Water Bottler Powers Recycling with Renewable Energy
CG Roxane gets 30% of its power for repalletizing rPET at San Bernardino, Calif., from SolarEdge solar panels.
CG Roxane’s San Bernardino plant for repalletizing rPET has generated over 1.42 GWh of electricity in its first year of operation. (Photo: CG Roxane)
CG Roxane, the family-owned bottled-water company based in Novato, Calif., has completed a year of using solar panels to provide power for its PET reprocessing plant in San Bernardino, Calif. That plant, opened in 2019, can repelletize 35 million lb/yr of clean, washed rPET bottle flake from a recycler. The pellets are currently shipped to two California plants for molding into preforms and then PET bottles for Crystal Geiser Alpine Spring Water. In June 2021, CG Roxane installed rooftop SolarEdge solar panels. After a year in operation, those panels have generated over 1.42 GWh of electricity, supplying an average of 30% of the plant’s power needs. The panels can supply over 90% of its needs when the sun is at its zenith.
In the coming year, the company plans to open its second rPET reprocessing facility at its Benton, Tenn., bottle plant.
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