Global Holdings and Development · Est. 2010
We do the dirty work for a cleaner future
GHD runs 20+ post-consumer PET programs with 100 million pounds of annual production capacity, delivering over 80 million pounds of food-grade PET bottle flake a year through a supply chain engineered for just-in-time delivery across North America.
The supply chain is the product
Recycled resin is only as good as its arrival. GHD has spent more than a decade building post-consumer and post-industrial PET programs so that manufacturers can depend on high-volume, high-quality rPET at their door, every day of the week.
From raw material to won contracts
GHD is a strategic partner built to help you hold off competitors, differentiate your products, and win contracts. Our scope runs from raw material management to equipment finance, training, and sales and distribution.
Our work enables consumer product groups, restaurant chains, fast food companies, and grocers to reach their Environmental, Social, and Governance commitments with material that actually shows up.
Four grades. One standard: food-grade
The Alpha line covers clear and green PCR flake, FDA-LNO pellet, and thermoform regrind. Technical data sheets are available for every grade.
AlphaCL
Clear post-consumer PET flake produced only from beverage containers. FDA Letter of No Objection issued June 13, 2019 (PNC 2334).
AlphaCL PLUS
Clear post-consumer PET pellet with FDA Letter of No Objection issued May 12, 2014 (PNC 1443).
AlphaGR
Green post-consumer PET flake produced only from beverage containers. FDA Letter of No Objection issued June 13, 2019 (PNC 2334).
AlphaSHCL
Clear post-consumer or post-industrial PET regrind produced from thermoform and like-kind food-grade raw material.
AlphaCL
AlphaCL is clear PET bottle flake, hot-washed and produced exclusively from post-consumer beverage containers. Bottle-only feedstock keeps the input stream consistent, and hot washing strips labels, adhesives, and residues before the material is milled to flake. An optional light blue flake content of up to 3 percent is available on request.
The grade carries a US FDA Letter of No Objection issued June 13, 2019 (PNC 2334). An LNO is not a blanket approval: the FDA reviews each recycling process individually and issues the letter only when that specific process is shown to hold potential contaminant exposure in food at or below 0.5 parts per billion, the agency's threshold of regulatory concern. It is the benchmark clearance for recycled resin destined for food and beverage packaging.
Key specifications
- IV: 0.75 – 0.78 dl/g
- Bulk density: 20 – 24 lbs/ft³
- Moisture: < 0.75 %
- Metal: < 5 ppm
Supply format
- 24–26 palletized supersacks per shipment, 1,700 – 2,000 lbs each
- Fumigated, grade-A pallets
Sources: GHD Technical Data Sheet (2020) · US FDA recycled-plastics no-objection program.
AlphaCL PLUS
AlphaCL PLUS is clear post-consumer PET delivered as pellet: hot-washed, melt-processed, and supplied in a form that feeds directly into extrusion and injection lines. Pellet geometry, crystallinity, and intrinsic viscosity are held to specification, with IV tailored between 0.74 and 0.90 dl/g to the final application.
The grade has carried its US FDA Letter of No Objection since May 12, 2014 (PNC 1443), the longest-standing clearance in the Alpha line. The FDA issues an LNO per process, after review shows that the specific recycling process holds potential contaminant exposure in food at or below its 0.5 parts-per-billion threshold of regulatory concern.
Key specifications
- IV: 0.74 – 0.90 dl/g (per final application)
- Melting point: 245 – 255 °C
- Crystallization: 35 % minimum
- Moisture: 1.0 %
Supply format
- 20 palletized supersacks per shipment, 2,200 lbs each
- Fumigated, grade-A pallets
Sources: GHD Technical Data Sheet (2020) · US FDA recycled-plastics no-objection program.
AlphaGR
AlphaGR is green PET bottle flake, hot-washed and produced exclusively from post-consumer beverage containers. It follows the same bottle-only feedstock discipline and hot-wash process as AlphaCL, with contamination limits held to the same tight specification.
Like its clear counterpart, AlphaGR carries a US FDA Letter of No Objection issued June 13, 2019 (PNC 2334), covering the process that produces it. Green PET is collected, processed, and specified as its own stream, so the color arrives consistent rather than blended.
Key specifications
- IV: 0.75 – 0.78 dl/g
- Bulk density: 20 – 24 lbs/ft³
- Moisture: < 0.75 %
- PVC: < 20 ppm
Supply format
- 24–26 palletized supersacks per shipment, 1,700 – 2,000 lbs each
- Fumigated, grade-A pallets
Sources: GHD Technical Data Sheet (2020) · US FDA recycled-plastics no-objection program.
