Revalyu Resources is on an expansion spree, both at home and abroad. The company is currently constructing its first facility abroad - in Statesboro, Georgia. The plant will have an annual installed recycling capacity of 90,000 metric tons of post-consumer PET plastics, the equivalent of 25 million plastic bottles per day, based on Revalyu’s patented depolymerisation process.
In an on-site interview at the PRS India in Mumbai last week, Vivek Tandon, the founder of Revalyu Resources told Sustainable Plastics that the Statesboro facility would likely be operational by the middle to end of 2027. “It involves an investment of $200 million and will generate around 120 jobs in a phased manner,” he said. The company has plans to expand globally with partnerships to increase its production to over 1000 tonnes per day by 2030.
In India, where since 2010 Revalyu Resources has operated its first recycling unit at its site in Nashik, Maharashtra, recycling 4.5 million bottles per day and producing 40 tonnes of rPET daily, the company recently commissioned its second PET recycling plant, also located at the site in Nashik. Revalyu is currently building a third plant at the site, which is scheduled to be commissioned in Q3, 2025. On completion of the third plant, which represents another $50 million investment, the cumulative recycling capacity of all three Nashik units will be about 35 million post-consumer plastic bottles per day with a total daily production capacity of 280 tonnes. All three units are located close to each other.
Revalyu has commercialised a chemical PET recycling process based on glycolysis in which post-consumer PET bottles - multi-ester molecules- are depolymerised into sustainable esters (monomers). These monomers can be used to directly replace conventional oil-derived monomers and used as the base chemical to manufacture PET-based products of all kinds, including polyester textiles, PET bottles, film, and sustainable PET packaging. Used PET plastic can be efficiently, profitably and easily recycled repeatedly without degradation of quality.
“The process produces 100% recycled PET that are of the same quality as virgin equivalent,” declared Tandon.
Compared to conventional PET, Revalyu’s rPET is produced using 75% less water, 91% less energy, and saves around 0.7 barrels of oil and 0.2 cubic meters of landfill space per 2000 pounds of PET recycled.
Revalyu Resources was initially founded as PerPETual Global Technologies in 2007. The revalyu Group is headquartered in Germany (revalyu Resources GmbH) and is majority owned by Heraeus, a German global technology group. Revalyu Resources owns operations in India (revalyu Recycling (India) Limited) and the USA (revalyu (US) LLC).