Cirklo
Cirklo is a Brazilian circular economy platform that converts post-consumer PET bottles into food-grade recycled PET resin (PET-PCR) for major consumer goods brands in beverages, cosmetics, personal care, and household products.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded1998
- HeadquartersBarueri, Brazil
- Headcount1–10
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingHardware or Manufacturing
What Cirklo does
Cirklo is a Brazilian circular economy platform for plastics, headquartered in Barueri, Brazil, with operating roots tracing to 1998 (one metadata source records a 2022 incorporation date for the current legal entity, but company materials state over 25 years of market experience). The company converts post-consumer PET bottles into food-grade post-consumer recycled PET resin (PET-PCR) using a bottle-to-bottle recycling process comprising washing, grinding (moagem), extrusion, crystallization, and post-condensation. Cirklo's product portfolio consists of two core grades — Resina PET-PCR INCOLOR (clear) and Resina PET-PCR VERDE (green) — both certified by ANVISA (Brazil/Mercosur) and the colorless grade additionally authorized by the FDA to fully substitute virgin PET resin in food-contact packaging.
Cirklo monetizes primarily through direct B2B sales of PET-PCR resin to brand owners and to transformers who mold it into finished packaging. The customer base spans food & beverage (Coca-Cola, Ambev, Danone), cosmetics and personal care (L'Oréal, Boticário, Natura, Colgate, Johnson & Johnson), household products (Unilever, Bom Bril, Ypê, Flora), and adjacent textile applications. The group is organized around wholly-owned subsidiaries GlobalPet (PET recycling and resin production) and Green PCR Flake Indústria e Comércio de Plásticos Ltda (PCR flake production). Pricing is transaction-based and negotiated through enterprise sales consultations, with no publicly disclosed pricing schedule.
Cirklo operates four manufacturing units across Brazil — São Carlos (São Paulo), Conde (Paraíba), Maceió (Alagoas), and Ananindeua (Pará) — and expanded annual production capacity from 40,000 tons in 2024 to a planned 115,000 tons by end of 2025. Capital partners include EB Capital, Circulate Capital, and Flying Rivers, with growth financing supplemented by recurring debenture issuances under the 'Debentures Cirklo Economia Circular' program through 2025-2026. The company is led by CEO Irineu Bueno Barbosa Junior and was recognized in 2026 at Sustainable Business COP30 in Belém as one of 48 private-sector projects of distinction in the Circular Economy category by the National Confederation of Industry (CNI).
Cirklo firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- Cirklo
- Legal name
- Cirklo
- Website
- https://cirklo.eco
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 1998
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 1–10 employees
- Short description
- Cirklo is a Brazilian circular economy platform that converts post-consumer PET bottles into food-grade recycled PET resin (PET-PCR) for major consumer goods brands in beverages, cosmetics, personal care, and household products.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
Cirklo industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Recycled Plastics Manufacturing
- NAICS
- Plastics Material and Resin Manufacturing (325211), Resin and Synthetic Rubber Manufacturing (32521)
- SIC
- Plastic Materials, Synth Resins & Nonvulcan Elastomers (2821)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Recycled & Reprocessed Polymer Resin Manufacturing (rPET, rPP, rPE; PCR/PIR resins) (IMANAAAH)
- akta.pro secondary industry
- Reprocessed Resin & Recycled Polymer Compounding (PCR/PIR Compounds) (IMANAMAG)
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Where Cirklo is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Barueri
- HQ country
- Brazil
- HQ region
- Latin America
Offices4 records
Markets served
Cirklo business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Hardware or Manufacturing
- Cost components
- Operations, Supply Chain, Personnel, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales
Revenue model
- PET-PCR Resin Sales: Primary revenue stream from selling post-consumer recycled PET resin (PET-PCR) to brand owners and transformers. Products include PET-PCR INCOLOR (colorless) and PET-PCR VERDE (green) resins. Sales are made directly to consumer goods companies for use in packaging production.
Go-to-market motion3 records
Distribution channels2 records
Marketing channels5 records
Cirklo product offering
Product offeringCore offering
Cirklo operates a bottle-to-bottle PET recycling platform in Brazil, purchasing post-consumer PET bottles and processing them through washing, grinding, extrusion, crystallization, and post-condensation to produce post-consumer recycled PET (PET-PCR) resin. The company sells two food-grade resin products — PET-PCR INCOLOR (clear) and PET-PCR VERDE (green) — directly to brand owners and transformers serving food & beverage, cosmetics, personal care, cleaning products, and textile sectors. Both resins are ANVISA and FDA certified to fully replace virgin PET in food contact packaging.
Product overview
Cirklo is a circular economy platform for plastics in Latin America that produces recycled PET resin (PET-PCR) from post-consumer PET bottles. The company operates a bottle-to-bottle recycling model producing two main resin products: Resina PET-PCR INCOLOR (clear grade) and Resina PET-PCR VERDE (green grade). Both products are certified for food packaging applications and serve brand owners, transformers, and packaging manufacturers across food, beverages, cosmetics, cleaning, and textile sectors. The production process includes bottle purchasing, washing, grinding, extrusion, crystallization, and post-condensation.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Brands
- GlobalPet: Subsidiary focused on PET recycling and resin production. Website: globalpetsa.com.br
- Green PCR
Products and services
- Resina PET-PCR INCOLOR Post-consumer recycled PET resin in clear/transparent grade, authorized by the US FDA and ANVISA (Brazil/Mercosur) to completely substitute virgin PET in food packaging applications. Targets brand owners and packaging transformers in food & beverage, cosmetics, personal care, and cleaning product sectors.
- Resina PET-PCR VERDE Post-consumer recycled PET resin in green grade, used primarily for manufacturing green bottles. Offers identical mechanical properties and quality to the clear resin, with a natural green color from recycled green bottles that reduces the need for masterbatches. Targets brand owners and packaging transformers producing green-tinted packaging.
