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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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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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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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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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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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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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Business is booming for waste sorting systems Around 160 km to the northeast of Barcelona is the small Catalonian town of Roses. Here in 2004, Norwegian recycling equipment provider Tomra installed a local branch when it took over the former local distributor. This was in response to a recycling situation that was
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Increased PET bottle production with technology from Neutraubling In Neureut, a district of Karlsruhe in Baden-Wuerttemberg in the south of Germany, the local site of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners Deutschland – CCEP for short – is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Produced here are the 1.25 l Coca-Cola PET single-use bottles and other drinks
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Spanish plant manufacturer Side S.A. is a good example of lockdowns and pandemics not having to be the worst-case scenario for a company. Through pre-emptive action and close collaboration with customers, the company not only managed in 2021 to generate the best sales in its company history, but at the same
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We reach the region around Volvic on Thursday, one day before our appointment with the world-renowned water bottler located there. Our chosen campsite is just ten minutes away from the Volvic factory. The search for a decent coffee proves challenging but in the village itself, around a kilometre and a half
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