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T he new CarbonLITE recycling facility, located in Dallas, Texas, started ope- rations in September 2017, as per the schedule. The washing line supplied by AMUT has the state of art of the techno- logy and is the second plant of this size in operation in the USA, capable of pro- ducing over 12.000 pounds per hour of highest quality PET from MRF post-con- sumer bales. Leon Farhanick, the President of CarbonLI- TE, declared “I’m very satisfied with quali- ty, punctuality and technology. Among the many OEM we had in this project AMUT is the one that pleased us best”. Cooperation to improve Plastic Bottles Recycling & Sustainability “We are glad to have scored another top reference in the Northern America plastic recycling market. The CarbonLITE PET recycling project comes after the two mega PET recycling plants that AMUT supplied in North America to UNIFI in Reidsville, North Carolina, and to PETSTAR Coca-Cola Mexico” stated Piergianni Milani, the President of AMUT GROUP. 30 Recycling Extrusion 1/2018 This 250.000-square-foot bottle-to-bot- tle PET recycling plant processes more than 100 million pounds plastic bottles annually and the AMUT washing section is capable of reaching six metric tons per hour (the Dallas facility will double the company’s annual capacity of food- grade PET) and permits the transformati- on of old plastic bottles into PET resins, flakes and pellets that can then be used to produce new beverage bottles and other sustainable products. Closing the LOOP ON RECYCLING and increasing the sustainability of the PET containers. “CarbonLITE management has over a de- cade of experience in PET wash lines and selected the AMUT solution to face the new challenges in the market conditions for their Dallas operations. Considering that AMUT is one of the major OEM sup- plier for their system, we integrated our De-Labeller AMUT’s patent technology and as well the wet whole bottle pre- wash”, stated Anthony Georges, Presi- dent of AMUT NORTH AMERICA. Georges further discussed how the AMUT De-Labeller won the prestigious PLASTIC RECYCLING INNOVATION AWARD from the APR (Association of Plastic Recyclers) in 2017.