Starlinger PET bottle-to-bottle line for Indian Recycler Alpha Ecoplast
Mid of October 2024 Alpha Ecoplast Pvt. Ltd., a member of Alpha Group, commissioned a Starlinger RecoStar PET 215 HC iV+ PET bottle-to-bottle recycling system in their new facility near the city of Kosamba, Gujarat State, India.
The RecoStar PET 215 HC iV+ features Starlinger’s biggest single extruder size, reaching an output of up to 2,700 kg/h of bottle-grade pellets. The PET bottle-to-bottle recycling system is equipped with a pre-drying unit, high-vacuum degassing, a continuous filtration system, and an underwater pelletiser. The ViscoStar SSP reactor installed at the end of the recycling process further increases the viscosity and level of decontamination of the produced pellets. The entire recycling process is based on the FIFO principle, ensuring uniform treatment of every single flake at the front end and each pellet at the back end for outstanding food-contact decontamination. Like all Starlinger recycling systems, the RecoStar PET 215 HC iV+ is claimed to be characterised by low energy consumption, good production efficiency and user-friendliness.
The rPET pellets produced on RecoStar PET recycling lines have been approved for food-contact applications by national and international authorities such as the FDA (USA) and EFSA (EU), as well as by important brand owners in the food and beverage sector. Alpha Ecoplast recycles domestically collected post-consumer PET bottles and produces bottle-grade rPET pellets as well as food-grade suitable rPET flakes which it supplies to the Indian and international markets. To meet the rapidly growing demand on the market, Alpha Ecoplast already placed an order for a second Starlinger PET bottle-to-bottle recycling system of the same size.
About Alpha Group
Established in 1980, Alpha Group is India’s leading provider of rigid and flexible plastic packaging solutions with a production capacity of more than seven million PET bottle preforms per day. In 2022, it established its subsidiary Alpha Ecoplast Pvt. Lt., thus addressing the need for bottle-to-bottle recycling and recycled plastics on the Indian market. The facility went operational in August 2024 and has a recycling capacity of more than three billion plastic bottles per year. Alpha Ecoplast also supplies deodorized recycled PE and PP for injection moulding, films, bottles and other applications.
