PETpla.net Insider 01+02 / 2019

9 NEWS PET planet Insider Vol. 20 No. 01+02/19 www.petpla.net Increased manpower MHT USA strengthens customer support, engages new partners and commits investments into 2019 MHT USA enjoyed a very strong and successful year in 2018. Order volume was double that of the year before and, with new partners joining the international team, it is looking forward to 2019 with optimism. Customers in the Americas are now being supported and serviced by four agencies, operating in the local languages and in the same timezones. AMZ Resulting / Marcio Amazonas has been announced as the new busi- ness agent for Canada and the US. Marcio Amazonas, former Coke and PTI business development executive, recently joined MHT in its efforts to reach out more directly into the US market. “There are still many Canadian and US bottle and preform manufacturers, with whom we are not in touch. Even though the overall market growth is low, with our service and customer dedication we can grow and win many more projects and customers here,” said Andreas Krampe, CEO of MHT USA. In Central America, Plasgrom joined the team at the beginning of 2018. Two key accounts have already been developed and supported by Enrique Estrada – Plasgrom’s main PET representative – and David Felix. MHT will join Plasgrom in early April 2019 at the Plasimagen exhibition in Mexico City. “Mr Estrada is well known and respected in the industry for his customer dedication and reliability. He sold several projects into HPP5 and other machines in 2018 and pre- dicts more deliveries for 2019,” said Mr Krampe. In Brazil, another key market for PET moulds, MHT is represented by Fabio Franco of Globalplast. Franco was one of MHT’s first agents in the Americas. He provides refurbishment and conversion support in Brazil and surrounding countries, as well as technical services on site and from his facilities in Sao Paulo. In other South American countries, MHT is represented by Lateral Hint. Sergio Freire and Pablo Almazan pro- vide technical services and customer support from Panama to Argentina, from their base in Chile. Andreas Krampe said that the recent connection of MHT USA to its parent company’s global ERP system, along with the imminent provision of engineering, preform design support and CAD services from its offices in Atlanta means that it will provide better service and faster feedback to its growing North and South American customer base. During 2018, MHT USA undertook several projects with inhouse assem- bly of new moulds in its home territory. With partners in Mexico, it can provide refurbishment and conversion services domestically there, and Globalplast is the third full service and refurbishment centre in the Americas. MHT was recently acquired by Krones AG, Germany; its North Ameri- can centre is in Franklin, Wisconsin. www.krones.com www.mht-ag.com 9 NEWS Team Plasgrom / Central America with (f.l.t.r.) Enrique Estrada, Andreas Krampe, David Felix in front of MHT’s HQs in Hochheim, Germany info@hasplastik.com Tel: +90 212 695 50 00 Fax: +90 212 694 97 24 100815dmyR .com