Unilever to pioneer breakthrough food packaging technology
In 2017, Unilever committed to all of its plastic packaging being reusable, recyclable or compostable by 2025.
Unilever, London, announced a partnership with Ioniqa, a spin-off from the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, and Indorama Ventures, a Thailand-based producer of PET resin, to pioneer a new technology that converts PET waste back into virgin-grade material for use in food packaging.
Ioniqa developed a proprietary technology that is able to convert any PET waste, including colored packs, back into transparent virgin-grade material. The technology passed its pilot stage and is now moving toward testing at an industrial scale.