MOSCOW (MRC) -- In a move aimed at better servicing its customers in the UK and Ireland, liquid packaging and equipment supplier Sidel (Hunenberg / Switzerland) has relocated its UK office from Hatfield to Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, as per Plaseurope.
The 400 m2 premises now house the company’s Europe & Central Asia team.
The new location offers improved access to customers across the UK, Sidel said, adding that the use of PET by the packaging market in the UK and Ireland has grown by 1.9% in volume terms over the period of 2008-2013. The office will showcase all the latest packaging innovations, equipment and services, Sidel said.
The Swiss company has more than 50 offices worldwide, as well as 13 production sites and seven training centres. Its total workforce comes to more than 3,400.
As MRC wrote before, Sidel Group has opened a new training center in Guadalajara, Mexico, featuring a virtual factory environment, augmented reality and authentic parts that trainees can handle themselves. The new facility, which brings Sidel’s training centers to seven, has been developed to meet local customer needs.
Sidel is a manufacturing company providing packaging for liquids such as water; carbonated and non-carbonated soft drinks; and sensitive beverages like milk, liquid dairy products, juices, nectars, tea, coffee and isotonics; as well as edible oil, beer and other alcoholic beverages. Sidel manufacturers and services equipment that enables other companies to package such liquids using one of three main materials: plastic (especially PET, and also HDPE and PP).
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