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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
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