PETpla.net Insider 06 / 2015

EDITOUR REPORT 15 PET planet insider Vol. 16 of PET. The conveyor and metered dispensing units come from Piovan. “HSB has in its time achieved some real pio- neering work”, says Mr Houssine. The introduction of the standard also signified the arrival of the first Husky PET injection line in the whole of Morocco and that was back at the beginning of the 1990s”. Although a proportion of the preforms are used in the company’s own edible oil bottling operation, the remaining proportion goes to SBGS for bot- tling CSDs. The excellent partnership with Coca-Cola, which goes back 40 years, ultimately gave the company the impe- tus it needed to be in the PET sector right from the very start. The manufacture of closure caps includes types 48 and 50mm for oil, 33mm for milk and 28mm for CSDs fabri- cated from (LD/HD-) PE at a rate of 150mill. units per year. The quantity of handles and margarine tubs stands at around 45mill. and 25mill. All preforms are used within the Belhassan Group, the same applies to the other products. And something else as well. As of 2015 HSB is poised to open up the market as a supplier for other bottling enter- prises too. “The level to which PET is deployed in the edible oils market in Morocco is in excess of 90%”, says Mr Houssine. Coming to the edible oils bottling side: this is split between two plants, one in Agadir and the other in Meknes 700km to the north. Here in Agadir, some 20 minutes away from the Plastics Division, are the busi- ness premises for the brand names “Lousra” and “Lio”, both soya edible oils, together with the “Oued Souss” brand of olive oil which is named after the Moroc- can river of the same name. The latter has just celebrated its 60th birth- day and was Belhassan’s very first product after the group was estab- lished. The premises here occupies 30.000m 2 . The production, transport and labelling units come