Amut will design, build and assemble a new PET washing plant, said Anthony Georges, president of the Vaughn, Ontario, company. Unifi will use AMUT’s patented dry de-labeling system to remove the shrink sleeve wraps from the post-consumer bottles.
BHS will design, manufacture and install a front-end PET purification system with nine optical sorters by National Recovery Technologies, which is part of the Eugene, Ore.-based company’s family of businesses. The system also will feature the latest in screens and air-sorting technology. BHS says the system will process 22,000 pounds of baled materials per hour by removing the non-PET content and preparing the PET for the conversion from bottles to flake.
The flake is used to make Unifi’s Repreve line of polyester yarns and fibers, which go into product brands like Haggar, Ford and Quicksilver.
Since 2009, Unifi has recycled more than 4 billion plastic bottles into Repreve-based products. The new bottle processing plant will produce about 75 million pounds of recycled PET materials when it begins operation in June 2016.
