Global PET Produces Eco-friendly Food Packaging

Moulding giant Global PET has started producing bottle boxes from 100% post-consumer recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET).

The company’s Californian 173,000ft2 plant, which produces the food packaging product, is equipped with the latest technology, Global PET said.

The company also plans to upgrade the manufacturing unit with machinery required for washing, grinding, extruding and thermoforming, which will be completed in spring 2010.

Global PET has received a grant of nearly $7m from the state of California and established a ten-year partnership agreement with the Plastic Recycling Corporation of California for 60 million pounds of discarded PET bottles.