Ensuring the plastics cycle is economically sound, environmentally justified, and socially accepted.

What is PET?

What is PET?PolyEthylene Terephthalate or PET is a strong, but lightweight form of clear polyester, often used to make containers.
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Who Are Petcore?

Who are Petcore?PET containers recycling Europe, is a non-profit European association fostering the use and recycling of PET containers. Learn More.

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Our Members

A sample of Petcore members:

www.alpla.com
ALPLA are leading manufacturers of plastic packaging in Europe, Asia, North, Central and South America.Our product range includes: Preforms...

http://www.laseda.es/index_en.php
Operating in Europe, the Middle East and Africa and with facilities in Portugal, Italy, Greece, Turkey,...

www.awsecoplastics.com
AWS Eco Plastics Ltd is the UK's leading plastic bottle recycling company. We own and operate a sorting plant capable of...

http://www.buhlergroup.com/21637EN.htm?grp=60 Bühler's business unit "Thermal Processes" supplies customer-...

www.colormatrix.com
ColorMatrix Group Inc are global innovators in liquid colorant, additive and dosing technologies for the plastics industry. The...

www.corepla.it
The National Consortium for Collection, Recovery and Recycling of Plastics Packaging Waste, COREPLA is responsible for the management and...

www.equipolymers.com
Equipolymers manufactures and markets polyethylene terephthalate resins and purified terephthalic acid (PTA), a key raw...

http://www.erema.com/en/1/
Erema is exclusively specialised in the development, design and manufacturing of recycling plants for the plastics...

www.grahampackaging.com
Graham Packaging Company, L.P., is a worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and sale of technology-based, customized...

www.hollandcolours.com/web_hca/uk/content/content.nsfHolland
Holland Colours NV was founded in 1979 in...

http://www.indoramapolymers.com/site/Europe.htm 
  Indorama is a world-wide producer of polyester and its...

 
www.invista.com
INVISTA is one of the world’s largest integrated producers of polymers and fibers, primarily for nylon, spandex and...

www.gruppomg.com
Gruppo Mossi & Ghisolfi (M&G) originally manufactured packaging for detergents and toiletries, mainly from HDPE and PVC...

http://joomla.montello-spa.it/en/
Montello S.p.A operates in the environmental services field.  One of the major plastics reclaimers in...

www.plastipak.com
Providing Packaging Solutions Through Engaged Hearts and Minds

www.rpc-group.com
RPC Group is Europe's leading rigid plastic packaging manufacturer, servicing a...

www.sorema.it
Sorema, with 30 years' experience is a Leader in design, manufacturing and installation of recycling plants for plastic materials: pre-...

www.sorepla.com
Sorepla reclaims domestic plastic packaging waste (PET and HDPE bottles) from separate collection schemes. Sorepla is the leader in...

Latest Petcore updates:

Petcore publishes PET collection figures for 2009 - European PET bottle collection increases by more than 8%

Brussels, Monday 19 July 2010
 
Petcore announced today that European post-sorting PET collection reached 1.4 million tonnes in 2009, an increase of more than 8% on 2008.
The overall collection rate in 2009 rose by nearly 2.5%, from 46% to 48.4%, of all PET bottles on the market.
The 2009 share of fibres as an end use for recycled PET flake decreased from 45% to 40%, although the tonnage remained almost the same. The PET sheet market tonnage resumed its growth pattern from 22% to 27%. Blowmoulding continued to grow with more than 22% going to this outlet in 2009. The strapping market was the hardest hit by the economic recession but still consumed 7%.
It was estimated that there is a total mechanical reclamation capacity in the European region of 1.6m tonnes. This provides the impetus for the industry to increase the current collection rate beyond 50%.

Erema views Latin America as vital market

By Stephen Downer | PLASTICS NEWS CORRESPONDENT
Posted July 26, 2010
MEXICO CITY (July 26, 4:30 p.m. ET) -- Mexico is prime territory for Austrian plastics recycling equipment maker Erema Engineering Recycling Maschinen und Anlagen GmbH. Erema’s latest sales success there includes a 1,102-pound-per-hour shredder to a Mexican plastics recycler, but the company is also targeting its machinery at other parts of Latin America and the Caribbean, according to Clemens Zittmayr, international sales manager responsible for the region.
Ansfelden, Austria-based Erema does not disclose the names of its customers: “Customer names [should be] kept confidential, please,” Zittmayr insisted. But the sales director at Replas México SA de CV, Juan Puente, confirmed that Replas was the Mexican buyer of the model WLK 6S/45 shredder. Replas operates recycling plants in San Luis Potosí and San Juan del Río.

‘Plastic’ bottles for wine are ‘not inferior’

KATY CHANCE, Business Day 

Published: 2010/07/14 06:32:37 AM

 
THE Wine and Spirit Board has approved the use of a type of plastic, polyethylene terephthalate (PET), for wine bottles, and local wines in such bottles will be allowed the South African Wine of Origin certification.
In SA, glass wine bottles of 750ml capacity weigh about 400g while the PET bottles weigh only 50g, bringing vast savings in local and export transport costs.
The PET bottles are also fully recyclable and have a much lower carbon footprint than glass.
Mondi Packaging is producing the PET bottles locally and has been working closely with two European suppliers. The bottles are already widely used for fruit juice, beer and wine in Europe and, says sales manager Louis Moodie: “It was inevitable it would happen here. Mondi hasn’t reinvented the wheel but secured this leading technology and launched it here with the back-up of our European partners.”

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