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From bottle to raw material — under one roof

Our Wakiso facility integrates every step: bale breaking, sorting, hot washing, extrusion and lab quality control. Here’s how your material is made.

3 acresproduction facility near Kampala
2 lineshot-washing capacity ≈ 700 t / month
1 extrudergranulating capacity ≈ 300 t / month
24 / 7production & in-house lab QC
Step by step

The journey of a plastic bottle

Collection & baling

Bottles arrive baled from our nationwide network of collection centres, schools, charities and independent collectors.

Bale breaking & sorting

Bales are opened, debris removed, and bottles sorted by colour — manually and with automatic colour-sorting technology.

Grinding & hot washing

Bottles are ground, then hot-washed at 75–85 °C with caustic and detergent. Labels, caps, glue and dirt are separated by friction washing, sink-float and rinsing.

Drying, sorting & detection

Flakes are dried, fines removed, colour-checked and passed through all-metal detection before bagging.

Extrusion or export

Flakes ship as-is, or are extruded into uniform rPET granules. Every lot is lab-tested and issued a certificate of analysis.

Key equipment

Industrial technology, maintained to run

Bale breaker feeding the PET washing line

Bale Breaker & Pre-sort

Opens compressed bottle bales and feeds a steady, even stream to the sorting deck — the first quality gate of the plant.

Automatic colour sorting machine for PET flakes

Automatic Colour Sorting

High-speed optical sorting separates clear, blue, green and brown streams — the key to consistent colour grades buyers can rely on.

PET bottle sorting conveyor line

PET Hot-Washing Lines (×2)

Combined ≈ 700 tonnes/month capacity. Grinding, hot caustic wash, friction wash, sink-float separation, rinse and thermal drying.

rPET granules from the granulating extruder

Granulating Extruder

≈ 300 tonnes/month of uniform rPET pellets — melt-filtered and cut for direct use in strapping, sheet and fibre extrusion.

A dedicated PE-PP washing line processes caps and polyolefin packaging recovered in the PET stream.

Recycled plastic regrind drying
Quality control

Tested on every lot — not every quarter

Export customers can’t afford surprises. Our in-house lab checks every production lot before it is released:

  • Intrinsic viscosity (IV) verification
  • PVC, polyolefin and total contamination counts
  • Moisture and bulk density
  • Colour consistency against retained standards
  • Certificate of analysis issued with every shipment
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