PETpla.net Insider 11 / 2020

imprint EDITORIAL PUBLISHER Alexander Büchler, Managing Director HEAD OFFICE heidelberg business media GmbH Vangerowstraße 33 69115 Heidelberg, Germany phone: +49 6221-65108-0 fax: +49 6221-65108-28 info@hbmedia.net EDITORIAL Kay Barton Heike Fischer Gabriele Kosmehl Michael Maruschke Ruari McCallion Waldemar Schmitke Anthony Withers WikiPETia.info petplanet@hbmedia.net MEDIA CONSULTANTS Martina Hirschmann hirschmann@hbmedia.net Johann Lange-Brock lange-brock@hbmedia.net phone: +49 6221-65108-0 fax: +49 6221-65108-28 LAYOUT AND PREPRESS EXPRIM Werbeagentur | exprim.de Matthias Gaumann READER SERVICES Till Kretner reader@hbmedia.net PRINT Chroma Druck Eine Unternehmung der Limberg-Druck GmbH Danziger Platz 6 67059 Ludwigshafen, Germany WWW www.hbmedia.net | w ww.petpla.net PETplanet Insider ISSN 1438-9459 is published 10 times a year. This publication is sent to qualified subscribers (1-year subscription 149 EUR, 2-year subscription 289 EUR, Young professionals’ sub- scription 99 EUR. Magazines will be dispatched to you by airmail). Not to be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher. Note: The fact that product names may not be identified as trademarks is not an indication that such names are not registered trademarks. 3 PETplanet Insider Vol. 21 No. 11/20 www.petpla.net Nothing is the same as it was before the virus and this is especially true for trade fairs. The China Brew China Beverage (CBB) event recently came to a close. Due to entry restrictions into China, this year’s fair was a local event. It is hard to believe that drink industry representatives from all over Asia used to meet up there in years gone by. But the good thing is that the CBB was able to take place – one small step back to normality. However, the situation is quite different in Europe where the Brau Beviale trade fair in Nuremberg has been cancelled due to the increasing number of coronavirus cases. There had been plans to restrict the event to a few exhibition areas but it will now take place digitally. Here, a return to normality is still some way off. And what has the supply industry been up to? Trade fairs are always seen as an ideal opportunity to showcase new innovations and to chat to customers. Nowadays, communication is largely digital, with new developments being promoted, for example, in our PETplanet Insider magazine. In our last issue 10/2020, we featured the new Netstal line and Sipa injection compression moulding machine. Here, our focus is on digital printing of caps using CAPrint. All these technologies would normally have been the highlights of a trade fair’s exhibition. We hope that next spring’s trade fairs such as Interpack in Düsseldorf at the end of February and the NPE event in Orlando in May can be a step back to normality. It will be interesting to see just how much further ahead the Chinese are by then which we will see for ourselves at the Chinaplas trade fair in Shenzhen in April 2021. Let us all look forward to the time when bustling trade fairs with face-to-face contact are able to take place again. Yours sincerely Alexander Büchler Dear readers,