PRT Radomsko Sp. z o.o.

PET Recycling Team is one of the leading PET recycling companies in Europe. In a world of increasing globalisation, recycling plays an ever more important role. Since it was founded, the company has produced high-quality PET regranulate obtained through the recycling process. The PET regranulate is then used to manufacture bottles, which leads to a significant reduction in CO2 emissions.

Company history:
2005 - PET Recycling Team GmbH is founded in Wöllersdorf, Austria
2006 - A production plant with a capacity of 5,000 tonnes per year is opened
2007 - The annual capacity of the extrusion plant reaches 16,000 tonnes of PET regranulate
2009 - Annual capacity is increased to 31,000 tonnes of PET regranulate
2010 - ALPLA becomes the majority shareholder of PRT Recycling Team
2013 - The subsidiary PRT Radomsko in Poland starts operations with an annual capacity of 25,000 tonnes of recycled PET
2020 - A second PET extrusion line is put into operation

Production stages
Step 1: Automatic sorting
Separation of non-metallic and metallic materials
Modern label removal process
Ballistic separation
Automatic sorting by colour and material
Manual re-sorting

Step 2: Washing
Granulator
Two-stage hot washing
Float-sink separation
Air separation of light materials
Separation of fine and coarse flakes
Flake sorting
Colours
Metal
Other polymers
Silos and big bag filling stations with metal detectors

Step 3: Extrusion
Highest level of decontamination through solid-state polycondensation
Minimal AA (acetaldehyde) values