• Taste of success for an exceptional mineral water - The independent Centro Europeo di Ricerca Acque minerali (Napoli) recently awarded its first European Mineral Water Quality Prize to Spadel, as reported in the July/August 2009 edition of Water Innovation, UK (paper).

• Barrier PET for sensitive products - Juice, beer and dairy products : would functional barrier PET be the ideal solution for best quality and extended shelf life ? Answers and solutions in the 2008 edition of Connecting comPETence, Regensburg (paper).

• Dress up and roll your sleeves for your customers ! - In the September/October 2007 edition of Liquides et Conditionnement - Paris, John examines the outstanding market growth of decorative sleeves (paper).

• Caps and closures are heading up for innovation - The market for caps and closures goes through dramatic changes. John evaluates the trends in :

- the March/April 2007 edition of Liquides & Conditionnements, Paris (paper)

- the March edition of Plastic in Packaging, Crawley, UK (paper) and

- in the May-June edition of Enfasis Packaging Latino America (paper).




Cape Decision were invited to speak at the following industry events :

- 11th MEA PET Conference, Casablanca, 1-2 March 10

- VLB Symposium Beverage Packaging PET, Berlin, 9-10 November 09
- ID&A Functional and Specialty Beverages, Ghent, 9-10 May 09

- Drink Technology India 08, Mumbaï, 27-28 November 08
- 5th Food NPD Conference, Amsterdam, 27-28 November 08
- PETNology Europe 08, Düsseldorf, 27-28 April 08
- 9th Mideast/Africa PET Conference, Dubaï, 19-20 February 08

- Drink Technology India 07, Mumbaï, 29-30 November 07
- Symposium Beverage Packaging - PET, Berlin, 5-6 February 07

- Packaging Impact and Innovation , London, 6-7 December 06
- Plastic Caps and Closures, Brussels, 7-8 November 06
- The European PETCORE Conference, Barcelona, 11-12 October 06
- Barrier PET Bottles, Brussels, 28-30 March 06