The bottled water company, owned by Danone, has signed a contract with the FPR for 35 per cent of its new factory’s 40,000 t/a rPET capacity. The Limay facility, near Paris, was inaugurated on June 23 and a FPR statement confirmed Evian was its first client.
The move is part of Evian’s plans to increase the amount of rPET in its bottles from the current level of around 25 per cent to 50 per cent by the end of next year. PET bottles collected from around the French capital will be treated and converted into high quality rPET granules.