Quantifiable outcome
- 3.3 billion PET bottles recycled in 2024
- +3 more outcomes
Companies that use Cirklo
Customer profileNamed customers12 records
Segments4 records
Ideal customer profiles2 records
Cirklo technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed No
API detail
- Has API
- No
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Feature3 records
Cirklo partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.
- Cooperativas e Operadores de Logística ReversacoreCirklo partners with cooperatives and reverse logistics operators to structure PET bottle collection, strengthening the social and operational pillars of circularity in Brazil.
- GlobalPetcoreGlobalPet is a group company under the Cirklo umbrella, operating as part of the circular economy platform for plastics.
- Green PCRcoreGreen PCR Flake Indústria e Comércio de Plásticos Ltda is a group company operating under Cirklo, specializing in PET flake production for the recycling supply chain.
Scale indicators6 records
Recent moves10 records
Expansion highlights5 records
Cirklo competitors and assessment
Company assessmentBroad incumbents
- Indorama Ventures: Global integrated PET resin producer with significant PCR capacity via its Perpetual Recycling acquisitions. Competes with Cirklo for large FMCG contracts but operates a much broader virgin+recycled PET and packaging portfolio across multiple continents.
- ALPLA: Austrian-headquartered global packaging manufacturer that has invested heavily in rPET and bottle-to-bottle recycling. Overlaps with Cirklo in supplying recycled resin and preforms to Latin American and global brand owners.
- Biffa: UK-listed integrated waste management and recycling company with growing rPET and rHDPE output. Comparable in recycling platform breadth and B2B resin sales model, although its primary geography is the UK/Europe rather than Latin America.
- Far Eastern Industries: Asian PET and rPET resin producer with growing food-grade PCR offerings. Comparable to Cirklo as a competing PET-PCR supplier to multinational FMCG customers, though with a much larger global footprint.
Emerging players
- Loop Industries: North American PET recycler using proprietary chemical depolymerization to produce virgin-quality rPET. Overlaps with Cirklo as a PET-PCR supplier pursuing food-contact approvals and brand-owner offtake.
- SAEC / Sustainea: Mitsui-backed bio-MEG and rPET player developing PET-PCR and bio-based PET for beverage brands. Competes with Cirklo for long-term brand-owner PCR offtake commitments and sustainability-linked supply agreements.
- Plastixx: Denmark-based mechanical recycler focused on ocean-bound and post-consumer plastics into rPET and rHDPE pellets. Compares to Cirklo in upstream recycling technology, but is earlier-stage and serves European rather than Latin American customers.
Regional players
- Enviroplas: Brazilian recycled PET producer supplying PCR resin to domestic converters. A close regional comparable to Cirklo within the same Brazilian feedstock and customer ecosystem, competing for similar brand-owner contracts.
Direct peers
- CarbonLite: U.S.-based PET bottle-to-bottle recycler producing food-grade rPET for major beverage and consumer goods brands. Directly comparable to Cirklo in process technology (washing, extrusion, post-condensation) and FDA food-contact positioning.
- PetStar: Mexico-based bottle-to-bottle PET recycler, the largest food-grade PCR producer in Latin America. Closest direct comparable to Cirklo given similar bottle-to-bottle methodology, food-contact certifications, and shared LatAm FMCG customer base.
Market position
Strengths4 records
Weaknesses4 records
Competitive moat4 records
Key risks6 records
Key highlights6 records
Customer concentration
Cirklo social profiles
Digital presenceCirklo compliance and trust
Trust signalCompliance2 records
Cirklo financial estimates
Financial estimateRevenue estimate
Valuation estimate
Cirklo leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles1 record
Cirklo subsidiaries and ownership
Company hierarchySubsidiaries2 records
Cirklo funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds
Investors
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Cirklo M&A and investment
M&A and investmentM&A
Investments
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Frequently asked questions about Cirklo
What does Cirklo do?
Cirklo operates a bottle-to-bottle PET recycling platform in Brazil, purchasing post-consumer PET bottles and processing them through washing, grinding, extrusion, crystallization, and post-condensation to produce post-consumer recycled PET (PET-PCR) resin. The company sells two food-grade resin products — PET-PCR INCOLOR (clear) and PET-PCR VERDE (green) — directly to brand owners and transformers serving food & beverage, cosmetics, personal care, cleaning products, and textile sectors. Both resins are ANVISA and FDA certified to fully replace virgin PET in food contact packaging.
Is Cirklo a public or private company?
Cirklo is a private company. It is classified as venture growth investor backed and is currently operating.
When was Cirklo founded?
Cirklo was founded in 1998. It employs 1 to 10 people.
Where is Cirklo based?
Cirklo is headquartered in Barueri, Brazil, in the Latin America region.
How does Cirklo make money?
One revenue line is on record: PET-PCR Resin Sales.
Who are Cirklo's main competitors?
Broad incumbents on record are Indorama Ventures, ALPLA, Biffa and Far Eastern Industries. Emerging players are Loop Industries, SAEC / Sustainea and Plastixx. Enviroplas is listed as a regional player. Direct peers are CarbonLite and PetStar.
Does Cirklo have an API?
No public API is recorded for Cirklo.
What industry is Cirklo in?
Cirklo's product category is Recycled Plastics Manufacturing. Its primary akta.pro industry code is IMANAAAH, Recycled & Reprocessed Polymer Resin Manufacturing (rPET, rPP, rPE; PCR/PIR resins), with a secondary code of IMANAMAG, Reprocessed Resin & Recycled Polymer Compounding (PCR/PIR Compounds). Its NAICS code is 325211 and its SIC code is 2821.