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Supplier: Stute to commission a PET recycling line from Krones

After investing in three wind farms, a biogas system and several solar power installations that together cover more than 30 per cent of Stute’s own energy requirements, this privately owned company will in future also be able to completely recycle PET material.

For this purpose, the beverage plant will in August 2012 be commissioning Germany’s first PET recycling line from Krones. The SuperClean-PET-flake process is able to produce flakes at a high degree of purity, which can be directly used for making new bottles.

With this process, the German food company Stute plans to feed back into its bottle production operation both PET bottles and preforms. This also includes bottles that have already come into contact with product. The recycling process washes and decontaminates the rejected PET, thus guaranteeing its suitability for future food-grade applications.

The PET recycling line is made up of the following main components: washing module, decontamination module, plus the peripherals. The line is installed on two different levels: the washing module and the decontamination module are spatially separated, with the latter located directly next to the existing injection-moulding machines for producing preforms.(bmg)