PLASTICS
Industry veteran joins Plastics SA team
Plastics SA has appointed industr y veteran and plastics recycling exper t Annabé Pretorius as executive: Technical Operations. With a knowledge base that will ser ve the industr y well, Pretorius has plans to shake up the industr y.
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nton Hanekom, executive director at Plastics SA, explains that this brand-new position filled by Pretorius has been created to meet the growing demand for technical and industr y information that is up to date, region-specific and easily accessible. “The need for current, evidence-based industr y information and relevant trade data
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Annabé Pretorius, newly appointed executive: Technical Operations, Plastics SA
has become critical. Over the past few years, we have noticed a marked increase in the number of enquiries we receive on various topics relating to plastics manufacturing, recycling and sustainability. Industr y members, students, researchers, journalists, academics and members of the general public search online sources to find answers to their questions about the health and safety of plastics, its recyclability and versatility. Unfor tunately, in many cases the ar ticles and resources that are easiest to find are dated or publish unsubstantiated information that has ver y little bearing on our South African context. We are hoping that this new position will become a valuable repositor y of factual and well-researched data that will correct these misconceptions and half-truths,” Hanekom says. Having worked in the plastics industr y for more than 32 years, Pretorius is the ideal person to fill this position. A graduate in polymer science at Stellenbosch University, she first joined what was then known as
