Polygenta Technologies

What Polygenta Technologies does

Polygenta Technologies Limited, now operating as Revalyu Recycling (India) Limited, is an India-based chemical recycling company founded in 1981 that converts post-consumer PET bottles into 100% recycled polyester chips and filament yarns. Its core technology is a licensed, patented low-temperature glycolysis depolymerization process (originating from its German parent perPETual Technologies GmbH, now revalyu Resources) that breaks PET into monomers using mono-ethylene glycol as the solvent, then re-polymerizes them into rPET chips and yarn. The product portfolio comprises R-DTY (50-600 denier), R-FDY (45-75 denier), R-POY (50-500 denier), rPET chips, and spandex-covered yarns, sold under the "100% recycled" positioning to global fashion and sportswear brands such as H&M, Zara, Decathlon, Puma, and Arvind, with downstream applications spanning sportswear, casual fashion, denim, automotive, technical textiles, and home furnishings. The company operates the only fully integrated chemical PET recycling plant in South Asia at Nashik, Maharashtra, currently processing roughly 3 million PET bottles per day (40 tpd of output, ~1 billion bottles annually) and holding GRS, OEKO-TEX, OBP, IMS, and ISO 9001 certifications.

The business model is a direct, enterprise B2B sales motion — no disclosed public pricing, no channel intermediaries, and no consumer-facing brand. More than 50% of output is exported to customers in 10+ countries, and the company serves 30+ global brands across fashion, sportswear, and textile verticals. Revenue mechanics are volume-driven, tied directly to tonnes of rPET chips and yarn sold; margins are supported by a documented energy and water footprint that is 65-91% lower than conventional PET production (validated by a 2019 ThinkStep LCA showing 66%+ GWP reduction and 90%+ Primary Energy Demand reduction). The company has approximately 250-300 employees and is majority-owned by Heraeus Holding GmbH (a German Fortune 500 conglomerate) since June 2022, with perPETual/revalyu Resources as the German parent. Following a $32.5M development-finance loan from DEG and IFU in April 2022, Polygenta is mid-way through a sixfold capacity expansion to 240 tpd, targeting 6 billion+ post-consumer PET bottles recycled annually.

Name

Polygenta Technologies

Legal name

Revalyu Recycling (India) Limited

Website

https://polygenta.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1981

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

Polygenta Technologies (Revalyu Recycling India) chemically recycles post-consumer PET bottles into 100% recycled polyester chips and filament yarns (R-DTY, R-FDY, R-POY). It sells direct to global fashion and sportswear brands including H&M, Zara, Decathlon, and Puma across 10+ countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Recycled Polyester Filament Yarn and rPET Chips

NAICS

Plastics Material and Resin Manufacturing (325211), Artificial and Synthetic Fibers and Filaments Manufacturing (32522)

SIC

Plastic Materials, Synth Resins & Nonvulcan Elastomers (2821)

akta.pro primary industry

Chemical/Advanced Plastics Recycling (Depolymerization, Pyrolysis, Solvolysis) (IMANAMAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Recycled & Reprocessed Polymer Resin Manufacturing (rPET, rPP, rPE; PCR/PIR resins) (IMANAAAH), Plastics Sorting & Reprocessing (PET, HDPE, Film) (BPALADAE)

Keywords

• Recycled polyester yarn
• PET chemical recycling
• RPET chip manufacturing
• Recycled filament yarn
• Sustainable textile materials

Headquarters

HQ city

Mumbai

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. rPET Chips and Sustainable Textile Filament Yarns: Manufactures and sells rPET chips and sustainable textile filament yarns produced from chemically recycled post-consumer PET bottles. Revenue is generated through product sales to global fashion and sportswear brands.
2. Recycled Polyester Products (R-DTY, R-FDY, R-POY, R-PET Chips, Spandex Covered Yarns): Sells a range of 100% chemically recycled polyester products including R-DTY (50-600 denier), R-FDY (45-75 denier), R-POY (50-500 denier), R-PET Chips, and Spandex Covered Yarns. Also supplies high-performance textile grade chips and POY to supply chain partners.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Polygenta Technologies operates the only fully integrated chemical recycling plant in South Asia, chemically depolymerizing post-consumer PET bottles into monomers that are re-polymerized into 100% recycled PET chips and filament yarns. Its product portfolio includes R-DTY (50-600 denier), R-FDY (45-75 denier), R-POY (50-500 denier), R-PET Chips, and Spandex Covered Yarns, sold to global fashion, sportswear, and textile manufacturing customers. The company currently processes 3 million+ bottles per day (40 tpd output) and is expanding capacity to 240 tpd.

