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FENC and Coca-Cola team up for chemical recycling of PET

06/08/2020

Taiwanese textiles producer Far Eastern New Century (FENC) has developed a chemical recycling process of PET named TopGreen ChemCycle, which will be used by Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan (CCBJI) and which it describes as “breakthough” technology.

The process chemically converts used PET bottles and other polyester wastes (regardless of colours and printing inks) into rPTA (recycled purified terephthalic acid); rPTA can be used as one of the main raw materials of PET.

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