US Patent Issued to ALPLA WERKE ALWIN LEHNER on Oct. 27 for "Method for producing an rPET plastic material for use in a thin wall injection molding process and hollow body produced in the thin wall injection molding process" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,809, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to ALPLA WERKE ALWIN LEHNER GMBH & Co. (Hard, Austria).

"Method for producing an rPET plastic material for use in a thin wall injection molding process and hollow body produced in the thin wall injection molding process" was invented by Robert Siegl (Dornbirn, Austria) and Benjamin Haas (Lauterach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method in which a starting material for injection-molding, having a viscosity of between 0.50 and 0.7 dL/g, is produced with the aid of a chain breaker from a recycled post-consumer PET having a viscosity of between 0.72 and 0.86 dL/g acc...