PETpla.net Insider 11 / 2015

PET news 6 PET planet insider Vol. 16 No. 11/15 www.petpla.net Werner & Mertz demands more thought to real material cycles Reinhard Schneider, Managing Partner of the Werner & Mertz Group in Mainz, Germany, caused a stir during the G7 Summit Resource Efficiency in Berlin when he called for sweeping waste management legislation as a bold step toward greater sustainability. To an international audience, Schneider, the sole representative of German industry at the Resource Efficiency workshop, presented the Recyclate Initiative, which the manufacturer of cleaning and care products gave as a cross-industry “best-practice” example in matters of sustainability. “Incentives – such as a reduc- tion in Dual System Deutschland (DSD) fees for packaging that’s recyclable, and even more importantly, for packaging containing recyclates – could open the way for investment in processing technology that makes incineration of plas- tic unnecessary,” said Schneider. “For so-called ‘thermal recycling’ is unacceptable in the pursuit of sustainability,” he added, making clear his opinion of conventional practices in waste management. Schneider participated in the G7 Workshop, which followed the G7 Summit, at the invitation of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. The Recyclate Initiative provides a way to exploit the previously untapped potential of the Yellow Bag as a source for the recycling of post-consumer PET packaging materials, according to Schneider. Thanks to innovative laser technology from Unisensor, manufacturer of sensor systems, Werner & Mertz has succeeded in fractionating packaging material from used PET packaging into very fine components to obtain pure PET recyclates. As the resulting resilient secondary raw material is reusable, it remains in a closed loop. “Transparent PET lends itself perfectly to repeated recycling at a very high level,” said Schneider and encouraged other companies to become involved in the Recyclate Initiative. “This is an opportunity you should not miss.” To date, the Rewe Group, the packaging manu- facturer Alpla, DSD and the nature conservation organisa- tion NABU have participated in the initiative. The partners bundle their expertise and advocate increased use of new technologies such as fine sorting with lasers in the industrial manufacturing of packaging. Until now the Recyclate Initiative has received several prizes, including last year’s Federal Ecodesign Award. www.werner-mertz.de Birkner’s Beverage World.Com 2015/2016 - 20th Edition With the new edition of Birkner’s Beverage World 2015/2016 the publishing house continues its successful book series with regard to companies of the international beverage industry. In the 20th edition one may professionally research for company developments in the international beverage market in more than 20.000 updated company profiles from 197 countries. In reliable structured manner there are company informa- tion regarding more than 5.400 breweries, 5.500 producers of mineral water, juices and soft drinks, 2.400 distilleries, 1.300 hop, malt and raw material suppliers, 6.200 suppliers und 480 associations and institutions. Apart from names and addresses including websites the new edition also offers infomation regarding zum Management, services, products and brands, machines and capacities, capital and turnover. In addition to the 12.600 e-mail and web addresses in the print edition there are also QR codes for direct contact and offers at your disposal as well as for current news regarding product management and service updates of the companies selected. www.beverage-world.com German packaging prize for Krones Bevkeg On the eve of the FachPack 2015 in Nuremberg, Krones was awarded the German Packaging Prize for its “Bevkeg” packaging idea in the beverage sales package category. The Bevkeg is a concept in the market for non-returnable PET beverage kegs. Depending on the output class involved, it can be supplied in two different variants, firstly as a preform and sec- ondly as a container that is rolled up following the blow-moulding process and correspondingly compressed. Hence transportation to the filling company should be optimised, and in addition, by reason of the low internal volume, the amount of CO 2 flushing before the filling process should be reduced. The central contact partner and vendor for the Bevkeg container unit is the Krones subsidiary KIC Krones. The machinery and systems technology required for filling, labelling and palletising the Bevkegs comes from Krones, while the brewery or the restaurateur gets the Bevmate tapping technology from Micro Matic, a company specialising in tapping systems. www.krones.com