NEWS
New Wipag technical
centre German plastics recycler Wipag has opened a technical centre at its site in Gardelegen, allowing it to expand its technical capacities for development of products and processes on behalf of customers. Thomas Marquardt, Managing Director at Wipag, said: “When processing industrial waste, the aim is to reconcile quality, sustain- ability and cost-effective- ness in order to establish recyclates as an alterna- tive for virgin materials. With the help of mechani- cal recycling, the technical centre enables us to implement new approach- es to solutions and to respond to individual customer requirements.” Wipag produces PP and PE compounds from post-consumer and post-industrial waste. It is owned by Otto Krahn Group, which also owns Mocom and Albis. �
www.wipag.com
Norway starts recycling returnable PET bottles
Veolia has inaugurated a new PET bottle recycling facility in Fetsund, Norway, which is the first such plant for returnable PET bottles in the country. The plant was opened by Norwegian Finance Minister Jan Tore Sanner on 9 June. The facility has a capacity
of up to 25,000 tonnes per year, enabling it to recycle about 80% of Norway’s total returnable bottles. Until now, around 22,000 tonnes per year of returnable PET bottles have been shipped from Norway to Germany for recycling. Veolia PET Deutschland, which operates the new facility, has three other European plants that produce food-grade rPET pellets, at Rostock in Germany, Frauenfeld in Switzerland and Norrköping in Sweden. Matthias Harms, CEO of
Veolia Deutschland, said: “Fetsund is our fourth PET recycling plant of this kind in Europe. Veolia has been
Above: Veolia PET Deutschland owns the new bottle recycling plant in Fetsund
active in this area since 2000, in the plants in Sweden, Germany and Switzerland together with the industry and the responsible authorities to close the plastic cycle.” Infinitum, operator of the Norwegian deposit one-way system, pre-sorts the returned bottles at the Fetsund site, which is around 30km northeast of Oslo. Veolia said: “With the construction of the plant from March 2019 to May 2021 at the same location,
the logistics routes were drastically shortened. This and the increased use of recyclate in the production of new bottles in the future will help reduce climate- damaging carbon dioxide emissions and support the recycling of PET as a plastic.” Covid pandemic restric- tions had led to delays in the completion of the facility, which was originally announced for the end of 2020. �
www.veolia.de
Starlinger supplies PET system to EcoBlue
PET bottle recycler EcoBlue is expanding in Thailand, says Star- linger, which is supplying technology for the project. A Starlinger RecoStar PET 215 iV+ bottle-to-bottle recycling system is being installed at EcoBlue’s production site in Rayong Province, Thailand. The line has capacity to recycle 2,500 kg of bottles per hour, equal to about 20,000 tonnes of bottle-grade rPET per year. EcoBlue produces rPET, rHDPE and rPP made from post- consumer and industrial waste. The company has FDA approval for its 3D Pure rPET to be used in food-contact applications. �
www.ecoblue.co.th �
www.starlinger.com
6 PLASTICS RECYCLING WORLD | July/August 2021
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