Nestlé Waters - USA Beverage Producer Saved Labor Costs by Recycling PET Bottles

Nestlé Waters North America was one of the largest bottled water producers in North America, operating multiple production facilities and distributing a portfolio of well-known water brands across the United States and Canada. As a large-scale beverage manufacturer, the company continuously sought ways to improve operational efficiency, reduce waste, and enhance the sustainability of its recycling processes.

Due to its large scale, there will also be many unqualified products during the production. Nestlé Waters needs to deal with the unqualified products by itself. Before using GREENMAX automatic dewatering compactor, Nestlé Waters just paid its workers to manually unscrew the bottle caps and drop the water inside the bottles, and then delivered the empty bottles to the PET recycling company for recycling. By doing this, Nestlé Waters was required to pay high labor costs and transportation costs.

Nestlé Waters North America takes the management of sustainable resources as its vital element of the company’s operation concept. So it has been seeking a variety of reasonable solutions of PET bottles recycling.

Nestlé Waters knew about GREENMAX drink bottles automatic dewatering compactor by searching Google. After discussing with GREENMAX, Nestlé Waters accepted the solution supplied by GREENMAX - PET bottles automatic water compression. The automatic bottles dewatering compactor is controlled by the electronic eye, which can realize a fully automatic shutdown function.

The GREENMAX PET recycling machine greatly improved the efficiency of dealing with Nestle substandard products. With the machine, the water removal efficiency has been improved about 200 times than before, which helped Nestlé Waters reduce the labor costs to 1/200.

The machine worked at a compression ratio of 8: 1, which can easily compress the large volume bottles and reduce the costs of shipping bottles to 1/8 of the original costs.

Nestlé Waters North America has gradually extended this automatic water compression solution to many of its branches. It’s also worth mentioning that Coca-Cola and Pepsi are now also applying the same GREENMAX ’s solution instead of artificial dewatering. Nowadays, more and more beverage filling companies are willing to use GREENMAX as a strategic partner.

FAQ

1. What are the benefits of dewatering PET bottles before recycling?
Removing liquid reduces weight, prevents leakage, lowers transportation costs, and improves the quality of recyclable PET materials.

2. How much can bottle compaction reduce transportation costs?
By compressing bottles at a ratio of up to 8:1, the machine significantly reduces the volume of waste, helping lower storage and logistics expenses.

3. Which industries can use PET bottle dewatering and compaction systems?
These systems are widely used by beverage producers, bottled water companies, food manufacturers, breweries, and recycling facilities that handle large volumes of liquid-filled containers.