Srichakra Polyplast triples bottle-grade rPET production capacities

In the first half of 2024, Indian plastics recycler Srichakra Polyplast commissioned two new Starlinger PET bottle-to-bottle recycling lines. The company has been recycling post-consumer PET bottles and polyolefin packaging since 2021, using two Starlinger plastics recycling lines installed that year.

Srichakra has installed two new recoSTAR PET 165 HC iV+ bottle-to-bottle recycling lines at its recycling facility located on the outskirts of Hyderabad, Telangana. These lines join the existing Starlinger equipment: one dedicated to processing post-consumer polyolefins with odor reduction technology, and the other a PET bottle-to-bottle recycling line. With the addition of the new lines, Srichakra Polyplast has tripled its rPET production capacity, now achieving a total annual output of 42,000 tons of bottle-grade rPET.

“Due to the implementation of Extended Producer Responsibility by the Indian government and the requirement for brand owners and producers to include a share of 30 % of post-consumer recycled PET in their beverage bottles by 2025, the demand for rPET in India is on the rise”, said P V Ravindra, Managing Director at Srichakra Polyplast. “As an end-to-end recycling and plastic waste management company, we are committed to make meaningful contributions for more sustainability in the plastic packaging industry. We partner with corporations to help them meet ERP goals and ensure that sufficient recycled materials are available on the market. The excellent performance and reliability of our existing Starlinger systems made it clear that we opted again for Starlinger technology to carry out our expansion project.”

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