EDITORIAL - Logoplaste · EDITORIAL After a year of trends and innovations, we invite you to read the latest news from around our Logoplaste world. ... Packaging (PET) produced in

EDITORIALAfter a year of trends and innovations, we invite you to read the latest news from around our Logoplaste world.

The prize for best training program (for the second year) and the prize for best environ-mental or energy initiative won at the “Plas-tics Industry Awards 2013” demonstrates once again our company’s good practices. These best practices are also revealed, in this issue, from the Logoplaste team in Portugal and we can see that we can do more with small changes.

We emphasize the importance of our team building activities in this edition which take place in all regions.

Enjoy reading and thank you once again for your support.

The Editorial TeamCorporate HR

Logoplaste Lab

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INDEX

Editorial

Highlights & KPI

Our WorldPlastics awardsTeam BuildingSigüenzaNew Partner in Castelo BrancoVietnamese Year End PartyNew PackagingSteve Amos

One Step AheadStarpacks awardHousekeeping – Management Systems

Where We AreOur Newest PlantsBrazilian RegionChristmas Tree Contest

Social ResponsibilityGreen HarvestLitter of light

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HIGHLIGHTS

Internationalization reinforcement (2013 Highlights)

Kansas city for Procter and Gamble

Andujar for Sovena

Lons for Candia

DECEmBER YE 2013

Age average of

37,6

Headcount (Permanent + Temporary)

2036New Starters in 2013

453Number of Plants

60Number of Partners

Years of service

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5,8Produced Units

11.260 million units

Training hours

27,4

Men vs Women

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Produced units:

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BEST ENERGY OR

ENvIRONmENTAL INITIATIvE

BEST TRAINING &

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2013WINNER

Logoplaste UK win at the

Plastics Industry Awards

2013WINNER

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Launched in 2001, the Plastics Industry Awards are known as the Oscars of the UK

plastics industry, and reward excellence in mate-rials usage, design and manufacturing as well as training and environmental performance.

With 15 categories judged by a panel of industry experts, there are opportunities for supplier companies, OEM manufacturers, plastics processors, consultants and designers to all showcase their work.

The Awards Ceremony took place on 27th September at the London Hilton on Park Lane. The ceremony, in its 13th year was hosted by actor and comedian Tim Vine and attended by a audience of more than 800 guests.

For Logoplaste Coleford environmental pro--gramme with GlaxoSmithKline, which saw PET material waste cut by 65%, Logoplaste won the “Best Energy or Environmental Initiative of the year award”. Logoplaste also won the “Best Training & Development of the year” award – this is the second year Logo-plaste has won this award.

Logoplaste UK was also finalist into the following categories: “Processor of the year” and “Apprentice/Trainee of the year – Steve Amos” from Logoplaste Thurrock.

Congratulations to the team and thanks for all the hard work and effort that went into the submissions this year.

The next edition will take place in 2014 on Friday 24th October at the London Hilton on Park Lane.

“Congratulations to the team and thanks for all the hard work and effort that went into the

submissions this year.”

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One more year, Logoplaste Vietnam’s employees gathered around the Ti Amo

Restaurant last September 15th, 2013 in order to spend a day practicing Team Building expe-riences.

Through several exercises in a collaborative climate, team goals were created, encoura-ging standards of excellence while striving for unified commitment.

The overall goals of team building are to increase the teams understanding of team dynamics and improve how the team works together. Unlike working as a group, working as a team incorporates group accountability rather than individual accountability and results in a collective work product. Team building encourages the team approach to working on a project. Advantages to this approach include:

• Increased flexibility in skills and abilities

• More productive than work groups with individual mindset

• More beneficial in times of organizational change

• Encourage both individual and team development and improvement

• Focuses on group goals to accomplish more beneficial tasks

• Improved range of team building objectives such as collaboration, communication and increased creative or flexible thinking

“The overall goals of team building are to increase the teams understanding of team dynamics and improve how the team works

together.”

