PETpla.net Insider 06 / 2019

JUBILEE PET planet Insider Vol. 20 No. 06/19 www.petpla.net 12 12 JUBILEE mmm$he[Z[hi$Z[ Y O U R PA R T N E R F O R B L OW MO U L D S . STEPS TO THE PERFECT BOTTLE. >YZV 9Zh^\c IZX]cdad\n BVcj[VXijg^c\ 8bem CekbZ &%% HZgk^XZ The Indian market is on the up – the Kedia family has put a lot of effort into building up Manjushree. Vimal Kedia, Managing Director Manjushree Technopack when being honoured with the Lifetime Achievement award at The Economic Times Polymers Awards 2017. Subba Bangera has established Sidel’s head- quarters in India. Volker Till, formerly of KHS, then Till Ltd, took over responsibility for bottle printing on PET bottles. The Chinese as well did not want to neglect their family tradition: Andi, Chairman of Demark Holding Andi from Demark has been building on its ideas from mouldmaking to the pallet; but Guoji Xie, together with the mould maker GDXL, has been occupying this space for many years now and is pushing Chinese toolmaking very strongly in the West. Paola Piccinelli from Siad has a detailed under- standing of energy costs in the compressor sector. From left: Paolo Ferrario, President & CEO Siad, Alexan- der Büchler, Anna Roggeri, Compressor Division Execu- tive Assistant and Paola Piccinelli, Marketing Communi- cation & Public Relations As always with such reviews, they are personal, judgemental and certainly incomplete. On our 10 th anniversary, we concentrated on large injection-mould- ing machines and stretch blow-moulding manufactur- ers and undertook to bring other suppliers on board within 10 years. In the next 10 years, we promise to extend this commitment to the very many bottling plants which have a ust as long and often even longer history, and which have also produced driven leaders who all deserve to be mentioned.