Services to Help Blow Molders Convert to rPET

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.