AlphaSHCL
AlphaSHCL is clear PET regrind produced from post-consumer and post-industrial thermoform and like-kind food-grade raw material: trays, clamshells, and sheet from the same food-contact family as bottle PET, ground for reprocessing. Material may be hot-washed depending on incoming quality.
On paper it is the strictest grade in the line: the tightest contamination limits of the Alpha family (PVC under 5 ppm, floatables under 5 ppm) and the lowest moisture specification at under 0.3 percent, with a bulk density well above bottle flake. Thermoform PET runs at a lower intrinsic viscosity than bottle grades, and AlphaSHCL is specified accordingly at 0.58 to 0.65 dl/g.
Key specifications
- IV: 0.58 – 0.65 dl/g
- Bulk density: 30 – 35 lbs/ft³
- Moisture: < 0.3 %
- PVC: < 5 ppm
Supply format
- 24–26 palletized supersacks per shipment, 1,700 – 2,000 lbs each
- Fumigated, grade-A pallets
Source: GHD Technical Data Sheet (2020).
SuperGreen: closing the loop the right way
Our platform for manufacturers of food, beverage, and consumer packaging: recycled resin, preforms, and a collection network interconnected by a digital management system for real-time inventory control and material traceability.
Beyond recycling: an integrated circular platform
GHD's next chapter goes past recycling alone: an integrated circular-economy platform that collects, processes, converts, and creates value from waste.
Pellet production
Expanding GHD's own food-grade rPET pelletizing capacity.
Waste-to-energy
Converting to energy the waste that cannot become packaging again.
AI-driven predictability
Artificial intelligence applied to supply predictability, from collection to delivery.
Global circular infrastructure
Circular-economy infrastructure designed to scale beyond North America.
Pellet production
GHD already supplies pellet through AlphaCL PLUS. The expansion track is capacity: bringing more food-grade rPET pelletizing in-house, so that more of the line's output ships in the form converters feed directly into extrusion and injection.
Pelletizing is where recycled PET recovers its full engineering value. Extrusion shears the polymer and lowers its intrinsic viscosity; the industry's answer, solid-state polycondensation, rebuilds chain length below the melting point while stripping volatile contaminants. Owning that step means controlling the IV, the decontamination, and the delivery schedule in one place.
What it means
- More of the Alpha line delivered extrusion-ready, at the IV the application requires.
- Quality control of the final pelletizing step inside GHD's own supply chain.
- Status: expansion track of GHD's integrated circular platform.
Context: solid-state polycondensation restores rPET intrinsic viscosity for bottle-to-bottle use (industry process literature).
Waste-to-energy
Recycling has a residue: films, composites, and degraded fractions that cannot become packaging again. The waste-to-energy track converts that remainder into usable heat and electricity instead of sending it to landfill.
In the US EPA's waste-management hierarchy, energy recovery ranks below recycling and reuse but above treatment and disposal: the correct destination for what recycling cannot capture. A typical waste-to-energy facility recovers on the order of 550 kilowatt-hours per ton of waste processed. For a circular platform, it closes the accounting: material first, energy second, landfill last.
What it means
- Applies only to fractions that can no longer be recycled into packaging.
- Recovers heat and electricity that offset fossil-based generation.
- Status: expansion track of GHD's integrated circular platform.
Context: US EPA, Energy Recovery from the Combustion of Municipal Solid Waste.
AI-driven predictability
Just-in-time supply lives or dies on predictability. This expansion track applies artificial intelligence across the chain GHD already runs: forecasting collection volumes, anticipating quality variation in incoming material, and timing deliveries against each customer's production schedule.
The goal is not automation for its own sake. Recycled feedstock is inherently more variable than virgin resin; the discipline that makes it dependable is information. The more precisely supply can be predicted, the less inventory the system carries and the closer the platform gets to true just-in-time circularity.
What it means
- Forecasting from collection through processing to delivery.
- Less buffer inventory and tighter delivery windows for manufacturers.
- Status: expansion track of GHD's integrated circular platform.
Context: GHD's stated vision for AI-driven supply predictability.
Global circular infrastructure
The platform is already binational: headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with GHD Américas y Socios Ambiental, S de RL de CV operating from Querétaro, México. The expansion track extends that footprint: circular-economy infrastructure designed from the start to scale beyond North America.
This site operates in English, Spanish, and Portuguese for the same reason: the circular economy of the Americas is one market with three languages. Infrastructure that collects, processes, and converts material follows the same logic wherever bottles are consumed, and GHD's model is built to travel.
What it means
- Anchored today in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and Querétaro, México.
- Designed to replicate collection, processing, and conversion beyond North America.
- Status: expansion track of GHD's integrated circular platform.
Context: GHD corporate structure and stated expansion vision.
Your ESG targets need material that arrives
Talk to the team that has been supplying food-grade rPET to North America since 2010.