CarbonLite eyes Pennsylvania for third PET recycling plant

Leon Farahnik, founder, chairman
Farahnik adds that the company is eyeing an existing building in the area and that the deal should be completed by late July. CarbonLite says it expects to invest $60 million in the plant, which it anticipates starting up in late 2019.
The location was attractive to CarbonLite, Farahnik
CarbonLite expects to source bottle bales for the plant to process throughout the Northeast, he says. The Pennsylvania plant likely will purchase 100 million pounds of bales annually, producing 60 million to 65 million pounds of finished goods.
The new plant will be equipped similarly to the company’s existing facilities, Farahnik says. Its Dallas plant features a washing line supplied by Italy-based Amut Group and is capable of producing more than 12,000 pounds per hour PET flake from postconsumer bales sourced from material recovery facilities (MRFs), making it the second plant of this size that Amut has installed in the U.S.
CarbonLite’s plants in Riverside and Dallas process more than 4 billion beverage bottles annually. In addition to bottles, the company’s recycled resin is used in thermoform production.
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