PETpla.net Insider 01+02 / 2017

PET news 6 NEWS PET planet Insider Vol. 18 No. 01+02/17 www.petpla.net Chinaplas 2017 This year’s Asia’s No. 1 plastics and rubber trade fair, is an end-user-oriented trade fair focusing on “Intelligent Manufacturing, High-tech Materials and Green Solutions”. It will take place from May 16-19, 2017 at the China Import and Export Fair Complex, Pazhou, Guangzhou, PR China. Green packaging to be on stage Environmentally friendly packaging is a global hot topic when talking about sustainable development. The packag- ing industry tends to adopt lightweight, thin films, degrada- ble materials, and package constructions that resist water, oxygen, air and ultraviolet rays. Exhibitors at the show will be displaying examples of all such materials for the packaging industry. In addition, packaging related machinery and auto- mation equipment will be centre stage, to include injection moulding and extrusion technologies that deliver high-barrier end products, automatic detection equipment and multilayer film technology. Other topics at the show are a showcase for high- performance automotive materials; advanced materials for the embrace building & construction industry, plastics and 3D printing to promote medical industry and multifunctional plastics for electrical & electronics products. www.chinaplasonline.com PET omnipresent at drinktec 2017 When drinktec 2017 opens its doors for trade visitors from all over the world from September 11-15, 2017, PET will be almost omnipresent in the limelight, says the organiser. While the demand for CSD is rather stagnating from a global perspective, bottled water in PET continues to boom. Many new developments of PET containers are also used in the dairy industry now. Consequently, drinktec has cre- ated a separate exhibition area with PETpoint in line with its importance for bottlers, which is dedicated exclusively to PET technology and presents all innovations with relevance for PET. drinktec shows the entire value chain of PET in this area. The exhibitor group on the subject of PET includes manufacturers of injection moulding machines to produce preforms and stretch blowing systems for plastic containers, among others, but also filling machines for plastic bottles. Representatives are also suppliers of raw materials and auxiliary materials for the manufacture of plastic containers as well as the producers of plastic bottles made from PET, PEN, PP, PE, HDPE or other plastics. Machines and systems for recycling PET bottles and closures are on the other end of the life cycle of PET containers. In advance of the trade fair, the “Go with the flow. South- east Asia Roadshow” is starting, a collaboration between drinktec and PETplanet (see page 30). Energy and resource efficiency are especially important for the bottlers in manufacturing PET containers. Visitors can obtain information concerning this in the context of the focus topic water, energy management and recycled PET at drinktec. www.drinktec.com Preform inspection systems in WikiPETia Are you looking for the right quality control tool for pre- form inspection? This year, for the first time, we are publishing a market survey listing suppliers of preform inspection systems (see page 26). In addition, you will find lots of information about each vendor collected on our wiki pages. Go to the preforms homepage: https://www.petpla.net/wiki?title=Preforms and at a glance you have all the companies listed in Wiki- PETia for preform inspection systems. From there, simply click on the company profile. Would you like to create a page yourself? Then contact us: Doris.Fischer@hbmedia.net www.WikiPETia.info Corvaglia Closures Eschlikon AG has a new General Manager The former General Manager of Corvaglia Closures Eschlikon AG, Franco Bischof, has gone into retirement at the end of 2016. His successor, Reto Graf, has been Manager IT & Controlling at the Corvaglia group until now. Corvaglia would like to thank Franco Bischof for many suc- cessful years and for his great dedication to the company. He managed both Closures plants in Mexico and Switzerland, and played a major role in ensuring that both business segments grew to become successful market players. In 2012, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the corvaglia group. Franco Bischof will retain this position at the company also in future. Corvaglia is pleased to have found an internal succes- sor for the position of General Manager. Reto Graf has been part of the Corvaglia team since 2013. Thanks to his previ- ous experience, he is already familiar with the key areas of Corvaglia Closures Eschlikon AG. www.corvaglia.ch New General Manager of Corvaglia Closures: Mr Reto Graf.