Energy Web Atlas names Harry Brookby as Vice President of Data Sales

MOSCOW (MRC) – Gulf Energy Information, a leading provider of market intelligence and technical information for the international energy industry, names Harry Brookby named Vice President of Data Sales for Energy Web Atlas (EWA), as per Hydrocarbonprocessing.

Harry comes to EWA from DrillingInfo where he was the Director, Global Strategic Sales. Prior to that he led sales for Ponderosa Energy, which was acquired by DrillingInfo in 2016. Previously, Harry held positions with S&P Global Platts and ConocoPhillips.

We thank you for your continued support of Energy Web Atlas and Construction Boxscore. Please join me in welcoming Harry to the EWA team and, as always, I can be reached for any additional questions.

For more than 100 years, Gulf Energy Information has been the leading provider of business and technical knowledge for the global oil and gas industry. Since its formation in 1916, the company has evolved from a single publication—The Oil Weekly, which was dedicated to upstream activity in the Gulf Coast area of the United States—to a diversified media and market intelligence company. Gulf produces the oil and gas industry’s leading publications: World Oil, Hydrocarbon Processing, Gas Processing & LNG, Petroleum Economist, Pipeline & Gas Journal. In addition, Gulf also produces datasets (Construction Boxscore and Energy Web Atlas) containing in depth project and facility data.
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MOSCOW (MRC) -- PT Polytama Propindo is in plans to undertake debottlenecking at its polypropylene (PP) unit, as per Apic-online.

A Polymerupdate source in Indonesia informed that the company has planned to ramp up production capacity of the plant to 300,000 mt/year. The debottlenecking exercise is likely to begin in the first half of 2019.

Located in Jawa Barat, Indonesia, currently the unit has a production capacity of 240,000 mt/year.

As MRC wrote previously, last year, the company conducted maintenance at this plant from end-January to mid-February.

PT Polytama Propindo was established in 1993 as a signifcant manufacturer of polypropylene resin (PP resin) in Indonesia. Polytama is taking a leading role in Indonesia's fast growing economy by utilizing the country wealth i.e. the secondary processing yield of oil and natural gas , through industrial manufacturing. The factory located in Balongan, Juntinyuat district, Indramayu-West Java, using one of the best technology in the world, the Spheripol technology of Montell (now LyondellBasell), with an installed capacity of 100,000 metric tons per year.

Two years later the construction of the factory was completed on July 27, 1995 and PT Polytama Propindo started the production (the product trade name: Masplene), the supply of raw material propylene with high purity from PERTAMINA refinery UP-VI (now RU-VI ) Balongan. In 1996, and the plant capacity grown to 180,000 tons per year. Response to the addition of propylene production capacity of PERTAMINA RU-VI in 2004, PT Polytama Propindo increased its capacity to 200,000 tons per year.
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mOSCOW (MRC) -- Injection molding machine supplier and mold component maker Alba Enterprises LLC has a new president and CEO and an expanded operation, as per Canplastics.

Rich Oles, a 33-year veteran of the tooling, injection molding, and hot runner industries, is the new head of the Torrence, Calif.-based company, which is also being merged with Oles’ former consulting company ROI Group.

Alba is now jointly owned by Oles and John Dineen. Dineen, a 20-year industry veteran who purchased Alba in 2013, will now serve as the company’s CFO.

The merger is designed to expand Alba’s product and service offering to include injection molding consulting services, as well as Alba’s existing portfolio of Babyplast micro injection molding machines, Vega hydraulic cylinders, and peripherals and mold components sold under the Alba brand.

"From the day I met Rich in May of 2015, I thought he was exactly the type of leader Alba needed," Dineen said. “Nearly four years later, and now that he and I have found a way to merge our businesses, I am thrilled he has joined Alba. More critically, Alba’s clients and manufacturing partners should be equally happy, as Rich brings to Alba a keen intellect and decades of experience spanning all major injection molding disciplines."

Oles began his career as a journeyman moldmaker and rose quickly to serve as engineering manager for Standard Tool and Die in Stevensville, Mich. From 1999 to 2012, he was North American president and CEO of Softline Corp., a hot runner supplier, and its successor organization, PSG Plastic Service Group. He then served as director of molding and tooling manager at Stone Plastics, a mid-sized molder focusing on the automotive market. In 2015, he founded the ROI Group.
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MOSCOW (MRC) -- The Austrian blow molding machine maker has just sold a unit to its second American customer, pet industry provider Moderna Products, as per Canplastics.

No matter what the item – from grain to ice cubes to snacks in a vending machine – gravity is always the best dispenser: it never breaks down, never calls in sick for the day, and never takes a vacation. Moderna Products USA, a manufacturer of plastic applications for the pet industry, just got a gravity assist in dispensing water from blow molding machine PET Technologies GmbH.

Moderna’s newest product design is a gravity-fed watering dish that combines blow molded jars manufactured on a specially modified, semi-automatic UPF-30 series blow molder from PET Technologies with injection molded bases.

The UPF-30 was installed recently at Moderna’s American plant in Gaffney, S.C., and runs alongside its existing injection molding machine. PET Technologies technicians were on hand to commission the new machine and to give tutorials to the new operators. A second installation at Moderna’s headquarters in Belgium is scheduled for the near-future.

The machine installation in Gaffney is the second in the U.S. for Neunkirchen, Austria-based PET Technologies since the machinery maker set its sights on cracking the North American market last year. The first PET Technologies automatic blowing machine – an APF-3002 with 3,000 bottles per hour output and a bottle volume up to 3 litres – was put into operation at a customer’s plant in Arizona in June.

Founded in 1999, PET Technologies’ equipment has been installed in more than 40 countries in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia; and now, with the development last year of its APF-Max stretch-blow molding machine with four-, six-, and eight-cavity configurations and output up to 14,000 bottles per hour, the company is determined to make its mark in Canada, the U.S., and Mexico.

According to Vladimir Tsallagov, PET Technologies export director, the company made its first sales into South America early last year, followed up by its first sale to a Canadian customer later in 2018: two four-cavity APF-6004 blow molding machines sold to plastic drink bottle molder Triumbari Corp., of Bolton, Ont.

Another prong in PET Technologies’ expansion strategy involved finding a North American sales representative. The company appointed Chicago-based Sopro Machinery LLC as its exclusive distributor in Canada and the U.S. two years ago.

PET Technologies’ has also beefed up its manufacturing capabilities to assist with its foray into North America. "We opened a new 4,000-square-meter manufacturing plant in Chernihiv, Ukraine a few years ago,” Tsallagov said. “The facility has two R&D departments: one for machines and one for molds. And then in January 2018 we opened an adjoining 1,500- square-meter, two-storey office complex.” While PET Technologies machines are designed at the company’s headquarters in Austria, all the parts are produced and assembled in Chernihiv. “We don’t outsource anything,” Tsallagov said. “We do all the manufacturing and assembling of machines ourselves. Our company is interested in the future – we’ve done the prep work and are ready to expand into North America, and we’re beginning to see some good results."
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