TEAm BuILDING

Logoplaste Vietnam

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The Logoplaste Iberia operations meeting took place last 8th and 9th of October

in the city of Sigüenza, Spain; with 38 parti-cipants from Portugal and Spain, in which all plant managers were present. This meeting was without a doubt an excellent opportunity to spread all the activities and good doings throughout the region, with the presence of the CEO Alexandre Relvas and the President Mr. Marcel de Botton.

After leaving the Madrid airport, on the first day, the participants were able to visit the Guadalajara plant (Madrid), which was

followed by a lunch with the presence of the Operations Manager of Lactalis Nestlé Spain – Daniel Fuhrer. After lunch the team left for Sigüenza, where there was a team building activity to fortify team spirit before dinner.

The second and last day was for internal presentations of the several Iberia Operations areas (Finance, Operations, Quality, Buying, Technical).

Above all, those 2 days were all about sharing internal information and reinforcing the region’s team spirit.

SIGÜENZA Sigüenza hosted the

Logoplaste Iberia Operations Meeting – 2013

Siguenza

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Logoplaste Iberia team with the President (Mr. Marcel de Botton) and the CEO (Alexandre Relvas)

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NEW pARTNER IN CASTELO BRANCO

Last September Danone sold its activity in Portugal to the North American Schreiber

Foods. This deal also involved Danone in the Czech Republic and Bulgaria.

The plant in Castelo Branco, specialized in the production of dairy products (yoghurts), has an annual productive capacity of 110.000 tons. In spite of its new ownership, the ex-Danone plant will continue to make Danone products and maintain all its jobs.

In 2013, Logoplaste Castelo Branco increased its production, mainly because of its new Danone DanUP packaging (with a new image and improved formula). The brand prepared a campaign aimed at a younger audience, through several initiatives throughout the country with the new packaging essentially embracing a more fun, irreverent, cool and modern look.

ABOuT DANONE IN pORTuGALIn the Danone universe of about half a hundred plants, the plant in Castelo Branco was considered the 6th best in the world. Before Danone´s entry in Portugal, the annual yoghurt consumption per person was about 8kg, compared to today’s 23kg.

ABOuT SCHREIBER FOODSFounded in 1945 Schreiber Foods has grown a lot throughout the years, becoming the largest producer of dairy products in the world and aiming to apply its high quality standards to the European market.

Leader in innovation, it has more than 6,000 employees worldwide that work together in creating tailor-made solutions, high quality products and services for their clients.

Apart from the US (where the company was born), it is present in Brazil, Mexico, India, Germany, Austria and now also in Portugal, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic.

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YEAR END pARTY 2013

Logoplaste Vietnam

Last January 24th, 2014 Logoplaste Vietnam celebrated Vietnamese Lunar

New Year, more known as “TET” in Vietnam.

For that purpose all the employees joined in Binh Duong restaurant to enjoy Vietnamese food, drinks & a karaoke contest (with Prizes for the most applauded). Also, presents were given based on a raffle.

It has passed a year with a lot of changes in each of our lives. It seems like just yesterday, that all of Logoplaste Vietnam employees sat together, side by side to share the joy of new year 2013 coming, and now, we sit together again, side by side, to look back the year of 2013 almost passed and celebrate for the new year of 2014.

Our ceremony has gone through the following parts:• Part 1: Back-in-time 2013• Part 2: Sharings from Board of Mana-

gers and Employees• Part 3: Singing contest and lucky

lottery• Part 4 : Endings, thanks and gift

receipt

After the valuable sharings from Mr. Tin, Logoplaste Vietnam Plant Manager and Mr. Luis Lampreia, our Supply Chain Director South East Asia, a video clip from Mr. Gil de Botton has been showed for his absence due to business trip to Portugal.

During the ceremony, the singing contest has continuously been taken place to heat up the party with thae cheers from everyone. And the contest closed with the 1st price belonged to Warehouse and Logistics Department with a phenomenon dancing and singing perfor-mance, follow up is the 2nd price belonged to production department with a gentle love song and 3rd price was also to production department with a funny, cheerful song of New Year Holiday.

Not only that, the celebration was burned with the excitement from the New Year Lucky Lottery which went to the luckiest members from production department and QA department.

The celebration has ended in the happiness, sharings, carings and lovings among every member of Logoplaste Vietnam family. Wish everyone a new year of prosperity, happiness, luck and success.

