PETpla.net Insider 06 / 2015

EDITOUR REPORT 11 PET planet insider Vol. 16 No. 06/15 www.petpla.net Morocco Water for the North Chaouen Water | June 16, 2014 We met: Mr Ahmed Amziane, Plant Director f.r.t.l.: Ahmed Amziane with Kay Barton Mundane, with no information signs or a company logo immediately apparent, the production centre for the two brands of mineral water, Chaouen and Rif, looms into view on a slope just 11km north of the town of Chefchaouen, in the rural province of El Ouedin. Here we meet Mr Ahmed Amziane, the Plant Director. After the founding of the company in late 2004 and its subsequent establish- ment Chaouen Water began production in April 2008. The equally modern production lines date from this time. “We have opted for Krones for our entire production operation”, explains Mr Amziane, indicating the proportion of work which has already been completed on a pie chart. The Krones line has a capacity of 12.000 1.5l bph. With com- pany premises extending to 9 hectares, of which 6.000m 2 is currently in use, and a total of 20 employees. Chaouen Water is still a fairly compact enterprise, but the ambition is evident. “Today we cover around 6% of the market and our next goal is to achieve 10%”. The biggest competitors of Chaouen Water are the Oulmes and Sidi Ali brands, which between them account for 75% of the market. Preforms for West Africa PET Preforms Morocco Sarl | June 17, 2014 We met: Mr.R.Nourredine, Managing Director In Benslimane, located not far from Casablanca, we meet preform manufacturers PET Preforms Morocco who realised their ambition to enter preform production in 2008. Managing Director, Mr Nourredine made his decision to go in for preform manufacture as a result of visiting customers in West Africa. He had previously spent a number of years in Switzerland and in Germany; he began his career as a Production Manager in a dairy, then worked for Procter & Gamble before finally moving to a major ingredients supplier in Germany as Head of Sales for Africa, “Over Chaouen Water obtains its two waters from two differ- ent springs. Both for “Chaouen” and the second product “Rif” are located a mere 400m opposite the production facility with one large and several smaller collecting tanks. Both springs are situated just 80m from each other. Both waters are different in terms of their mineral content and are obtainable exclusively in 0.5l and 1.5l bottles. 20.5g and 30g preforms from APPE with a BPF neck finish are used, together with closures supplied by Allplast. Touring the production facility we spot a water purification unit from Chriwa, alongside a Krones Contiform S8, the Volumetic und SynCo and a wrapping unit. There is an Atlas Copco compressor for use in the blow moulding process. “The line currently produces 3.200bph but we already have a fairly full warehouse as well as limited sales outlets and so the plant is only operating 100 days a year”. The markets for Chaouen and Rif are currently restricted to the North of Morocco but the intention in the medium term is to extend them to the entire country. “As things stand at the moment, export is not high on our list of priorities, but our immediate aim is to have our two products available throughout the whole of Morocco”. Capping of Chaouen Water and over again in the course of my meetings with custom- ers, the topic of the booming PET market kept cropping up, and this is what inspired me to enter the business” Mr Nourredine explained. At K fair he made his first contact with Netstal and the entrepreneur decided to purchase a 48 cavity PET line. In what was, for this country, an incredibly short period of only eight months, not only was building work on the 1500m 2 site completed but the equipment had also been success- fully installed, with the result that production was already underway shortly after. Disaster nearly struck the company