PETpla.net Insider 05 / 2015

EDITOUR REPORT 15 PET planet insider Vol. 16 Algeria A meeting with Algeria’s preform market leader SGT - Société Générale des Techniques | February 13, 2015 We met: Mr André Plotnikowa, Managing Director Mr Mohamed Yazid Bounoua, Human Resources Manager In Rouiba, around 30km East of Algiers is located the subsidiary company of the family- run preform manufac- turer group SGT (Société Générale des Tech- niques) France. Here we meet André Plotnikowa, Managing Director and Mr. Mohamed Yazid Bou- noua, Human Resources Manager. The SGT group started operations manufacturing PVC compounds for the bot- tling industry in France in 1981. With the growing interest in PET bottles, SGT France eventually retrofitted in 1996, con- tinued the PVC division until 2000 before discon- tinuing it. From then on, they concentrated on the production of PET preforms. SGT Algeria’s founder and Managing Direc- tor Mr André Plotnikowa remembers: “I came to Algeria at the end of the 90s because of a project in the water engineering sector for a water bottler and rapidly realised there was a future growing demand for PET pre- forms on the Algerian market. The trend here clearly indicated a new direction and a change