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Alpla acquires more PET and HDPE firms in Europe
The Alpla Group has made three acquisitions in its drive to expand activities in PET and HDPE packaging recycling.
Alpla is acquiring BTB
PET-Recycling based in Bad Salzuflen, Germany, which processes used PET beverage bottles sourced from Germany’s reverse vending system and produces food-grade rPET for the manufacture of new preforms for PET bottles, including beverage bottles. It reprocesses around 20,000 tonnes of PET bottles each year. The company has approximately 35 employees, all of whom will be kept on by Alpla. Georg Pescher, Manag-
ing Director of Alpla in Germany, said: “By acquir- ing BTB, we are investing in a very structured company which has been operating successfully within the local circular economy for years and which is already supplying our preform
Alpla is acquiring BTB PET-Recycling based in Bad Salzuflen, Germany
business in Germany with rPET. What’s pivotal here is a functioning system compris- ing a bottle return infrastruc- ture, bottle production and bottling companies in the direct vicinity of the recy- cling plant.”
In September, Alpla and
partner companies an- nounced the founding of a joint venture called PET Recycling Team Targu Mures for a €7.5m project to recycle PET bottles in Romania. The target for the plant being built in Targu Mures is to produce15,000 tonnes of food-grade rPET annually to strengthen the local materi- als cycle in Central and
South-Eastern Europe. The three JV partners contribute different areas of expertise. While Alpla acts as a recycling specialist and a preform and bottle manufac- turer, Ecohelp supplies base material in the form of PET flakes that will go through an extrusion process to pro- duce high-grade rPET granules. UPT in turn co-owns the rPET Upcycling facility Cumapol Emmen in The Netherlands and specialises in trading plastics and recycled material. In Spain, Alpla is taking over HDPE bottle manufac- turer Plastisax based near Alicante, which it says gives
it good positioning along the Mediterranean coast in addition to existing plants near Barcelona and Valen- cia. Alpla plans to increas- ingly manufacture products with a high proportion of PCR at Plastisax. In early 2021, Alpla announced that it would invest an average of €50m a year until 2025 in the expansion of its recycling activities. In particular, it plans to globalise its activities in the area of high-quality recyclates in order to close the materials cycle in as many regions as possible. �
www.alpla.com
Waste alliance in partnership with CRDC
The Alliance to End Plastic Waste and the Center for Regenerative Design and Collaboration (CRDC) in the US have announced a partnership to scale up a solution to convert hard-to-recy- cle plastic waste into a concrete additive for building and construction applications. This enables CRDC to expand its footprint in North America with the development of a 14,000 sq foot production plant in York, Pennsylvania. The company will also scale up its
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existing production plant in Costa Rica, from small-scale commercial produc- tion to a full-scale commercial capacity of 90 tons per day when fully opera- tional by mid-2022. Combined, the two facilities will be able to process up to 24,000 metric tonnes of plastic waste per year. They will accept all types of mixed plastic waste that would otherwise be sent to landfill or be incinerated and will produce CRDC’s concrete additive called Resin8. CRDC says this is
PLASTICS RECYCLING WORLD | October 2021
suitable for numerous applications including concrete blocks and pavers, pre-cast concrete and poured-in-place concrete. The resultant material is up to 15% lighter or stronger depending on its usage, with up to 20% better insulation properties than traditional concrete. It has already been used by Habitat for Humanity to build housing in Latin America. �
https://endplasticwaste.org �
https://crdc.global
www.plasticsrecyclingworld.com
IMAGE: BTB PET-RECYCLING
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