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Circular Plastics Australia’s new food-contact rPET facility
Starlinger technology has been installed at a new joint venture PET recycling facility in Albury-Wodonga, New South Wales, Australia. Circular Plastics Australia (PET) is a joint venture partnership between four partners. Cleanaway Waste Management supplies the plastics to be recycled through its collection and sorting network; Pact Group operates the facility and provides technical and packaging expertise; while Asahi Beverages, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners and Pact buy the recycled plastic
from the facility to use in their packaging. CPA plans to recycle 30,000 tpa of post-consum- er PET collected via con- tainer deposit schemes and kerbside recycling and use the food-grade rPET pellets as raw material to produce new beverage bottles and other food and beverage packaging. Starlinger said the facility is using its RecoSTAR PET 215 HC iV+ PET bottle-to- bottle line producing 2.5 tph of rPET. The process starts with a two-stage heating and drying process
of the hot-washed flakes for optimum preparation for the extrusion process. After extrusion, thorough filtering and underwater pelletising, the produced rPET pellets undergo vacuum treatment in the downstream SSP reactors to increase intrinsic viscosity and perform decontamination that readies the pellets for food-contact applications. The output of the
Albury-Wodonga plant will help to increase the amount of locally sourced and recycled PET by two thirds from around 30,000 tpa to
over 50,000 tpa. CPA is building a second
PET recycling facility in Altona North in Melbourne, Victoria, which will be equipped with a Starlinger RecoSTAR PET 330 HC iV+ recycling line featuring the largest SSP reactor currently installed worldwide. It will have the capacity to recycle the equivalent of around 1bn PET beverage bottles each year when it opens in 2023. �
www.recycling.starlinger.com �
www.pactgroup.com �
www.cleanaway.com.au �
www.asahi.com.au �
www.cocacolaep.com/au
Whether it is inhouse, post- consumer, bottle or chemical recycling: closing the loop in a precise and profitable way if machines are perfectly tuned for the respective application. Choose the number one technology from EREMA when doing so: over 6500 of our machines and systems produce around 14.5 million tonnes of high-quality pellets like this every year – in a highly efficient and energy-saving way.
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