PETpla.net Insider 06 / 2017

BOTTLING / FILLING PET planet Insider Vol. 18 No. 06/17 www.petpla.net 32 Tour Sponsors: Go with the flow. South East Asia Road Show The world’s most sold bottled water by Alexander Büchler Danone Aqua, Bogor, Indonesia, February 21, 2017 We met: Mr Sultoni Atmaja, purchasing manager Mrs Oktarina Indrialaksmi PT Golden Mississippi was founded in 1973 in Bekasi and was one of the first businesses to enter the bottled water market. The first PET bottle was rolled out as early as 1985, whilst Europe was still using PVC bottles for their water. In Indo- nesia, the product was a 220ml PET. On 4th September 1998, the Aqua and Danone groups were merged. This step improved product quality and propelled Aqua to the biggest producer of packaged mineral water in Indonesia, with a market share of over 40%. Aqua comes from selected springs in Indonesia. The water is packaged into different sized plastic bottles; 330ml, 600ml, 750ml and 1500ml, with the most water being bottled in 32mm caps and 5 different flavours: Lychee Lemon, Liven Up Orang Lime, Dazzling Apple Guava, Passionate Passion Fruit, and Uniquely Your Mangga Kweni. Aqua Lastari was the new product, coming in 330ml bottles with 32mm caps. This juice supports health and life balance, as well as bridging the gaps between business and environ- mental sustainability. The 5.1ha site in Bogor has grown over the years, one hall joining onto the next. Every bottling production line has its own area, including the drying line. We visited the PET line with Sipa blow-moulding and Procomac bottling equipment for 600ml water bottles. This is where the newest product is processed – a 330ml contoured bottle covered in a sleeve printed with fig- ures. Today the Star Trek range is on the production line. The bottle is rather heavy, weighing 16gr with a PCO 28 longneck. The product lines supermar- ket shelves at the same price as the original core product of the line – the 600ml shortneck water bottle. The water that Aqua uses in PET bottles is delivered by tankers from sources that are about 60km away, whereas the 5 gallon containers are filled with water from wells drilled on company premises. Aqua bottles a total of 160 million litres in gallon con- tainers and a total of 180 million litres in PET bottles. Drinks in bottles with 32mm caps amount to 80 million litres per year. Preforms used for 600ml bottles and bottles with 32mm caps are pro- duced in-house on Husky production lines. www.aqua.com Star Trek on PET water bottles by Aqua Danone The Editourmobile in front of the company logo Any idea what it is? Until recently, I didn’t know either. It’s Aqua by Danone in Indonesia and on average it has grown by at least 10% per year to reach the 13 billion litres sold in 2017. Their aim: to reach the 20-billion-litre mark in three to four years. Out of over 20 factories located in the coun- try, we visited the site in Bogor which primarily supplies the greater Jakarta area. 5 gallon PC water containers. Aqua also packages in 240ml polypropylene cups. Besides water, they also pro- duce the energy drink Mizone which comes in 500ml PET bottles with