Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) can be a form of polyester extruded or molded into plastic bottles and containers for packaging foods and beverages, personal care products, and many other consumer products. PET is a highly valued packaging material as it is strong yet lightweight, non-reactive, economical, and shatterproof. And it's safety for food, beverage, personal care, pharmaceutical and medical applications is recognized by health authorities around the world.

PET for Food Industry

PET has been approved as safe for contact with foodstuffs and beverages by the FDA, Health Canada, the European Food Safety Authority and virtually every other health-safety agency in the world. It has been used for food and beverage containers for decades without any known adverse effects. PET is a very stable, inert material that doesn't react with foods or beverage and is resistant to attack by micro-organisms. PET does not contain Bisphenol-A (BPA), a compound used in polycarbonate, which exhibits estrogen mimicking, hormone-like properties that raise concern about its suitability in some consumer products and food containers. It neither contains Chlorine and does not produce dioxins, making it safe when heated or microwaved, exposed to sunlight, or washed and reused. PET contains no known endocrine disruptors, and there is no credible scientific data to suggest that PET produces estrogen or endocrine modulating activity. Studies that exposed both male and female laboratory animals to terephthalates during all phases of the reproductive cycle found no reproductive or developmental effects in either the test animals or their offspring.

The outstanding properties of PET are High transparency, Exceptionally shiny surface, Very good stability, High pressure resistance, Good barrier properties, Light weight, Precise molding. In comparison to other packaging materials, PET offers many advantages, in particular to other plastic materials, PET shows a very high gas - barrier resistance. The loss of CO2 as well as the penetration of O2 into the filling good can be minimized with the use of PET. These are only a view reasons why PET as a packaging material has prevailed strongly into the packaging marked.

Today PET is the most widely recycled plastic in the world. All parts of it can be recycled and turned into new items - from new bottles to fleece textiles, fibres, carpeting, thermoformed PET packaging or even football kits, such as those designed by Nike for the FIFA World Cup in Brazil earlier this year.