PETpla.net Insider 08 / 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 petplanet@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. 08/17 www.petpla.net In the run-up to the Drinktec event in Munich, we were invited by the editorial teams of many exhibitors to find out more about the latest developments to be presented at the trade fair. For the most part, there seems to be more evolution than revolution – the improvement of already very good machinery into even better systems. But sometimes these ideas are being implemented in a revolutionary way. This was the case at our meeting with Otto Hofstetter and BMB in Brescia, Italy. There, we were introduced to Otto Systems, a 50:50 joint venture between Yudo and Otto Hofstetter. Why would a South Korean and a Swiss manufacturer present their joint venture at the site of an Italian machine manufacturer? A good question. The solution is as ingenious as it is simple: Otto Systems now sells complete preform systems, employing existing machine and supplier manufacturers as a basis. And BMB is just one such basis. This is how mould maker Otto Hofstetter is being transformed through its joint ven- ture into a complete systems provider. CEO Stefan Zatti told us that it is precisely their knowledge of the preform that ultimately enables them to design the overall system in a suitable way. Just a few days later information reached us indicating that it is not only he that thinks this; from now on, Robert Schad, founder of Athena and previously CEO of Husky, wishes to sell his PET systems only through mould makers. This has signalled a change in the suppliers’ market. Formerly it was the machine manufacturers who had mould makers as suppliers, now it is the mould makers who are being supplied by the machine manufactur- ers. In upcoming issues, we will question Mr Zatti and Mr Schad in detail on their ideas about this seeming, about turn in the supplier market and its resulting significance for preform producers. Yours Alxander Büchler Dear friends of PETplaner Insider,