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Giving Bottles a Second Life - the 360o™ PCR

360o™ PCR
  • Plastic bottles to post consumer resin chip
  • Post consumer resin chip to POY PCR
  • POY PCR to 360o™ PCR
Post-Consumer Recycled PET
RPET Flake Crystallized and Solid State Pellet

Products used as feedstock in the manufacturer of:
  • Carbonated/Non-carbonated soft drink bottles
  • Food and non-food containers
  • Sheet and Packaging
  • Strapping
  • Polyester fiber
  • Engineered resin compounding
Supply Sources Recycling Process
  • Post consumer scrap bottles collected through domestic deposit/redemption systems
  • Post industrial container scrap
  • Miscellaneous domestic scrap
  • Imported scrap
 
  • Sort Bottles
  • Grind into flake
  • Separate polymers
  • Wash pet flake
  • Rinse, separate, dry
  • Metal removal
  • Optical flake color sort
 
Sorted bottles fed through granulators Enhance particle separation with
hydro-cyclone vortex 		Wash, float/separation, drying
     
Aluminum removal with Eddy Current
and Electrostatic Ejection Methods 		Optical Particle Sort Rejection Ejection
     
   
Clean PET Flake    
     
Quality Control Repelletization  
  • Physical testing
  • Color
  • IV (Intrinsic Viscosity)
  • Non PET contamination
  • Disposition by purity
  • Dry flake to -40oF Dew Point or 25ppm
  • Extrude at 540oF
  • Filter through 200-325 mesh screen pack
  • Create Pellet
  • Recrystallize at 300oF
     
 
Dry flake, extrude, cut pleete and crystallize RPET Pellet  

 

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