PETpla.net Insider 01+02 / 2017

imprint EDITORIAL PUBLISHER Alexander Büchler, Managing Director HEAD OFFICE heidelberg business media GmbH Bunsenstr. 14 69115 Heidelberg, Germany phone: +49 6221-65108-0 fax: +49 6221-65108-28 info@hbmedia.net EDITORIAL Kay Barton Heike Fischer Gabriele Kosmehl Michael Maruschke Ruari McCallion Waldemar Schmitke Anthony Withers WikiPETia.info Doris Fischer doris.f ischer@hbmedia.net MEDIA CONSULTANTS Martina Hirschmann hirschmann@hbmedia.net Johann Lange-Brock lange-brock@hbmedia.net phone: +49 6221-65108-0 fax: +49 6221-65108-28 LAYOUT AND PREPRESS EXPRIM Werbeagentur Matthias Gaumann | www.exprim.de READER SERVICES Till Kretner reader@hbmedia.net PRINT Chroma Druck & Verlag GmbH Werkstr. 25 67354 Römerberg Germany WWW www.hbmedia.net | w ww.petpla.net PETplanet Insider ISSN 1438-9459 is published 10 times a year. This publication is sent to qualified subscribers (1-year subscription 149 EUR, 2-year subscription 289 EUR, Young professionals’ sub- scription 99 EUR. Magazines will be dispatched to you by airmail). Not to be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher. Note: The fact that product names may not be identified as trademarks is not an indication that such names are not registered trademarks. 3 PET planet Insider Vol. 18 No. 01+02/17 www.petpla.net Dear friends of petPLANET insider, Today, for the first time, I have swapped the upper and lower case letters in our name. I think it has to be done. After the many regional, nationalist movements, the USA now has a president who sees only himself and his country. This one-sided view of things gives him many plus points with his voters but there can little more behind this than posturing. We live in a networking, work-sharing world, with finance flowing across the world and so it will be fascinating to see how the new president can harmonise all of this with his populist utterances. Our PET branches alone show how networked we are, how we purchase machinery, tools and materials across continents and how regional bottles and products are adapted to the needs of local mar- kets. And will American citizens then even be able to buy their drinks with their conscience clear? From preform machines in Canada, Swit- zerland or Italy, from stretch-blow moulding machines in France, Ger- many or Asia? And how many Americans actually have shares in drinks manufacturers? We at petPLANET see the whole picture, the whole planet. And to keep it that way, in February I’ll be flying off again to take our anti- nationalist Editour further. China isn’t quite fixed up yet so for me it means three weeks in Indonesia. Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia and Singapore will follow in the summer. For a quick look at our prepa- rations, please read from page 30 onwards. Your petPLANET publisher,