PETpla.net Insider 07+08 / 2015

EDITOUR REPORT 10 PET planet insider Vol. 16 No. 07+08/15 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 Spain Part 1 by Waldemar Schmitke The next stage of our Go to BrauBeviale Western Mediterranean round trip 2014 takes us to Spain. On our way from Barcelona to Seville we visit a PET stretch blow mould- ing machine manufacturer and PET converter whose main business is in Personal and Home Care applications. Spain, a constitutional monarchy under head of state King Felipe VI, since June 19, 2014, occupies a geographi- cal location on the Iberian Peninsula in the South-West of Europe. Spain takes up 80% of the peninsula; the remain- ing 20% is accounted for by Portugal. In the north, Spain borders on France and Andorra. The Pyrenees form the natural border. The Balearic Islands of Mallorca, Ibiza and Menorca in the Mediterranean, the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Morocco, along with the towns of Ceuta and Melilla in North Africa, all form part of Span- ish territory. Crisscrossing Spain are five big mountain chains; some 50% of the country is situated on a high plateau. The landscapes are extremely diverse, parts of these being dry and almost desert-like, whilst others are ver- dant and productive. In addition, there are the long coastal sections, the Mediterranean in the east reaching from the Pyrenees as far as Gibraltar, in the west the Atlantic the majority of the Atlantic coast of the Iberian Peninsula is, however, taken up by Portugal, as well as the Cantabrian Sea.