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rPET suppliers: how to find recycled PET you can use
Recycled PET is sold as washed flakes or as pellets, from fibre grade to food-contact grade. The right supplier depends on your process: sheet, fibre, strapping or bottles each need a different quality. Polyfinder finds the recyclers that produce your grade and asks them the right questions.
01Forms of recycled PET
- Hot-washed flakes, clear or coloured
- Pellets (amorphous or crystallised)
- Solid-state polycondensed (SSP) pellets for bottles and food contact
- Fibre-grade material
02Who sells it
PET washing lines, bottle-to-bottle recyclers with decontamination steps, and traders that consolidate several plants.
03What to check with an rPET supplier
- Intrinsic viscosity (IV) and its consistency
- Residual PVC, glue and moisture
- Colour
- For food contact: the regulatory approval of the recycling process
- Monthly volume and a sample before the first order
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Questions and answers
Who sells recycled PET?
PET washing lines, bottle-to-bottle recyclers with decontamination steps, and traders that consolidate several plants.
What should I check with an rPET supplier?
Intrinsic viscosity and its consistency, residual PVC, glue and moisture, colour, the regulatory approval of the process for food contact, monthly volume and a sample.
How does Polyfinder help?
It finds these companies country by country, checks their published contact details and writes to each one in its language, from your own mailbox.
How it works
- 1Describe
What you sell or need: polymer, form, colour, quantity, countries.
- 2Search
Polyfinder finds matching companies on the web, marketplaces and industry registers, and checks each one.
- 3Write
It drafts a first email for each company, in its language and in your style. You approve every one.
- 4Follow up
You send from your own mailbox. Replies come back to you; Polyfinder sorts them and prepares the follow-ups.
Start with one material and one country
Tell us how many people will use it and how many offers you want to push. We open your access and launch the first search with you.