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KAFFA CApSuLES

Packaging (PP) produced in Logoplaste EstarrejaSince 2013

Partner: Kaffa

CONDESTávEL OLIvE OIL

Packaging (PET) produced in Logoplaste AbrantesSince 2013

Partner: Victor Guedes

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STEvE AmOS

3rd year apprentice at Logoplaste (Thurrock) UK wins, The

Worshipful Company of Horners and Cogent Gold Standard Polymer Apprentice of the Year Award 2013

Left to right: Greg Jones - Thurrock engineering manager, Clive Thompson – Horners judge, Jack Bunyer – Horners master, Horners judge, Steve Amos – 3rd year apprentice Thurrock, Katie Amos – Steve’s wife, Jonathan Mead – Cogent interviewer of finalist, John Holton - Cogent

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The worshipful company of Horner’s is an ancient guild and livery company and

a modern London city institution. The first historic reference to the company was recorded in 1284. As horn was inexpensive and readily available, the use of horn for lanterns, beakers, musical instruments and storage vessels has been evident since time immemorial.

The company has links with the British Plas-tics Federation, and since 1943 have been working closely with the plastics industry to help promote the image of plastics and it’s established and developing technologies.

Cogent is the sector skills council for the polymer industry, and they work alongside Horners in the selection criteria and nomina-tions for the award. Cogent have a demanding gold standard apprenticeship and the criteria for the winning apprentice is set against these exacting standards.

The Worshipful Company of Horners & Cogent Gold Standard Polymer Appren-tice of the Year Award is a prestigious award that recognises the commitment & drive of apprentices in the polymer industry.

All candidates must be employed within a polymer related industry, be engaged in, or

have completed in the last 12 months a full apprenticeship at either level 2 or 3, and have had sufficient time in programme to be able to demonstrate quantifiable achievements, both academic and in-company.

At the time of submission Logoplaste UK had five apprentices employed at three of our UK sites. Due to the criteria, only one apprentice met the standards needed for entry onto the award.

Steve Amos at the time was a second year electrical engineering apprentice and had been employed with Logoplaste Thurrock for five years, starting his career with Logo-plaste as a trainee technician. Steve demons-trates he confronts every task with a can-do attitude producing excellent results. He has also received excellent results for his prac-tical and written assignments during his time at college, resulting in distinctions for some of his course work. During the time in his apprenticeship he had planned maintenance & improvement work while on site, and had two internal projects running in parallel. As most apprentices are considered to be 16 – 18 year old school leavers, Steve has proven that at 39 years old, great results can be produced by apprentices in any age group.

Left to right: Steve Amos – 3rd year apprentice Thurrock & Jack Bunyer – Horners master

“At the time of submission Logoplaste UK had five apprentices employed at three of our UK

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Steve’s achievements were documented and sent to Cogent for the judging panel to review. Steve was selected as a finalist in December 2013; a cogent representative visited Steve at the Thurrock site and discussed his appren-ticeship, his results, his college work and his role since joining Logoplaste. Steve also gave a thorough site tour and a detailed Thurrock process overview. The interviewer left the site very impressed with the facility, and was very complimentary towards Steve and his attitude to the apprenticeship program.

The judging panel considered all of the submis-sion notes from each finalist and made their decision based on course work, commitment to the apprenticeship, the entry criteria and the overall impression of the person during the finalist interview.

The announcement was made to Logoplaste on January 14th 2014 and Steve was made aware the following day.

Steve was invited and attended an award event at the Carpenters hall in central London on Monday February 10th, along with his wife Katie and Greg Jones, engineering manager Thurrock. This is only the second year the awards have taken place and include the Livery Companies Skills Council Master Certificate

Scheme; this includes awards for the wax industry, carpenters, plumbers, plasterers, horners, pavers, clockmakers, wheelwrights & light mongers.

The event was attended by award winners, colleagues, family members and representa-tives from Horners and Cogent. The awards were handed out by the Horners master - Jack Bunyer, and the Lord Mayor of London - Alderman Fiona Woolf . Steve received a £500 cheque, a certificate of achievement and the Horners horn.

