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NEWS IN BRIEF...
Capital Partners has acquired US-based food packaging company Flavorseal – which be- comes part of its packaging division, M&Q Holdings. Flavorseal will maintain its headquarters and manufac- turing facility in Avon, Ohio, along with all its staff and management – including president and CEO Chris Carroll. However, Capital says “there will be opportu- nities to share resources” with the other companies in the division – M&Q Packag- ing, which makes high- temperature, ovenable packaging, and Outlook Group.
www.flavorseal.com
Solmax, a Canada-based producer of polyethylene geomembranes, has acquired US-based GSE Environmental. Both companies are global operators in geosynthetic products, supplying containment systems for domestic, hazardous or industrial waste burial sites, retention ponds, fracking and heap leaching pads. Jean-Louis Vangeluwe, president of Solmax, said the combination of Solmax and GSE would create a company that can compete “in the highly fragmented market of PE geomem- brane manufacturing”. He added that the merged company would have a broader manufacturing footprint and expanded commercial network.
www.solmax.com www.gseworld.com
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Flexible plastics recycling capacity rises in Europe
The installed capacity for recycling flexible polyethyl- ene in Europe has risen by nearly 50% since 2015, according to Plastics Recyclers Europe. The organisation says
that installed capacity for recycling flexible PE has grown from around 1.5m to 2.3m tonnes/year. Assuming Europe has an extrusion capacity of 7.4m tonnes/ year of flexible PE, this means the EU recycling rate for these materials is roughly 31%, says PRE. PRE analysed 174 plastics
recyclers across Europe. Five countries – Spain (18%), Germany (17%), Italy (13%), Poland (10%) and France (6%) – represent nearly two-thirds of the installed recycling capacity, according to PRE. The sources of the
flexible PE plastics waste are: commercial and retailer waste (43%); production waste (23%); agricultural waste (17%); and household packaging (13%). Ton Emans, president of
PRE, said that the European Union’s Plastics Strategy –
and China’s ban on imports of plastic waste – were driving investments in the sector. “We see an acceleration
of new projects across Europe, especially for household flexible plastics waste,” he said. “However, much effort is still needed: multi-layer materials remain unrecyclable, so there is a need to move to mono- material alternatives. This will enable further develop- ments in recycling of flexible plastics in Europe.” �
www.plasticsrecyclers.eu
BOPP expansion underway in Poland
The new plant has an annual BOPP film capacity of 40,000 tonnes
Poligal has invested €40 million on a BOPP film extrusion line at a new plant in Poland. The new plant initially includes a Brück- ner five-layer, 8.7m wide extrusion line, with a production capacity of 40,000 tonnes/year of BOPP film. In 2018, the company will install a new metallisation line. The plant is in Skarbimierz, 60km south-
east of the city of Wroclaw. The plant will improve service in Central Europe, offering quicker response times. The location is only
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two hours from Germany, and in the heart of the growing flexible packaging market in Poland. This new line will help Poligal be more competitive in product segments such as films for labels, and strengthen its capacity to develop new films for special applica- tions. It will also allow the company to offer coverage across the continent along with its existing plants in Spain and Portugal. �
www.grupperalada.com
www.filmandsheet.com
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