pet recycling gmbh

What pet recycling gmbh does

PET Recycling GmbH is a German PET bottle recycling operation headquartered at Louis-Wackler-Straße 5, 73037 Göppingen-Holzheim, and a wholly-owned subsidiary of ETG Entsorgung + Transport GmbH within the four-company DU: Willkommen in der Umwelt group (alongside Fetzer Rohstoffe + Recycling GmbH, MRG Metall-Recycling Göppingen GmbH, and the ETG parent). Founded in March 2008, the company runs a single-site facility in continuous 3-shift operation that processes 13,000 tonnes of PET beverage bottles annually, converting them into approximately 10,000 tonnes of secondary raw materials — specifically clear PET flakes and a branded PETCycle flake line — sold to downstream manufacturers and backed by published multilingual material specifications and RecyClass EN15343:2007 traceability certification.

The business is operated under a stack of regulatory licenses and quality certifications (Entsorgungsfachbetrieb status with annual external audit, VerpackV, ISO 9001:2015, ISO 50001) that legally enable it to handle regulated PET feedstock and supply traceable recycled content into EU packaging chains. Customers of the broader group include industrial and commercial enterprises (e.g., Allgaier-Werke, Möbel-Rieger, Leicht Küchen, Carl Stahl, Ensinger Mineral-Heilquellen), municipalities (Landkreis Göppingen, where the group operates as a subcontractor to Remondis covering ~40% of residual waste volume), and citizens in the Göppingen region.

Revenue mechanics combine transaction-based fees — per-tonnage or flat-rate container services, weight-based disposal pricing, paper bin delivery, and packaging services — with direct sale of PET flakes as feedstock. Distribution is hybrid: a direct field sales team (Steffen Maier, Prokurist/Head of Sales; Thomas Aivazidis, field sales; Bernhard Lehle, municipal advisor) handles enterprise accounts, complemented by self-service digital channels including the DU: iOS/Android app and customer portal for SMB and consumer ordering. Membership in the LOGEX System GmbH cooperative (a network of ~40 regional waste disposal companies with €1B+ collective revenue) extends the group's effective geographic reach beyond Göppingen. Group revenue is approximately €45 million, up ~20% year-on-year from €38 million, on a headcount of ~180 employees; standalone revenue for PET Recycling GmbH is not disclosed.

Name

pet recycling gmbh

Legal name

PET Recycling GmbH

Website

https://du-willkommen.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

2008

Operating status

Operating

Short description

PET Recycling GmbH, based in Göppingen, Germany, processes 13,000 tonnes of PET beverage bottles annually into recycled PET flakes for manufacturers, operating as part of the four-company DU: Willkommen in der Umwelt group under parent ETG.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

PET Recycling Services

NAICS

Resin and Synthetic Rubber Manufacturing (32521)

SIC

Miscellaneous Plastics Products (3080)

akta.pro primary industry

Recycled & Reprocessed Polymer Resin Manufacturing (rPET, rPP, rPE; PCR/PIR resins) (IMANAAAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

Mechanical Recycling (Wash, Grind, Pelletize) (EUAIAKAB)

Keywords

• PET bottle recycling
• PET flake production
• Plastic material recovery
• Secondary raw materials
• Waste management services

Headquarters

HQ city

Göppingen

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. PET Bottle Recycling Services: PET Recycling GmbH processes PET beverage bottles into PET flakes for resale to manufacturers. The logistics for waste disposal of all wastes and recyclables from well operations (brunnenbetriebe) is handled by ETG Entsorgung und Transport GmbH.
2. Plastic Waste Processing: Since 2008, processing of PET bottles and production of secondary raw materials (approximately 10,000 tonnes annually), sold as recycled feedstock to plastic manufacturers.
3. Waste Collection and Disposal: ETG Entsorgung + Transport GmbH (group parent) generates revenue through waste collection, disposal services, and container services for commercial and municipal customers. Annual revenue of approximately €15 million.
4. Paper and Cardboard Recycling: Fetzer Rohstoffe + Recycling GmbH collects, processes, and trades approximately 40,000 tonnes of paper annually, generating revenue of approximately €7 million as a wholly-owned subsidiary of ETG.
5. Road Salt Sales: DU: packages and markets road salt in its own packaging plant, with daily capacity up to 150 tonnes, sold in 10, 25, and 50 kg units via R&S Vertriebs-Kontor.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

PET Recycling GmbH operates a PET bottle recycling facility in Göppingen-Holzheim that processes 13,000 tonnes of PET beverage bottles per year in a 3-shift operation, converting them into PET flakes (clear grade and PETCycle branded). The flakes are sold as secondary raw materials to downstream plastic manufacturers, with material specifications published in German and English and traceability certified under RecyClass EN15343:2007.