Steve commented “It was a great honour to receive the award and a very proud day”.

This is a great achievement for Steve personally and for Logoplaste as an apprentice provider. It demonstrates the approach we take towards the learning & development of our appren-tices is world class and sets a standard for our other UK apprentices to follow.

I hope you will all join me in congratulating Steve and wish him all the best for his future career within Logoplaste.

Karl Hare Technical Training ManagerLogoplaste UK

Left to right: Greg Jones - Thurrock engineering manager & Steve Amos – 3rd year apprentice Thurrock

“Steve commented: «It was a great honour to receive the award and a very proud day»”

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Logoplaste and its partner Candia in Cambrai - first 1,5L production

One Step Ahead One Step Ahead

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STARpACK AWARDS

2013 - uK The challenge was to design a bottle or container suitable for use with any washing or cleaning products (washing up liquids, fabric conditioners, hand soaps, toilet cleaner, multi surface cleaners). The challenge was to gene-rate a design offering a unique new shape for a bottle or container for your chosen product/s and show where you may have taken your inspiration from because more and more today design inspiration comes from nature (Biomimicry) – using nature and biology as the design process.

BRIEF D “CLEANING up” WITH mATERIALS

STuDENT STARpACK

THE pRIZE All expenses paid trip to Portugal to visit Logoplaste and the Logoplaste Innova-tion lab.

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THE WINNER

Judges’ comments: “It’s good to see conside-ration to the arthritic generation. A wellex-plored concept. Would need to see a proper sample to see how cap/closure performs.” Logoplaste comments: “A good example of using Biomimicry as a mentor for design. The brief has been followed and the end result is a unique user friendly container that is simple to use for all the age groups. The maple seed and lotus leaf features show a good level of research and understanding. Well done!” - Chris Clarke, Project Manager, Logoplaste Innovation lab.

The winner Lucinda Martins won a visit to Logoplaste Innovation Lab in Cascais (from 19-08-13 till 23-08-2013). During the visit Lucinda (Fluent in Portuguese as her parents were born there) met Mr. Marcel who kindly spoke to her for a few minutes…

LuCINDA mARIA vIEIRA-mARTINSCentral Saint MartinS College of art and deSign

SILvER DuNCAN ANDERSONlahti UniverSity of applied SCienCeS

Judges’ comments: “An interesting concept that shows ingenuity. We liked the ‘bag in the box’ use. The shape looked great, good impact.”

BRONZE FARRIS EL-ALWANCentral Saint MartinS College of art and deSign

Judges’ comments: “A very interesting concept and neat idea. Needs developing further but the initial thoughts are exciting. Good presentation evidence of explanation shown in the boards. Clever and novel, but once again in a crowded market - practicality and cost?”

BRONZE OZGuR uSTuNCentral Saint MartinS College of artS and deSign Judges’ comments: “A clever concept. Good fun too. A good solution and mock up samples too. Certainly deals with an important issue in use of bottles for this market.”------


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SCHOOLSTARpACK

SpONSOR LOGOpLASTE uK

On the 4th December 2013, Logoplaste Hatfield was lucky enough to again host the winning school for the 2013 StarPack awards. Logistics of a 10 hour round trip to Logoplaste Coleford, ‘The Home of Ribena’ was not possible so Coleford came to Hatfield.

Mr. Gary Gray, Manufacturing Manager at Logoplaste Coleford, (who had already judged the entries with Mr. Chris Clarke of ILab UK), presented to the students video footage of the complete process in making a Ribena bottle, from granular form to completion and its journey to the shops.

Other Presentations included Mr. Clarke from ILab UK and why we need innovative packa-ging solutions in an ever changing market, and Mr. Andy Cairns gave a video and infor-mative presentation on what they would see during the factory tour. Lunch was provided while we ran a quiz, with factory facts/figures gathered from all the presentations.

The students clearly enjoyed themselves as did the Logoplaste staff making this once again a great day for all concerned and who knows maybe a future packaging designer inspired by Logoplaste was sat in the room.

The challenge was design and model a Ribena container that replaces the current tetra carton with a straw.

