PETpla.net Insider 10 / 2015

PACKING / PALLETISING 30 PET planet insider Vol. 16 No. 10/15 www.petpla.net Designed for niche market by Waldemar Schmitke F.l.t.r.: Fred Morgenstern, CEO, and Waldemar Schmitke, PETplanet in front of the packaging machine for PET bottles March 27, 2015 - We met: Fred Morgenstern, CEO, and Yoel Gavlovski, Productivity Engineer The start-up company Captiva Containers was established 2013 in Miami, Florida. With PETplanet’s Editourmobil, I travelled there to make the acquaintance of a young team headed up by CEO Fred Morgenstern and supported by Yoel Gavlovski, Productivity Engineer. According to Fred Morgenstern, their vision for the company was to offer custom bottling for Florida. To translate this vision into active prac- tice, they concentrated on PET pack- aging solutions from idea to concept focussing exclusively on niche mar- kets. This encompasses the provision of customer-specific PET containers including the label, packaging and service at the customer’s premises. “Our target customers are compa- nies with small individual production batch sizes who have no experience with PET bottle production and rely on third party innovations. These are predominantly brand-name companies engaged in the bottling of premium products who are keen to use packag- ing to differentiate themselves from a marketing point of view.” Fred Morgenstern continues, “A typical project starts with concepts and ideas supplied by the customer that we convert into an industrial design. Prior to starting on any prod- uct, we draw up a 3D-printed version of the desired PET container and pro- duce samples for the customer. We do all this within a period of approxi- mately 4 weeks. Once the design is approved by the customer, production can go ahead on our injection stretch blow moulding machines.” Within the sphere of applications are predominantly premium prod- ucts, such as natural juices, farm products and beverages, with more and more pharmaceutical and cos- metics products also being added to the list. Premium Sponsor Sponsors The company started out with two Nissei ASB 12 M injection stretch blow moulding machines and has succeeded over a period of two years in expanding to a total of five ASBs of the same type, plus a packaging machine for PET bottles made by the Spanish company AND&OR. It will be interesting to follow the future development of the company. I extend my thanks for the interview and wish my hosts continued success. www.captivacontainers.com Typical products (PET bottles)  Square wide – mouth  Closure size 35,8mm  Food grade safe in clear, blue and amber  Bottle size: 8 - 12 - 16 OZ  Round wide – mouth  Closure size 35,8mm  Food grade safe in clear  Bottle size: 16 - 12 - 10 - 8 - 46 (carafe) OZ  Round wide – mouth  Closure size 20mm  Food grade safe in clear  Bottle size: 2 OZ