Beijing is behind us, and we are now on our way to Shanghai. We have visited Sidel’s factory as well as premium supplier Red Bull. While Sidel is up against a stagnating market for beverages in China, RedBull by contrast has invested in new PET lines to cope with growth in
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Our China Road Tour is underway. Once again, the hurdles we faced seemed insurmountable. First among them, how do we get our Editourmobil to the Celestial Empire? We undertook intensive research. The necessary permits alone would have taken us 6 months and would have cost €30,000, and there was no guarantee
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We are looking forward to our next adventure in 2016: China! In conjunction with the drinktec exhibition and the China Brew China Beverage show in Shanghai, we will set off for a seven months tour throughout the PET industry of China – again all by road! Starting in March 2016, we
Read moreEight months with only an occasional break – that’s how long our 2015 NPE tour took. From eastern Canada to western US we spent several thousand kilometres on the road, sometimes with and sometimes without the Editourmobil. The difficulties we encountered with transportation, vehicle breakdowns and the inevitable paperwork were really
Read moreNevada, Arizona, California, dream destinations, surely, for every visitor to America. Everywhere you look there are sights to see and amazing highlights. They pass before your eyes as rapidly and as frequently as empty PET bottles on the air conveyor. Which brings us neatly to the topic. More than anywhere else
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Today, Tuesday, we have an appointment with R&D/Leverage in Lee’s Summit. Bob Schiavone Global Marketing Director and CEO Todd Riley, and the management team are already waiting for us. Thus begins an interesting excursion through the history of this mould manufacturing company, its growth and the product range today. To conclude
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Monday, June 15. The two of us, my colleague Rolf and I, Kay Barton, are sitting in the plane on the way to Houston, where the Editourmobil was parked after the presentation on the booth at the NPE. Our flight includes a stopover in Pittsburgh where we are to visit Agr,
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We are now leaving North Carolina, objective Atlanta, Georgia. There we will visit the German mould maker MHT, whose subsidiary in Peachtree City, services the North American market with PET preform moulds. Ahead of us, however, we face a journey of some 400 miles, which we want to do in 2
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March 8 is a glorious day, and finally, the temperatures are registering plus rather than minus. Our Heidelberg office is still working to fix an appointment with Graham Packaging for early this week and on our radar, therefore, is the 300 km drive to York, Pennsylvania. It is Sunday, the roads
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Before heading off for our prime objective of Dayton Ohio, we visit Clariant in West Chicago, a global producer of liquid and solid colour masterbatches and additives for the plastics packaging industry and in particular we look at their Colorworks division. Here we are privileged to experience the whooshing sound of
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On we go with the tour, with the weather still registering icy (minus 10). Occasionally the sun makes a brief appearance. We prepare for our next visit. And then a big shock We’ve lost all our computer data. Nothing seems to work. What do we do now? It took us just
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