Home

Search History

Clear History

Hot Searches

Change

Subscribe eNews

Once A Week Once Every Two Weeks

Applications

Mondi introduces re/loop FlowWrap with 35% PCR content for wet wipes packaging

Vianode and cylib join forces to close the loop on battery graphite

Woosh x Borouge x BlueAlp: A value chain approach for circularity in used diaper plastics

Products

Envalior’s new Tepex composite reduces 50% carbon footprint

Delta Tecnic designs new masterbatch formulations to reduce carbon footprint

SML launches new production-scale demo line for PET thermoforming sheet

Activities

Fakuma 2026: Multi-faceted program for plastics industry
Plast 2026 expects 200 new exhibitors and strong international presence
350,000+ visitors! CHINAPLAS 2026 shatters every record in the book

Pictorial

Webinars

Secure Your Essential Equipment & Material Solutions

[Mandarin] Covestro: Innovative thermal conductive material solution for new-generation network devices

[Mandarin] Covestro: The Material Effect: Empowering Innovations in Solar-Storage-Charging Smart Energy and Data Center Applications

Conferences

14th Edition CPRJ Plastics in Packaging Conference and Showcase

8th Edition CPRJ Medical Plastics and Rubber Conference and Showcase

15th Edition CPRJ Plastics in Automotive Conference and Showcase

Industry Topic

ASEAN: The Next Manufacturing Hub

Innovative and Sustainable Packaging

CHINAPLAS

CHINAPLAS 2026 Focus

CHINAPLAS 2025 Focus

Exhibition Topic

K Focus

CHINA INSIGHT

News Videos

Top 10 Technology Trends awards presented at CHINAPLAS 2026

MAAG x SIKORA: Smart pelletizing + precise inspection - More stable, carbon-reduced

CAI Machine: New visual inspection technology debut! More efficient, greener, colorful printing

Conference Videos

Summit Dialogue: Policy alignment and practices in plastic recycling across Asia

Interview: Pathways for development of plastics recycling in Malaysia

Driving systemic change: Unilever’s evolution in the circular economy

Corporate/Product Videos

For Rubber & Plastic Extrusion Equipment, trust Hebei Zhongsen! Custom Extruders, Traction Machines & Vulcanizing Lines

Is Your Mold Supplier Really Giving You Peace of Mind?

Kurtz GmbH & Co.

Exhibition

Playback CHINAPLAS Live 2026

Playback TECHHUB 2025@CPRJ Live Streaming for CHINAPLAS

Playback TECHHUB@CPRJ Live Streaming for CHINAPLAS

Events

Playback 7th Edition CHINAPLAS x CPRJ Plastics Recycling and Circular Economy Conference and Showcase

Playback On April 14, the "6th Edition CHINAPLAS x CPRJ Plastics Recycling and Circular Economy Conference and Showcase" at the Crowne Plaza Shenzhen Nanshan is currently being livestreamed!

Playback 5th Edition CHINAPLAS x CPRJ Plastics Recycling and Circular Economy Conference and Showcase

News

Events

SPE Asia

Special

Live

eNews

Essential Guide

Event Calendar

Survey

CHINA INSIGHT

Comment
(0)

Home > News > Recycling

German PET recycler installs new SSP reactor supplied by Starlinger

Source：Adsale Plastics Network Date ：2020-11-27 Editor ：JK

During the COVID-19 lockdown in spring 2020, BTB PET-Recycling GmbH & Co. KG, a German PET recycler installed a new preheating unit and another Solid State Polycondensation (SSP) reactor supplied by Starlinger recycling technology.

The company is now operating 9 SSP reactors from Starlinger recycling technology. And each year, BTB processes approximately 20,000 tons of PET input material from the German bottle return system on a Starlinger recoSTAR PET 165 iV+ recycling line installed prior to the SSP reactors.

Andrzej Zajontz, one of BTB’s General Managers and in charge of all technical matters, explained why this is not as easy as it used to be, “Unfortunately, the beverage containers collected through the German container deposit system are not as well separated as before – in the reverse vending machines both clear and colored bottles are collected together, and that is how they are delivered. In addition, the input material contains other plastics as well as aluminium and tinplates. This creates a lot of extra work for us in pre-sorting as we use only clear PET bottles for our bottle-to-bottle process.”

BTB installed a new preheating unit and another SSP reactor supplied by Starlinger recycling technology.

Due to this, BTB's most recent investments went – besides into said Starlinger machines – into improved sorting technology. The company separates the input material at the beginning of the treatment process and then sort the PET flakes again before extrusion to achieve very high pellet quality.

Also, BTB caters to regular customers who use the recycled PET for producing beverage bottles which are filled, sold and after usage collected in the region. From this input material BTB then again produces PET regranulate – an example for the sustainability of a regional closed packaging loop.

When asked how the COVID-19 crisis affected the business activities of BTB, Andrzej Zajontz replied, “Many of our customers produce food packaging and have been classified as essential businesses. Thus, we are operating also during the lockdown – of course under strict observation of the existent safety and hygienic measures.”

However, BTB currently faces the same problems like many other companies in the plastics recycling sector. “The low oil price is making things difficult for us – it impedes the sale of recycled materials” describes Andrzej Zajontz the situation. “For plastics recyclers it is very hard to find new customers at the moment. At least we can rely on our existing ones.”