rPET – coloured regranulate made from coloured drinks bottles
TEXPET R760 coloured is produced from PET bottles from the drinks industry. The bottles are collected as part of the deposit-return scheme in Germany. After the flakes have been hot-washed and subsequently sorted, they are regranulated.The product has an IV of 0.75±0.03 and a residual moisture content of max. 0.4%. It is used in the production of coloured bottles and other packaging.
Processing procedure and technical specifications
Texpet R 760 multicoloured is a recycled material produced from coloured post-consumer single-use PET bottles from the drinks industry.
- IV value: 0.75 ± 0.03 dl/g
- Cylindrical
In our processing procedure, the various PET bottles are first sorted and foreign and contaminating materials are removed. The sorted PET bottles are then crushed into flakes and processed into clean flakes via a hot wash followed by drying. Finally, the flakes are regranulated into pellets in our extrusion plants. Other areas of application include the cosmetics, film, fibre/textile and packaging tape industries.