Flavored, light, high-energy or mixed ... Beer is becoming increasingly diverse in terms of tastes, brands and packaging, and the market is enjoying steady growth. Sidel is innovating in this sector, as Group President Mart Tiismann explains in his SidelInLine editorial. The Taiwanese company Far Eastern, the Dutch brewer Grolsch (SABMiller), the Russian company Ochakovo and Heineken in Slovakia all talk about their successes with PET. This is a market on which Sidel’s new Combi represents a world first.

Issue 6 of SidelInLine also features:
• Around the World in Three Steps: growth African-style, the canned beverage market launched by Coca-Cola with Sidel in Nigeria; Sidel’s new plant in China; the glass bottling line for beer at Heineken in Italy, the success of Combi machines for water in Greece and blow molders for flat bottles at Heinz…
• Innovations: the SBO Compact ™ Preferential Heating blow molder for flat bottles and complex shapes in PET and the new Veloce FM hot-fill machine, which has an electronic fill valve with flowmeter.
• Environmental Trends: the impact of rising oil prices on PET and new low-energy, infrared lamps.
• News: Sidel at Pack Expo, trade shows in 2008-2009 and the new Sidel office in Jakarta.

This 52-page magazine is available in six languages (German, English, Chinese, Spanish, French and Italian) and is printed with plant-based ink by a company with the “Imprim’Vert” eco-friendly seal of approval.