Food-Grade rPET Brand Launched by Italian Recycler
Dentis expands food grade offerings to include pellets as well as PET bottle flake.
REPETER is a new brand of recycled PET pellet for food grade applications offered by . Dentis commissioned two new Starlinger RecoSTAR PET lines in 2022 for bottle recycling, with a combined production capacity of 6.6 tons per hour.
Recycled REPETER pellets are available in several colors.
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Dentis is expected to recycle a total of 80,000 tons of post-consumer PET bottles, collected through Italian collection systems operated by and . After completion of the capacity extension in 2024, the potential recycling capacity of the company’s Piedmont site is approximated to reach up to 130,000 tons of post-consumer PET bottles per year.
The food-grade rPET pellets are available in several colors. Besides approvals for use in food packaging from numerous brand owners, the Starlinger PET recycling process has received positive opinions from the European Food Safety Authority EFSA as well as LNOs from the US FDA. Dentis product offerings also include PETALO, the company’s recycled polyester bottle flakes.
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