Teijin Ltd. announced that it has completed the construction of a plant in Yamaguchi Prefecture designed to produce recycled PET bottles.
Total investment in the project is 10 billion yen (US$92 million), Teijin officials said.
The new plant employs reinforced technologies to extract highly-purified polyester materials from used plastic bottles, making it possible to produce new PET bottles in the same way as that they are made from petroleum, the officials said.
The plant has a capacity to produce about 50,000 tons of bottle materials annually out of 62,000 tons of used bottles. Kyodo (Japan) News
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