BRIEF B RIBENA DRINKING BOTTLE FOR uSE IN CHILDREN’S pACKED LuNCH BOXES

THE pRIZE All expenses paid trip for approx. 40 students to Logoplaste Hatfield. £100 to the the individual winner and £400 to the winning school. The Packaging Society will award £50 for the best supporting portfolio.

LOGOpLASTE INDIvIDuAL SpONSORED AWARD WINNERDANIELLE LAYBUngay high SChool

Judges’ comments: “Very attractive portfolio exploring ideas and shapes.” Sponsor’s comments: “A well thought out design. Good, strong, technical features and a concept that follows the design brief fully. Good mood board, considers the end user and fits with the lunch box theme. Well Done!”


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Judges’ comments: “An explosion of colour and ideas, well developed to given brief. Excellent presentation and graphic skills throughout.” Sponsor’s comments: “All four of the school entries into this brief were of a very high stan-dard. Excellent ‘mood boards’ and mock ups. In terms of shelf appeal we see some fit for purpose design elements supporting the history of Ribena. From a manufacturing perspective designs work with the supply chain.”

LOGOpLASTE SpONSORED AWARD WINNING SCHOOL KATE RACHOBUngay high SChool

RHYS BROWNBUngay high SChool

Judges’ comments: “Nicely presented, good annotation and idea.” Sponsor’s comments: “All four of the school entries into this brief were of a very high stan-dard. Excellent ‘mood boards’ and mock ups. In terms of shelf appeal we see some fit for purpose design elements supporting the history of Ribena. From a manufacturing perspective designs work with the supply chain.”

Chris Clarke presentation


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HOuSEKEEpINGMAnAgEMEnt

SyStEMS

"Integrated management systems are information systems that integrate all

processes and data from an organization into a single system, bearing in mind continuous

improvement and consequent needs and expectations of stakeholders through mutually

beneficial relationships that create value for the business chain."

Below are some improvement measures that were developed by Logoplaste Portugal.

mANAGEmENT SYSTEmS: QuALIty, HEALtH And SAfEty

mANAGEmENT SYSTEmS: HEALtH And SAfEty

Double preforms carrier, grounds, stoppers and drawing bolts

Now: with protection and crossed beam motion sensors

Tools panel, Format change Spindles Carrier, clamps, output and input whell diffuser

Goal: To optimize format changing time and reduce exposure time for manual handling of cargo during the course of work.

Goal: To eliminate the risk of employees being caught and/or crushed (danger of the hopper movement in automatic).

Implementation cost: 2,000€Improvement development: Internally.

Implementation cost: 1,997€Improvement development: Internally.

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mANAGEmENT SYSTEmS: QuALIty, fOOd SAfEty And HEALtH And SAfEty

mANAGEmENT SYSTEmS: QuALIty, fOOd SAfEty And HEALtH And SAfEty

Goal: To optimize the production/maintenance rate, eliminate the noise coming from the vat’s vibrator while changing batches of preforms, visual

Goal: To inform external companies and visitors of the SIG Policy requisites.

inspection of the vat and display screen of the conveyor.Implementation cost: 100€Improvement development: Internally

Implementation cost: 105€Improvement development: Internally

Preform recycling in order to prevent jams – display screen of the conveyor

Inspection rotary opening – visual inspection of the vat

Easy access opening for filter cleaning

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Goal: Time optimization in format changes, minimization of the risk of falling objects (templates) during the format changes with one employee and

Goal: To reduce noise through the full enclosure of the vacuum pumps, assuring work place quality at the warehouse, while taking under consideration one of

prevention upstream of the key component of the machine SMI SR 6.Implementation cost: 40€Improvement development: Internally

the 6M´s (environment) from the Ishi-kawa diagram.Implementation cost: 3,300€Improvement development: Internally

Preforms locking tools in the open position

Noise reduction at the source of 12, 8/dB(A) e 15, 1/LCpico dB(C)

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Goal: To eliminate access to the dangerous area (preventing the templates from moving) while the equipment is on, for example while cleaning the lower part.


Once the access panel to the dangerous area is opened, the microphone of the equipment on the upper lid is triggered, ensuring its immediate cessation.

