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Carefully filled in PET bottles Coming from the west of France, we reach the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. The Massif Central welcomes us. From a distance we can already make out the volcanic landscape of the Chaîne des Puys with its 1,465 m high volcano Puy-de-Dôme. This Chaîne des Puys is represented by the

Investment in state-of-the-art equipment pays off From Spain, we passed the Pyrenees and were warmly welcomed in France in Chalon-sur-Saône, 135 km north of Lyon, at the SGT & SGR factory site. Our last visit was already six years ago, and a lot has happened since then. The SGR/SGT team looked somewhat

A conversation with India’s largest private company December 9, 2022, Reliance Industries Ltd. We met:Mr Bharat B Mehta, Vice President – PET MarketingMr Rakesh Bali, Senior Vice President, Head Marketing (Petchem)Mr Raghunath Datar, Regional ManagerMr Rajiv Kumar, AVP – PET MarketingMr Aditya Pahurkar, Manager Sales & Marketing (PET)Mr Shubhang Shanbag, Manager

Comprehensive restructuring from marketing to energy consumption From before the coronavirus crisis, revenues at Acque Minerali d´Italia had halved. PETplanet insider spoke with the new CEO Alessandro Frondella, whose job it is to put this right. To do this, he is leaving no stone unturned – marketing, the team, customers, and

Spanish state-of-the-art PET packaging service The next part of our Editour starts in the north-east of Spain. 230 km from Barcelona, heading northwest, the Editourmobile reaches the Spanish province of Huesca, which belongs to the autonomous community of Aragon. Our destination is the Comarca of Somontano de Barbastro, with the district capital

by Heike Fischer CHP engineering company is offering a wide range of lubrication solutions, specific for the food and beverage industries all over the world. CHP’s activities are grouped into four strategic business units: the MicroDry Slat lubrication technology, the MicroDry Air coating technology, the MicroDry all-in-one hygienic solution (CIP) and

by Ruari McCallion Mark Smith, Vice-President and Technical Director of Universal Closures Ltd, talked about the company’s tradition of innovation, the challenges of branching out into new markets and the impact of upcoming legislation on closure system design. The name may not be immediately familiar to consumers of beverages, whether still

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