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July/August 2011 HAZARDOUS CARGO BULLETIN
Output from major composite IBC producers worldwide
>750 l 750-999 l 1,000-1,999 l 2,000 l+
Argentina Industrias Termoplasticas ●
Argentinas (+54 2323) 497 596
Australia Dex Australia (+61 2) 9638 4071 ● ● ● ●
Schütz DSL (+61 8) 9336 2688 ● ● ● ●
Trans-Tainer (+61 8) 8363 9799 ●
VIP Packaging (+61 2) 9876 4822 ●
Belgium Linpac Allibert (+32 6) 789 3790 ● ●
Brazil Mauser do Brasil (+55 24) 2447 9797 ●
Schütz Vasitex (+55 11) 2436 3760 ●
Canada Hawman Container (+1 705) 424 2196 ● ●
Promens (+1 705) 324 6701 ● ● ● ●
China Fanshun Mauser (+86 21) 5098 9982 ●
Schütz (+86 21) 6712 0777 ●
Denmark Horsens Emballage (+45) 7560 2744 ●
Promens (+45) 4497 5133 ● ● ● ●
Finland Finncont (+358 3) 485 411 ● ● ●
Kaucon (+358 1) 373 2332 ● ● ●
France Greif (+33 2) 3518 2081 ●
Linpac Allibert (+33 1) 4120 0995 ● ●
Mauser France (+33 1) 4940 7800 ●
Promens (+33 3) 8969 2000 ● ● ● ●
Schütz (+33 1) 6980 5000 ●
Sotralentz (+33 3) 8801 6800 ● ●
Werit (+33 3) 885 41020 ● ● ●
Germany Hessentaler (+49 791) 40700 ● ● ●
Linpac Allibert (+49 6108) 979 116 ● ●
MaschioPack (+49 2431) 948 480 ●
Mauser (+49 2232) 781 000 ●
Promens (+49 6205) 20990 ● ● ● ●
Rikutec (+49 2681) 954 618 ●
Schütz (+49 2626) 770 ●
Werit (+49 2681) 80701 ● ● ●
India Sintex Industries (+91 2) 688 9449 ●
Time Mauser (+91 22) 2857 0302 ●
Ireland Schütz (+353) 963 3044 ●
Italy Conplax (+39 035) 419 6111 ●
Fustiplast (+39 035) 499 4611 ●
Linpac Allibert (+39 011) 397 5759 ● ●
Maschio (+39 02) 9096 9218 ●
Mauser Italia (+39 02) 909 3651 ●
Schütz (+39 030) 977 1611 ●
Japan Kodama Plastics (+81 584) 274 141 ●
Nippon Steel Drum (+81 3) 5627 2311 ● ● ●
Schütz (+81 463) 228 120 ●
Malaysia ISC (+60 3) 3168 1481 ● ●
Schütz DSL (+60 6) 799 3830 ● ● ● ●
Mexico Envases y Laminados (+52 55) 5888 0899 ●
Netherlands Schütz (+31 168) 334 600 ●
IBCs news
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NCG adds Maider IBC
Mauser’s reconditioning subsidiary National
Container Group (NCG) has acquired a
majority stake in Maider IBC, a distributor and
reconditioner of intermediate bulk containers
(IBCs) in Italy, a country Mauser views as
“an important key market in the packaging
industry”. As a result of this transaction,
Mauser “not only further strengthens its overall
footprint but furthermore completes its Europewide
presence”.
Commenting on the deal, Maider founder
Marca Carrara, who will continue in her role as
managing director, states: “Being part of a global
player who puts life cycle management at its
core business offers attractive synergies and new
potentials for Maider and for our customers.
Due to this partnership, we are able to provide
customers comprehensive reconditioning
services in combination with a bundled market
expertise.”
www.mausergroup.com
www.ncg-europe.com
www.maideribc.com
Hessentaler gets certified
Germany’s Hessentaler Container reports that
its 530 litre KT530 and its 1,065 litre KT1000
composite intermediate bulk container (IBC)
models both look set to soon receive UN
approvals for the handling of solids in addition
to liquids.
