NaturALL Bottle Alliance update – New member and demo-scale plant progress report



Type of post: NEWS IN BRIEF.

New member

The NaturALL Bottle Alliance is a research consortium formed in 2017 by Danone, Nestlé Waters and Origin Materials, aimed to develop and launch at commercial scale a PET plastic bottle made from 100% sustainable and renewable resources. From now on, the Alliance has a new member. PepsiCo has joined the partnership to advance the shared goal of creating beverage containers with a significantly reduced carbon footprint.

Figure 1. NaturALL Bottle Alliance – Towards 100% biobased PET

Demo-scale plant progress report

- Samples of 80% biobased PET were produced at pilot scale in 2017.
- The building of a demonstration-scale plant has begun in Sarnia (Ontario, Canada). The major process equipment has been fabricated and modules are under construction for this plant. It is expected to have a processing capacity of 18,000 tons of biomass and be fully operational by 2020.
- Following that milestone, the Alliance plans to increase the renewable content to 95% and achieve full commercial-scale soon after.

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