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China’s first food-grade recycled PET flake enterprise

14-May-2009

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China’s first food-grade recycled polyester flake enterprise, Beijing Incom Resources Recovery Co. opened in Beijing recently, said China Packaging Federation (CPF).

The company produces PET bottles from original PET chips and recycles waste PET bottles to make bottle-grade flakes, said Zou Zuye, federation vice-president.

 

China produces 3m tons of plastic bottles each year which consumes an estimated 18m tons of crude oil, said CPF.

The food-grade recycled polyester flake production has passed a total of 17 series of tests to meet the standards set out by the Ministry of Health and State Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said Beijing Incom Resources Recovery Co.