PETpla.net Insider 10 / 2017

PET news 6 NEWS PET planet Insider Vol. 18 No. 10/17 www.petpla.net Markus Kosak takes over as project manager for Drinktec As of September 1, 2017, Markus Kosak is the new pro- ject manager for Drinktec, the trade fair for the beverage and liquid food industry. Kosak was most recently project manager for the international Drinktec trade fairs. He has taken over from Petra Westphal, who will remain project group manager for all Drinktec events and, in future, assume direct project management responsibility for the international Drinktec trade fairs. Markus Kosak has been at Messe München for 12 years. He gained his first experience of Drinktec back in 2005 when he started his apprenticeship in event management. In 2007, he switched to Project Group 4.2 at Drinktec, the next logical step in his career. Over the past ten years, Kosak has held various positions for Drinktec and the Drinktec cluster, ranging from project assistant and project consultant to project manager for the international Drinktec trade fairs. In this role, Kosak was responsible for the positive development of the international Drinktec trade fairs in China, India and South Africa. Reorganisation of the Drinktec cluster Kosak will report to Petra Westphal, who will continue to be available as a contact person for Drinktec Munich and for all other Drinktec events. Alongside Petra Westphal, Georg Moller, head of Business Unit 4 at Messe München, is also available as an experienced and helpful contact person. Deputy project manager Christina Maier, a longstanding employee, will be leaving Drinktec on September 15, 2017. “Our special thanks go to Christina Maier. With her hard work and dedication over the years, she has made a significant contribution to the success of Drinktec. We wish her all the best for her new tasks and responsibilities,” says Dr Reinhard Pfeiffer. Maier has worked for Messe München and Drinktec for around ten years. www.drinktec.com Petcore Europe Conference 2018 - Strategy for PET in the circular economy Petcore Europe’s annual conference will take place in Brussels, Belgium from February 7-8, 2018. Building up on the success of recent years, the organisers decided to expand the 2018 conference edition to two days. The first half day is exclusively dedicated to PET Business & Strategy, fol- lowed by a Networking Event in the evening. The second day focuses on Trends in Collection, Recycling & Sustainability and features presentations from research, industry and EU decision makers. www.petcore-europe.org Anti-counterfeiting, brand protection and security packaging market to reach $3.6 billion in 2022 Diverse ongoing threats, new regulatory requirements for life critical products, and technical evolution will fuel market growth for anti-counterfeiting packaging technologies across the next five years, according to exclusive data from Smithers Pira. Its new report, The Future of Anti-counterfeiting, Brand Protection and Security Packaging to 2022, Smithers’ forecasts this global market will grow during the period 2017–2022 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.3%, to reach $3.6 billion in 2022. Regulatory developments, will impact positively on this market in developed economies across the next five years. These include new obligatory labelling and use of tamper evi- dence fixtures in US and EU for life-critical products, such as food, beverages, pharmaceuticals and industrial components. Other countries including China, India, South Korea, Brazil and Turkey have introduced measures designed to tighten supply chain security for the pharmaceuticals industry. Meanwhile the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) from the World Health Organization (WHO) will mandate the use of track-and-trace systems. ‘Track-and-trace’ is forecasted to be the largest technol- ogy group with a projected market share of 37% in 2017, followed closely by dedicated tamper evidence technologies with 34% of market value. www.smitherspira.com