MATERIALS AND APPLICATIONS
Repeter is the new pellet product derived from recycled PET , devised for that segment of clientele producing containers for liquids , designed and developed by Dentis Recycling , a company that has always been committed to recovering postconsumer waste of this kind .
The Petalo recycled PET flakes by
Dentis Recycling
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In a historic , complex time for the PET recycling segment , with demand going from high numbers the previous year to a drastic decline in 2023 , companies are attempting to interpret the signals coming from industry and politics in a quest to maintain a solid competitive edge on the market . In this context , Dentis Recycling has decided to invest in new technology , ensuring quality products for its clients , as it has done for more than thirty-five years . It was in fact 1987 when the company launched operations at its facility in S . Albano Stura ( near Cuneo ), before going on to specialise in the recovery of polyethylene terephthalate derived from the separate collection of post-consumer plastic bottles or production scrap . Today Dentis has a staff of over a hundred employees working at the Piedmont plant , plus another 160 at the company ’ s foreign branches in France and Spain , engaged in PET recovery operations and following all the necessary steps to give new life to this important thermoplastic resin .
Dentis Recycling is one of the three major companies in Europe that operate in this sector , boasting a highly technological production plant with a capacity of 50 thousand tons per year , equal to about 2 billion bottles . The company also produces recycled flakes – under the Petal brand - whose distinctive feature lies in 100 % homogeneous crystallisation which , combined with a low contaminant content ( 60 ppm maximum ), facilitates the processes for the operators who want to produce new objects from recycled materials .
CURRENT TRENDS “ As part of our offer of novel secondary PET materials , we are starting to market food-grade pellets . However , it must be said that this period is certainly not the happiest : analysing the situation of the last three years , in fact , we had a 2020 characterised by the pandemic emer-
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