What RePET does

RePET Inc. is a Southern California-based PET recycler that processes post-consumer and post-industrial food and beverage PET containers into high-purity, FDA Letter of Non-Objection (LNO) certified flake for reuse in food-contact packaging. The company operates a single state-of-the-art production facility in Chino, California (14207 Monte Vista Ave), where its proprietary "SMART GREEN PROCESS" sequences debaling, optical bottle sorting, grinding, chemically intensive hot-washing, and optical flake sorting with stage-by-stage quality control. Current throughput is approximately 2 billion plastic bottles per year (roughly 80 million pounds), and infrastructure is engineered to double that volume to 4 billion bottles annually.

RePET sells five recycled products: PET Clear Flake, PET Green Flake, PET Clear Fines, Polyolefin Caps & Label Flakes, and Polypropylene Caps Regrind. Its primary customers are large food and beverage container manufacturers (the highest-value segment because the FDA LNO certification is required for food-contact applications), with secondary sales into strap/fiber manufacturing and home goods. Distribution is direct-to-manufacturer through an enterprise field sales motion; the company offers free samples and on-site facility visits rather than maintaining a digital or e-commerce sales channel, and pricing is not publicly disclosed.

RePET is a private, for-profit corporation domiciled in California with 11–50 employees and a leadership team anchored by founder and CEO Vincent Zhao. The company pursues a horizontal segmentation strategy across three end-use verticals on the West Coast, positioning itself as one of the largest rPET recyclers globally while maintaining a single physical site. Revenue is generated on a one-time sale basis per shipment of recycled flake, with no disclosed subscription, licensing, or long-term contract structures beyond typical offtake arrangements.

Name

RePET

Legal name

RePET Inc.

Website

https://repetinc.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

RePET Inc. is a Chino, California-based PET recycler that converts post-consumer and post-industrial bottles into FDA-certified food-grade flake, serving large West Coast food and beverage, strap/fiber, and home goods manufacturers with capacity of roughly 2 billion bottles per year.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

PET Plastic Recycling

NAICS

Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing (326)

SIC

Plastic Materials, Synth Resins & Nonvulcan Elastomers (2821)

akta.pro primary industry

Food-Grade & rPET/rHDPE Recycling (Decontamination/SSP, Bottle-to-Bottle) (EUAIAKAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Post-Consumer Plastic Collection & Sorting (MRF/PRF, Bale Supply) (EUAIAKAA), Reprocessed Resin & Recycled Polymer Compounding (PCR/PIR Compounds) (IMANAMAG)

Keywords

• PET recycling
• Recycled plastic flake
• Food-grade rPET
• Post-consumer recycling
• Bottle-to-bottle recycling

Headquarters

HQ city

Chino

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Operations, Supply Chain, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. PET Flake Sales: RePET generates revenue through the sale of recycled PET plastic flake products, including PET Clear Flake, PET Green Flake, PET Clear Fines, Polyolefin Caps & Label Flakes, and Polypropylene Caps Regrind. These products are sold to manufacturers for use in food and beverage container packaging, strap and fiber manufacturing, and home goods production.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

RePET is a recycler and processor of post-consumer PET containers that converts used PET bottles into FDA LNO certified recycled PET flake. The company produces food-grade PET Clear Flake and PET Green Flake, along with PET Clear Fines, Polyolefin Caps and Label Flakes, and Polypropylene Caps Regrind, sold to food and beverage, strap and fiber, and home goods manufacturers.

Product overview

RePET operates as a PET recycler offering a portfolio of recycled plastic products produced through their patented recycling process. The core offering consists of five product types derived from post-consumer and post-industrial PET bottles: PET Clear Flake, PET Green Flake, PET Clear Fines (which are different grades/sizes of recycled PET), plus Polyolefin Caps & Label Flakes and Polypropylene Caps Regrind (ancillary materials recovered during processing). The SMART GREEN PROCESS transforms sorted, ground, and decontaminated bottles into FDA LNO flake suitable for food and beverage packaging, strap and fiber manufacturing, and home goods production.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• PET Clear Flake
• PET Green Flake
• PET Clear Fines
• Polyolefin Caps and Label Flakes
• Polypropylene Caps Regrind

Quantifiable outcome

• 2 billion plastic bottles recycled annually, with capacity to scale to 4 billion
• +2 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Indorama Ventures: Global petrochemical and PET resin producer with significant rPET operations (formerly CarbonLite assets). Compares to RePET as a large-scale PET recycler producing food-grade recycled resin, but operates at vastly greater scale and across multiple geographies.
• ALPLA: Global packaging manufacturer with growing rPET operations supplying food and beverage customers. Comparable to RePET in serving CPGs with recycled-content PET, but broader in scope (bottles, preforms, packaging systems) and far larger in scale.
• Plastipak Holdings: Global rigid plastic packaging producer with integrated rPET operations (Premarket, Clean Tech). Comparable to RePET through food-grade rPET production for CPG customers, though operates at substantially larger scale across multiple plants.
• Novolex: Large North American packaging converter with significant recycled-content product lines, including rPET. Comparable to RePET through overlapping CPG customer base and demand for recycled PET inputs, though Novolex is a packaging converter rather than a recycler.

Direct peers

• Evergreen Plastics: Mid-sized U.S. recycler producing food-grade rPET flake and resin from post-consumer bottles. Comparable to RePET as a regional mechanical recycler serving CPG and packaging customers with FDA-grade recycled PET.
• CarbonLite: U.S.-based PET bottle-to-bottle recycler producing food-grade rPET. Directly comparable to RePET as a mechanical recycler of post-consumer PET into FDA-grade flake/resin for beverage and food packaging, with overlapping customer base of large CPGs.
• KW Plastics: One of the largest North American recyclers of PCR (post-consumer recycled) plastics, including PET bottle flake. Comparable to RePET in producing recycled PET resin grades from post-consumer feedstock for downstream manufacturing.
• Verdeco Recycling: North American PET recycler producing food-grade rPET flake and resin from post-consumer bottles. Comparable to RePET in technology (mechanical recycling with optical sorting) and target market (food and beverage packaging manufacturers).
• Phoenix Technologies: PET bottle recycler producing food-grade and bottle-grade rPET resin using mechanical recycling. Directly comparable to RePET in feedstock (post-consumer PET bottles), technology approach, and food-contact end-market focus.

Regional players

• Visy: Australia-based recycling and packaging company with PET recycling operations serving food and beverage manufacturers in the Asia-Pacific region. Comparable to RePET in PET recycling technology and food-grade end markets, though geographically distant from RePET's West Coast focus.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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