Austrian Technology for Indian Recycler Alpha Ecoplast

In mid-October 2024, Indian company Alpha Ecoplast Pvt. Ltd., a member of Alpha Group, commissioned a Starlinger recoSTAR PET 215 HC iV+ PET bottle-to-bottle recycling system in its new facility near Kosamba, Gujarat State (India).

According to the Austrian machinery manufacturer, the recycling plant features Starlinger’s biggest single extruder size, reaching an output of up to 2,700 kilograms of bottle-grade pellets per hour. It has a pre-drying unit, high-vacuum degassing, a continuous filtration system, and an underwater pelletizer. “The viscoSTAR SSP reactor installed at the end of the recycling process further increases the viscosity and level of decontamination of the produced pellets. The rPET pellets produced on Starlinger’s recoSTAR PET recycling lines have been approved for food-contact applications by national and international authorities such as the FDA (USA) and EFSA (EU), as well as by important brand owners in the food and beverage sector.”

Alpha Ecoplast recycles domestically collected post-consumer PET bottles and produces bottle-grade rPET pellets as well as food-grade suitable rPET flakes, which it supplies to the Indian and international markets. To meet the rapidly growing demand on the market, Alpha Ecoplast already placed an order for a second Starlinger PET bottle-to-bottle recycling system of the same size, the Austrian firm informed.

alphaecoplast.com, starlinger.com

(Published in GLOBAL RECYCLING Magazine 1/2025, Page 43, Photo: Alpha Ecoplast)