Selling to customers from the chemical,
pharmaceutical, cosmetics, glue and food
industries and “all who handle dangerous goods
and chemicals”, the ISO 9001:2008 company
produces a host of specialist units, most of
which are capable of being lifted by cranes.
Consequently, its diverse portfolio encompasses
anti-static designs, metal-free all-plastics models
for clean room applications, robust offshore
systems and IBCs for use within fire engines and
other vehicles.
Capable of providing single part deliveries
and undertaking small production runs if
needed, Hessentaler is more than able to cater
to the bespoke needs of customers, whether
in terms of specific bottle colours, unique
markings, special valves and adapters or even
units fitted with wheels.
www.hessentaler-container.de
Greif records double record
Greif has announced a record second quarter net
income of $50.9m from record net sales worth
just under $1.1bn compared to $42.6m and
$836.6m, respectively, 12 months ago. “Our
strong second quarter operating results were
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primarily driven by sequential improvement in
profit margins for our rigid industrial packaging
businesses as cost pass-through mechanisms
took effect; continued improvement in
operating results for our flexible products
businesses; and solid performance in our paper
packaging businesses,” says chairman and CEO
Michael J Gasser.
“During the second quarter, we continued
to make significant progress integrating the
businesses we acquired during 2010, including
rapidly implementing the Greif Business
System. Overall, the entire first half of the year
has put us in a good position for the second
half, which has typically been stronger because
of the agriculture business that generates higher
sales volumes,” Gasser says.
In terms of the company’s Rigid Industrial
Packaging & Services division, which
encompasses the production of intermediate
bulk containers (IBCs) and steel, plastics and
fibre drums, net sales rose 16.9 per cent yearon-year
from $636.5m to $743.9m, primarily,
the company says, “as a result of higher selling
prices resulting from the pass-through of higher
input costs and the positive impact of foreign
currency translation”. Over the same period,
the division’s operating profit increased from
$64.4m to $66.1m. However, EBITDA was
down from $83.3m to $82.8m.
Meanwhile, for its Flexible Products &
Services division, formed on the back of the
February 2010 purchase of Storsack, the world’s
largest producer of flexible intermediate bulk
containers (FIBCs), net sales skyrocketed from
$50.5m this time last year to $134.8m, thanks
largely to Greif acquiring such big name big bag
players as Ünsa, Ligtermoet and Sunjüt in the
second half of 2010. Hand in hand with this
sales increase, operating profit jumped from
$0.3m 12 months ago to a new figure of $2m.
EBITDA likewise rose from $1.2m to $4.6m
despite being hit by acquisition-related costs of
$5.3m.
Speaking after the publication of the
company's second quarter results, president
and COO David Fischer told analysts that
the company has “about four” acquisitions in
its sights. Describing them as “solid potentials
in the pipeline”, he stated that they would be
slightly bigger than the “bolt-on or Pac-Man
type acquisitions” the company has executed
in the past, having a combined worth of
“somewhere in the neighbourhood of $300m to
$350m in additional sales”.
