imprint EDITORIAL PUBLISHER Alexander Büchler, Managing Director HEAD OFFICE heidelberg business media GmbH Hubweg 15 74939 Zuzenhausen, Germany phone: +49 6221-65108-0 fax: +49 6221-65108-28 info@petpla.net EDITORIAL Kay Barton Heike Fischer Gabriele Kosmehl Michael Maruschke Ruari McCallion Anthony Withers WikiPETia. info petplanet@petpla.net MEDIA CONSULTANTS Martina Hirschmann hirschmann@petpla.net Johann Lange-Brock lange-brock@petpla.net phone: +49 6221-65108-0 fax: +49 6221-65108-28 LAYOUT AND PREPRESS EXPRIM Werbeagentur | exprim.de Matthias Gaumann READER SERVICES reader@petpla.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. 24 No. 01+02/23 www.petpla.net Dear readers, PETplanet is finally back in India! The pandemic interfered with our visits to India for a long time. We have continued to report from afar, but in such a market with its 1.4 billion people, where consumer behaviour is changing more rapidly than almost anywhere else, it is almost sacrilegious not to be able to be there in person for so long. Last December, after a forced break of two years, I was finally back on the ground, both at the local beverage trade fair Drink Technology India (DTI) in Mumbai and at some processors and bottlers, including the Pepsi bottler of the Jaipuria Group in the city of Jammu, where Alexander Buechler had last been in 2009. This time, DTI was co-organised with Pack Mach Asia Expo and World Tea & Coffee. The organiser Messe München India counted a total of 13,104 visitors from 33 countries - an increase of around 8% compared to the last DTI in Mumbai in 2018. The mood of optimism and enthusiasm was palpable. One of the most moving topics in the industry is sustainability, recycling and the future use of rPET in beverage and food packaging. This topic, which has been discussed in India since the possibility of producing food-grade recyclate was first mooted and is now expected to be implemented this year, is set to shake up the PET packaging market. Enjoy reading our first issue of 2023! Yours, Kay Barton
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