PETpla.net Insider 01+02 / 2015

EDITOUR REPORT 13 PET planet insider Vol. 16 25 Years in the service of the environment by Waldemar Schmitke Cier s.r.l. During our meetings with PET proces- sors on our Italy trip the topic “Use of R-PET” tended to be rapidly dismissed with the words “too expensive in Italy”. Reason enough, therefore, to pay a visit to the largest recycling business in Italy with an annual capacity of 30.000t, namely, Messrs. Cier in Castellato (TE). Here in Cas- tellalto we meet Palmino Di Giacinto, Sales Director and Sandra Di Giacinto, Financial Manager. Cier‘s story starts in 1998 with the treatment of PVC post-consumption packaging material (no longer processed today). Then, in 2000, came the launch of HDPE and LDPE post-processing and afterwards, in 2006, the breakthrough into PET postconsumer pro- cessing for R-PET flakes. Rounding off the treat- ment of consumer PET in 2009 was the company’s investment in an extru- sion line with IV upgrade and crystalliser for gener- ating R-PET IV pellets for use in contact with food- stuffs. At the site here in Castellalto we find three buildings together with a