www.greif.com
Schütz breaks ground in Carl
Schütz has broken ground on its new plant
in Carl, Georgia, the Barrow Patch reports,
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HAZARDOUS CARGO BULLETIN July/August 2011
New Zealand Schütz DSL (+64 9) 815 9390 ● ● ● ●
Norway Schütz (+47) 6282 2750 ●
Poland Promens (+48 22) 779 4014 ● ● ●
Schütz (+48 22) 846 3405 ●
Werit (+48 71) 336 2595 ● ● ●
Portugal Teka Containers (+351 234) 329 500 ●
South Africa Paradigm Packaging (+27 31) 791 0365 ●
South Korea Clover Chemical (+82 8) 735 7575 ●
DongWoo IBC Korea (+82 31) 671 3353 ●
Spain Linpac Allibert (+34 93) 574 3529 ● ●
Reyde (+34 93) 478 7600 ●
Schütz (+34 902) 160 693 ●
Werit (+34 938) 402 256 ● ● ●
Sweden Greif (+46 346) 714 600 ●
Turkey Deren Ambalaj (+90 212) 241 6023 ●
UK Francis Ward (+44 1274) 707 030 ● ● ●
Gem Plastics (+44 191) 501 4800 ● ●
Linpac Allibert (+44 121) 506 0100 ● ●
Mailbox Mouldings (+44 161) 330 5577 ● ● ● ●
Matcon (+44 1608) 651 666 ● ● ● ●
Mauser UK (+44 1706) 754 980 ●
PD Rotomouldings (+44 1691) 659 905 ● ● ● ●
Schütz UK (+44 1909) 478 863 ●
Solitec (+44 1453) 828 727 ● ● ● ●
Werit (+44 161) 776 1414 ● ● ●
USA Greif (+1 740) 549 6000 ●
Hoover MH (+1 800) 844 8683 ●
IBC North America (+1 248) 625 8700 ● ● ● ●
Mauser (+1 908) 203 9500 ●
Poly Processing (+1 866) 590 6845 ● ●
Promens (+1 630) 293 0303 ● ● ●
Schütz (+1 908) 526 6161 ●
Snyder Industries (+1 402) 467 5221 ● ● ● ●
Output from major plastics IBC producers worldwide
>750 l 750-999 l 1,000-1,999 l 2,000 l+
Australia Matcon Pacific (+71 2) 9892 4822 ● ● ● ●
Belgium Linpac Allibert (+32 6) 789 3790 ● ● ●
Canada Promens (+1 705) 324 6701 ● ● ●
Denmark Promens (+45) 4497 5133 ● ● ●
Finland Finncont (+358 3) 485 411 ● ● ●
France Linpac Allibert (+33 1) 4120 0995 ● ● ●
Matcon France (+33 3) 8989 7502 ● ● ● ●
Promens (+33 3) 8969 2000 ● ● ●
Germany Hessentaler (+49 791) 40700 ● ● ●
Linpac Allibert (+49 6108) 979 116 ● ● ●
Matcon (+49 7621) 970 610 ● ● ● ●
Promens (+49 6205) 20990 ● ● ●
Rikutec (+49 2681) 954 618 ●
Italy Linpac Allibert (+39 011) 397 5759 ● ● ●

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citing city clerk Deana Davis. The phased
development will reportedly cover an area of
55,000 m² on a 14.4 ha plot and will replace the
company’s existing plant in nearby Doraville.
Set to produce blow-moulded composite
intermediate bulk containers (IBCs) as well as
plastics and steel drums, the new facility, which
the newspaper anticipates as creating around
“200 much-needed jobs”, was previously
reported by Plastics News as likely to cost in
the region of $50m. Schütz currently operates
seven production sites in the US, having in May
opened an 8,826 m² drum and IBC plant in
Fontana, California. This past February, the
Messenger Gazette reported that the company
has also been granted planning permission to
expand its operations in Branchburg, New Jersey
by about 3,250 m² in order to accommodate
more efficient blow-moulding equipment and
extra storage space for finished units.
www.schuetz.net
Sotralentz unveils new ball valve
France’s Sotralentz, a manufacturer of blowmoulded
UN-approved composite intermediate
bulk containers (IBCs) and plastics drums, has
unveiled a new 3-inch conductive butterfly
valve. Designed for the handling of viscous
flammable products, such as paints for the
automotive industry, the valve complements
the company’s existing range of screw-on and
weldable 2-inch conductive valves for less
viscous substances. These patented valves, the
company says, possess a system connecting the
contents of the IBC to the ground lead using
a PEHD conductive gate allowing for the safe
handling of flammable products with flash
points of below 61°C.
