Boretech ships its first complete PET bottle-to-bottle system to India
Boretech, PRSE 2025 – Booth A92
Boretech, Chinaplas 2025 – Hall 6 Booth G41
In February 2025, the provider of end-to-end PET recycling solutions Boretech successfully shipped the main equipment for a complete PET bottle-to-bottle recycling system to India. This marks Boretech’s first full-scale PET bottle-to-bottle system sold to the Indian market. The project comes at a pivotal moment as India has introduced the Plastic Waste Management (Amendment) Rules 2024, which set clear regulations on the recycled content and recycling rates for rigid plastic packaging.
The project officially commenced in February 2024 and is scheduled for commissioning in June 2025. Once fully operational, the production line will feature a processing capacity of 30,000 t/a of rPET flakes and 16,000 t/a of food-grade rPET pellets, enabling the customer to meet the 30% recycled content requirement mandated for 2025-2026.
The customer has opted for Boretech’s latest ES process washing technology, which features a highly integrated design that reduces land footprint by 25% and on-site labour requirements by 33%, lower initial investment and operational costs. The intensive washing technology is claimed to ensure near-zero chemical residue, while the enhanced hot-wash technology improves downstream filtration by 25% and reduces per-ton energy consumption by 13.3%.
Boretech has delivered a comprehensive system encompassing pre-treatment, twin-screw extrusion, pelletising, and Solid-State Polymerisation (SSP). The SSP stage incorporates continuous pre-crystallisation, crystallisation preheating, solid-state polymerisation, and final product cooling, ensuring that the rPET meets food-grade standards and is FDA-certified.
Photo: A PET bottle-to-bottle recycling plant in Taiwan, utilising similar pelletising and SSP technology as the upcoming facility in India.