Sdel has opened a new office in buenos aires as part of its ongoing commitment to ensuring global experience backed by local sales and service support through close proximity to customers.
4 August 2014
04/08/14
The new facility operates as Sidel's South Hispanic hubin Latin America, serving its customers in Argentina, Chile,Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia.
The opening of Sidel Argentina is already proving popular withcustomers who have been asking for a facility dedicated to theregion. Striving to continue to strengthen the long term businesspartnerships with its customers, Sidel has recognised theimportance of being close to them. Moreover, Argentina is the thirdlargest economy and beverage market in Latin America, whichprovides excellent opportunities for further developing business inthe region. The packaging material with the greatest potential isPET, growing at 5% per year up to 2017 in Latin America.
Speaking about Sidel's focus on PET, DominiqueLipinski, Zone Vice President, said: "Our expertise from over 30years' experience of working with PET ensures we can now bettermeet our customers' challenges in the South Hispanic part of LatinAmerica."
The new office is located in Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires, with ateam that has great local knowledge, dedicated to bringing Sidel'sglobal expertise and know-how to deliver real value to customerslocally and help them respond to local market demands.
Commenting on the opening of the new office, Marcos Pilati,Regional Commercial Director for South Hispanic at Sidel, said: "Weare all pleased to have an office in Argentina to serve ourcustomers in the region. We are now closer to them and they havealready started to experience the benefits over the last few weeks.All customers have given the news a very warm welcome".
Some of the most important customers in the Argentinian market,including Coca-Cola, Amcor, CCU, Nutreco, Aguas Danone Argentina,RPB SA (Baggio), PRODEA, Produnoa and Refres Now have alreadyrecognised the positive effects the new presence in the region willbring. One of the visitors, Walter Canido, Operations Director forRefres Now Argentina, said: "The opening of Sidel in Argentinareflects the commitment of the company to its customers. I am surethis will reinforce our partnership with Sidel".
Customers visiting the new office have also been able toincrease their knowledge regarding the latest technologiesavailable on the market and how they can support them to createvalue in their specific plants and processes. Innovations includeSidel Matrix, a system that enables a reliable and safe productionmethod for blowing, filling and labelling, as well as packaginginnovations that ensure bottles are lighter yet stay attractive,protect beverages and lead to high consumer satisfaction.
The new office in Argentina also helps customers to ensuresmooth production in the long term. Once a solution has beendesigned and commissioned, a series of tailor-made services aremade available for customers to optimise their line performance,lower their operating costs and reduce their environmentalfootprint.
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