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Partnership helps Coke push ahead with plant-based PET

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ATLANTA (Sept. 27, 2:30 p.m. ET) — Continuing its promise to build up the worldwide capacity to produce bio-based mono ethylene glycol for its PET bottles, Coca-Cola Co. is partnering with an Indian company to build a second bMEG plant, this one in Brazil. The partnership is part of Coke’s plan to have plant-based resin in all of its plastic bottles by 2020.

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