NEWS CarbonLite to build 3rd


US recycler CarbonLite Industries is planning to build a new PET bottle recycling plant in the state of Pennsylvania. The $60m facility will increase the number of post-consumer PET bottles it recycles by 50% to more than 6bn bottles per year. The plant is scheduled for start-up in late 2019. CarbonLite claims it is


already the world’s largest producer of post-consumer bottle-to-bottle food-grade PET resin. Its existing plants are in Riverside, California,


rPET site CarbonLite’s PET bottle recycling facility in Riverside, California


and Dallas, Texas. The company’s core customers are Nestle Waters North America and Pepsico


which use CarbonLite’s recycled PET in new beverage bottles. Carbonlite’s Chairman


and CEO Leon Farahnik said: “Through state-of-the- art facilities, technologies and equipment, CarbonLite is fully invested in and committed to helping preserve our precious resources, reduce the PET industry’s carbon footprint, diminish our landfill prob- lems and protect our waterways. With the addition of the Pennsylvania plant, our three facilities will save more than 180,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions each year.” � www.carbonliterecycling.com


Campine to recycle PP from car batteries


Battery recycler Campine has an- nounced an expansion of recycling activities which includes recycling of polypropylene battery cases. At its facility in Beerse, near Turn- hout in Belgium, Campine currently recycles lead metal from car batteries and other lead scrap, and also pro- duces a flame retardant based on antimony trioxide. Its new business


plan involves focusing its activities in two businesses, Metals Recycling and Speciality Chemicals, which is mainly focused on diverse flame retardant products for plastics. Campine said it will invest €20-25m over the next four years, with the total depending on market developments. The largest single investment project will be to start recycling the PP hous-


ings of car batteries. Campine CEO Willem De Vos said:


“With the ‘upcycling’ of the polypropyl- ene plastic from battery cases and others, we will increase material recycling above 95% for this complex product and most importantly, we will become active on the plastics recycling market.” � www.campine.biz


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