Product overview

PET Recycling GmbH operates as a specialized PET bottle recycling facility within the DU: Willkommen in der Umwelt group. The company operates a single-product recycling operation that processes PET beverage bottles into PET flakes through a 3-shift operation. Production capacity is 13,000 tonnes annually. The company produces two product variants: clear PET flakes and PETCycle branded flakes, both offered with detailed material specifications for downstream manufacturing customers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• PET-Flakes (klar) Recycled PET flakes produced from processed PET beverage bottles in clear/transparent grade, sold as secondary raw material to downstream plastic manufacturers for use in new PET products. Material specifications published in German and English.
• PET-Flakes PETCycle

Quantifiable outcome

• 99.19% recycling rate achieved for Ensinger Mineral-Heilquellen GmbH
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• LOGEX System GmbH & Co. KGcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 1993ETG Entsorgung + Transport GmbH (parent company of PET Recycling GmbH) is a shareholder of LOGEX System GmbH, a cooperative of family-owned regional waste disposal companies. LOGEX operates over 120 operational sites, 130+ recycling plants, nearly 40 shareholders, 6,000+ employees, 2,500+ specialized vehicles, and generates over €1 billion in annual revenue. Membership enables PET Recycling GmbH to handle nationwide disposal contracts through the cooperative network.

Scale indicators12 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• ALPLA Group: ALPLA is a leading Austrian-headquartered PET packaging and rPET resin producer with European recycling operations (Alpla EcoTech). It directly competes with PET Recycling in producing recycled PET flake and resin for the same European beverage and packaging customers, but at materially larger scale across multiple plants.
• PreZero: PreZero is the German recycling and circular economy subsidiary of the Schwarz retail family, operating large-scale PET and plastic sorting and recycling plants across Germany. It competes directly with PET Recycling for rPET feedstock supply and downstream offtake contracts within Germany.
• Texplast: Texplast PET-Recycling GmbH & Co. KG is a German PET bottle recycler producing rPET flakes and regranulate at comparable operational scale. It is the closest same-country direct competitor in terms of process (mechanical recycling to flake), product mix (food- and non-food-grade PET), and customer base (German and European plastics converters).
• Interzero: Interzero (formerly Interseroh) is a German circular economy services company that operates PET and other plastics recycling and trading, and competes with the DU: Willkommen group for German enterprise waste and recycling service contracts. Both companies serve German DSD-system-linked recycling demand.
• Remondis: Remondis is Germany's largest privately held waste management company and took the Landkreis Göppingen municipal contract from the DU: Willkommen group in 2022. With significant PET/HDPE recycling capacity, Remondis is a direct competitor both for municipal collection tenders and for plastics recycling feedstock/offtake.

Broad incumbents

• Indorama Ventures: Indorama Ventures is the world's largest integrated PET resin producer, with substantial rPET recycling capacity across Europe, the Americas, and Asia through acquisitions including Sorepla, CarbonLite, and Orinko. It is a broad incumbent in the same end-product market but at vastly larger scale and global footprint.
• Veolia: Veolia operates large-scale PET and plastic recycling facilities across Europe through its environmental services business. As a broad multi-segment incumbent with a much wider service portfolio than PET Recycling, it competes indirectly through scale and integrated municipal/industrial offerings.

Regional players

• CarbonLite: CarbonLite is a US-based rPET recycler producing food-grade rPET pellets from PET bottles with similar operational profile to PET Recycling GmbH (bottle-to-flake/pellet mechanical recycling). It does not directly compete in Europe but is a useful regional scale-comparable peer for business model benchmarking.

Others

• Erema: Erema Group is an Austrian manufacturer of plastics recycling machinery and extrusion systems widely used by European PET recyclers to produce flake and pellets. As a technology/enabling supplier rather than a recycler itself, Erema does not compete with PET Recycling but is tightly tied to its industry’s capital spending and process economics.
• Starlinger: Starlinger is an Austrian manufacturer of recycling and packaging machinery, including equipment for PET washing lines, decontamination, and SSP used by rPET producers. It does not compete with PET Recycling but serves the same industry as a technology and equipment vendor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance5 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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M&A

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