Virgin Resin Making
Technology
High Quality Resin-Making
Plastipak manufactures virgin PET resin in our Verbania, Italy plant. The resin can be fed directly into injection machines on-site to make preforms or sold as resin to the market.
Benefits
- This integrated approach streamlines the preform production process
- Being vertically integrated allows Plastipak to better understand the raw materials market used to make PET resin
- Backup supply assurance when PET resin supply is tight
- Allows for testing and commercializing lower carbon footprint options like Natura – a chemically recycled raw material
- Verbania recently installed a pilot PET resin line allowing us to make small batches of resin and facilitate more in depth material R&D
Our Proprietary Technologies
PPK Natura
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The world’s first PET resin made from waste Carbon
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Natura leverages CarbonSmart™ MEG from LanzaTech’s CCT process
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It retains the technical properties of virgin fossil PET while carrying a lowercarbon footprint
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PPK Natura resin reduces greenhouse gas emissions
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Packaging made out of this material can be fully recycled at the end of its life, keeping the carbon in a circular material cycle