EDITOUR PETplanet Insider Vol. 25 No. 12/24 www.petpla.net 11 EDITOUR 11 The recyclate, around 90% of which ends up back in packaging such as PET bottles, is sold worldwide. Customers include Pepsi, Niagara, Nestlé, Coca-Cola, Retal and Alpla. The remaining material ends up in non-food applications, such as at Henkel or L’Oréal. “Our main markets are the EU and USA with over 90% exports,” explained Mr Fattah. “The rest remains in the Middle East and Egypt, where rPET is still in its infancy in bottle production. At present, recycled material in contact with food is still often perceived by the population as contaminated and therefore anything but positive. But awareness of this is gradually changing, so that we are slowly but surely seeing positive signals in the handling of recycled PET. We would like to contribute to recycling processes and the circular economy for plastics being perceived as a kind of ‘social plastic.” The company is currently building another plant in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, which is expected to be completed in early 2025. An Erema Vacurema Prime will be used there together with an initial annual capacity of 15,000 t before plans are made to increase this to 55,000 t in the medium term, as in Egypt. www.bariq-eg.com Production Engineer Abdul Rahman (back) shows Editor Kay Barton the recycling stations at the plant All areas at Bariq are clearly marked Shall we? %X 7%'1- TEVXRIVWLMT MW JSVIZIV Choose everlasting excellence for your tethered cap production plant. With SACMI ]SYƅPP ƼRH E JYXYVI VIEH] WSPYXMSR XLEXƅW designed to stand the test of time. sacmi.com E N D L E S S I N N O V A T I O N S I N C E 1 9 1 9
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