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 [email protected] EDITORIAL Kay Barton Heike Fischer Gabriele Kosmehl Michael Maruschke Ruari McCallion Anthony Withers WikiPETia. info [email protected] MEDIA CONSULTANTS Martina Hirschmann [email protected] Johann Lange-Brock [email protected] phone: +49 6221-65108-0 fax: +49 6221-65108-28 LAYOUT AND PREPRESS EXPRIM Werbeagentur | exprim.de Matthias Gaumann READER SERVICES Till Kretner [email protected] 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. 23 No. 03/22 www.petpla.net Dear readers, On Thursday, March 24th we are starting our PETinar on the subject of closures, which is currently the most hotly discussed topic in our PET industry. Presenting the event will be Intravis, Universal Closures and Z Moulds. They will oversee all aspects of closures, from mould making to production to inspection. The tethered cap will be the common thread running through the talks. Based on the experiences of the previous PETinar we will be giving give the auditorium enough space to broaden the topic with questions. We look forward to a lively discussion. Chinaplas 2022 opens its doors from April 25 to 28. It is still difficult for visitors from outside China to visit Asia’s leading trade fair for the plastics industry. Nevertheless, Chinaplas lives up to its claim as a national trade fair. It takes place at a difficult time. Prime Minister Li Keqiang said at the opening of the National People’s Congress, “The Chinese economy is currently facing many more risks and challenges.” The Corona pandemic and the Evergrande Real Estate conglomerate, which is threatened with bankruptcy, are leaving their mark. Nevertheless, the PET industry in China is positive about the future. According to GDXL (see interview on page 34), Chinese consumers are turning to safer packaged foods and therefore also packaged beverages, and as a result of steadily increasing prosperity, more and more people are now able to afford packaged beverages. Despite difficult economic circumstances, the Chinese PET market remains the driving force behind the PET industry. In its last annual report, Krones forecast annual growth rates for bottled beverages of 2.5% by 2023 in China (245.5 billion litres in 2020 plus 18.7 billion litres by 2023). By contrast, Africa and Asia-Pacific are around 2% and the rest of the world lags behind at around 0%. Yours sincerely, Alexander Büchler
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