A second PET polyester recycling plant has been commissioned by revalyu Resources at its site in Nashik, India, to further boost production capacity and meet growing customer demand.

The recent commissioning means the revalyu plant now recycles over 20 million used PET bottles a day into 160 daily tons of high quality PET chips and PET polymer for textile yarns and other applications. 

These raw materials are being used by customers to meet their sustainability targets in applications from diverse sectors such as PET bottles, packaging materials, textiles, automotive accessories and a wide variety of PET copolymer-based products.

A third plant is fully financed as part of an overall $100 million investment. It will add a further 120 daily tons of capacity by the third quarter of 2025 and increase the site’s recycling capacity to approximately 35 million post-consumer plastic bottles a day and total production capacity to 280 tons per day.

The site utilises highly advanced and patented glycolysis-based recycling technologies and automated processes, which make the manufacturing operations highly optimised, scalable, profitable and easily replicable. The recycled PET is produced using 75% less water and 91% less energy than conventional PET made from oil.

“This is a revolutionary moment for the PET plastic recycling industry,” said revalyu Group founder Dr Vivek Tandon. “Finally, the world has a commercially proven, scalable, profitable and environmentally sustainable recycling technology that can truly reverse engineer used PET plastic into virgin grade quality PET polymer. I cannot thank our team, customers, shareholders and suppliers enough for their hard work, trust and support. We continue to seek global partners to join us in our global expansion.”

“Our 100% post-consumer recycled polymer can seamlessly replace conventional PET in any polyester or PET application,” added MD Jan van Kisfeld  “Our new plant demonstrates two critical achievements –  first, that this chemical recycling process is commercially viable on a global scale, and second, that it operates with an impressively low environmental footprint.”

revalyu Resources will set up another 240 ton per day PET recycling facility in the US by 2027 and has plans to expand globally with partnerships to increase its production to over 1,000 tons daily by 2030.

The revalyu Group is headquartered in Germany and majority-owned by Heraeus, one of the top 10 family owned companies in Germany.

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