45 ON SITE PETplanet Insider Vol. 26 No. 03/25 www.petpla.net Boretech ships its first complete PET bottle-to-bottle system to India In February 2025, the provider of end-to-end PET recycling solutions Boretech successfully shipped the main equipment for a complete PET bottle-to-bottle recycling system to India. This marks Boretech’s first full-scale PET bottle-to-bottle system sold to the Indian market. The project comes at a pivotal moment as India has introduced the Plastic Waste Management (Amendment) Rules 2024, which set clear regulations on the recycled content and recycling rates for rigid plastic packaging. The project officially commenced in February 2024 and is scheduled for commissioning in June 2025. Once fully operational, the production line will feature a processing capacity of 30,000 t/a of rPET flakes and 16,000 t/a of foodgrade rPET pellets, enabling the customer to meet the 30% recycled content requirement mandated for 2025-2026. The customer has opted for Boretech’s latest ES process washing technology, which features a highly integrated design that reduces land footprint by 25% and on-site labour requirements by 33%, lower initial investment and operational costs. The intensive washing technology is claimed to ensure near-zero chemical residue, while the enhanced hot-wash technology improves downstream filtration by 25% and reduces per-ton energy consumption by 13.3%. Boretech has delivered a comprehensive system encompassing pre-treatment, twin-screw extrusion, pelletising, and Solid-State Polymerisation (SSP). The SSP stage incorporates continuous pre-crystallisation, crystallisation preheating, solid-state polymerisation, and final product cooling, ensuring that the rPET meets food-grade standards and is FDA-certified. www.bo-re-tech.com From bales to high-quality PET flakes Mineral water producer Alma, one of Europe’s leading producers of mineral water, and recycling specialist Veolia have partnered to establish Filao, Belgium’s first PET bottle recycling plant. The newly founded joint venture aims to enhance sustainable packaging solutions and has chosen Krones as its technology provider for recycling processes. With Filao, Sources Alma has already opened its third recycling site. The company has been operating a plant in Lesquin in northern France for 15 years and another recycling plant in Saint-Yorre in the centre of the country for three years. Both factories are equipped with technology from Krones. In addition to recycling, Alma also relies on Krones technology for its mineral water bottling lines. The factory had to be ready for operation within a year - from the construction of the buildings to the recruitment of staff and the installation of the production line. Krones supplied the majority of the machines for the Filao line and also played a key role in the design and implementation of the line and harmonised the components. The company naturally benefits from its own recycling expertise, which has been pooled in the independent Krones Recycling GmbH since July 2024 and also has factory planning and project management in-house, which enables overall responsibility with only a few interfaces. At the heart of the recycling system is the MetaPure W-PET washing module, which handles pre-treatment, hot caustic washing and post-washing. For components that Krones does not have in its own portfolio, the company relies on years of co-operation with experienced manufacturers. Such a combination of expertise and cooperation is essential to ensure that the complex recycling process runs smoothly and efficiently. “We process 40,000 t/a of bottles, which is around 70 per cent of the PET bottles collected in Belgium,” says Plant Manager Mélanie Gregoire, adding: “We produce 4.5 t/h of flakes, but we can increase our output to 6 t/h. Filao is therefore ideally equipped for the future.” Krones Recycling will be present with its solutions at PRS Europe in Amsterdam and Chinaplas in Shenzhen. www.krones-recycling.com ONsite Boretech Hall 6 Booth G41 Krones Hall 10 Booth W21 Krones Booth G41 A PET bottle-to-bottle recycling plant in Taiwan, utilising similar pelletising and SSP technology as the upcoming facility in India. Boretech Booth A92
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