PETpla.net Insider 05 / 2020

8 NEWS PETplanet Insider Vol. 21 No. 05/20 www.petpla.net Mr Nadeem Amin joins the Sacmi USA team as Vice President – PET Sales and Business Development Sacmi announced the appointment of Mr Nadeem Amin who will be responsible for supporting customers in the North America PET preform market. Mr Amin brings over 30 years of experience in the PET preform business and will be a key asset in helping to provide customers with manu- facturing solutions. His passion and depth of experience in helping customers include business growth, business development, lightweighting preforms, development of new injection moulding systems including preform moulds and maximising production of existing perform systems. His most recent project was to build a preform manufacturing plant as a full turnkey solution with a key consideration to rPET material for a major brand. Mr Amin is known for his ability to combine technology and business value. He is expected to give the Closures, Containers & PET Division’s sales team a valuable boost, especially in regard to the develop- ment of turnkey solutions for this division. Mr Amin will work alongside Mr Allan Andersen, whose coordination work will, from now on, focus more sharply on Closures & Containers. Both individuals will be working with Mr Stefano Chiozzini, the Sacmi Closures, Containers & PET Division’s Area Sales Manager for USA and Canada. Sacmi is committed to the US market. Strengthening the sales force will drive forward the development of pio- neering preform production systems, encouraging design- embracing innovation and harness the growing appeal of PET on account of its recyclable qualities. With an indoor facility of 90,000 square feet, Sacmi USA states to have a top-flight team that provides customers with close support from the initial stages of the sale onwards via a 24/7 sales and technical assistance service. The team is made up of over 75 technicians and sales/assistance staff. It provides expert support at every phase, from product development and package light weighting to training programmes and assistance, ensuring customers always get the highest return on any Sacmi technology. All work will be overseen by the Sacmi USA headquarters, located in Des Moines, Iowa, which coordinates with the branches in Tennessee (Brentwood) and California (Merced). www.sacmi.com Indorama Ventures aims to recycle 50 billion bottles per year by 2025 Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL), a global company listed in Thailand has recycled 50 billion PET bottles since 2011 – the equivalent to the weight of over 200,000 elephants. This major global recycling milestone saved three million barrels of crude oil and eliminated 1.65 million tons of carbon. The company has committed US$ 1.5 billion to deliver more recycling infrastructure globally. Mr Yashovardhan Lohia, Chief Recycling Officer at Indo- rama Ventures said, “Today [March 23] we recycled our 50 billionth PET bottle, since we started in 2011. As a Thai com- pany, we are very proud to achieve this major global recycling milestone. We want to go further because we know PET is fully recyclable and uses less energy and water to produce than alternative beverage packaging. In five years’ time we aim to recycle 50 billion bottles a year. “To achieve this, we have committed up to US$1.5 billion to expand our recycling business. Our work will support house- hold brand names who are using more and more recycled PET in their bottles. No recyclable PET bottle should leak into our environment. We are building the recycling infrastructure the world needs. Our facilities close the loop and deliver a circular economy for PET bottles.” Mr Lohia said. Mr Richard Jones, Senior Vice President for Corporate Communications and Sustainability said, “This is an amaz- ing target to have hit and we are pushing further rapidly. On 9 th March we were pleased to sign a new joint venture with Coca-Cola that will build an advanced recycling plant in the Philippines. This facility will produce food grade recycled PET for new bottles. “We now are able to supply the major brands with safe and hygienic bottles made from recycled PET in Europe, the Americas and for the first time in Southeast Asia, in the Philippines. The plant is expected to be completed by the end of 2021,” Richard said. www.indoramaventures.com Mr. Yashovardhan Lohia, Chief Recycling Officer at Indorama Ventures