Atlanta based Coca-Cola Company disclosed on September 27 the news about partnership with JBF Industries Ltd. which should help to expand production of material used in the PlantBottleTM packaging. Coca-Cola aims to continue its effort to bring renewable, lower-carbon pastics to the marketplace and use PlantBottleTM packaging technology in all of its plastic bottles by 2020.
"The benefits of sustainable innovation are only fully realized when commercialized and put in the hands of consumers." said Ronald J. Lewis, Vice President at the company.
Coca-Cola has introduced its PlantBottleTM in 2009 as a very first recyclable PET plastic bottle made partially from plants. Now, company claims more than 10 billion PlantBottleTM packages sold around the world that are less dependent on petroleum and have a lower carbon impact.
"We are pleased that our partnership with JBF Industries Ltd. will help us further expand global production." Ronald J. Lewis, continued.
JBF Industries Ltd. plnas to build the world's largest facility to produce bio-glycol, which is the key ingredient used to make PlantBottleTM packaging. The facility which will have its place in Araraquara, Sao Paulo, Brazil, will produce the ingredient using locally sourced sugarcane and sugarcane processing waste. Those materials meet Coca-Cola's established sustainability criteria for plant-based ingredients of PlantBottleTM.
As of today PlantBottleTM packaging is available in more than 24 countries worldwide and across a wide variety of Coca-Cola products.
