RPET InWaste

What RPET InWaste does

RPET InWaste s.r.o. is a Czech private limited company founded around 2020-2021 and headquartered in Rosice, with a research partnership in Brno, that manufactures food-grade recycled PET (rPET) regranulate from post-consumer beverage bottles for sale to beverage and food packaging manufacturers in Central Europe. The company operates a single mechanical recycling line based on Next Generation Recycling (NGR) technology with nameplate capacity of up to 2.0 tonnes per hour (approximately 16,000 tonnes per year). Its process flow sorts and pre-dries incoming PET flakes, dries them to below 0.005% residual humidity, extrudes them through a vacuum reactor at 270°C for intrinsic-viscosity control, filters at 50 µm, granulates to 15-30 mg pellets, crystallizes at approximately 80°C for around 20 minutes, and stabilizes to under 1 ppm acetaldehyde and approximately 30% crystallinity. Two commercial product grades are offered — PRCL clear and PRB blue — supplied in approximately 1,050 kg big bags with full technical, conformity, and safety documentation (TDS, DoC, MSDS) and customizable properties.

The business model is B2B direct sales to enterprise food packaging manufacturers, with pricing quoted per inquiry and multi-year supply contracts typical. GTM is sales-led: the CEO (Jiří Hudeček), CTO (Martin Hlínka), and a dedicated business development manager (Edita Teturová) handle direct customer engagement, supported by in-house quality, laboratory, and production staff. The company emphasizes regulatory compliance — EFSA safety assessment (March 2022), RecyClass Module A2 decontamination certification, EN 15343:2007 traceability, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and SZÚ national food-contact certification — as the central commercial proposition that allows customers to claim recycled content under EU SUPD and PPWR mandates. Marketing is content-driven via a bilingual website, industry conference participation, and earned media in Czech press (Packaging magazine, Packaging Herald, Seznam Zprávy, BusinessINFO.cz).

The company is founder/management-owned with no identified venture capital, private equity, or parent-entity backing in the available sources, and no funding rounds or M&A activity are disclosed. Revenue and production volumes are not publicly reported. The 11+ named team members span executive, commercial, quality, laboratory, production, logistics, and back-office functions. Operational status is active, with an open hiring page and renewed certifications through 2026-2027 indicating ongoing operations rather than wind-down.

Name

RPET InWaste

Legal name

rPET InWaste s.r.o.

Website

https://rpet-inwaste.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

RPET InWaste is a Czech private manufacturer of food-grade rPET regranulate produced from post-consumer PET beverage bottles, serving Central European beverage and food packaging manufacturers with EFSA-approved, RecyClass-certified material from a 16,000 t/year facility in Rosice.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Recycled Plastics Manufacturing

NAICS

Plastics Material and Resin Manufacturing (325211)

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

Recycled & Reprocessed Polymer Resin Manufacturing (rPET, rPP, rPE; PCR/PIR resins) (IMANAAAH), Reprocessed Resin & Recycled Polymer Compounding (PCR/PIR Compounds) (IMANAMAG), Recycled Plastic Compounds (PCR/PIR) (IMANABAE)

Keywords

• Food-grade rPET regranulate
• Bottle-to-bottle recycling
• Mechanical PET recycling
• Recycled PET pellets
• Circular economy packaging

Headquarters

HQ city

Brno

HQ country

Czechia

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. rPET Regranulate Sales: Manufacturing and selling food-grade rPET regranulate produced from post-consumer PET beverage bottles. Products include clear (PRCL) and blue (PRB) regranulate grades. Material properties can be customized to customer requirements. Revenue generated through direct sales to food packaging manufacturers.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

rPET InWaste manufactures and sells food-grade rPET (recycled polyethylene terephthalate) regranulate produced from post-consumer PET beverage bottles via mechanical bottle-to-bottle recycling. The company offers PRCL clear and PRB blue regranulate grades, with material properties customizable to customer requirements and supplied in approximately 1,050 kg big bags, alongside full technical documentation (TDS, DoC, MSDS). Production capacity reaches 2 t/h (16,000 tonnes/year) from its Rosice, Czech Republic facility, supported by EFSA, RecyClass, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and EN 15343:2007 certifications.

