PETpla.net Insider 10 / 2015

MATERIAL / RECYCLING 10 PET planet insider Vol. 16 No. 10/15 www.petpla.net MATERIAL / RECYCLING 10 Application- based product design rPET by Waldemar Schmitke February 18, 2015 We met: Lori Carson, Director, Commercial Operations and L. Robert Deardurff, President Today our route takes us to Bowling Green in Ohio to visit the PET recy- cling company Phoenix Technologies. Here, at the company’s sole site, we meet Lori Carson, Director, Commer- cial Operations and President L.Robert Deardurff. The company was estab- lished in 1992 and has specialised in the manufacture of recycled PET mate- rial rPET for food and non-food appli- cations for the American market. Occupying premises extending to 90,000 sq ft., there are 2 production halls with a total capacity of 38,000 mt rPET per year. 90% of the products, marketed under the trade mark LNO Food Grade for products with FDA approval and the designation NLP for non-food applications, are in the packaging sector. The ratio of food to non-food applications is 60-40% and manufacture is predominantly in the form of pellets. Operations are conducted in the two halls using a range of different processes, one based on the mmm$he[Z[hi$Z[ Y O U R PA R T N E R F O R B L OW MO U L D S . STEPS TO THE PERFECT BOTTLE. >YZV 9Zh^\c IZX]cdad\n BVcj[VXijg^c\ 8bem CekbZ &%% HZgk^XZ Meet us at Brau Beviale in Nuremberg – Hall 4 / 4-541 rPET process line for continuous operation