rPET plastic products

RPET BOTTLES

In September 2014 a new factory was opened by Frapak and FlexPET with a production system which enables different materials to be automatically fed into its machines(in order to determine 50% or 100% of rPET)

rPET bottles & jars are in stock

As of January 2020, we decided to add few of our PET bottles to our standard stock range in 100% Recycled Material. We can supply various sizes from within our Tall Boston Round series & 70mm Straight cylindrical series. These products in 100% recycled PET and are directly available from warehouse stock for an MOQ of 1 pallet.

Tall Boston rPET Stocked items: 50ml, 100ml, 200ml, 250ml, 500ml. All of this bottles come with a standard 24-410 neck finish. 70mm Straight Cylindrical rPET stocked items: 100ml, 150ml, 200ml, 250ml, and 300ml.

rPET products that we have realised

Trial bottles have been made in the new factory on a “worst case” scenario basis i.e. heavy bottle resulting in high migration with 100% rPET.

The trial bottles have been send to Intertek to study the migration of dangerous substances – with the result that the migration complies to the new 10/2011 legislation. The minimum order quantity (MOQ) for rPET is 25K.

Please contact us by e-mail: sales@frapak.com

What is rPET?

rPET is recycled PET, basically PET made from scrap. In 2014 over 57% of all PET bottles have already been recycled in some way or other. Out of this 57%, more than 20% is used for bottle-to-bottle recycling. The rPET bottles are of a slightly different colour than the usual PET bottles.

The recycling process starts at the sorting centres which accept used bottles from the different collection systems and sort these into bales of bottles which are delivered to the recyclers. These bales are sorted by material in a sorting centre or in a pre-stage of the process of the recycler. Various companies have developed mechanical and chemical processes in order to recycle high quality post-consumer material (PCR) into rPET pellets or flakes.

The Recycling Process of a rPET bottles

1. Collection; the process starts with the collection of PET bottles in bales.
2. Debaling; the packed bales with compressed bottles these are then broken into loose bottles.
3. Sorting; the sorting of bottles can be done by hand or by using an auto sorting.
4. Shredder; PET bottles sorted by colour are shredded into large flakes.
5. 1st Dry/wet cleaning process; the flakes are cleaned in water/steam.
6. Grinding; the larger flakes are grinded into smaller flakes.
7. Paper/plastic/metal separator; separation is made in a swim tank where the various material are separated by their different densities.
8. Hot Flake washer; glue and other contaminants are removed.
9. Dryer; after the different washing stages the flakes are thoroughly dried.
10. Metal detector.
11. Flake sorter; the sorting of the flake is done by optical systems, sorting on different colours.