Product overview

RPET InWaste operates as a specialized rPET regranulate manufacturer producing food-grade recycled PET pellets for the beverage and food packaging industry. The company's product portfolio consists of two core regranulate variants: PRCL (clear) and PRB (blue), both suitable for bottle-to-bottle food contact applications. Supporting the core products, the company provides comprehensive technical documentation including Technical Data Sheets (TDS), Declarations of Conformity (DoC), and Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS). Production capacity reaches approximately 16,000 tonnes per year with material supplied in 1,050 kg big bags. The products form part of a circular economy solution, converting post-consumer PET flakes into food-grade regranulate that can replace virgin PET in beverage packaging.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• rPET regranulate PRCL (Clear) Clear food-grade rPET regranulate produced from post-consumer PET beverage bottles via mechanical recycling using NGR technology. Suitable for bottle-to-bottle applications in food packaging manufacturing and sold in approximately 1,050 kg big bags to food and beverage packaging customers.
• rPET regranulate PRB (Blue) Blue food-grade rPET regranulate produced from post-consumer PET beverage bottles via mechanical recycling, intended for food-contact applications requiring colored recycled PET. Material properties can be customized and supplied in approximately 1,050 kg big bags.

Quantifiable outcome

• Energy consumption: rPET requires 7.97 MJ/kg vs 84 MJ/kg for virgin PET (90.5% reduction)
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

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.

• Vysoké učení technické v Brně (University of Technology Brno)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch partnership with university research laboratories for development of testing methodology and evaluation of samples. Collaboration on quality assurance and technical advancement of rPET production processes.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• ALPLA Group: Austrian-headquartered global plastics packaging group with dedicated bottle-to-bottle rPET facilities in Europe. Competes head-to-head with RPET InWaste for European beverage customers seeking food-grade recycled PET, with stronger brand and larger geographic footprint.
• Indorama Ventures: World's largest PET and recycled PET producer with food-grade rPET operations across multiple continents. Direct competitor in selling food-contact rPET regranulate to beverage and packaging customers, but at materially greater scale and with integrated collection.
• Resilux NV: Belgian specialty producer of food-grade preforms and rPET, including bottle-to-bottle recycled PET pellets. Directly comparable product portfolio and EU customer base, with overlapping certifications (EFSA, RecyClass) and similar bottler-customer orientation.
• EcoBlue (Lotte Chemical): Food-grade rPET producer originally spun out as EcoBlue and now integrated with Lotte Chemical. Directly comparable as a regional specialist in food-contact recycled PET resin, competing for similar beverage-packaging customers.
• Novapet: Spanish PET resin and food-grade rPET producer (part of Grupo Armando Álvarez). Competes in supplying food-contact recycled PET pellets to European beverage and packaging converters, with similar regulatory-driven go-to-market.

Others

• Starlinger & Co: Austrian supplier of recycling and PET decontamination equipment (e.g., 'recoSTAR PET' lines). Comparable as an enabler/ecosystem participant: many food-grade rPET plants, including competitors, use Starlinger technology, making it a strategic adjacency for RPET InWaste.
• EREMA Group: Austrian maker of plastic recycling extrusion and decontamination equipment widely used in food-grade rPET plants. Adjacent to RPET InWaste as a technology/equipment provider rather than a resin competitor, but shapes the competitive process landscape for bottle-to-bottle recycling.
• NGR — Next Generation Recycling Machines: Austrian manufacturer of the NGR recycling technology that RPET InWaste's process is based on. Not a competitor but a critical technology partner; comparable in industry context because NGR's process design defines RPET InWaste's process specifications and differentiation.

Broad incumbents

• PreZero (Schwarz Group): European recycling division of the Schwarz Group operating PET collection and food-grade rPET production. Overlaps with RPET InWaste in serving EU beverage customers with closed-loop, recycled-content packaging material, but with far larger recycling footprint and parent-group demand.
• Veolia PET Recycling: Global waste-management and recycling major with PET bottle-to-bottle operations across Europe. Operates at much larger scale and broader geographic scope than RPET InWaste, but competes for the same EU regulatory-driven food-grade rPET offtake.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/rpet-inwaste-sro

Compliance8 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles11 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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