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.
Press release: “Danone,
Nestlé Waters and Origin Materials welcome PepsiCo to the NaturALL Bottle
Alliance”, 10/9/2018.
Related post: “NaturALL Bottle Alliance (Danone,
Nestlé Waters and Origin Materials) to build a pioneer bio-PET plant”, 6/3/2017.
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.