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PUBLISHED BY: SIPA S.p.A. via Caduti del Lavoro, 3 31029 Vittorio Veneto - Italy +39 0438 911511 www.sipa.it THANKS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO: Nampak Wilmar International Kulara Water Ab Noosh - Mineral Water Monarch Plastics Group Telemark PUBLISHED ON: April 2014 CREDITS: IngImage, Shutterstock Concept, Design, Layout: Bia Network, Advercity COVER: Design: Zitta Schnitt, Photo Credits: Paris Tsitsos EDITORIAL AROUND THE GLOBE NEWS FROM THE DIFFERENT CONTINENTS SOUTH AFRICA - NAMPAK Sipa scores in south africa with xform preform system for nampak CHINA - WILMAR YIHAI KERRY CONTINUES ITS COLLABORATION...

EDITORIAL As the World Wide Web celebrates its 25th birthday, everything is connected as never before. The global economy is on a recovery path, but things are still rather fragile. The euro area is gradually emerging from a protracted recession, and growth in the United States has increased slightly, but prospects among developing countries and economies in transition are mixed, and still very prone to external influences. Markets change from one day to the next. So just like the spider in its real web, operators need to be nimble. We at SIPA believe that flexibility is even more important than...

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AROUND THE GLOBE - SOUTH AFRICA SIPA SCORES IN SOUTH AFRICA WITH XFORM PREFORM SYSTEM FOR NAMPAK Africa’s largest packaging company, Nampak, has chosen SIPA’s XFORM 500 preform production system to make juice and CSD bottle preforms for major beverages players on the South African market. The system was installed during 2013 and has exceeded Nampak’s expectations. SIPA supplied a complete preform system that included the XFORM500 injection moulding machine equipped with a 72-cavity mold, together with two more 72-cavity cold halves, to produce preforms in various weights for production of bottles...

AROUND THE GLOBE - SOUTH AFRICA the XFORM 500 and about the relationship we have established with SIPA. The system has been running smoothly since the day we first switched it on, achieving excellent preform quality. SIPA has done a good job with know-how transfer to our people, and on-site service is available with all the right skills, which helped provide a smooth transition. We are happy to have found a partner that can support us both on technology and on packaging development.” SIPA’s XFORM 500 is actually capable of handling molds with up to 144 cavities. Not only will it accept molds...

AROUND THE GLOBE - CHINA YIHAI KERRY CONTINUES ITS COLLABORATION WITH SIPA IN PREFORM AND BOTTLE PRODUCTION Major vegetable oil producer Yihai Kerry is once again banking on SIPA in a new investment for its packaging lines. The Shanghai-headquartered company, part of Part of Wilmar International, Asia’s leading agribusiness group, produces edible oils, feed meals, rice, flour, bran, grains, specialty fats, oleochemicals and soy protein concentrate at over 170 large-scale integrated manufacturing plants located in 43 strategic locations. In its operations dedicated to edible oils, Yihai Kerry...

AROUND THE GLOBE - CHINA eight million production cycles before the first maintenance of the mold, and total energy consumption is best in class. And if it chooses, Yihai Kerry can install any existing large mold on the XFORM 500, irrespective of whether that mold was made by SIPA or one of its competitors. So it obtains performance, energy efficiency, and total flexibility. Yihai Kerry parent company Wilmar International is one of the lar_14 gest companies listed on the Singapore stock exchange. Its business activities include oil palm cultivation, oilseeds crushing, edible oils refining, sugar,...

AROUND THE GLOBE - CAMBODIA SIPA INSTALLS COMPLETE LINE FOR CAMBODIA’S FIRST AND FOREMOST NATURAL MINERAL WATER BOTTLER “Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink,” wrote the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His Ancient Mariner was adrift at sea at the time, but he might have said the same thing if he was walking through Cambodia until recently. Cambodia may have a monsoon climate, but you would have been well-advised to avoid some bottled water there. Happily, things are changing, and SIPA is helping to make it happen. Just a few years ago, Frenchman Bernard Forey discovered many bottled...

AROUND THE GLOBE - CAMBODIA in the country’s Long An province. That acquifer became the source of La Vie mineral water, sold by a company that Forey set up and later sold to what is now Nestlé Waters. So Forey already knew quite a lot about water and how to get it into bottles. Looking for water from the air To cut a long story short, Forey went with his son who is a pilot, _18 on an aerial survey in Cambodia over the Angkor temples and 30km away to the mountainous region of Kulen, birth place of the Khmer civilisation. He spotted an unexpected waterfall close to the top of the Mount Kulen, as...

AROUND THE GLOBE - CAMBODIA integrated with a complete set of downstream bottling and packaging equipment sourced locally. The line produces bottles in 300, 500, and 1500 mL formats. SIPA and Kulara Water are now working together to develop new designs for premium and lightweight bottles too. Kulara Water, headquartered in Phnom Penh, is selling its Eau Kulen mineral water to the best restaurants and hotels in the country, as well as top supermarkets. The company is now targeting retailers all across the country. Eau Kulen is widely considered to be the only pure mineral water from local source....