Issue 04/2018

Opinion
are even exempt from mineral oil tax“, says Jürgen
Pfitzer, shaking his head.
“And this has an influence on the whole biobased
industry, too. Within our industry, the price is an
important decision criterion“, says Helmut Nägele.
Jürgen Pfitzer adds: “Especially in terms of fossil
raw materials or for uranium and rare earth, for
example, but also on use of pesticides and on bottling
water in Africa it has shown that opportunities and
profits are always privatized and risks and losses
socialized!
The ecological footprint of products is usually
excluded from the account. Besides tax allowances,
this procedure results in a further distortion of
competition at the expense of environment and
common public.
“It is not acceptable that a few big oil companies
and multi-billionaires and its shareholders take profit
from generally available but globally limited resources
of raw materials or to throw toxic pesticides on the
market that simply kill everything except their own
cereals. Equally worrying is the fact that bottlingwater
in Africa with the “innovation” of simply digging
deeper wells than it is possible for the villagers.
Simultaneously, the general public has to carry the
risks and costs for climate changes through CO 2
-
emissions, oil rig- or oil tanker accidents, defective
pipeline, polluted oceans, dying bees, insects,
animals and plants, Destruction of arable land due to
rising sea levels, devastation of entire regions or other
environmental disasters with irreparable damage,
global wars for oil and resulting refugee flows.
However, if these costs were to be distributed
according to the polluter-pays principle, as is usual
everywhere else, and preferably with a share of the
costs shared by the arms industry, peace in the world
would be achieved tomorrow,” said Managing Director
Jürgen Pfitzer.
Customized for double production capacity
Above all – on the 2 nd of July, 2018, Tecnaro
celebrated its 20 th anniversary. A further reason
to be pleased is the investment in a factory-new
machine. It is a twin-screw extruder delivered by
KraussMaffei Berstorff and allows, thanks to the
added sophisticated plant engineering, to double
production capacity at Tecnaro. With this plant, the
specialists from Ilsfeld are optionally prepared for the
increasing demand of custom-made organic plastic
compounds. Furthermore, the machine is planned
to be used for research and development purposes
and to conduct extensive tests using an upscaling
procedure, for example. Here, formulations can be
tested for practicality with a throughput of up to one
ton per hour.
Once again: First be smiled at, then fought against
and finally regarded as a matter of course. However,
the Binabo ball is now in everyone’s court and stands
for a better future without fossil plastics. MT
www.tecnaro.de
Awards and Prizes:
• 1999
• 2000
• 2001
ZDF WISO German Founders Award
Euromold Award in Gold
1. Einfach Genial Preis of the MDR
• 2002 Award from the Material ConneXion New York for
ARBOFORM as “Best Product in Show 2002“
• 2007 VR-Innovationspreis 2007
• 2008 Werkbund Label 2008
• 2009 Deutsche Industriepreis 2009
• 2010
• 2011
European Inventor Award (handed over at a
ceremony in Madrid by the European Patent Office
and today’s Spanish royal couple Queen Letizia and
King Felipe
Diesel Medal for the most sustainable innovation
of the year
• 2015/16/17 Green Brand Germany Siegel
Awards eceived by Tecnaro’s customers:
• 2008
• 2016
• 2017
• 2017
German Design AWARD 2018 – WINNER
Deutscher Verpackungspreis
reddot Award 2017-best of the best
GreenTEC Award 2017 (2. Place)
• 2018 Green Good Design Award 2018
• 2018 German Innovation AWARD 2018
Mockmill cereal grinder
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