JB Ecotex highlights ARPET capabilities and in-house collection network

JB Ecotex used its presence at the event to highlight its role in India’s rPET ecosystem, positioning itself as one of the few producers with an operational chemical-recycling plant for PET. Vidhi Thakor explained that the company, part of the Jai Bharat group, entered the recycling business in 2015, expanding from the parent organisation’s origins in textile printing and dyeing. JB Ecotex began by converting post-consumer PET bottles into polyester fibre before moving into PET chips and subsequently chemically recycled granules.

The company operates from a 1,21,000-sqm site located between Surat and Ankleshwar, where all divisions — from bale storage and segregation to fibre, flakes and resin production — are housed in a single integrated facility. Thakor said the company manufactures food-grade and non-food-grade recycled PET resins, used for rigid packaging applications including water bottles, CSD, juice bottles, PET jars and similar formats.

A major differentiator, Thakor noted, is JB Ecotex’s in-house waste-collection network, managed by a team of 10–12 people overseeing around 500 registered vendors. This enables the company to control incoming material quality. For food-grade resins, only bottles originally used for beverages — such as juice, CSD and packaged water — are accepted, while household reuse bottles containing oil, kerosene, shampoo or other contaminants are segregated and excluded.

JB Ecotex uses machinery from leading global suppliers including Aroma (Aramaucolite), with the SSP (solid-state polymerisation) process central to removing impurities and achieving the intrinsic viscosity required for various packaging applications. The company supplies flakes and granules as its final products, with preform production carried out by customers.

JB Ecotex showcased its ARPET capabilities at PackMach Asia Expo and drinktec India, highlighting its chemical-recycling plant, food-grade and non-food-grade PET resins, and an in-house collection network supported by 500 vendors. With all operations integrated across a 121,000-sqm site near Surat, the company focuses on maintaining high raw-material purity and producing recycled resins for water, CSD, juice and other rigid-packaging applications.