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Evian strikes deal with new French rPET plant

Mineral water bottler Evian Volvic Sources is the first business to sign an rPET supply contract with France Plastique Recyclage, a new bottle recycling facility under construction near Paris, France.

Purchasing director Vincent Crasnier told European Plastics News that the deal is part of parent company Danone’s drive to reduce its carbon footprint.

The company currently uses 25% rPET on average in the plastic water bottles it exports all over the world under the Evian and Volvic brands, but Danone hopes to raise this to 50% by the end of 2010, with some 15,000 tonnes coming from FPR, he said. Evian will use 35% of the total rPET produced at the new plant.

Danone hopes to make Evian carbon neutral by 2011. However, before then the deal with FPR will help the firm save 30-45,000 tonnes of CO2 per year, an output similar to 3,000 French households.

Evian signed the deal with France Plastique Recyclage on 3 July and worked with the recycler on perfecting its technology.

The company also says the deal will help it adhere to – and even go beyond - the strict standards set by French food safety agency AFSSA (Agence française de sécurité sanitaire des aliments).

“This new factory is capable of producing rPET of a very high quality which is suitable for our demands, which are now higher than the market standards,” says Evian Volvic Sources president Jean-Pierre Deffis.

FPR was set up two years ago by the Paprec Group and Sita, the waste management subsidiary of Suez Environment. The two groups each invested €20m in the new site, which will employ between 75 and 80 staff. They hope the site will achieve an annual turnover of €40m.

The plant will collect used post-consumer PET bottles from bins set out across the greater Paris area, converting this to high quality rPET granulate that will be used for production of preforms for new bottles, a spokesperson told European Plastics News.

German machinery firm Starlinger said it is supplying the new FRP site with a recoSTAR PET 165 iV+ HC recycling line and two viscoSTAR 120 solid stating reactors providing a capacity of 15,000 tonnes of rPET granules a year.

Related external links:

• Evian and Volvic prove their green credentials (11.02.2009)
• Volvic and Evian go plastics-neutral (13.02.2009) 
• Supermarkets agree to food waste reduction scheme (27.01.2009)
• France Plastique Recyclage Buys Another PET Recycling Plant from Starlinger