{"id":29930,"date":"2022-02-02T10:34:37","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T09:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/php8.plastv.de\/?p=29930"},"modified":"2022-02-01T14:35:55","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T13:35:55","slug":"plastipak-expands-pet-recycling-capacity-in-luxembourg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/?p=29930","title":{"rendered":"Plastipak Expands PET Recycling Capacity in Luxembourg"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_2 et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n<p>Plastipak, a global leader in the design, manufacture and recycling of plastic containers has completed a major investment to significantly expand its PET recycling capacity at its manufacturing site in Bascharage, Luxembourg.<\/p>\n<p>The original PET recycling facility in Luxembourg opened in 2008 and this new expansion increases annual production capacity by 136%. The installation and commissioning of the expansion took 12 months and has officially opened.<\/p>\n<p>The recycling facility is co-located with Plastipak\u2019s flagship preform and container manufacturing facility and converts washed rPET flakes originating from post-consumer bottles into food-grade recycled PET (rPET) pellets.<\/p>\n<p>The rPET produced at the site is converted into new preforms and containers produced at the Bascharage facility, which principally serves the German and Benelux food and beverage markets. The expansion complements Plastipak\u2019s existing recycling facilities in France, UK and USA, and follows the recent announcement of a new recycling facility at its plant in Toledo, Spain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis latest investment to increase our capacity in rPET production actively demonstrates Plastipak\u2019s long-term commitment to bottle-to-bottle recycling and our leadership in the PET circular economy\u201d explained Pedro Martins, Executive Managing Director of Plastipak\u2019s European division. \u201cPlastipak is the leading producer of food-grade rPET in Europe, with the majority of the post-consumer recycled material we use in Europe produced in-house\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlastipak began producing post-consumer recycled resins for packaging customers in 1989, and has had many expansions in North America and Europe since then. We are excited to continue supporting our global packaging customers in achieving their sustainability goals\u201d said Dave Stajninger, Plastipak\u2019s Global recycling Business Manager.<\/p>\n<p>Plastipak is a major convertor of recycled PET, which represents 27% of the total resin consumed in Plastipak\u2019s European sites in 2020. At the site of this latest rPET expansion, Bascharage, the proportion of recycled resin consumed in 2020 was 45.3%.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plastipak, a global leader in the design, manufacture and recycling of plastic containers has completed a major investment&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-29930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plas-tv-meldungen-auf-der-startseite-unterhalb-slider","category-plast-tv-textmeldungen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29931,"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29930\/revisions\/29931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29930"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=29930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}