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Greener, safer packaging with new PET strapping
Eco-friendly African PET recycler Extrupet has launched a new stateof-the-art polyethylene terephthalate( PET) strapping line in Cape Town.
By Candace Sofianos King | Photos by Extrupet
With rising environmental and energy concerns coupled with hefty import costs and the advent of carbon tax, the need for eco- and economically-friendly answers is critical.
In an effort to clean up South Africa, curb waste, and create sustainable solutions for industries, South African based PET recycler Extrupet has established an ever-growing cycle that meaningfully contributes to solving the problem of post-consumer PET waste in the environment.
Recycling in excess of three million bottles a day, Extrupet specialises in reclaiming and converting waste PET bottles into various grades of PET chips and flakes. This is then converted into fibre, thermoforming, food-grade( PhoenixPET) and strapping grade material to produce high quality and reliable end-products for use in packaging and other applications.
“ 80 % of the plastic polluting the world’ s oceans today comes from waste found on land. Every year, an additional eight million tons of plastic leaks into the ocean and continues to grow. Landfills are clearly no longer the answer,” says Chandru Wadhwani, joint managing director of Extrupet.
He adds,“ With strapping widely used in the wood sector, we aim to provide a highly specialised and versatile strapping to the local timber market. In achieving this, we embarked on seeking research used in the best strapping manufacturing lines in the world. We have based our strapping on international standards and high-end technology.”
Eco- and economically-friendly, this new PET strapping is highly resistant and boasts quality technological characteristics. PET boasts a long life and resistance to UV lights and is waterproof. Manufactured from polyester material, PET strapping has a higher tensile strength than polyprop strapping.
Made with leading European technology manufactured by a SIMA production line made in Italy, the strapping boasts full traceability and is manufactured in line with the Global Circular Economy drive – a concept characterised by regenerative design, with the aim to retain as much value as possible of products, parts and materials.
A standard roll of PRO-10 STRAP is made from about 1 000 recycled bottles. The fully recyclable
PET recycler Extrupet has welcomed its new high-end PET strapping production line to the African continent.
PRO-10 STRAP offers highly specialised and versatile strapping to the timber market.
product is designed to secure unstable loads during transport which results in less damages and improved safety of rolling stock.
Plans are to provide for collection and recycling of postconsumer PRO-10 STRAP so as to be compliant with government’ s Section 28 gazetted notice for the paper and packaging industry.
For more information, visit: www. pro10strap. co. za.
10 OCTOBER / NOVEMBER 2018 //