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Indorama plans new PET recycling plant in Indonesia


Indorama Ventures is continuing its global expansion in PET recycling with a new project to build a facility in Indonesia. The facility will be located in Karawang, West Java and will have the capacity to recycle 1.92bn PET bottles per year from across Indonesia. The recycling facility, which is planned to start up in 2023, will produce washed and shredded rPET flake from post-consumer waste streams which can then be repro- cessed for food-contact applications. Indorama Ventures has six Indone- sian sites in four regions: Purwakarta, Cilegon, Tangerang and Karawang. The Thailand-headquartered group announced in 2019 that it aims to recycle a minimum of 750,000 tonnes


Above: Indorama Ventures will produce rPET flakes at the plant in Karawang


per year of PET globally by 2025, investing up to $1.5bn to achieve this aim.


Indorama said the new plant in


Karawang, along with its other recy- cling facilities in Southeast Asia, will work with existing PET flake production facilities in Indonesia.


Indonesia says it is aiming reduce plastic debris entering oceans by 70% by the end of 2025, compared with 2017 levels. Indorama said its new PET recycling facility supports the govern- ment’s National Plan of Action on Marine Plastic Debris. � www.indoramaventures.com


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