US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Chemical on Aug. 25 for "Polyester recycling system and recycling method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,975, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (Tokyo).

"Polyester recycling system and recycling method" was invented by Kazunobu Tada (Nagahama, Japan), Toshihiro Hiraki (Osaka, Japan), Tomohiro Suzuki (Nagahama, Japan) and Kiyonori Kuroda (Nagahama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a polyester recycling system including: a functional layer removing means of removing a functional layer from a laminated polyester film including a polyester film having on a surface thereof the functional layer as a recovered waste material, with a cleaning agent dissolving the polyester film; a recovery means of reco...