PureCycle Technologies has partnered with Reliable Caps, which makes caps and closures for consumer and industrial packaging.
Under the arrangement, Reliable Caps is producing white closures with PureFive Ultra resin containing as much as 75% certified post-consumer recycled (PCR) material.
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The closures are already available through Reliable Caps’ distribution network and cover most of its product range.
PureFive is PureCycle’s recycled polypropylene resin.
The company says it is treated through a dissolution process designed to strip out contaminants, colours and odours from post-consumer recycled packaging.
Reliable Caps president Cameron Manuel said: “The PCR grades available to us in the past fell short on all three fronts: inconsistent colour, inconsistent melt flow, and processing behaviour that made it difficult to hold the quality standards our customers expect.
“PureFive resin solves all of that. Its consistency and processing qualities are closer to virgin resin than anything else we’ve worked with, which means we can hold tight quality standards throughout an entire production run.”
The resins have performance characteristics close to virgin polypropylene, enabling use in packaging for food, beverages, personal care and household goods where appearance and contact requirements are factors.
The agreement comes as packaging groups and brand owners in North America and Europe face stricter rules on recycled content.
These include extended producer responsibility frameworks in several US states and the European Union’s Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation.
PureCycle says its resin is GreenCircle Certified and sourced domestically, with chain-of-custody documentation available for reporting recycled content in packaging.
PureCycle Technologies Americas commercial senior vice-president Alexander King said: “PureFive resin was designed to go where recycled plastics have had issues in the past. Our resin works in demanding, contact-sensitive packaging applications that require the purity and aesthetics of virgin material.
“Reliable Caps’ success in producing these closures is exactly the kind of milestone we envisioned when we began commercialising this game-changing recycling technology.”
Earlier this month, PureCycle Technologies’ PureFive resin was accepted as PCR content under New Jersey’s Recycled Content Law in the US.
