The FreshSafe PET success story

With its Plasmax coating technology and the FreshSafe PET packaging system, which has evolved from it, KHS offers the food and beverage industries a sustainable, environmentally-friendly system with the best possible product protection. Today’s coating system for PET bottles dates back to the 1990s when it was used in the pharmaceutical industry. How has this extraordinary story of success come about? When Bernd-Thomas Kempa, who has been in charge of sales and service since 2012 and is now head of Plasmax Barrier Technology Global Account Management, and Joachim Konrad, who has been responsible for engineering as director of Plasmax Barrier Technology since 2014 and is now head of the Large Machine Product Division at KHS, talk about the history of FreshSafe PET. Together with their team, the two are the trailblazers behind the transformation of KHS Plasmax barrier coating technology from a niche product to a market-proven, tried-and-tested packaging system for the food and beverage industries. The story of FreshSafe PET, also known as Plasmax, began in the 2000s. This was when Schott AG and…

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