Sidel launches “RePETable” range of services as “one-stop” solution to efficient adoption of rPET for bottle production. #pet #sustainability
Choose the services you need from Sidel’s RePETable portfolio to ensure maximum process efficiency and bottle quality with rPET. (Photo: Sidel) Automotive Plastic Injection Molding
RePETable is the name of a new portfolio of services from Sidel to assist PET stretch-blow molders in overcoming the challenges of including recycled PET (rPET) in their production. RePETable comprises a choice of services from optimizing bottle design for rPET to mold solutions, equipment upgrades and process support to help molders optimize the blowing process to manage rPET resin and identify and reject off-spec rPET before processing. The goal of Sidel’s “360° one-stop shop for recycled PET” is to ensure production efficiency and bottle quality with any rPET content up to 100%.
The RePETable program is assisted by work with Sidel’s small-scale recycling pilot line, which recreates every step in the recycling process, including washing, drying, pellet extrusion, crystallization and solid-state polymerization to restore IV. R&D on this system is said to help achieve desired bottle mechanical properties with optimum material stretchability and bottle shaping. Sidel also uses this pilot line to aid innovation in closures, sleeves, glues, labels, additives and coloring.
These services are offered in addition to Sidel’s packaging optimization services designed to help reduce bottle weight and achieve cost-effective rPET utilization.
Whether you’re blow molding PET bottles or extruding APET sheet, you’ll produce amorphous scrap in the process. How you handle it will impact your production costs. Re-crystallizing it will help.
If you need to make plastic parts with strong joints and reusable threads, metal threaded inserts are the way to go. The best method depends on the part requirements.
Many food and beverage companies are either using or thinking about using recycled materials in their packaging.
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