Ever wonder what happens to those plastic cold-drink bottles you throw away in your rubbish bags? The answer is most likely to be right under your feet…
Kaytech has been providing bidim® (geotextiles) and other geosynthetic solutions to the southern African civil engineering industry since 1972. Initially importing the finished bidim product, the company began producing bidim locally in 1978 and within 6 years they introduced recycled PET. In 2000 Kaytech announced full production of bidim would be 100% recycled PET. So, the tonnage of recycled bidim produced over the last 27 years calculates to 672 million 2-litre cold-drink bottles!
Kaytech converts ‘green’ PET pellets and flake into extruded fibre via a continuous-filament spun-bonding process, followed by needle-punching which gives the finished geotextile its structural integrity. Bidim is the only continuous-filament, spun-bonded, needle-punched geotextile on the market – and the only continuous filament geotextile to use recycled plastics in its manufacture, according to Kaytech production director, Chris Els. 
Because Kaytech simply melts down the granulated bottles, crystallises the polymer and spins it directly into filaments, the good properties built into the raw materials are retained and the resultant filaments possess the strength and durability demanded by civil engineers. Over the past eleven years, Kaytech’s ISO 9001 registered production facility in Atlantis has extracted more than 18 million kilograms of high-grade polyester from discarded plastic cold-drink bottles (equivalent to around 300 million 2-litre bottles). Converting this 100% recycled material into an eco-friendly polyester geotextile, makes A-grade bidim the natural choice for specialist base fabrics in technical textiles. It also meets the most stringent civil engineering and industrial specifications.
As market leaders in geosynthetic solutions and pioneers in geotextiles for 40 years, Kaytech is proud of its ability to engineer innovative solutions that meet specific requirements. All the more so for finding increasing success in curbing production costs through recycling – for the greater benefit of Mother Earth.
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The company manufactures a range of unique products, produced according to internationally renowned technology at their factory in Atlantis, Western Cape. These include warp knit reinforcing geotextiles, geosynthetic clay liners, specialist geocontainers and staple fibre geotextiles. Kaytech's product range and expertise now effectively covers vast areas of application including: Drainage and Filtration, Hydraulic Construction, Sub-grade Stabilisation and Reinforcement, Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation, Dam and Waste Containment Liners, Erosion Protection, Waterproofing and Liner Protection.
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