PETpla.net Insider 10 / 2019

PACKAGING PET planet Insider Vol. 20 No. 10/19 www.petpla.net 15 Stropol’s snap-on closures We are now approaching the year in which PETplanet celebrated its tenth anniversary. At the start of the anniver- sary year of 2009 (issue 01/09), Editor- in-Chief Alexander Büchler devoted his editorial to the topic of Personal Care packaging. He took the global eco- nomic crisis as an opportunity for the PET industry to break new ground and focus more strongly on PET packaging for non-beverage products, as the new mainstay of the industry. He explained that technological developments in the two-stage segment were sufficiently advanced (and that the “neck ring” hurdle had been overcome) for this technology to be usable in the Health and Beauty Care segment with high output rates, a market that had tradi- tionally been dominated by polyolefin and glass bottles. To herald the start of the year, a new editorial category named Personal Care made its way into the magazine, with the brief of providing summary information and illustrations about new products. Later in the year (issue 07/09), an article was published about US-based company Novapak, which acquired its first Sidel SBO 4 blow moulder at the end of 2008 and was manufacturing HDPE and PVC packaging, as well as two different bottle formats for detergents at 4,800 units/hour. Novapak envis- aged a strong trend and development opportunities for PET in the cosmet- ics and household products markets, as replacements for glass and PVC. At that time, PET already accounted for some 60% of its annual packag- ing volume, or approximately 1 billion packages. Sidel SBO 4 at Novapak’s shop floor At the beginning of 2010 (issue 01+02), PTI (Plastic Technologies Inc.) launched a foamed PET bottle, then known as oPTI, in cooperation with Coca-Cola, which went onto shelves in Denmark. The bottles were recycla- ble in the conventional PET recycling stream and offered barrier properties without additional additives. The same technology was used in the test for the manufacturing of shampoo bottles that were designed not to slip out of users’ fingers, even when in the shower. NO. ONE-WAY PRODUCTION. YES. TOP QUALITY RECYCLING. How can your recycled product meet permanently increasing demands? With the CHT range of high performance process solutions with environmental relief for the wet chemical cleaning. We support you directly on site and ensure your quality controls in our laboratories with state-of-the-art equipment. Thus, your strong position in the growing market is confirmed day by day. More about us at www.cht.com K | October 16–23 2019 Dusseldorf | hall 8A | booth D50