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= Company Profile = | |||
'''CarbonLite''' was founded by Leon Farahnik. | '''CarbonLite''' was founded by Leon Farahnik. | ||
Headquartered in Los Angeles, USA and with facilities in Riverside and Dallas, the company‘s 220,000-square-foot bottle-to-bottle PET recycling plant processes more than two billion plastic bottles annually. | Headquartered in Los Angeles, USA and with facilities in Riverside and Dallas, the company‘s 220,000-square-foot bottle-to-bottle PET recycling plant processes more than two billion plastic bottles annually. | ||
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As one of the world‘s largest producers of food-grade post-consumer recycled PET, CarbonLite is specialized in processing used plastic bottles into bottle-grade PET resin flakes and pellets that can then be used to manufacture new plastic beverage bottles and other products. | As one of the world‘s largest producers of food-grade post-consumer recycled PET, CarbonLite is specialized in processing used plastic bottles into bottle-grade PET resin flakes and pellets that can then be used to manufacture new plastic beverage bottles and other products. | ||
CarbonLite is | CarbonLite is committed to make an impact in preserving resources and reducing the carbon footprint and therefore has invested in new state-of-the-art facilities, technologies and equipment. | ||
CarbonLite understands recycling as an essential tool in reducing carbon emissions and environmental waste - turning used PET bottles into new PET bottles and products, recycling conserves virgin resources, reduces landfill, and capitalizes on the energy already invested in making existing plastic products. | CarbonLite understands recycling as an essential tool in reducing carbon emissions and environmental waste - turning used PET bottles into new PET bottles and products, recycling conserves virgin resources, reduces landfill, and capitalizes on the energy already invested in making existing plastic products. | ||
The PET resin offered by CarbonLITE will have been processed using a method that has received an LNO (letter of non-objection) from the FDA (Food and Drug Administration), allowing it to be used at levels up to 100% recycled content in the manufacture of PET bottles and containers for direct contact with all food types under cold fill and hot fill conditions. | The PET resin offered by CarbonLITE will have been processed using a method that has received an LNO (letter of non-objection) from the FDA (Food and Drug Administration), allowing it to be used at levels up to 100% recycled content in the manufacture of PET bottles and containers for direct contact with all food types under cold fill and hot fill conditions. | ||
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|2021|03|6|CarbonLite Holdings files for relief under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code| | |||
|2018|01|10|A new recycling plant for Dallas| | |||
| | |2017|03|6|CarbonLite building PET recycling plant in Dallas| | ||
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