Committed to offering “a reliable alternative
to ‘the big three’,” the company recently invested
more than €6m installing a fully automated IBC
production line at its plant in Drulingen, near the
French border with Germany. Featuring seven
different robots, the new line has resultantly
boosted productivity by around 40 per cent.
Primarily serving the needs of packagings users
from the chemical and food sectors across
the whole of Europe with a focus on France,
Germany and the Benelux region, the company
also operates an international container collection
service. One upshot of this is that it can offer
reconditioned IBCs in addition to factory-new
units, enabling it “to quote a more competitive
mixed price” for its customers.
Anticipating further consolidation within the
industry, Sotralentz expects the market to continue
growing at approximately 5 per cent per annum for
at least the next 12 months. While it sees customer
switching from steel drums to IBCs as helping
the market, the company reports that “it is hard
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HAZARDOUS CARGO BULLETIN July/August 2011
Netherlands Matcon (+31 23) 510 1080 ● ● ● ●
Promens (+31 570) 660 706 ● ● ●
Spain Linpac Allibert (+34 93) 574 3529 ● ● ●
UK Bison IBC (+44 1623) 798 271 ● ● ● ●
Francis Ward (+44 1274) 707 030 ●
Linpac Allibert (+44 121) 506 0100 ● ● ●
Matcon (+44 1608) 651 666 ● ● ● ●
PD Rotomouldings (+44 1691) 659 905 ● ● ●
Tycon Container (+44 161) 223 5252 ● ● ● ●
USA Custom Metalcraft (+1 417) 862 0707 ●
Edlon (+1 800) 753 3566 ● ● ●
Enpac (+1 440) 975 0070 ● ● ●
Hoover MH (+1 800) 844 8683 ●
Nat’l Packaging (+1 800) 526 3786 ● ● ● ●
Poly Processing (+1 866) 590 6845 ● ●
Promens (+1 630) 293 0303 ● ●
Remcon Plastics (+1 800) 874 7793 ● ● ●
Snyder Industries (+1 402) 467 5221 ● ● ● ●
Output from major metal IBC producers worldwide
>750 l 750-999 l 1,000-1,999 l 2,000 l+
Australia Trans-Tainer (+61 8) 8363 9799 ● ● ● ●
Canada Hawman Container (+1 705) 424 2196 ● ●
Stelfab Niagara (+1 905) 356 8683 ● ● ● ●
China CCPM (+86 512) 5268 8171 ● ● ● ●
Denmark Horsens Emballage (+45) 7560 2744 ●
Finland Finncont (+358 3) 485 411 ● ● ● ●
Kaucon (+358 1) 373 2332 ● ● ●
France BSI (+33 2) 47 774 703 ● ● ● ●
Greif (+33 2) 3518 2081 ●
Mauser France (+33 1) 4940 7800 ●
Germany Contek (+49 36332) 2890 ● ● ● ●
Werit (+49 2681) 80701 ● ● ●
Japan Kodama Plastics (+81 584) 274 141 ●
Nippon Steel Drum (+81 3) 5627 2311 ● ●
Malaysia ISC (+60 3) 3168 1481 ● ●
Spain Reyde (+34 93) 478 7600 ●
UK Bison IBC (+44 1623) 798 271 ● ● ●
Contek (+44 7766) 055 270 ● ● ● ●
Matcon (+44 1608) 651 666 ● ● ● ●
Pensteel (+44 1277) 810 211 ● ● ● ●
Solitec (+44 1453) 828 727 ● ● ● ●
USA Custom Metalcraft (+1 417) 862 0707 ● ● ● ●
Greif (+1 740) 549 6000 ●
Hoover MH (+1 800) 844 8683 ●
Matcon (+1 856) 256 1330 ● ● ● ●
Servolift (+1 973) 442 7878 ● ● ● ●
Snyder Industries (+1 402) 467 5221 ● ● ● ●
Titan IBC (+1 866) 294 4514 ● ● ● ●
Tote Systems (+1 888) 535 8683 ● ● ● ●