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South Africa's Petco to expand rPET capacity

  • : Petrochemicals
  • 24/09/18

South African PET producer responsibility organisation Petco has said its joint venture site with recycler Extrupet will come online in 2025, adding 15,000 t/yr of food-grade rPET capacity in the Western Cape region.

The site will cost 300mn rand ($17mn), according to the company, which said 64pc of South Africa's PET plastic bottles are collected for recycling.

Extrupet built the first bottle-to-food grade line in Johannesburg in 2009, with a second site in South Africa built in 2014.

Extrupet has recycling capacity of more than 60,000 t/yr according to Petco. A Petco member, Alpa, is expected to complete construction of a 35,000 t/yr PET bottle-to-bottle recycling plant by the end of 2024.


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