Sidel RePETable portfolio of services

Sidel has launched its RePETable portfolio of services that are designed to help the packaging industry make the transition to rPET bottle production while offering support to improve the circularity of primary packaging.

The service solutions will enable users to adopt up to 100% rPET without impacting bottle production. Sidel can also offer support to develop more sustainable primary packaging materials that are designed for recycling.

The RePETable offer is a range of services dedicated to rPET, designed to extend virgin PET benefits to rPET and achieve consistent production performance and bottle quality. Users can to pick and choose services that best suit their specific needs. The service is additional to its packaging optimisation services for lighter bottle weight, helping users make a cost-efficient transition to recycled PET.

Sidel’s investment in its small-scale recycling pilot line is supporting primary packaging suppliers in innovating with new materials for closure, sleeve, glue, label, additives, colouring and any other primary packaging material. The pilot line is being used to recreate every step of the recycling process from washing, drying and pellet extrusion to crystallisation and solid state polymerisation, including dedicated process and laboratory controls at every step. Sidel packaging and equipment experts study all aspects of the process from post-consumer PET bales to flakes, including pellets ready to be injected into preform up to rPET bottle blow moulding and industrialisation.

With the RePETable offer, Sidel is committed to using its comprehensive expertise to create a virtuous closed-loop process for food-grade rPET bottles.