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 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 | www.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’ subscription 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. 22 No. 12/21 www.petpla.net Dear readers, The Editourmobil is back on the road again! We were only able to carry out the West Pacific Tour 2020 via podcast and telephone interviews, but we have now started our tour which will ultimately take us to Drinktec in Munich. Due to the current situation, we are limiting ourselves to Europe, travelling only to those countries permitted under Covid-19 restrictions. We began with three appointments, more or less on our doorstep. In this issue you can read the interview with Alexander Krautkrämer, CEO of Bericap, on the subject of tethered caps. Much has happened on this over the past few months. The subject has dominated discussions at recent trade fairs. What will the cap look like in principle? The multinationals seem to be focusing on the Clip Aside cap. Current thinking is that this cap is consumer-friendly. We also report on our visit to the Plastic Recycler RCS Plastics. There, PET disposable bottles are recycled into PET reusable bottles. New plant has been ordered and will be added in 2022 to increase the granulate capacity to 50,000 t/a. At this point I would like to draw your attention to our third visit to Christian Wagner, CEO of the preform mould manufacturer MHT. Here, too, the theme of tethered caps was very much to the fore. MHT – an independent subsidiary of Krones – has invested heavily in the automated production of neck rings in order to be prepared for the expected conversion of moulds to new neck geometries. You will be able to read this interview in issue 1+2 / 2022 as part of our Caps & Closures Special! I wish you a very Happy New Year. Stay safe! Yours sincerely, Alexander Büchler Cover: 66 feet (20m) soda pop bottle sculpture at Route 66 (photo: Melissa Kopka via iStock)
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