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Erema ramps up second machinery site in Austria
Machinery group Erema has increased utilisation of a second facility in Austria due to growing demand for its products. The site in St. Marien, close to its head- quarters in Ansfelden, allows Erema to increase production capacity by 60%. The group took over the
premises of Gruber & Kaja in St. Marien as a reserve site in January 2021, investing €20m in the purchase. “When this site came up for sale, it only took us a few days to decide to buy the 40,000m² plot, including the workshop hall, which has an area of 15,000m²,” said Manfred Hackl, CEO of Erema Group. The group did not expect to be using the site so intensively as it now is, because at the end of 2020 it was just completing the
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L-R: Walter Lazelsberger (Mayor of St. Marien), Michael Heitzinger (Erema), Markus Stölnberger (UMAC), Markus Achleitner (Upper Austria´s Minister for the Economy), Markus Huber-Lindinger (Erema) and Manfred Hackl (Erema)
expansion of its HQ facility, involving an investment of around €17m. By the time the new site is completed, the total number of new jobs will be up to 150. The fast ramp-up is a
response to high demand for the group’s plastics recycling technologies and the trend towards ever-larg- er recycling plants. “Just in
December, we delivered a Vacurema system to Brazil that will produce up to 40,000 metric tonnes of recycled PET per year. That is equivalent to recycling around 1.1bn 1.5-litre PET bottles. This site provides the perfect conditions for building this scale of machine,” said Hackl. Since January 2021, part
AMUT wins contract for PE recycling facility in Australia
AMUT’s Ecotech division has been awarded a contract to design and supply plastics recycling plant for the largest post-consumer PE facility being built in Australia. It will be the turnkey supplier for Pact Group and Cleanaway’s project which includes a new packaging waste recycling plant in Victoria, converting locally collected kerbside materials into high quality food-grade rHDPE and rPP.
4 The facility will treat a
stream of mixed plastic bottles in different polymers and colours, pots, trays and non-packaging plastics, ferrous and non-ferrous materials. Plastics that will be sorted include natural colour HDPE containers, coloured HDPE containers and PP containers. These materials will be
automatically dosed to two AMUT Ecotech washing lines, the first one with an output of
PLASTICS RECYCLING WORLD | January/February 2022
2,000 kg/h dedicated to natural colour HDPE contain- ers and the second one with the same output dedicated to colour HDPE or PP containers. Both washing lines are capable of process- ing natural colour HDPE for food-grade applications. The plant, which is scheduled to be operational by the end of 2022, will process 20,000-24,000 tpa of materials. �
www.amut.it
of the existing office and hall space at Kunststoff- straße 1, as the site’s address is now called, has been occupied by compa- nies and departments of the Erema Group. UMAC, a subsidiary specialising in servicing and trading previously owned recycling machines, which was severely short of space at its main location in Styria, moved its entire production and administration to St. Marien. Large areas of hall storage space were adapted for both UMAC and the Erema brand technology. The paint shop was also
relocated from Ansfelden to St. Marien, and another hall was equipped for building large-scale Vacurema systems, which are used to recycle PET bottles. �
www.erema.com
Alpla and Coca-Cola
in new JV A joint venture between Alpla and Coca-Cola FEMSA has started con- struction of Planeta PET recycling plant in State of Tabasco, Mexico. It will have the capacity to process 50,000 tpa of post-consum- er PET bottles and produce 35,000 tpa of rPET material. The two firms also have
a JV rPET plant in the state of Mexico. �
www.alpla.com
www.plasticsrecyclingworld.com
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