100% rPET for a sustainable future

PET bottles are cleaned and correctly collected, separated from the general waste. After being collected, the PET bottles go into sorting centers and then recycling facilities. Here, they are sorted, washed and shredded. They arrive in our plant in the shape of PET flakes, acquired from suppliers, that are constantly audited to comply with strict quality standards of the food industry.

After succesive sorting stages, in which any other material and foreign bodies are eliminated, the PET flakes reach the final stage of decontamination in a special equipment composed of an extruder and a reactor. They are melted at a temperature of 300 degrees Celsius and decontaminated in controlled vacuum conditions, to obtain food grade material. Through a water-cooling system, rPET resin is obtained, in solid state, that is afterwards shredded into rPET grains, using high precision installations.

rPET grains are processed to obtain recycled PET preforms. By preform we mean the plastic bottle before blowing which gives it its shape. In a first drying phase, the resin is first brought to 160° and then melted at approximately 290°. At this point, it is injected at high pressure into a mold where it finally becomes a preform. Once removed from the mould, the preforms, which have a weight ranging from 12.75g to 46.7g, undergo further control analyzes which establish their qualitative conformity. We produce in Ploiești plant the entire volume needed for all  our 3 plants in Romania, including Timișoara and Poiana Negrii, where the preforms will become bottles of different sizes, from 0.33L to 2.5L.