date:Oct 18, 2013
lected post-consumer PET containers, mainly bottles, containing no more than 5 % of PET from non-food consumer applications. Through this process, washed and dried PET flakes are melted and extruded into pellets (step 2). The pellets are then crystallised before being fed into a batch solid state polymerisation (SSP) reactor at high temperature and under vacuum (step 3). Having examined the challenge test provided, the Panel concluded that the crystallisation and the solid state polymerisation (