PETpla.net Insider 05 / 2015

EDITOUR REPORT 14 PET planet insider Vol. 16 No. 05/15 www.petpla.net Production hall of Sipa Closures, preforms and PET recycling Omega Maghreb, Sipa & Valorflakes | May 2, 2014 We met: Nessim Mami, Business Development Manager Not far from Zaghouan, some 50km to the south of Tunis, is where the three plants operated by brothers Mami and Nissim Youssef are to be found. We meet the latter for our interview. It was the beginning of the 1990s when the father of the two entrepreneurs started his busi- ness which they subsequently took over and expanded. The Youssef brothers‘ business consists of three compa- nies: Omega Maghreb which manufactures closures, Sipa for the manufacture of preforms and Valorflakes in the PET recycling sector. Omega Maghreb: Omega Maghreb’s caps production started in 2001 and is based on machines from Husky, Netstal and BMB. A start was made in 2008 with two Netstal production lines, each with 48 cavities, for manufacturing 1.85g caps. In 2014 the third Netstal machine was added to the same specification. The output is around 360 million closures per year. Two BMB injection moulding machines each with 8 cavities generate 3.9g closures (around 25 million per year) and 6.9g closures (approx. 29 million p.a.). The Husky machine also installed in 2014 is operating, with 16 cavities for 1.3g closures, with an annual output of around 183 million closures. Sipa: In the Sipa preform plant the company’s production is based on Husky and Engel equipment dating back to 2006. Currently operating are the Husky GL300, LX225 and XL225 as well as two XL300s. 32g, 57g and 51g preforms run on the GL300 for use with 1,5 litre bottles in the CSD sector and mineral water. The LX225 produces 37g for 2 litre, 85g for 3 litre and 95g for 5 litre bottles which are filled with edible oil. They also have a fourth mould here for 37.5g preforms for 1 litre bottles of CSD. The XL225 is in an almost identical league with 37g, 85g and 100g for 2 litre, 3 litre and 5 litre edible oil bottles as well as 37.5g for 1 litre CSD. One of the Husky XL300 lines produces preforms for 0.5 litre mineral water bottles. The second XL300 is currently still in the test phase for 12.8g and 28.5g shortneck preforms, one each for 1.5 litre mineral water bottles together with 16.5g, 14.8g and 30g preforms for 0.5 litre and 1.5 litre mineral water bot- tles. The two Engel lines are identical in terms of their set up and produce 28g for 0,5 litre mineral water and CSD, along with 30g, 32g and 34g for 1.5 litre and 2 litre min- eral waters. Valorflakes: Finally, the Group’s Valorflakes recycling unit forms what is, for the time being, the last stage in the value- added chain as the brothers are currently thinking about setting up an additional fibre plant to utilise the recycled material. “This”, says Mami Youssef, „would mean that we had come full circle as far as PET recycling is concerned“. Valorflakes has opted for Sorema machines when it comes to its equipment and is currently manufacturing hot washed flakes, of which 60% are transparent and 40% blue. “We pay a great deal of attention to origin and quality and carry out consistent checks to monitor them“. www.valorflakes.com Production hall of Omega Maghreb