Clear and white opaque PET bottle-to-bottle recycling
Sukano, PRSE 2025 – Booth G118
Sukano will introduce the plastic recycling industry to its new masterbatches and compounds, which support recycling and enable a higher recycled content. At their booth, visitors can discover how their products excel in real-world applications.
With over 35 years of experience in packaging, Sukano is developing recyclable and circular material solutions that significantly reduce CO2 emissions in packaging applications. One pivotal step to advance the plastics recycling revolution and achieve circularity in plastics is to realise bottle-to-bottle recyclability for rPET. Sukano offers masterbatches for PET and recycled PET white opaque milk bottles. Sukano white opaque masterbatches enhance surface whiteness while maintaining opacity and light barrier properties for fresh and flavoured milk, extended shelf life (ESL), and UHT dairy PET bottles. They are suitable for monolayer or multilayer ISBM technology, says Sukano.
The masterbatches were submitted for recycling trial simulations at PTI’s certified packaging performance testing labs, following the conditions specified by the European PET Bottle Platform (EPBP) protocol. The results proved that the masterbatches designed by Sukano maintain material properties, functionality, and production rates. The melt showed a stable white colour, and the light barrier integrity was confirmed even under extreme conditions.
Sukano also enables the incorporation of rPET into bottles. When virgin PET is partially replaced with white opaque rPET (rPETo), the bottle surface whiteness drops. Sukano addresses this with tailored light protection and whiteness solutions for bottles using up to 50% rPETo. With expertise in clear rPET, rPETo, and customised solutions, Sukano helps converters and brand owners produce closed-loop recyclable white dairy bottles.