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Waste & Recycling April 05, 2017 12:30:13 PM

CarbonLITE partners with C1S Group to construct Dallas PET recycling plant

Paul Ploumis
ScrapMonster Author
The 23,000 square-foot facility is expected to process old plastic bottles to produce new PET resin flakes and pellets.

CarbonLITE partners with C1S Group to construct Dallas PET recycling plant

SEATTLE (Scrap Monster): Los Angeles-headquartered CarbonLITE has appointed C1S Group, Dallas as the primary contractor in construction of its Dallas PET recycling plant. The $62 million plant would be CarbonLITE’s second bottle-to-bottle recycling plant after the Riverside, California facility.

According to sources, C1S Group has already commenced works at the existing facility on Mountain Creek Parkway in southwest Dallas into a full-fledged recycling plant. As part of the conversion project, C1S will provide new electrical services. In addition, it will also add storage silos at the existing facility. Further, the height of a 5,500-square-foot section of the building will be increased. The construction works are expected to be completed by early summer this year, C1S Group official noted. Once completed, the facility will completely conform to CarbonLITE’s standards of operations.

The 23,000 square-foot facility is expected to process old plastic bottles to produce new PET resin flakes and pellets. The new plant will be able to process 100 million pounds of PET bottles per annum. Upon commissioning of the facility, CarbonLITE will turn out to be the world’s largest producer of food-grade PET resin derived from post-consumer beverage containers. The Dallas facility will help the company to double its annual capacity of food-grade PET to 200 million pounds per year.

The company had initially planned to set up the plant in Abilene, Texas City. However, the management had decided to move the plant to Dallas, on account of several favorable factors. Firstly, Dallas location has better transportation logistics, with easy access to highways. The convenient access to airport makes it easy for company personnel visiting the facility. Moreover, the proximity of Nestlé’s two bottling plants in the region also influenced the company to choose Dallas as the location of its new plant.

The company had earlier entered into agreement with Eugene, Oregon-based Bulk Handling Systems (BHS) towards supply of front-end machinery and sorting equipment. It had signed contract with Novara, Italy-based Amut SpA for supply of washing and grinding equipment. The purification and pelletizing equipment at the plant was supplied by Austria-based Erema Recycling Systems. Also, Lancaster, Pa.-based Pelletron Corp. was the supplier of pneumatic material conveyor equipment at the facility.

CarbonLITE is a world leader in PET recycling. CarbonLITE’s 220,000-square-foot bottle-to-bottle PET recycling plant at Riverside, California processes more than two billion plastic bottles annually. The company’s closed-loop system converts used plastic bottles made of PET back into plastic resin, which is then used to make entirely new bottles.

C1S Group is an engineering expertise firm providing unique solutions for facility renovation projects. It offers turn-key construction management services for existing facilities. C1S Group prepares industrial facilities to meet the challenge of increasing productivity by reduced consumption of available resources.

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