PETpla.net Insider 04 / 2012

NEWS 8 PET planet insider Vol. 13 No. 04/12 www.petpla.net Innovation Don’t compromise on quality. For further information please contact: info@gabriel-chemie.com www.gabriel-chemie.com PremiumMasterbatches for Superb Products. Kielce 29.5–1.6.2012 V ISIT US AT P LASTPOL ! PETCO increases South African recycling South African recycling company Petco, which was established in 2004 by Coca-Cola and other brand owners, bottlers, resin manufacturers, convert- ers and retailers, has reported that over 1.4 billion PET bottles were recycled during 2011 – nearly 4 million bottles each day. It recycled 42% of post con- sumer beverage PET and 29% of total PET; total weight was 42,651t of PET collected and recycled out of a 145,000t 2011 resin market. This exceeded the 2010 PET plastic recycling rate by 5,290t – a 14% increase. Petco members contribute voluntary financial support and other income sources include the recycling levy and grants-in-aid. Petco works in partnership with contracted service providers, Extrupet, Kaymac and Sen Li Da, who combine collection, recycling and end-use in their PET value chain. Petco has assisted in the establishment of over 430 plastic recovery stations throughout South Africa and supported training of staff at these drop-off sites, and has been involved with separation at source and school education projects. The organisation has helped to generate almost 26,000 indirect jobs; total CO2 saved via PET recycling is in excess of 63,000t. Petco has also provided millions of SA Rand worth of financial support to PET recycling companies and helped to expand both bottle-to-fibre and bottle-to-foodgrade recycling. However, 2012 will be the first year that the local bottle-to-fibre market has reached saturation and local recyclers have reached capacity. Almost all recycled post-consumer PET bottles in South Africa are used locally, rather than being exported to China. The largest market is currently fibre, with the recent addition of installed capac- ity for Bottle-2-Bottle. The “Retailers for Recycling Forum” aims to create awareness amongst consumers of recycling issues and to drive reuse and recycling among retailers and their suppliers. The 2012 target for recycled post consumer beverage PET is 48,356t. www.petco.co.za Erema’s best year ever The Linz, Austria manufacturer of plastic recycling systems for both in-house recycling of production waste and strongly contaminated post-consumer waste, Erema Engi- neering Recycling Maschinen und Anlagen Ges.m.b.H., has reported its best-ever fiscal results. Turnover for April 2011 to March 2012 was €115 million, which exceed its previous record year (2007/8) by 25% and its 2010/11 performance by 40%. During the 2011/12 fiscal year, the company produced 200 recycling systems and 100 individual components, such as screen changers and pelletisers. Con- solidated group turnover for 2011/12, including its subsidiaries Erema North America Inc., Ipswich, MA, and 3S GmbH of Roitham near Gmunden, was approximately €127 million. The company’s products include TVEplus for recycling severely contaminated postconsumer plastic waste and heavily printed and laminated film packaging in-house; the Vacurema process; and the environmental- oriented ecoSAVE recycling systems design. www.erema.at