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2023/2024 – The Middle East Tour

2023/2024 - The Middle East Tour 

From 0 to 4 million bottles per day in 2 years

19 Nov 2024 Heike Fischer 1795 Views 4 min read

Visit to Sarooj Water in Oman, by Alexander Büchler In Oman, just three years ago, a 24-pack of the favourite 250 ml single-serve water bottle cost 1.60 euros in a discount supermarket. That’s not even 7 eurocents per bottle. Supermarkets are now offering the same 24-pack of 250 ml Sarooj water for 0.80 euro

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2023/2024 - The Middle East Tour Editour 

Egyptian bottle, container and cap production

17 Sep 202421 Oct 2024 Kay Barton 8154 Views 3 min read

It’s Sunday 8 September and PETplanet has two appointments in 6th of October City. First, I take the Editourmobil to the PET recycler Bariq. Here I meet COO Ahmed Abdel Fattah and Marketing Manager Mrs Nour El Gammal, who, together with their team, tell me about their work as pioneers in

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The Egypt Editourmobil
2023/2024 - The Middle East Tour Editour 

The Middle East Road Show has reached its next tour stop: Egypt!

12 Sep 202412 Sep 2024 Kay Barton 7662 Views 4 min read

It’s Wednesday, 4 September and the world is slowly waking up from its summer holiday. After a relatively short three-hour flight, I land in Cairo in the afternoon, where I initially have a few problems on arrival with my visa. Apparently it can only be paid for in dollars, which is

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2023/2024 - The Middle East Tour 

From Jeddah to Wadi Al Dawasir and back to Riyadh

12 Mar 202412 Mar 2024 Kay Barton 7485 Views 8 min read

It’s 22 February – Saudi Founding Day! That means I have a compulsory break from visiting today. And tomorrow too, because it’s Friday and I can’t make any appointments. So that means time for writing and organising. I still have a number of confirmed appointments for the coming days, but without

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2023/2024 - The Middle East Tour 

Welcome to the up-and-coming Saudi Arabia

26 Feb 202412 Mar 2024 Kay Barton 7195 Views 6 min read

It’s finally time again! After the successful first part of the Middle East Road Show to the United Arab Emirates before the Christmas holidays, it’s now time for the second tour destination, Saudi Arabia! Admittedly, organising the dates there was anything but easy and so I kept my travel arrangements very

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2023/2024 - The Middle East Tour 

Last meetings before the holidays

22 Dec 2023 Kay Barton 6870 Views 3 min read

At the beginning of my last week in the UAE, I drive to the packaging and mould manufacturer Precision Group. The plant is not far from Downtown Dubai. The new GM Sajeed Abdul Lathief, who has just taken over from David Swan, who recently went into well-deserved retirement, is waiting for

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2023/2024 - The Middle East Tour 

From the climate conference to the mountains, Sharjah and Arabplast

18 Dec 202318 Dec 2023 Kay Barton 6907 Views 5 min read

Although the weekend beckons, I’ve decided that I want to get as much done as possible before the holidays. In addition to gathering information and writing reports from my meetings, there is still an out-of-town appointment on the programme for Sunday 10 December. I had registered for a visit to the

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2023/2024 - The Middle East Tour 

The first meetings and traffic that takes some getting used to

11 Dec 202318 Dec 2023 Kay Barton 6506 Views 5 min read

Today, Tuesday 5 December, my route takes me to the Pepsi bottler Dubai Refreshment in the Dubai Investment Park 2 industrial estate, around 30 km from my flat in Business Bay. Motivated, I drive our UAE Editourmobil towards the motorway, which is only a few minutes away from my home. So

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2023/2024 - The Middle East Tour 

From snow chaos to balmy summer

5 Dec 20235 Dec 2023 Kay Barton 6213 Views 3 min read

It’s Saturday. Motivated by the fact that the Middle East Roadshow is finally getting underway, I make my way to Vienna Airport, from where I’m heading to Dubai with a stopover in Istanbul. Despite Vienna’s excellent public transport infrastructure, I decide to take an Uber, as it has been snowing so

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2023/2024 - The Middle East Tour 

PET world in the Middle East

26 Jan 202312 Mar 2024 Kay Barton 7007 Views 1 min read

After our successful Drinktec tour, the PETplanet team is going to the Middle East in the last quarter of 2023! In a spectacular project taking us well into 2024, we will be travelling in a wide variety of ways to various countries and regions of the Middle East with different mobile

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2023/2024 - The Middle East Tour 

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25 Jan 202312 Mar 2024 Matthias Gaumann 1154 Views 0 min read

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