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- 00:24:15.8 The investments we have made over the past five years began with introduction of Krones machines at the Chubu Recycling Plant. Next was equipment for the biaxial stretched PET called OPET, and production facilities for new transparent polypropylene.
While investing in the Krones machinery for transforming PET plastic bottles into recycled materials for Eco-PET products, we also needed to invest in using recycled materials in the middle of process with all the extruding machines to establish a three-tier process for virgin-recycled-virgin, which is called VRV for short. This investment was also incredibly large. It was then that we released the Eco-PET Series.
We finished building a line for biaxially stretching PET materials in 2012, but we struggled for about a year until actual commercialization. We introduced a second line in 2013, excuse me, 2014. These two lines are now in full operation.
The full operation of these lines has paved the way for the release of the Hood Pack. It is made of biaxially stretched PET. Until then, the market had seen nothing but food packs made of OPS. However, if you put hot grilled chicken in an OPS container, some holes will form. Likewise, if you microwave it by mistake, it will definitely melt. However, containers made of OPET do not form any holes. This makes the sales pitch extremely easy.
The winners are really shrewd in this respect, with their presidents instantly giving orders to replace all containers with OPET containers. So our extruded sheet sells very well. In fact, all the OPET lines remained in operation during the past Golden Week holiday season in Japan.
We are working not to reduce the quantity of sheets we have in stock. At the moment, we have around 1,100 tons in stock. Our third line is due to begin operating in February next year. We think that around 700 tons of sheets may be used for sales promotions from mid-August, and that the stock level will be finally lowered to around 300 tons. Once again, we are planning to let the sales team promote this sheet from mid-August.
Then, some clients will change the containers they use. After orders grow to some extent, the third line will begin operation. We will immediately put it close to full operation because the OPET is so popular. It is free of the holes that were seen with conventional materials.