PET Bottle-to-Bottle Recycling Facilty

Petstar, S.A. de C.V, an Avangard Innovative and PASA company, is the largest PET recycling company in Mexico. Petstar has helped to provide a solution to Mexico’s recycling infrastructure needs through the construction of their Post-Consumer Resin (PCR) plant. This plant provides much needed PET recovery that aids in greatly reducing the growing waste problem in Mexico, one of the largest PET markets in the world.

The Petstar PCR Plant is a high-volume, high-efficiency recycling plant utilizing state-of-the-art technology to achieve a suitable feedstock quality and competitive cost, compared with PET virgin resin, for the manufacture of food grade packaging. The plant consists of two washing lines, an extrusion and purification line, raw material warehouse, end product warehouse, machine room, electric power substation and water treatment plant. Processes include grinding, washing, extrusion, and solid state polymerization.