The ALPLA Group is investing a good five million euros in an extrusion plant for food-grade recycled PET (rPET) from used PET bottles at its Italian site in Anagni.
26 January 2021
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The ALPLA Group is investing a good five million euros in an extrusion plant for food-grade recycled PET (rPET) from used PET bottles at its Italian site in Anagni.
Anagni in central Italy is one of the most important locations for the internationally active manufacturer of plastic packaging and recycling specialist for the production of preforms (preforms). The company, which currently has 91 employees, processes around 50,000 tonnes of PET every year, of which only a very small proportion is currently recycled material.
Preforms made from rPET
In future, a significant proportion of the required quantity is to be covered by recycled material. This will give customers the opportunity to, Preforms made from up to 100 per cent rPET to obtain. Installed for this purpose ALPLA an extrusion plant for 15,000 tonnes of rPET per year on the existing site. The investment sum for the construction of the required building and the plant amounts to more than five million euros. Operations are scheduled to start in the second half of 2021.
Boosting the circular economy
„We will purchase PET flakes from used household packaging from local recyclers, process them into food-grade recycled pellets and use them for preforms at the site,“ explains Fabio Mazzarella, Plant Manager in Anagni. Through the Production of the recycled material directly in the processing plant According to Mazzarella, there are attractive synergies in logistics and warehousing and possibly in energy consumption.
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„We want to boost the bottle-to-bottle cycle and avoid downcycling. We are also promoting local recycling solutions in a region that does not currently have the necessary infrastructure for the bottle cycle.“ Georg Lässer, Head of Corporate Recycling at ALPLA
Currently the Demand for recycled material easy to manage. „However, this measure will ensure that we can optimally support our customers in the realisation of new requirements and goals in the long term and offer recycled material of the highest quality.“
[infotext icon]ALPLA is one of the leading companies for plastic packaging. Around 21,600 employees produce customised packaging systems, bottles, closures and injection-moulded parts at 178 locations in 45 countries worldwide. The group of companies operates its own recycling plants for PET and HDPE in Austria, Poland and Spain and in the form of joint ventures in Mexico and Germany.
