Sidel
| Private | |
| Industry | Food and Beverage Packaging, Manufacturing, System Engineering |
| Founded | 1965 as Société Industrielle Des Emballages Légers SA |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Sam Strömerstén (CEO) Juergen Voss (CFO) |
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Number of employees
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5,460 (2014) revenue = €1.390 billion(2014, net sales) |
| Parent | Tetra Laval |
| Website | sidel.com |
5,460 (2014)
Sidel is a manufacturing company providing packaging equipment for liquids such as water; carbonated and non-carbonated soft drinks; and sensitive beverages like milk, liquid dairy products, juices, nectars, tea, coffee, isotonics and beer.
Sidel manufactures and services equipment that enables other companies to package such liquids using PET. It specialises in filling machines and blow-moulding equipment, and also produces labellers.
Headquartered in Hünenberg, Switzerland, the company has 50 offices and 5,460 employees, eight research centres and 30,000 machines installed in more than 190 countries (2015).
In 2003, Sidel joined Tetra Laval Group, a multinational corporation of Swedish origin, which is active in liquid food packages and packaging. The Tetra Laval group is divided into three divisions: DeLaval, Tetra Pak and Sidel.
Since its foundation in 1965 in Le Havre, France, Sidel has been developing packaging technologies for the beverage industry. In 1961 the company developed the first plastic bottle made of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) as a container for edible oil and, later on, wine, milk and water. In 1973 Sidel released the first plastic HDPE (high-density polyethylene) bottle for milk, sterilised by ultra-heat treatment (UHT). In 1980 Sidel delivered its first PET blow moulding machine to the family-owned soft-drink company Barraclough in Great Britain. Sidel’s first international subsidiary opened in 1984 in Atlanta, USA. In the same year, Sidel also sold the first high-speed PET blow moulding machine. In the 1990s Sidel acquired the French companies Hema (1995),Cermex (1996) and Gebo (1997). In 1997 Sidel introduced a system which combines blow moulding, filling and capping. In same year, the first Sidel dry preforms decontamination by H2O2 spray was launched with the Combi Disis. The development of an internal carbon-based coating in 1999 strengthened the barrier properties of PET packages to gases (O2 and CO2) and made PET-bottles usable for beer. In 2003 Sidel joined Tetra Laval and merged with the Italian company Simonazzi in 2005. Simonazzi was founded in 1850 and had its headquarters in Parma, Italy. In 2006, Sidel launched Predis™, its dry decontamination solution technology for preforms. In April 2013, Sidel announced the launch of a new company as part of the Sidel Group, . Gebo Cermex focuses on engineering, line integration and end-of-line packaging. A partnership with Kortec was communicated in October 2013. The target of the co-operation is to develop new light-blocking PET milk bottles. In March 2014, the divestment of Swedish subsidiary, Tectubes, was announced.
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