Recycled PET: Sustainable Product Labels

KP5000s PET label stock

We’re serious about sustainability and constantly seek to reduce our environmental impact across the production process for all of our labelling products. The development of our award winning KP5000S labelstock is a direct result of this commitment to sustainability and environmental awareness.

In 2019, over 30.5 million metric tons of plastic drinking bottles were sold worldwide and this figure is estimated to increase to 35.3 million metric tons in 2024. On average, fewer than half the bottles bought are recycled.*

By using over 80% recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET) as the raw material for this labelstock we’re helping to address this issue. Furthermore, the manufacturing of this labelling material is more sustainable as it consumes less fossil fuel and produces 24% lower CO2 emissions than alternative approaches.

Although the labelling product is more sustainable and eco-friendly, there’s no compromise on quality. The labelstock offers the equivalent transparency and conversion properties as conventional non-recycled PET label film and is suitable for POP and general labelling applications.

Winner of the Award for Sustainability at the Label Industry Global Awards 2015

Features/options:

  • Environmentally friendly
  • Innovative
  • Superior printability

The process

A mechanical recycling process converts the plastic bottles into high quality, sanitary recycled PET resin. The bottles are crushed and washed, after which a high temperature processing vaporises and restores the resin’s molecular weight to a level suitable for bottle moulding.

The approach produces better quality results than traditional material or chemical recycling processes and can be printed using all conventional print methods.

 

*Source: Statista.com