Clearly Reduced Carbon Footprint Due to DPET

The unique DPET manufacturing process eliminated five energy intensive phases in production and requires considerably less energy than what is needed for conventional PET production.

5/1/2011 --- The innovative new PET material DPET by OCTAL will be presented at Interpack 2011. DPET features outstanding product and environmental properties. Joe Barenberg, Chief Operating Officer of OCTAL, emphasized: “With DPET we help our customers to reduce their carbon footprint without compromise, and we usher in a new era of environmentally friendly and resource-saving plastics manufacturing.“

DPET by OCTAL differs from other rigid PET films mainly by the way it is made. The revolutionary new raw material is produced by applying a completely new technology called "Direct-to-Sheet" process. The new technology combines the production PET sheet with the manufacture of PET resin in a single process, an industry first yielding dramatic improvements in product quality and environmental performance.

67 percent less grid electricity, 20 percent less gas

The unique DPET manufacturing process eliminated five energy intensive phases in production and requires considerably less energy than what is needed for conventional PET production. Savings of electricity add up to 67 percent compared with the production of rigid APET film.

By far the smallest carbon footprint

Intertek, a leading specialist for carbon footprint analyses previously known as Pira, has performed a study based the carbon footprint of DPET. The result is in favour of the new raw material of OCTAL: According to the study, the carbon footprint of DPET (3.1 kg carbon eq.) is 25 percent lower than that of conventionally produced APET film (4.1 kg carbon eq.) and 20 percent lower than “non-zero” rPET (3.9 kg carbon eq.).

Husbanding of water

OCTAL uses water, this valuable resource, as sparingly as possible. For the production process of DPET only recycled water is used. A specially built pipeline delivers waste water from the municipal waterworks. OCTAL recycles the water using a reverse osmosis technology and sand filter system. 80 percent of this water can then be used in the manufacturing process. All the wastewater from the process is used to irrigate the greenbelt around the factory.