PETpla.net Insider 10 / 2015

MOULD MAKING 24 PET planet insider Vol. 16 No. 10/15 www.petpla.net Driven by hot fill applications in blow moulding by Waldemar Schmitke February 2, 2015 - We met: Walter Kuskowski, CEO, Tar Tsau V.P., Sales & Engineering General Manager and Sergo Arango, B.Eng. Key Accounts-North America Following our arrival in Toronto, our first appointment takes us to Stone Creek, situated 70km south west of Toronto on Lake Ontario, where we visit the mould maker Wentworth Technology. Here at company headquarters we are welcomed by the President & CEO Walter Kuskowski, Tar Tsau V.P., Sales & Engineering General Manager, and by Sergo Arango, B.Eng. Key Accounts-North America. Walter Kuskowski starts by emphasising the independent nature of Wentworth Technology Group. The group has acquiring various mould makers from the blow and injec- tion moulding sector for packaging, moulded itself into the enterprise we see today. The company comprises 5 plastics processing enterprises in Canada and Poland and 4 production sites for blow moulding and injection moulding situated in Canada, USA and Poland. Last year the Group turnover amounted to 250 million CAN dollars. The Group’s largest production site is in Poland, approx. 175km south east of Warsaw, which employs 150 people. 80% of the total number of blow moulds produced comes from here. Produc- tion of the moulds is split into approx. 25% for extrusion blow moulds and approx. 75% for 2-stage PET stretch blow moulding machines, plus a few mould sets for single stage machines. For PET preform moulds, there are two manufacturing locations, USA (Electra Form) and Poland (Amhil). According to Walter Kuskowski, there is a col- laborative agreement in existence for the North American market with Netstal AG Switzerland. We make a note to find out more about this during our visit to Electra Form in Vandalia, where we have a meeting scheduled for March 2, 2015. Here at the Group’s head office, 25 employees work in the R&D sectors, Special Projects, Engineering and North American Sales.