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Goal: To eliminate the employee’s access to the dangerous area (pneumatic cylin-der’s moving part) while having to operate the equipment.


Implemented Measures: a protection cabin with an electric lock that assures the equipment will only work if the door is closed and two-hand relay was installed.

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Goal: To eliminate the employee’s access to the dangerous area (danger of the hopper’s lid opening while on automatic), therefore eliminating the risk of getting caught or crushed.

Goal: To minimize the risk of contamina-tion near the dumpers of raw material.


Implementation cost: 700€ per dumperImprovement development: Internally

It is recommended that the protection be removable and made of polycarbonate in order to facilitate the cleaning of the hopper.

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OuR NEWEST pLANTS

US - Kansas CityPartner: P&GMarket: Home CareModel: TransportationMachinery type: SBMNumber of employees: 34Average age: 44Gender: 94%Working week: 24 hours/7 days

Mexico - San LuisPartner: L’OréalMarket: Health & Personal CareModel: In houseMachinery type: EBMNumber of employees: 34Working week: 24 hours/7 days

Spain - AndújarPartner: Sovena + Deoleo (Moltuandujar)Market: Edible OilModel: In houseMachinery type: SBMNumber of employees: 4Average age: 38Gender: 100%Working week: 24 hours/5 days

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BRAZILIANREGION

The Brazilian Region is made out of 9 plants, which tend to 9 clients. The plants are located as below:

CITY pARTNERAraras (SP) DPA/Nestle

Araras (SP) Ambev

Amparo (SP) Shefa

Carambei (PR) BR Foods

Goiania (GO) Hypermarcas

Para de Minas (MG) Itambe

Rio de Janeiro – Duque de Caxias (RJ) Cosan

Rio de Janeiro – S. Cristovão (RJ) Ipiranga

São Paulo – Raposo Tavares (SP) Reckitt Benckiser

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LOGOpLASTE ARARAS — DpA NESTLÉCurrently with 120.000 inhabitants, Araras was the first city in Brasil to abolish slavery. It´s origins remount to coffee plantations back 200 years, growing thanks to the arrival of Italian, Portuguese, Swiss and German immigrants. In 1921 it welcomed the first Nestlé plant in Brazil, nowadays a part of the city´s heritage. In 1998 Logoplaste entered the scene, supplying Nestlé with all sorts of yoghurt packaging. Since then, the operation has prac-tically tripled its productive capacity and incor-porated several high-tech blow molding and decorative equipment.

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LOGOpLASTE AmpARO — SHEFALogoplaste Amparo opened doors in December 2011, producing UHT milk packaging in PET for aseptic filling. The team of 19 people produce this type of packaging with an internal light barrier through a bi-injection process that allows a shelf life of a minimum of 4 months.

LOGOpLASTE ARARAS — AmBEvThe Ambev operation started in 2011, with the goal of supplying the Gatorade bottles. The PET packaging was specifically designed to meet the harsh “hot fill” filling used on that product.

LOGOpLASTE pARá DE mINAS — ITAmBÉLocated in the state of Minas Gerais, the plant in Pará de Minas initiated its activity in 2002 in partnership with Itambé, making several yoghurt packagings. The plant has 35 employees working 3 different shifts.

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LOGOpLASTE GOIANIA — HYpERmARCASLogoplaste Goiania is located in the city of Goiania, capital of the Goiás state, right in the heart of Brazil. It´s the city with the largest green area among the Brazilian capi-tals. Nowadays the plant has 22 employees, supplying Hypermarcas with sweeteners while producing PET packaging and dosing caps.

LOGOpLASTE CARAmBEÍ — BR FOODSThe Logoplaste in Carambeí (PR) started in early April 2011 and has 30 employees. Our partner is BR Foods, for which we make Batavo yoghurt packaging. Carambeí is a historical city in Paraná that was colonized by the Dutch and still remains faithful to its cultural heritage.

LOGOpLASTE DuquE DE CAXIAS / RIO DE JANEIRO — COSANThe Logoplaste Duque de Caxias works with Cosan, making PET bottles for lubricating oils decorated with the brands Mobil, Honda, GM, etc. The unit has 80 employees and started in 2002.