Product overview

Revalyu Recycling (India) Limited (formerly Polygenta Technologies Ltd) is a chemical recycling company producing 100% recycled PET chips and filament yarns from post-consumer PET bottles. The company's product portfolio consists of R-DTY (Recycled Draw Textured Yarn, 50-600 denier), R-FDY (Recycled Fully Drawn Yarn, 45-75 denier), R-POY (Recycled Partially Oriented Yarn, 50-500 denier), R-PET Chips, and Spandex Covered Yarns. These products are sold to global fashion and sportswear brands for applications including sports apparel, casual fashion, outdoor wear, automotive, denim, and home furnishings. The company is the only fully integrated chemical recycling plant in South Asia, currently processing 3 million plastic bottles per day (40 tonnes per day output) with expansion plans to reach 240 tonnes per day.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• R-DTY (Recycled Draw Textured Yarn) Recycled Draw Textured Yarn in the range of 50 to 600 denier, produced by chemically recycling post-consumer PET bottles, used for circular knitting, warp knitting, weaving, and other textile applications by apparel, sportswear, home furnishings, automotive and technical textile manufacturers.
• R-FDY (Recycled Fully Drawn Yarn) Recycled Fully Drawn Yarn in the range of 45 to 75 denier, produced from chemically recycled post-consumer PET, providing high-quality sustainable filament yarn for textile applications.
• R-POY (Recycled Partially Oriented Yarn) Recycled Partially Oriented Yarn in the range of 50 to 500 denier, supplied to supply chain partners for conversion into specialty textile products and downstream applications.
• R-PET Chips High-performance textile grade recycled PET chips produced from chemically recycled post-consumer PET bottles, sold as a first-stage product that customers can convert into recycled POY/FDY.
• Spandex Covered Yarns Specialty yarn combining Polygenta's recycled polyester with spandex to deliver enhanced elasticity and performance for textile applications.

Quantifiable outcome

• 66%+ reduction in Global Warming Potential (GWP) and 90%+ reduction in Primary Energy Demand compared to virgin PET production
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• perPETual Technologies GmbHcoreOthers · 1 January 2022perPETual Technologies GmbH is the German parent company of Polygenta Technologies Ltd. It introduced the breakthrough chemical depolymerization (glycolysis) technology that Polygenta uses under license to manufacture rPET chips and sustainable textile filament yarns.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Indorama Ventures: Indorama Ventures is the world's largest producer of PET resin and a major rPET/fiber manufacturer through its Infinia and Deja brands. It directly competes with Polygenta in rPET chips and filament yarn for textile and packaging customers, albeit at much larger scale and with multiple technologies.
• Teijin Limited: Teijin's ECO CIRCLE chemical recycling program depolymerizes post-consumer PET back to monomers for re-polymerization into virgin-quality polyester fiber. Closely comparable to Polygenta in process (chemical/advanced PET recycling into textile-grade yarn) and target customers (global apparel brands).
• Carbios: Carbios has developed enzymatic depolymerization of PET into monomers and is building a Longlaville plant with Indorama to produce virgin-grade rPET for fiber and bottles. Same chemical/monomer-loop recycling model as Polygenta's glycolysis process, with parallel goal of recycling PET into textile polyester.
• Unifi, Inc. Unifi's Repreve brand is one of the most widely used rPET staple and filament fibers in apparel, including for many of the same sportswear and fashion brands Polygenta serves. Direct peer in rPET yarn for textiles with comparable global brand customers.
• Aquafil S.p.A. Aquafil operates ECONYL, a chemical regeneration system that depolymerizes nylon waste into caprolactam and repolymerizes it into virgin-equivalent nylon yarn for apparel and carpet. Closely analogous business model to Polygenta: chemical loop recycling into textile filament yarn, with strong sustainability-driven brand positioning.
• Plastic Energy: Plastic Energy operates chemical recycling plants (thermal depolymerization/pyrolysis of end-of-life plastics) producing pyrolysis oil used to make virgin-grade PET and other polymers. Adjacent chemical recycling operator competing for the same circular-PET feedstock pool that Polygenta accesses via post-consumer bottles.
• MBA Polymers: MBA Polymers operates mechanical recycling of mixed post-consumer plastics, including PET-rich streams, into recycled polymers used in durable applications. A smaller, niche recycler operating the same plastic-to-feedstock-to-finished-goods business model that Polygenta runs but with a different (mechanical) core technology.

Emerging players

• Worn Again Technologies: Worn Again Technologies is developing chemical recycling processes that separate and depolymerize polyester and cotton from textile waste into reusable monomers and cellulose. Direct adjacency to Polygenta's chemical textile-to-yarn recycling thesis, focused on textile feedstocks rather than bottles.

Broad incumbents

• Eastman Chemical Company: Eastman is a large specialty chemical producer that has launched its molecular recycling technology (carbon renewal and polyester renewal) to depolymerize mixed waste plastics into monomers for re-use in fibers and packaging. Broad incumbent offering chemical/advanced PET recycling that competes with Polygenta at the technology and end-market level.
• SABIC: SABIC's TRUCIRCLE program includes certified circular polymers derived from advanced (chemical) recycling of mixed plastics, including PET, for use in fibers and packaging. A large diversified chemical incumbent with overlapping technology platform and customer base.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance6 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors4 records

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M&A

Investments

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