NEWS Starlinger expands into Germany
Austrian plastics recycling technology group Starlinger has doubled machine production capacity with the start of operations at a facility in Schwerin, Germany. The company is assembling RecoSTAR PET systems – which can reach output rates of up to 3.6 tonnes per hour – at the 11,000 m² facility. The first two systems manufactured at the Schw- erin site were delivered at the end of December 2020. The Starlinger Group
generates €130m in its recycling technology division and strong demand led to its decision to expand
Starlinger RecoSTAR PET recycling line during assembly
into unused production halls at UniROTA Maplan Schw- erin, a company affiliated with the Starlinger Group, said Angelika Huemer, CEO and Managing Partner. “We had to act quickly to meet the demand. So it stood to
reason that we should make use of existing buildings that we could adapt quickly.” Starlinger has experi- enced “significant growth” in demand for PET recycling systems since 2018, said Paul Niedl, Head of Sales of the
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Alpla to add new rPET line at preform site
Packaging group Alpla is investing more than €5m in a new extrusion system to recycle PET bottles at its facility in Anagni, Italy. The line will produce 15,000 tpa of food-grade rPET when it goes into operation, which is scheduled for the second half of 2021. Alpla said the Anagni facility is one
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of its “most important preform produc- tion plants”, as it processes 50,000 tpa PET, but only a small only small proportion of that is rPET. “We will buy in PET flakes made
from used household packaging from local recyclers, process them into food-grade rPET and then use this at
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the site for preforms,” said Fabio Mazzarella, Plant Manager in Anagni. According to Mazzarella, production of the recycled material in the processing operations results in attractive syner- gies in logistics and warehousing and potentially also energy. �
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Starlinger recycling technol- ogy division, which he attributes to stricter plastic packaging regulation and the plastics focus of brands. “These brand owners – in Austria the mineral water bottler Vöslauer, for example – are rigorously implement- ing their sustainability strategy and thus creating a market for recycled PET,” he said. “We already have close to 80 PET bottle-to-bottle recycling plants in operation at customers’ sites around the world, 12 of them in Germany, Austria and Switzerland alone.” �
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