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Lässer comments: ‘We see chemical recycling as complementing mechanical recycling, but it’s an area in which more development work is needed. We are already involved in internal and external research projects. Because in the long term, there is no getting around this if we want to achieve the ambitious statutory recycling quotas.’ Looking back – key milestones In mid-2019, ALPLA announced a partnership with PTT Global Chemical and its plans to build a recycling plant in Thailand. This plant will go into operation in early 2022, with both PET and PE being recycled in the Rayong Province. Another milestone was achieved in November 2019 with the acquisition of two HDPE recycling plants in Spain. ALPLA is pressing ahead with this move into HDPE recycling with the construction of a plant in Toluca, Mexico. This is scheduled to begin producing 15,000 tonnes of rHDPE per annum in autumn 2021. ALPLA has also further developed its existing plants in Austria and Poland. In Wöllersdorf, an investment was made in a new flake sorting facility and the parameters were put in place for niche products in the area of PE. In Radomsko,
The ALPLA Group will invest an average of 50 million euros a year up to 2025 on expanding and globalising its recycling activities.
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installation of an rPET extrusion system at one of its own preform plants in Italy. In all, the annual capacity of the ALPLA recycling companies, joint ventures and partnerships amounts to approximately 130,000 tonnes of PET and 60,000 tonnes of PE.
capacity was increased to 30,000 tonnes of rPET a year with the introduction of a new extrusion system. And the partnership with Texplast in Germany was afforded a new basis with the joint venture PET Recycling Team Wolfen for the recycling of PET sourced from the ‘Gelber Sack’ yellowbinbags for recycling. Just recently, ALPLA announced the
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