India Recycled PET: Tighter bales, flakes supply push up prices / Upstream bottle bales prices in India rise week over week / Asian R-PET flakes fall $5/mt week over week, pellets stable

Oct 03, 2026

Indian recycled polyethylene terephthalate prices rose in the week to Sept. 30, led by higher upstream bottle bales prices, tight availability of recycled flakes and strong demand from bottlers ahead of the festival season, market participants said. premium R-PET clear flakes with a PVC content of less than 30 parts per million at $995/metric ton FOB India, stable day over day and up $20/mt week over week, while R-PET food-grade pellets with a minimum intrinsic viscosity of 0.8 was at $1,275/mt FOB India Sept. 30, unchanged day over day and up $15/mt week over week. domestic ex-works R-PET food-grade pellets stable day over day and up 1 Indian rupee/kg week over week at 120 rupees/kg. Feedstock bottle bale prices were heard at about 60-62rupees/kg in the Indian market, as against...

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