Switzerland-based FROMM Group and ALPLA, which is part of an Austrian packaging company, have agreed to collaborate on boosting PET (polyethylene terephthalate) plastic recycling efforts in Europe. Both companies operate facilities that consume recycled-content PET.
“The requirements at our production sites complement one another very well,” says Georg Lässer, head of corporate recycling services at ALPLA. “At ALPLA, we mainly need clear, food-grade pellets. Fromm processes colored 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.”
Comments Reinhard Fromm, owner of FROMM Group, “The three recycling plants are integrated in various procurement markets and complement one another ideally in the procurement of raw materials.”
ALPLA Group operates recycling facilities in in Wöllersdorf, Austria, and Radomsko, Poland. Combined, the plants have an annual capacity of about 45,000 metric tons of food-grade recycled PET made from post-consumer materials.
The PET recycling company Texplast, located in Wolfen, Germany, is a subsidiary of FROMM Plastics GmbH. Texplast produces PET pellets and PET flakes, which it uses internally to produce strapping bands, as well as supplying excess material to be used for beverage containers, thermoforming sheets and fibers.