May 8th, 2009
PET flat out
The PET worldwide market is undergoing a continuous growth.This is maintained by the experts intervened to the Petnology Europe, which took place in Cologne, Germany, in March within the Anuga FoodTec event, providing the operators a wide angled panorama of the recent developments and innovations occurred in the beverage and PET bottles industries.
Experts estimate that the growth will be constant till 2025, with different growing indexes in the different countries.
Currently 85% of PET is utilized in the beverage industry, the remaining is utilized for medical-sanitary products and for food and no-food products.
The efforts of the companies operating in this field keep on targeting to perfectioning this material: even the smallest weight reduction allows considerable cost savings.
0.5L bottles weighing 9/10 grams can nowadays be found on the marketplace, half of the weight of the bottles produced until few years ago.
Enriched with vitamins, fibres of salts, fruit juices and fruit-based drinks are nowadays part of our everyday habits in terms of beverage.
Woman, 35-years old, high salary.
According to Global Beverage Forecasts from Canadean, Basingstoke, UK, the growing rhythm of bottled water consumption on the US and EU markets will decrease of 1% per year in the upcoming five years, in absolute contra-tendency if compared to the two-figure growth registered during the period spanning from 2000 to 2008.
During the past five years it has undergone a 5% average growth per year and the most recent surveys of the international institutes are recording just a slight slow-down in the recent months. It is estimated that in the most advanced European countries and in the USA, the 85% of pet holders usually feed their animals with ready-to-eat food.
