Roberto Dentis , co-owner of Dentis Recycling |
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gency which put the entire industrial sector in serious difficulty , followed by a 2021 that , at least for us , was nothing short of extraordinary and certainly one of the three best years in our history ,” comments Corrado Dentis , CEO of Dentis Recycling Italy srl . “ 2022 was influenced by the high prices of energy and the shortage of raw materials in relation to the growing demand , thus causing prices to soar so that , today , mechanical recycling has to deal with a substantially stagnant demand . In addition , as we all know , there is an EU rule ( to be implemented from January 1 , 2025 ) to introduce 25 percent recycled PET in the production of PET containers for liquid food , together with a separate collection target of 77 percent in 2025 and 90 percent in 2029 .” |
All this initially suggested that , given the trend in place two years before implementation , the demand should have held in 2023 . Instead , especially in our country , many customers decided to continue purchasing virgin resins pending the entry into force of the EU rule on recycled material . “ In the peak months of 2022 , i . e . May and June , post-consumer PET bottles were sold at EUR 1,700 per tonne , then the price fell to EUR 115 per tonne in August 2023 , so the current situation of the sector can be well understood , with European companies closing down and others temporarily laying off their employees . We are official suppliers of major bottled water and beverage companies with which we have signed contracts : in 2022 they asked to significantly increase |
production volumes but today they are buying from us the minimum allowed under the terms of these contracts .”
INVESTING IN INNOVATION Dentis Recycling boasts a long-standing experience in the production of Petalo , a secondary raw material delivered in the form of flakes that is suitable for any type of application . A flagship of the company for decades on international markets , Petalo is produced in high-performance plants which , from their current production capacity , will pass to over 100 thousand tons per year within a couple of years . “ This is thanks to a strategy of sizeable investments in two new washing lines to deliver much more product , even in pellet format , having
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