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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.

4 acresproduction facility near Kampala
2 lineshot-washing capacity ≈ 1,000 t / month
500M+bottles processed every year
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 85–90 °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.

Bagging & export

Every lot is lab-tested, issued a certificate of analysis, bagged and containerised for export.

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 ≈ 1,000 tonnes/month capacity. Grinding, hot caustic wash, friction wash, sink-float separation, rinse and thermal drying.

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

Quality assurance and quality control at Standard UG
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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