degree partner of PET packaging solutions, Mr. Jiang elucidated, “GDXL owns a market share of more than 50% in China’s high-end blow mould market; and more than 60% of blow moulds current in use by high-end beverage brands are coming from us. These numbers for preform moulds are more than 35% and 40%, respectively”. Mr. Jiang appreciates that in 2015, GDXL’s action will further synchro- nising with the company’s vision, carrying out by two major strategic deployments of plant and network expansion. Opening of the new GDXL R&D and production base To strengthen the company’s core competences and to amplify its production capacity, GDXL has planned investment on equipment and machines to accelerate the automation and compound process with numerical control system. The new plant is locating in Foshan’s new district, Sanshan, with 33,337m² of land occupation and a workshop area measuring 33,400m², which is planned to be putting into operation by August this year. Nearly 300 million RMB (48.783.900 USD) capital fund is invested in making a smart and flex- ible PET mould R&D and production base. More than 80% of the equip- ment will be newly purchased; hard- ware and software will be upgraded to support and standardise the new rules: such as with compound flexible production line, five axis machining center, smart logistics system, infor- mation management system (i.e. ERP & PLM), emission reduction designs; 95% of the equipment will be digital controlled to achieve a full automation of the plant. Such initiatives will boost the company’s capacity in time phase Mr. Jiang explained: “The capacity will upsurge by 50% in 1 to 2 years, and doubles in the following year”. Conse- quently, the company’s current strong capacity will reach 30,000 cavities a year for blow mould; 20,000 cavities for preform mould and 6,000 cavities for closure mould in the third year. With such gain in production capacity, GDXL attaches equal importance to R&D innovations. The R&D capacity will be able to conduct 5,000 studies after moving, including 4,500 bottle studies, 1,000 preform studies and 100 closure studies. Mr. Jiang added that the new GDXL plant will evidentially help enhancing production quality and shortening delivery cycle with our