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LOGOpLASTE ãO CRISTOvãO/RIO DE JANEIRO — IpIRANGAThe unit in São Cristovão works with Ipiranga, producing most of its lubricating oil bottles. The operation has about 40 employees and, apart from making the bottles, it also operates Ipiranga´s de-palletizing and packaging line.

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LOGOpLASTE RApOSO TAvARES/SãO pAuLO — RECKITT BENCKISERThis unit works with Reckitt Benkiser, making a vast amount of bottles for home care products. The plant is located in the city of São Paulo, the most highly populated city in the American continent, with almost 21 million inhabitants within its metropolitan area. The plant started being run by Logoplaste in 1998 and has more than 150 employees.

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CHRISTmAS TREE CONTESTLogoplaste Brazil

Christmas Tree contest held in December in Logoplaste Brazil for the election of the best Christmas tree created by employees.

Criteria for election: the place where the tree was assembled, originality, creativity, use of recyclable materials, the type of materials and overview of the work. Participants: Araras Ambev, Araras DPA, Amparo and the Treasury department of Logoplaste Brazil

WINNER: ARARAS – DpA

Amparo

Araras DPA

Araras Ambev

Head Off ce – Treasury

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Social Responsibility Social ResponsibilityE E

Stephanie Johnson, Mel Hewitt, Mackinzie Dircks, Angela Darby, Lisa Ambrose, David Brown, Claudio Pandolfi, Cathy Bastys, Armando Garcia

GREEN HARvEST

During the holiday season, some US employees hosted food drives to benefit

Green Harvest Food Panty of Plainfield. This local, non-profit organization provides food and personal hygiene items to working low--income families, the elderly and recently unemployed residents of Aurora, Montgo-mery, Plano, Naperville, Oswego, Plainfield, Bolingbrook, Romeoville and Yorkville. In addition to donating food, some of them also helped Green Harvest by volunteering 2 hours of their time on Friday, November 8th to pack food baskets that were distributed to needy families during the holidays. Last year the group of 9 volunteers packed 100 boxes in less than 45 minutes! The goal this year was to top that record that was performed.

It was a Win-Win situation: They helped a worthy cause and got away from the office for a few hours!

About Green Harvest:(http://www.greenharvest.org/)

Plainfield

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ALFREDO mOSER

A liter of light that makes

the difference

In 2002, during one of the country’s frequent electricity blackouts, in southern Brazil, the

only places that had energy were the factories and not people’s houses. During this period, a Brazilian mechanic, called Alfredo Moser, had a light-bulb moment and came up with a way of illuminating his house during the day without electricity - using nothing more than plastic bottles filled with water and a tiny bit of bleach. Sunlight gets refracted by the water in the bottle and gets scattered in every direction

Moser’s bright idea is being used in more than 15 countries and it is particularly popular in developing countries. In the Philippines, the lamps are now fitted in 140,000 homes. Some people in poor areas are using the lamps

to grow food on small hydroponic farms. The energy and money-saving invention is expected to be in one million homes by 2014.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

• Add two capfuls of bleach to protect the water so it doesn’t turn green. Please note that the bottle needs to be clean;

• Wrap his face in a cloth and make a hole in a roof tile with a drill. Then, from the bottom upwards, push the bottle into the newly-made hole;

• Fix the bottle in with polyester resin. Even when it rains, the roof never leaks;

• Now you have a light with more or less 40 to 60 watts without spending any money.

Cut tight hole with flaps

Putty over bottle top

1 ltr plastic bottle

12’’x12’’ roof panel section

PuttyCut hole bigger than bottle

Water and ammonia

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NA (North America – Canada, USA & Mexico)

Partners: 7Plants: 10Headcount: 317

BrazilPartners: 10Plants: 10Headcount: 594

IberiaPartners: 16Plants: 22Headcount: 404(with Corporate departments)

France & BelgiumPartners: 2Plants: 6Headcount: 99

OuR REGIONSFEBRuARY 2014

NCEE(rest of Europe)


SEA (Malaysia & Vietnam)


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BRAZIL

• Team building activity to all managers in February 2014;

