Jayplas completes expansion project

The plastics recycling company Jayplas, based in Corby, United Kingdom, has completed the installation of a new extrusion and printing plant, as well as the creation of a new packaging division. The company says the expansion project is part of its long-term investment to grow its nationwide recycling infrastructure.

The 200,000-square-foot manufacturing facility, located in Worksop, U.K., is supported by a new LDPE (low-density polyethylene) wash plant in Loughborough, U.K., which recently installed an Erema 212 to increase the company's output of recycled plastic granules by 20,000 metric tons.

Jayplas says the processed plastic packaging products it will produce offer a closed-loop solution by turning plastic waste into a range of retailer packaging products.

Jayplas says its new division is a direct response to the drive by the U.K. retail industry for greater levels of sustainability within their own supply chain by increasing the use of recycled plastics. The company says that for the first time retailers in the country will be able to reduce their carbon footprints by keeping all the stages of recycling—from collection to distribution—in-house and in the U.K. Previously, a significant percentage of the scrap plastics was exported to Asia for reprocessing.

The company’s new packaging division will offer organizations a complete range of sizes and types of recycled plastic bags that are designed and produced in the U.K. to each retailer’s own specifications as part of a closed-loop recycling process.

Through the process, Jayplas segregates and sorts the plastic waste and then washes, reprocesses and converts the scrap plastic into recycled pellets at one of its three U.K. plants. The pellets are extruded into film before being converted into finished products as part of a total UK-based process.

“Our commitment to investing in the U.K.'s recycling infrastructure and closed-loop solutions has put us at the forefront of the market, enabling us to provide a much shorter, traceable supply chain to our customers,” says Michael Maxwell, Jayplas operations director. “As we control the whole process from collection of retailers' waste to the distribution of recycled packaging products, we can be sure that we are growing in the right way to meet the rising demand for high quality, domestically recycled plastics and packaging.”