The acquisition of Netstal provides Krones customers with solutions for the entire plastics cycle. Expertise in preform and container design is combined with injection moulding technology, tools, plastics recycling systems and digitalisation solutions.
Completed with Prefero Krones now offers its complete system for the production, filling and packaging of PET containers. This makes the company the only supplier to offer the cover the entire value chain of the PET beverage industry with its own portfolio can.
„For Krones, filling and packaging lines don't just consist of many individual machines that are linked together. What counts for us is the interaction of all components to form a single unit. With Prefero, we are now harmonising precisely this line concept with the plastics cycle and the associated Krones solutions. This overall solution expertise is also the basis for us to be able to exploit the opportunities of digitalisation.“
Jochen Hirdina, Head of Plastics Technology
Netstal will continue to remain independent in the future and Portfolio for the preforms, closures, packaging technology and medical technology sectors offer. „While Krones with Prefero concentrates on complete PET systems from preform to filling and packaging, Netstal's injection moulding technology focuses on production systems consisting of injection moulding machine, mould and peripherals,“ Hirdina continues. At the same time, existing synergies are to be utilised. „In future, for example, Netstal will also benefit from the global Krones set-up and thus be even closer to its customers.“
Source: Krones
