imprint EDITORIAL PUBLISHER Alexander Büchler, Managing Director HEAD OFFICE heidelberg business media GmbH Hubweg 15 74939 Zuzenhausen, Germany phone: +49 6221-65108-0 info@petpla.net EDITORIAL Kay Barton Heike Fischer Gabriele Kosmehl Michael Maruschke Ruari McCallion Anthony Withers Editorial & WikiPETia. info petplanet@petpla.net MEDIA CONSULTANTS Martina Hirschmann hirschmann@petpla.net Johann Lange-Brock lange-brock@petpla.net phone: +49 6221-65108-0 LAYOUT AND PREPRESS EXPRIM Werbeagentur Matthias Gaumann www.exprim.de 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. 25 No. 01+02/24 www.petpla.net Credit: Cover illustration by Anja Stiehler-Patschan Dear readers, Sometimes two pieces of information fit together even though they actually have no connection with each other. This is definitely the case with my story today: the first happened in Mexico, the second in Lithuania. Both have to do with our new favourite topic, the Tethered Cap. In Ciudad Obregon, Mexico, my son visited the traditional restaurant El Bronco and, among other things, ordered water. A PET bottle came with a tethered cap. My son was puzzled. OK in Europe, maybe even in California but in Obregon? Upon closer inspection, he discovered that it was just a badly slit cap, so nothing to do with a tethered cap. And then we had a message from Retal in, Lithuania. When slitting, they removed just part of the knife and therefore the cap was only partially slitted. So actually the production error - found in Mexico - was dealt with in an orderly fashion. Retal has now found an EasyTether solution that costs practically nothing (photo below). Details can be found on page 33. Yours, Alexander Büchler
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