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News Release from: RPC Containers | Subject: Standard PET juice bottles, 30% recycled
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 24 September 2007
PET bottles have 30% recycled materials
Standard PET juice bottles now have 30% recycled materials content and the supplier aims to increase the recycled content to 50%.
RPC Containers Llantrisant is now producing standard PET juice bottles containing 30% post consumer recycled (PCR) content, following successful trials with Marks and Spencer Designer at RPC Llantrisant, Dean Williams, said: "We have been working hard for many years on developing the percentage of rPET in our bottles
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 30 Jul 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Having consistently achieved a quality of bottle with 30% PCR that is equivalent to 100% virgin PET, we feel the time is right to offer this product as standard to reflect the growing demand for recycled content in plastics packaging".
RPC's intends to increase the percentage of PCR content to 50%, a development area in which RPC Llantrisant is well underway with, said the company in a report to Manufacturingtalk.
The installation of a new single stage PET processing machine underlines the Llantrisant site's success in juice bottles.
The Aoki 350 machine is the eighth such model purchased by RPC Llantrisant and brings the total number of Aoki machines on-site to 24.
Williams explained: "This investment is necessary to meet capacity of combined new projects and increased volumes of existing work.".
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