PETpla.net Insider 05 / 2015

EDITOUR REPORT 10 PET planet insider Vol. 16 No. 05/15 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 North Africa Part 2 Tunisia and Algeria Continuing on our Go to Brau Beviale Tour 2014, we now arrive at the markets of North Africa. Here, as we already noted in PETplanet Insider 4/2015, we experience some interesting contrasts between the current situation and future ambitions. The effects of the different political situations and regulations in these three countries, as well as the undoubted potential, only serve as further inspiration to the local PET sectors. We started in Tunisia, where, between the end of April and the beginning of May 2014, we met recyclers Green Line and Sogedes, together with converters La Preforme and Omega Maghreb in the metropolitan area of Tunis. The next stop on our tour was intended to be Algeria; however, we had visa difficulties here in the early summer of last year with the result that it was February 2015 before we were able to catch up on our appointments with pre- form manufacturers SGT and PTD. by Kay Barton