Chile has emerged as one of South America’s most proactive markets in plastic circularity. The enforcement of the Extended Producer Responsibility law (Ley REP – Law 20.920) has placed binding recovery quotas on packaging producers, creating an immediate deficit of high-purity recycled PET (rPET). Recyclers can no longer sell low-grade flakes processed through cold-wash screening. Downstream packaging converters manufacturing thermoformed fruit clamshells and clear beverage containers demand optical clarity, low yellowing indices, and zero glue residues.
To address these compliance requirements, Carlos, the technical director of a medium-scale processing company in Santiago, visited our production facility in Zhengzhou. His company was planning a dedicated 1,000 kg/h PET bottle recycling line. For an engineering-focused buyer, selecting a plastic recycling machine manufacturer China is not an exercise in catalog shopping; it requires a physical audit of steel wall thicknesses, drive train ratings, and chemical wash dynamics.
Our technical sales manager, Tina, received Carlos at the airport and organized a preliminary briefing over a local meal to align on his factory’s physical constraints before stepping onto the shop floor.
