Planned Georgia Facility Will Recycle PET Chemically

Revalyu Resources, a chemical PET recycling company, announced it will invest $50 million during the initial phase of the company’s strategic expansion with its first facility in the United States. The PET chemical recycling plant will be built in Statesboro, Georgia. Groundbreaking and construction will take place in early 2023 and commissioning of the facility is planned for 2024. The 43-acre Statesboro site will employ approximately 70 people.

When the first phase is completed, the plant will be able to recycle and process 225,000 lb/day of used PET waste. With future expansion, the plant can have a recycling capacity of up to 450,000 lb/day.

The company has recycled over 6 billion bottles at existing facilities. Its glycolysis technology extracts impurities to deliver high purity rPET. According to Revalyu, the process uses 91% less energy and 67% less water than conventional polyester processes.

Customer applications have shown that the quality of recycled PET from plastic bottles is equivalent to that of virgin PET and can be processed as a direct replacement to create recycled content products.

Revalyu has set a goal of recycling 2 million lb of PET bottles per day by 2026. The company was founded as Perpetual Technologies in Nashik, India in 2007, and renamed last May when it was purchased by the Heraeus Group, of Germany.