Austrian packaging and recycling company Alpla is expanding its recycling capacity in Germany following the acquisition of Texplast and PET Recycling Team Wolfen, said Nspackaging.
Focussing on the German bottle-to-bottle market, the acquisition of the two companies will increase Alpla’s annual processing volume of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles in Germany to 75,000 tonnes/year. The acquisition was officially finalised on 25 February 2022. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price or any further details. The acquisition is subject to the legal and regulatory approval of the competition authorities.
The combined processing capacity of Texplast and PET Recycling Team Wolfen is around 55,000 tonnes/year, according to Alpla. The company acquired BTB Recycling in October 2021, which has a processing capacity of around 20,000 tonnes/year.
Texplast produces PET pellets and flakes from used PET bottles. The pellets are primarily used for preforms for new PET bottles. The colourful PET flakes produced during the process are used by the packaging manufacturer FROMM to produce packing straps. FROMM will continue to have exclusive access to the coloured flakes produced from the German facility.
PET Recycling Team Wolfen specialises in the recycling of PET bottles from ‘yellow bag’ – the German bin for household recyclables. These are returned from household collection to the recycling loop.
As MRC, Alpla will build a new 23,000 square-metre manufacturing plant in Kansas City, Missouri. Alpla Group, a global packaging solutions manufacturer and recycling specialist headquartered in Hard, Austria, announced that it has selected the Kansas City region for its new 23,000-square-metre manufacturing plant.
As MRC informed earlier, Alpla and Krones developed a returnable PET container that provides an optimal environment for sensitive ESL (Extended Shelf Life) products such as juice and milk in the cold chain.
Alpla, with about 21,600 employees, produces custom-made packaging systems, bottles, caps and moulded parts at 178 sites across 45 countries. It also operates recycling plants for polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and high density polyethylene (HDPE).
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