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European reporting and auditing groups team up
Two plastics recycling programmes, MORE and PolyCert Europe, have announced they are joining forces to help members of the Circular Plastics Alliance (CPA) to meet EU recycled plastics usage targets. To monitor progress
towards CPA targets, the organisations said compa- nies will report data on volumes of recycled plastics they transform or use in
their products to the MORE platform. Auditors applying PolyCert approved audit schemes will verify the volumes reported. “The synergy [between the two groups] will help the plastics converting industry to reach the EU target of 10m tonnes of recycled polymers used annually between 2025 and 2030,” said EuPC President Renato Zelcher. MORE said that in its
second year of operation it has collected data on 1m tonnes of recycled material used in products, which it says demonstrates that the converter community has widely accepted the MORE tool in Europe. Since March 2022, the annual MORE survey has been open for plastics converters to use. �
www.moreplatform.eu �
www.polycerteurope.eu
New rPET facility in Abu Dhabi
United Arab Emirates company DGrade has opened a PET bottle recycling facility in Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi. DGrade is a producer of sustainable clothing which carries out its own recycling. The 4,000 m² facility has the capacity to recycle 3,000 kg/h of PET bottles into flake. The recycling line includes hot and cold washing to remove contami- nants and Tomra Recycling optical sorting equipment to remove non-PET materials. DGrade will reprocess up to 1bn PET bottles a year into flake for use in producing its
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Morssinkhof-Rymoplast is investing €30m in expand- ing its film recycling capacity with a new 8,700 m² facility in Markranstädt, Germany that will be capable of recycling 30,000 tpa of LDPE film per year. The company, which also has an existing facility in Markranstädt, will expand total rLDPE capacity to 100,000 tpa once the new facility is completed in Q1 2023.
www.morssinkhofplastics.nl
Alpla has acquired PET recycler Texplast, based in Bitterfeld-Wolfen, from Fromm Group and all of its shares in their joint venture, PET Recycling Team Wolfen. This increas- es Alpla’s processing volume in Germany to 75,000 tpa of PET bottles. Alpla’s total capacity is 203,000 tpa of rPET and 74,000 tpa of rHDPE.
www.alpla.com
Above: The new factory has the capacity to recycle 1bn plastic bottles per year
Greenspun yarn, and also to provide material for local packaging manufacturers. The company also runs the Simply Bottles recycling
initiative which works with businesses, events, and schools to increase recy- cling rates in the UAE. �
https://dgrade.com
Spanish plastics recycler Sintac announced its turnover increased by 108% in 2021 to reach €35m. The company sold 60,000 tonnes of recycled plastics, including PE, PP, PET, PS and ETPs.
https://sintac.es
MOL Group acquires Hungarian recycler
MOL Group has acquired plastics recycler ReMat based in Hungary. ReMat has almost 200 employees, annual processing capacity of 25,000 tonnes, and plants located in Tiszaújváros and Rakamaz, Hungary, and a logistics hub in Bratislava,
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Slovakia. MOL said the acquisition fits with its strategy to become a key player in the circular economy in Central and Eastern Europe. In 2019, MOL acquired Aurora
Kunststoffe, a recycled plastic-based compounder in Germany. Now having
PLASTICS RECYCLING WORLD | March/April 2022
a total combined annual recycling capacity of 40,000 tonnes from Aurora and ReMat, MOL says it can offer a wide range of sustainable compounds and regranulates for the automotive and packaging industries. �
https://molgroup.info
www.plasticsrecyclingworld.com
IMAGE: DGRADE
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