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PRODUCT NEWS




          PET recycling quality



          on the next level





                                                                various quality grades – are used for PET sheet
                                                                production, while the rPET granules are mainly
                                                                aimed  at  bottle-to-bottle  recycling  and  high-
                                                                quality textile applications. The company plans
                                                                to export its recycled products, primarily to Eu-
                                                                ropean countries.

                                                                While producing clear flakes, Doğa PET aims to
                                                                minimize the loss of light blue PET material and,
                                                                when necessary, separates the light blue mate-
                                                                rial from the clear one. The blue bottles, which
                                                                are ejected when processing clear PET, can be a
                                                                valuable resource for other applications.


                                                                Doğa PET is the first facility in Türkiye to suc-
                                                                cessfully separate light blue material from clear
                  oğa PET, a recycling venture by Doğa          material, regardless of the infeed product. Dur-
                  Holding, is using Tomra Recycling’s sen-      ing the sorting process, light blue products are
          Dsor-based sorting solutions to produce               separated from all infeed materials and recov-
          high-quality PET flakes and rPET granules which       ered for reuse as needed.
          are suitable for food and textile applications.
                                                                Doğa PET is required to prove that less than 5%
          Located in northwestern Türkiye, Doğa PET’s           of the input material for its washing process con-
          plant currently processes more than 4,200 tons        sists of non-food grade PET to produce food-
          of PET bottles monthly, producing 1,000 tons per      grade pellets. To meet this requirement and en-
          month of PET flakes and 2,000 tons per month          hance material recovery across its sorting lines,
          of rPET granules. The facility incorporates Tom-      the company has invested in a state-of-the-art
          ra’s full range of machines for plastics sorting:     waste analyzer powered by PolyPerception, a
          four of the company’s sorting all-rounder Auto-       solution that uses cameras for real-time mate-
          sort, as well as two Innosort Flake and two Au-       rial analysis and classification at key points in the
          tosort Flake units for advanced flake sorting and     sorting plant. At Doğa PET’s plant, the analyzer
          purification. This combination of units optimizes     is positioned before the last of four Autosort
          both product quality and processing capacity.         units. It continuously monitors and analyzes the
                                                                quantity of non-food grade PET bottles destined
          Depending on Doğa PET’s customer require-             for the washing line.
          ments, the premium PET flakes – produced in
                                                                                             Source: Tomra Recycling

             64   PLASTICS NEWS                                                                      May 2025
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