PETpla.net Insider 09 / 2015

MATERIAL / RECYCLING 17 PET planet insider Vol. 16 No. 09/15 www.petpla.net SIPA S.p.A. - Via Caduti del Lavoro, 3 - 31029 Vittorio Veneto (TV) - Italy Tel. +39 0438 911511 - Fax +39 0438 912273 - e-mail: sipa@zoppas.com www.sipa-xform.com yesterday today Short cycle times, high shot-to-shot quality, low energy consumption and maximum flexibility. The new XFORM 300 with its unique 6-position post-mold cooling system boosts your output performance for the widest range of preforms. Cooling preforms faster and better, the 96-cavity platform is ideal for large runs and quick mold changes. And it lets you run any mold you want, old or new, OEM-built or not, in total freedom . From ultra-thin walled (with proprietary XMould™ technology) to wide mouth. XFORM 300 , low transformation cost, high value. Designed to adapt. Built to last. The new XFORM 300 IMAGINE THE LOWEST TRANSFORMATION COST. IN TOTAL FREEDOM. modest beginnings that Groupe Alma came into being, over the course of decades.” To market leadership with spring water and PET The now-78-year-old entrepreneur has created an empire supplying the whole of France with bottled water using a stringently rigorous concept. “My success is attributable to two things: firstly the exclusive use of pure spring water - nowadays, you see, many municipal utilities have got a prob- lem with contamination as far as water supplies are concerned. And the second key to my success was the breakthrough achieved by PET for still water. This com- bination of spring water and PET containers is downright unbeatable”, explains Pierre Papillaud. Groupe Alma filled an estimated four billion bot- tles with spring water and mineral water in 2011, with a workforce of more than 1,600 people in 36 facilities. And in July 2012, Pierre Papillaud landed yet another coup: he purchased the mineral water bottlers Saint Amand, a company with around 400 million fills, which meant the group’s total sales were at a stroke propelled to more than 4.5 billion fills. Lightweighting and bottle-to-bottle recycling It was a few years ago that Pierre Papillaud started to give some thought to how the eco-compatibility of the containers he produced could be upgraded. Firstly, as in the USA, he opted for PET bottle lightweighting. And secondly he introduced bottle-to-bottle recycling of PET containers. At the Lesquin facility, in the vicinity of Lille’s airport, an opportunity arose some years ago to work together with a local recycling firm. Here, in a spa- cious recycling centre, the Nord Pal Plast company processes used PET containers so as to turn them into non-food-grade flakes for the textile industry. In a separate hall on the premises, Pierre Papillaud had the first bottle-to-bottle recycling line from Krones installed in 2009. The neigh- bouring Nord Pal Plast plant uses a 50-metre-long pipeline to supply this with just over 1,000 kilograms of non- food-grade flakes an hour round the clock. Since there is no deposit on PET containers in France, Nord Pal Plast receives ample quantities of unsorted raw material that is mixed with wood, paper, many other plas- tics, aluminium, metal and further contaminants. So Roxpet decided to use the first recycling line for making pellets, because their production pro- cess, thanks to filtration of the PET