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Indorama Ventures and Evertis collaborate to strengthen circularity in PET food tray packaging  

April 5, 2023 by Asia Food Journal

PET trays

Courtesy of Indorama Ventures

Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL), one of the world’s leading sustainable chemical companies, and Evertis, a pioneer in sustainable PET barrier films, are collaborating to use flake from recycled PET trays to produce PET film suitable for food packaging trays. The partnership is an important step in diverting PET trays from landfill or incineration to support the EU’s recycling targets and create a circular economy for PET trays. 

After six years of research and development, Indorama Ventures is commercially producing recycled PET (rPET) flakes from post-consumer trays in their Verdun facility in France, which are comparable in quality to flakes originating from bottles. This development supports a closed-loop economy for PET trays by giving consumers more sustainable options and enabling packaging producers to meet their recycled content targets. It also protects and preserves food, reducing about 154 million tons of food waste, costing €143 billion annually across the EU1.  

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Marta Matos Gil, Chief Sustainability Officer at Evertis, said, “PET trays are crucial to provide safety and convenience to consumers, ensuring longer shelf life for food and reducing waste. For some time, our industry has had a goal to create circular solutions for these essential products. Indorama Ventures’ innovative recycling methods shows how we can create a truly circular economy by developing infrastructure and capacity to collect, sort and recycle PET trays and transform them back into valuable raw material. This partnership helps Evertis to meet our sustainability goals and boost our product innovation in terms of circularity, recyclability, and eco-design. This is crucial in the current market, where our clients face new packaging regulations and consumers are concerned about the environmental impact of the products they buy. Evertis can meet both those needs.” 

Indorama Ventures’ solution increases the total amount of recycled PET availability with the new tray-to-tray recycling workstream. According to the company, the new recycling technology can potentially divert more than 50 million post-consumer PET trays from landfill or incineration each year2. 

Yash Lohia, Chairman of IVL’s ESG Council, said, “We can support a circular economy by conducting rigorous testing at every stage of the process, from sorting and recycling to conversion, to ensure the highest quality. Our Deja™ sustainable ingredients brand, including rPET, supports the EU’s plastic collection and recycling targets.” 

The partnership supports Evertis’ 2025 target of 50% post-consumer recycled content in their products. In 2019, the company obtained the ECOSENSE certification, renewed in 2023 as the RETRAY certification3, which verifies the recycled content in film production.  

As the most recycled plastic in the world4, PET is driving sustainable growth due to its recyclable, flexible, safe and lightweight properties. This collaboration helps close the loop on PET tray-to-tray recycling, diverting PET from landfill or incineration and fostering more sustainable production towards a circular economy. 

About Evertis 

Evertis is a global producer of mono & multilayer semi-rigid barrier films essentially for the Food Packaging Industry, thermoformers and blisters. Evertis counts on a wealth of expertise and know-how in accelerating innovative techniques to incorporate recycled content into their products, as they are pioneers in film extrusion and the incorporation of recycled materials. Currently, their films target an average incorporation of 50% recycled content.  With over sixty years of experience and worldwide distribution, Evertis supports customers throughout Europe and the Americas in advancing towards a Circular Economy.   For more information, visit www.evertis.com 

About Indorama Ventures 

Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited, listed in Thailand (Bloomberg ticker IVL.TB), is one of the world’s leading petrochemical producers, with a global manufacturing footprint across Europe, Africa, the Americas, and Asia Pacific. The company’s portfolio comprises Combined PET, Integrated Oxides and Derivatives, and Fibers. Indorama Ventures products serve major FMCG and automotive sectors, i.e., beverages, hygiene, personal care, tire and safety segments. Indorama Ventures has about 26,000 employees worldwide and a revenue of US$18.7 billion in 2022. The Company is listed in the Dow Jones Emerging Markets and World Sustainability Indices (DJSI). For more information, visit: www.indoramaventures.com and  www.dejaindorama.com 

1 EU wastes more food than it imports, says new report (eeb.org), Feedback-EU-2022-No-Time-To-Waste-report.pdf (feedbackglobal.org) 

2 Based on annual capacity.

3 PET Packaging Food preservation – Circular Economy (evertis.com) 

4 “Baseline report on plastic waste,” UNEP, 2020

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Other Topics: circular economy, circularity, Evertis, food tray packaging, Indorama Ventures, Packaging, PET, PET packaging, PET trays, sustainability, sustainable packaging

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