PETpla.net Insider 12 / 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. 12/20 www.petpla.net There is no year in PETplanet’s history which has seen quite so many changes as 2020. What began slowly with an excellent interview with Rajesh Nath of VDMA India about coronavirus in issue 5 subsequently led to a series of similar conversations. Sacmi, R&D Leverage, Husky, GDXL, Sukano and, in this issue, Amcor, describe the impact, Covid-19 has had on their work. Our hugely popular Editour event was not able to take place as planned. Instead, we conducted interviews remotely which can be heard on a PETcast on our homepage or read in the magazine. This issue focuses specifically on Taiwan. Many trade fairs were cancelled, in particular Interpack, Chinaplas and the Brau event last month. We made other arrangements by holding PETinars in May, June and November, a list of which can be found on our homepage under “Postponed events” and “Services/PETinars” respectively. We also had difficulties in sending our magazine to the rest of the world as not all postal agencies were able to process foreign mail. Those countries that did not receive printed copies were sent a PDF version which also enabled the latest news on PET to reach many office staff working from home. We will maintain this level of commitment for as long as is necessary. PETplanet’s main focus will continue to be our outstanding printed publication and on-site research with Editourmobil. However, it is safe to say that many of the new formats are going to be retained. On that note, I wish you all a relaxing time over the holiday period. Yours sincerely Alexander Büchler A look back over the year 2020 Dear readers,