PETpla.net Insider 11 / 2015

ON SITE 51 PET planet insider Vol. 16 No. 11/15 www.petpla.net American Starlinger-Sahm, Inc. opens its USA headquarters American Starlinger-Sahm, Inc. celebrated the official open- ing of its new US headquarters in Fountain Inn in the Greenville Metropolitan Area, South Carolina, during a two-day Open House, which was themed with an Aus- trian flavour. The inauguration cer- emony for the new 23,000 sq.ft. facility was held on the evening of September 23, and attended by a number of political dignitar- ies and industry figures. Around 140 customers from more than 65 companies from the US, Canada, Mexico, and South America were in attendance. Angelika Huemer, Manag- ing Partner of Starlinger & Co. GmbH., American Starlinger- Sahm’s parent company, emphasised the importance of the North American market for the Austrian-based supplier of woven packaging production equipment and plastics recycling and refining equipment and revealed that Starlinger has seen a continuous rise in demand for its machinery from the region. “Sahm, our subsidiary, already has an established presence as a supplier of winding technology to the American textile sector and the growing plastics recycling industry is stimulating strong demand for Star- linger recycling lines,” she said, and went on to declare that she sees great potential in the woven plastic packaging sector, especially with the new technology for PET tape fabric the company recently developed. Jimmy Cranford, President of American Starlinger-Sahm, Inc., consid- ers the new technical centre and showroom an important investment. “We can now present the newest technology from Starlinger and Sahm in the United States to our existing and potential customers,” he said. “This includes the latest innovations in food grade PET sheet production from recycled products, as well as recycling, textile packag- ing, and Sahm winding technology.” He reported that, during the Open House, the company sold a recoSTAR PET 125 HC recycling line and a viscoSHEET PET sheet production line that can process up to 100 % rPET. In addition, a number of trial runs were booked in the Technical Centre. The Open House programme included presentations of its technological developments by Georg Sahm GmbH & Co. KG and the textile packaging, recycling technology and viscotec divisions of Star- linger. The latest Sahm winder models, a recoSTAR universal recycling line, and an operating viscoSHEET PET sheet line were on display in the new showroom. Mark McNeill, president of technology and business development at UNIFI, a fibre and yarn manufacturer based in Greens- boro, North Carolina, and producer of the Repreve recycled yarn, said that the showroom presents a great opportunity to test new technology in America; a sentiment echoed by Deborah Becher, Operations Manager at Becher Plastics, a plastics recycling company located in Wisconsin’s Fox Valley. Becher Plastics produces high-quality regranulate from vari- ous types of plastic scrap on two Starlinger recycling lines. www.starlingersahm.com We focus on enhancing your quality for: · Seal test · Bottle thickness · Bottle profile www.canneed.com CanNeed Instrument Limited Visit us at: Hall 7 Stand 835 info@canneed.com Brau 2015 Beviale