PETpla.net Insider 10 / 2013

MATERIAL / RECYCLING 35 PET planet insider Vol. 14 No. 10/13 www.petpla.net INNOVATION. DON‘T COMPROMISE ON QUALITY. PREMIUM MASTERBATCHES FOR SUPERB PRODUCTS. Closures | Flexible Packaging | Thermoforming Sheet | Bottles & Containers Visit us at K, Hall 5 Stand B48 We also support your new product concepts. Please contact our „Food & Beverage Packaging“ unit directly: [email protected] www.gabriel-chemie.com Using 100% PRS bottles creates a Swiss quality PET feedstock. ITW Poly Recycling was set up in 1992 and was operating the first PET recycling plant in Weinfelden, Switzerland. Input capacity 20,000t/a, of which 10,000t/a are returned to the PET recycling circuit for bottle- to-bottle application. The balance of recovered PET material is for foils, textile and straps. ITW Poly Recycling produces RPET for the fillers in form of granulates. RecyPET AG was set up in 1998 and has been operating the PET recy- cling plant in Frauenfeld, Switzerland, since September 2000. Input capac- ity is approx. 18,000t/a. RecyPET AG produces RPET for the fillers in form of flakes. Caspar van Dungen apparently positions the Swiss situation in an European overview: “Certainly we are sandwiched between PRS and Switzerland has a PET recycling quota of 89% (2012) fillers – regarding quantities and price – since we exclusively receive from PRS collectors and exclusively supply to Swiss beverage fillers. There is a financial risk. And sometimes there are Challenges. But there is also a living partnership between all partici- pants in the PET circuit.” And he adds a personal rejoinder: “I live and work here because of this mutual accounta- bility which is part of our joint percep- tion“.