PETpla.net Insider 04 / 2019

50 PET planet Insider Vol. 20 No. 04/19 www.petpla.net 50 ON site Indorama Venture selects Amut Technology to clean ‘Dirtiest PET bottles ever recycled’ Indorama Ventures has announced that it is to open a new recycling facility in Guadalajara, Mexico, at its Ecomex JV facility, close to its production site. The new plant will be operational in Autumn 2019. It has selected Amut Group to provide processing equip- ment and to upgrade an existing unit at the Ecomex plant. The new capacity means that the factory will be capable of producing over 13,000 pounds per hour of high- quality PET flakes from postconsumer PET bottles, which will be coming from landfill. According to the company, these are the dirtiest bottles ever seen in this market. Amut technology has been selected to convert the material into premier value clean PET flakes, which will be used to produce new resins for a variety of sustainable products. Indorama Ventures’ goal is to close the loop on recycling and increase the sustainability of the PET containers. “The new plant will process more than 100 million pounds of plastic bottles annually into clean PET flakes for our FuTuRe-PET,” said Mr Yash Awasthi, Vice President of Indorama Ventures North American Operations. The new washing plant has been specifically developed to process very dirty post-consumer, landfill-recovered PET bottles. The de-labeller removes the labels, especially the full body shrink sleeves, to make the bottles ready to go through cleaning opera- tions. The 4,000 kg/h washing section has seen the friction force of Amut’s turbo and friction machines increased, to remove fine pollutants, labels, glue and soil. Pre-washing and de-labelling are carried out in cold water; the turbo and friction washer have hot water flow. The Amut technology reduces fresh water usage to the very mini- mum. Water is continuously filtered and can be re-used. Consumption of energy and cleaning agents is also maximally restrained. www.amut.it Recycling Special .com 100815dmyL