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by Heike Fischer PETplanet Insider talked with a spokesman of the management team of GDXL about the company’s experience during the Covid-19 pandemic and the PET market in China. We thank the GDXL team very much for their assessment of the situation on site. PETplanet: China was the first country to

by Christoph Wynands (Product Manager) and Malte Nitz (Marketing), Intravis In recent years, the demands and challenges in the production of preforms have grown steadily due to needs for increasing material savings and the expanding use of recycled materials. The demands on inspection solutions for preforms have also risen to the

Interview with Vezio Bernardi, General Manager Sacmi Closures Containers PET QPC, on how to navigate a company through the Covid-19 crisis by Gabriele Kosmehl The north is the region of Italy where the country’s engineering companies are located, and the north of Italy is also the first region in Europe where

Amul has hit upon a new field for PET in India. It is filling PET bottles with 200 ml of flavoured milk. The market for aseptic packaging is booming. Amul already have three aseptic PET bottle filling lines, while a fourth line had been ordered to start production before the end of

Husky’s story in India began with the delivery of its first machine to the Sub-Continent, in 1998. Since then, it has supplied over 280 machines and approximately 600 moulds to India and other SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) countries, specifically: Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Maldives and Bhutan. Three-quarters of

Experts discuss the coronavirus crisis in India. We spoke to Rajesh Nath, Managing Director, VDMA India (Mechanical Engineering Industry Association) The coronavirus lockdown in India has been extended until May 3, 2020. In common with other countries in the world, the government has taken that decision in order to slow down

Dear readers, With the onset of the coronavirus, your company will no doubt be making arrangements to ensure that production continues. If you are working in the drinks’ manufacturing sector, you will be having to deal with a significant rise in regional demand under increasingly demanding circumstances such as sick staff,

by Michael Maruschke Ester Industries Limited, which is headquartered in Gurgaon (Gurugram), Haryana State, India has been manufacturing polyester films for more than 35 years. Ester is made up of three business divisions: BoPET Films, Engineering Plastics and Specialty Polymers. They have production capacities of 57,000 tonnes/year; 26,000 tonnes/year; and 47,000

Petcore Europe Conference February 2020 Circularity and innovation – Shaping the future of PET Each year the European PET value chain meets in Brussels for the annual Petcore Europe Conference. This year the two-day conference was held in Brussels to welcome more than 300 industry delegates. Under the theme “Circularity and

Interview with Renzo Davatz, CEO of KraussMaffei HighPerformance AG Since the summer of 2019, Netstal has been renamed KraussMaffei HighPerformance AG. We asked Renzo Davatz – almost 30 years in the company and CEO since 2016 – about the background to this. We were particularly interested in the prospects for the

We met: Mr Rick Unterlander, General Manager PET Mr Vincent Travaglini, President & CEO We spoke with General Manager PET Mr Rick Unterlander about the past, the future and, of course, about PET. He began with an outline of the history of Stackteck, which was established in 1998 as a merger