PETpla.net Insider 11 / 2016

TRADE SHOW PREVIEW 41 PET planet Insider Vol. 17 No. 11/16 www.petpla.net SSB03 (three cavities) are in use. Manjushree Technopack also pur- chased a three-layer Collation Shrink Film Line from Reiffenhäuser, which is also in operation here and represents something of a new area of busi- ness. Around 70 specialist employ- ees and 200 additional members of staff work on production operations 24/7, all year around. The company produces over 65 different preforms in ten different neck types, from 10g for 160ml bottles, to 770g for 19l PET containers. The actual production output of the factory is currently 70% of capacity, a rate that is increas- ing all the time. A further expansion has not yet been planned, however. Rajat Kedia observed that the com- pany has doubled its output since the beginning of 2013, and has probably reached its limit for the moment. In 2015, Manjushree’s total turnover was €72m; the new factory accounted for approximately €44m. It is forecasting an increase of at least 10% for 2016. Projects for the immediate future are focussed on business improvement and environmental performance. It intends to implement TQM and QatS (Quality at Source) – the latter in cooperation with a CSD customer. The company also has a variety of commitments in the production of clean, green energy. “We are installing wind and solar power plants here. Our goal is to obtain 80% of our requirements for electricity from renewable sources by 2018,” Rajat Kedia explains. “We already have concepts for deliver- ing our products in reusable boxes as well. Our company is also a key participant of a team working on experiments with barrier preforms and recycled PET flakes in the R&D department of the Directorate of Sci- ence and Research. We may be able to offer these new technologies to the market from 2018 onwards.” Manjushree’s “old” home location in Bommasandra, which is now used as a blow moulding facility, processes around 10,000t of PET each year, F.l.t.r.: Sanjay Balakrishna and Kay Barton in Manjushree’s material storage area along with approximately 6,000t of PP and HDPE. More than 150 machines are currently in use at the original site, including EBM and injection moulding lines. Its main product lines are pack- aging for the food sector but packag- ing for spirits and alcoholic drinks, the pharmaceuticals sector and the home and personal care industry are also manufactured there. www.manjushreeindia.com Engineering Excellence Efficiency at the highest level PET-LINE machines www.netstal.com The best values for cycle times and output, combined with energy savings of up to 10%: the PET-LINE sets standards in efficiency. The state-of-the-art production system for PET preforms proves its value with: – Hydromechanically driven axes – State-of-the-art valve and control engineering – A consistently increased injection unit throughput – Innovative drive technology with energy recovery in the intermediate circuit PET-LINE – continuously further developed for maximum efficiency! BrauBeviale 2016, hall 4A, booth 233