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Remondis moves into
Sweden Germany’s Remondis has acquired Veolia’s recycling operations in Sweden, with 65 locations involved in collection, processing and marketing of recycled materials. It says the deal has strengthened its market position in Northern Europe, particu- larly in Sweden. Werner Hols at Remon- dis said: “We are delight- ed to be able to consider- ably extend our market presence in Scandinavia by taking over the Veolia locations in Sweden. We are now able to offer our national and international customers a varied and wide range of high quality services in the Nordic countries. By expanding our Swedish presence with 65 new locations, we have succeeded in taking an important step.” �
www.remondis.com
Alpla to expand new rHDPE plant in Mexico
Alpla opened a new HDPE recycling plant in Toluca, Mexico, on 10 November in an inauguration attended by the Austrian ambassador to Mexico, Elisabeth Kehrer, and the governor of the State of Mexico, Alfredo del Mazo Maza. The €20m plant has an
initial production capacity of 15,000 tonnes of rHDPE in pellet form. But Alpla is already planning to increase this to 30,000 tonnes from mid-2022. The rHDPE output will mainly be used for the production of non-food packaging such as personal care products and household cleaning agents. Alpla says the demand for recycled material is so high in Mexico and Central America that the majority of the output will be used regionally. Carlos Torres, Regional Manager Mexico, Central
Above: Inauguration of Alpla’s new HDPE recycling plant in Toluca, Mexico
America and the Caribbean, said: “We are seeing increasing momentum in the recycling market, taking one step forward in our commit- ment to sustainability, and the demand from our customers in the region for post-consumer recycled materials is rising. This is ena- bling us to already initiate an increase in our production of rHDPE in Toluca.”
Alpla has an established position in PET recycling in Mexico though its participa- tion in Industria Mexicana de Reciclaje, a joint venture with Coca-Cola México and Coca-Cola Femsa. The IMDR joint venture
produces about 15,000 tonnes of food-grade flakes from post-consumer PET a year, said Alpla. �
www.alpla.com
New Starlinger lines at Indian recycler
Starlinger has installed two packaging recycling lines at Srichakra Polyplast’s site at Hyderabad in India. The Indian recycler invested $10m to upgrade and expand its capabilities. The new RecoSTAR PET 165 iV+ line is the first of its kind Starlinger has installed in India. It features US FDA- approved technology for processing post-consumer PET bottle flakes. With this technology upgrade Srichakra is now able to
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ogy. This is a three-step procedure consisting of material preparation, highly efficient degassing, and post-treatment in a smell extraction unit . The Starlinger polyolefin
IMAGE: STARLINGER
provide premium food- grade quality rPET for food packaging to the Indian and international markets. For the processing of post-consumer polyolefin
PLASTICS RECYCLING WORLD | November/December 2021
packaging Srichakra uses a Starlinger RecoSTAR dynamic 165 C-VAC recycling line, which incorporates Starlinger’s odour reduction technol-
recycling line produces up to 1,300 kg of high-quality odour-free recycled pellets per hour that can be directly converted into home and personal care product packaging such as bottles for lotions or shampoo. �
www.starlinger.com
www.plasticsrecyclingworld.com
IMAGE: ALPLA
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