• The Electrônica Uau! Magazine was created in July 2013 with the purpose of strengthening interpersonal rela-tionships, standardizing internal communication, socializing expe-riences and listening to suggestions from employees.The main idea of this tool is to keep a clear and concise dialogue with the staff, giving room for answers, provi-ding a rapport with the events of the Logoplaste group, breaking down the hierarchical barriers and demonstra-ting teamwork. There have been two editions so far approaching beha-vioural issues, Lean Manufacturing, Safety, department and factory intro-ductions as well as sharing experiences. It is the beginning of a new concept of communication in Brazil. There are

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still improvements to be made, many issues to be addressed, but Logoplaste Brazil is striving for excellence not only with their external customers, but also with its internal customers: it "collabo-rators" (employees).

FRANCE & BELGIum

France

• In a 100% themed environment, the French team “cross 5 worlds”, over-coming action and mental challenges in order to find the clues and resolve the final enigma. Koezio combined real and virtual, physical involvement and knowledge and participated in the development of essential human values: Team spirit, support, confi-dence and self-transcendence. This team building activity involved 4 teams with 4 players each (mainly people from France Headquarters).

IBERIA

portugal

• Iberia Management Meeting in Sigüenza – October 2013;

• Book fair in November 2013 @ Cascais – HQ;

• Christmas Lunch @ “Panorama Guincho” restaurant with more than 100 participants;

• Blood Collection Session in January 2014 @ Cascais – HQ by Portuguese Institute of Blood;

• Some Logoplaste people participated in the Junior Achievement Portugal (February and March 2014) that promotes the creativity & Innovation Challenge providing lessons for Portu-guese students.

NORTH AmERICA

uS

• During the holiday season, some US employees hosted food drives to benefit Green Harvest Food Panty of Plainfield.

NCEE

Italy

• Last year Logoplaste Pomezia moved the working pattern to 24/7 to fulfill J&J demand and, due to their growth expectation for coming years. With the installation of a new blower that will allow to increase the current capa-city and move back to 6 days as stan-dard condition, keeping the 7th day as backup for peaks;

• The Quality Coordinator has attended a master (finished in February) to increase his competences and know-ledge on quality and H&S;

• Usual dinner for Christmas greetings in a new location this year, a nice restau-rant discovered by Caterina and not far from the plant but unknown to most of the people (thank you Caterina!).

united Kingdom

• Piloting new appraisal tools at Cole-ford, with an immediate start;

• Focus group meetings scheduled for 2014;

• 11 Logoplaste colleagues will have reached 10 years’ service during 2014 – congratulations (Daniel Brown; Anthony Hodgson; Paul Walton; John

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Ford; John Leonards; David Eglin; Michael Smith; Pritpal Bains; Richard Lindley; Sinead Heron; Karl Hare);

• Jamie Fennell and Ricky, from Logo-plaste Coleford, cycled for 9 days and covered a total of 954 miles and climbed just over 42,000 ft. They managed to raise over £1000 for the Forest Of Dean Opportunities Centre in the end;

• Chris Clarke was asked to judge the World Star packaging competition by the World Packaging Organization (WPO) and he is now one of 25 judges appointed worldwide.

ukraine

• Transition to 4 work shifts. This has increased the number of staff;

• Logoplaste Ukraine joined to the KAIZEN club;

• Organization of Pneumatics and Hydraulics training for engineers of Ukraine and Russia. The result of this training was the special program for equipment which is used on the plant. The training was conducted by “Festo”;

• Hold teambuilding “Office extreme” for all employees of the company in order to reveal the strengths of each of employees, minimizing barriers between them and the formation of responsibility for the team result.

Russia

• Successful passed of the Heinz audit – audit score 84%;

• Reduced off UFS from 6,42% till 2,72% by improving the technical skills of staff;

• Covered training in HACCP and planned training on ISO 9001.

SEA

vietnam

• Last January 2014, Logoplaste Vietnam celebrated Vietnamese Lunar New Year, more known as “TET” in Vietnam. For that purpose, all the employees joined in Binh Duong restaurant to enjoy Vietnamese food, drinks & a karaoke contest;

• Team building activity to Logoplaste Vietnam’s employees in September 2013.

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