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Erema boosts sales in 2020/21 despite Covid challenge
Plastics recycling technology group Erema has announced a 20% increase in turnover to €250m in its 2020/21 financial year. Its growth is reflected in the number of employees rising to 660. Erema said the start of the
fiscal year in 2020 was “particularly challenging” due to the first Covid-19 lockdown imposed in its home country Austria and the worldwide spread of the pandemic. “Nevertheless, the development work and investments of the past years paid off impressively,” it said. These investments included a major expansion of its HQ in Ansfelden where the manufacturing space has doubled and the customer test centre enlarged. Manfred Hackl, CEO of
Erema Group, said:”Over the past three years, we have invested almost €60m
Erema’s investments include a major expansion of its HQ in Ansfelden, Austria
in the modernisation and expansion of our locations as well as in the consolida- tion of our customer service network, and the order situation is good. So we have a very confident outlook for the future.” The company also
indicated technological growth in all segments. As an example, it said its systems make it possible to use post-consumer recy- clate for packaging in the cosmetics and food sectors. Orders for Intarema TVEplus
systems with ReFresher odour reduction have increased: recycling capacity for such systems sold in the past fiscal year is 250,000 tonnes per year. Erema said another technology doing well is Vacunite, which was devel- oped for recycling of PCR PET for food-contact uses. “We have delivered a
great deal of development work over the past few years. With the high level of quality we have achieved as a result, we are now meeting the
precise requirements of the growing number of brand manufacturers who are committed to plastics recycling and the circular economy.” The group’s subsidiaries
are Erema, Pure Loop, Umac, 3S, Keycycle and Plasmac. At the Plasmac site in Italy, the manufacturing area has been doubled in the past fiscal year and a new demonstration centre for machine acceptance tests was also built. �
www.erema.com
Evergreen to expand rPET production
PET recycler Evergreen has said it will double capacity of recycled food- grade PET to 80m lbs in an expansion of its facility in Clyde, Ohio, US. In the project, the company is constructing a new, 54,000 square- foot building adjacent to its current 238,000 square-foot facility. The building will house a new high-vol- ume production line for food-grade rPET pellets. Evergreen, which is owned by
Greenbridge, has two existing rPET lines at Clyde which will be retrofitted with solid-state polycondensation reactors. This will mean that all three lines can produce the higher quality
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rPET required by consumer products brands, not just in packaging for food and beverages but also health and beauty, and other consumer products. Construction work is planned to begin in May 2021 with completion expected in mid-2022. AMP Robotics separately an- nounced that it has deployed six AI-guided robotic sorting systems with Evergreen at its Clyde facility. AMP’s technology identifies and sorts green and clear PET from post-con- sumer bales of plastic soft drink bottles. �
www.evergreentogether.com �
www.amprobotics.com
www.plasticsrecyclingworld.com
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