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. 11/23 www.petpla.net Dear readers, Sometimes the past catches up with you. As the saying goes “You only meet twice in life”. I was reminded of this during Intravis’s 30th anniversary celebrations (see article on page 32). Yes, there were some people among the 100 or so guests whom I had not seen for a long while, but I was totally unaware that Gerd Fuhrmann, founder and CEO of Intravis, and I had worked together almost 30 years ago. We both studied in Aachen and may well have sat opposite one another in some student pub. But our first collaboration was probably in 1996. Back then, Intravis was a small, up-and-coming technology company and I was editor of the trade magazine Plastverarbeiter. And what did Gerd have to say about his business? - His company’s slogan “We solve problems. Before they occur”, which dates from 1996 and first appeared in Plastverarbeiter! It must have passed through my hands then and perhaps I gave one or two clues. Neither Gerd Fuhrmann nor I knew at the time how much the PET industry would dominate our lives for the next few decades. Dear Gerd – all the very best and here’s to the next 30 years! Yours, Alexander Büchler
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