Alpla opens HDPE recycling plant in Mexico

The Alpla Group, the global packaging solutions and recycling specialist has opened a new plant for HDPE plastic recycling in Toluca, Mexico. At the same time, the company has announced it will double its annual regrind material production capacity to 30,000 tonnes from the second half of 2022. Alpla celebrated the inauguration of its new state-of-the-art recycling plant for high-density polyethylene (HDPE) plastics in Toluca, the capital of the central Mexican state of Mexico, on 10 November. Among the guests were the Austrian ambassador to Mexico, Elisabeth Kehrer, and the governor of the State of México, Alfredo del Mazo Maza.  Following the plant’s construction announcement in September 2020, it took a little more than a year for the work to be completed. The investment sum came to around 20 million euros. Approximately 70 new jobs have been created at the plant, which will be run as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alpla. The facility is currently designed for an annual capacity of 15,000 tonnes of recycled HDPE (rHDPE) in pellet form. This regranulate is mainly used…

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