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company to offer rPET monolayer or laminated sheet to other thermoforming companies and the Form-Fill-Seal market. “We were looking for a solution which is able to
produce rPET film that can get in touch with any type of food – including water applications,” said Marek Harjak, Managing Director of EstPak. Another ViscoTec customer that is branching out into sheet production is Mexico-based recycler Green Mind. It operates a network of collection facilities all across the country. The company has the capacity to process 72,000 tpa of rPET flakes and it also produces rPP pellets. At its facility in Tlajomulco de Zuñiga, it has installed a ViscoSheet line with an initial capacity of 1,700 kg/h. This will allow the company to supply customers in the thermoforming sector. Gneuss said its MRS extruder has received a large number of approvals, since the US FDA’s approval in 2009, for processing up to 100% post-consumer recyclate for food-contact applications. This year, it obtained approval from Anvisa in Brazil for recycling PET post-consumer and post-industrial waste to sheet for thermoforming of food contact containers. In Latin America, the Gneuss recycling process has
also achieved the standards set by the Colombian and Argentinian food safety agencies. In Europe, it has passed the EFSA challenge test for the process- ing of 100% post-consumer PET. In addition to these approvals for PET, this year Gneuss obtained approval from the FDA for the processing of post-consumer polystyrene to food contact products. Polystyrene post-consumer waste can be reprocessed on the Gneuss MRS extruder to sheet for foamed and rigid food contact containers. Even without the value-adding benefits of
Above: Saúl Solaeche, Green Mind’s General
Manager (left), and Horacio Servín Martínez, Director, in front of the new ViscoSheet machine
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