Austrian packaging manufacturer Alpla has partnered with Swiss firm Fromm Group to increase recycling rates for PET as well as a reduce CO2 emissions through sustainable transportation.
The companies added that there will be benefits for the firms’ partners, such as simplified access to markets in the respective countries.
PET recycling plants in Wöllersdorf, Austria, and Radomsko, Poland, are part of the Alpla Group. The facilities have an annual capacity of approximately 45,000 tonnes of food-grade rPET produced from post-consumer materials.
Meanwhile, the PET recycling company Texplast in Wolfen, Germany, has been a subsidiary of Fromm Plastics for fourteen years. Texplast produces PET pellets and PET flakes. Fromm uses these for its own production of strapping bands and supplies manufacturers with beverage bottles, thermoforming sheets and fibres.
Alpla head of corporate recycling services Georg Lässer said: “The requirements at our production sites complement one another very well. At Alpla, we mainly need clear, food-grade pellets. Fromm processes coloured flakes for the strapping bands.
“The collaboration between our recycling facilities will ensure the necessary quantity and quality of materials for production for both sides.”
Fromm Group owner Reinhard Fromm added: “The three recycling plants are integrated in various procurement markets and complement one another ideally in the procurement of raw materials.”