PET insights

February/March 2025

25 years of PETnology

Dear Readers,

Have you heard? There's something to celebrate.

connecting comPETence - to keep PET packaging ahead. That was my vision 25 years ago - as an experienced PET engineer and optimist - to meet the growing challenges of the global PET packaging industry. It was becoming increasingly important to understand in detail all the technological solutions and changes in the individual steps of the entire process chain of a manufactured, filled, sealed, labelled and, above all, recyclable PET bottle in order to recognise the influences on one's own products and solutions. In addition, it has been and continues to be important to comply with increasing regulations and to meet them with new solutions.

With PETnology, we have created a platform for PET industry professionals dedicated to the progressive and sustainable development of PET and alternatives, PET packaging and PET machinery and PET moulds.

PETnology contributes to sharing knowledge, discussing best practices and, from this, initiating research and development and co-operation to find the most economically and ecologically sustainable solution.

PETnology is proud that many of these innovative ideas and new developments have been presented at our PETnology conferences and in our print and online media.

We would like to thank all our partners and supporters who have been with us over the years. Your commitment and passion for PET is what drives us. Let us look forward to a complex and positive future together and continue to work towards a better, more sustainable world. We will continue to do our part.

We wish you a successful exhibition year 2025 and look forward to reporting on your innovations on our platform and, in particular, discussing them at the upcoming PETnology Europe conference in Switzerland in May. Which will also be celebrating an anniversary: It will be our 30^th conference.

We keep our finger on the pulse of PET technology.

Dr. Otto Appel

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