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Evidence-bound company brief · as of September 18, 2026

Berry Global NYSE: BERY

Plastic packaging, engineered products, recycling and film manufacturing

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Public materials brief.

Berry Global is now part of Amcor. The relevant public record is the operating recycling and film footprint Berry brought into that combination: post-commercial film and internal scrap can be sorted, extruded and filtered in Victoria, Texas before use in defined North American bag and liner applications. The decision is whether that documented route still fits a named feedstock, grade and product line under the combined company.

Berry’s March 2025 recycling disclosure reported capacity to process approximately 290 million pounds, or 130,000 metric tonnes, of PCR and PIR plastic per year. It identifies Victoria, Texas as a route from post-commercial film and internal scrap through sorting, extrusion and filtration to trash bags and can liners. Amcor announced completion of its combination with Berry in April 2025. The public record does not establish current allocation, grade availability or a new buyer commitment under the combined company.

130,000 t/yrPCR and PIR processing capability
>50,000 t/yrFlexible-film reprocessing across four EU sites
Victoria, TXNamed post-commercial-film recycling site
OpenPost-combination allocation, grade and buyer evidence

Material inputs to resolve

  • Post-consumer and post-industrial plastics
  • Post-commercial stretch wrap and internal manufacturing scrap
  • Contaminated flexible films requiring sorting, washing and filtration

Outputs and residuals to resolve

  • Recycled polymer and regranulate
  • Flexible packaging, trash bags, can liners and industrial films
  • Nonconforming material and processing residuals
First decision: Start with one film stream and one end product. Prove composition, contamination, chain of custody, filtration result, recycled-content allocation and line performance together.

Recycling capability

Berry reports capacity to process about 130,000 metric tonnes per year of PCR and PIR.

Film loop

Its Circular Polymers Flexibles business reprocesses more than 50,000 tonnes annually from industrial, commercial, agricultural and domestic sources.

Named U.S. route

Berry identifies Victoria, Texas as a site that recycles post-commercial film and internal scrap for North American trash-bag and can-liner production.

Evidence boundary

Public sources establish the assets and examples. They do not disclose a new feedstock contract, product allocation, price or grade acceptance for a proposed lane.

Decision boundary

The legacy Berry record contains a named U.S. film route, not a blanket circularity claim. The next decision is whether that route remains available within Amcor and can connect one actual stream to one repeatable grade and product application.