Kraft Foods Joins Enval’s Recycling Consortium

Enval, a provider of recycling and environmental technology solutions headquartered in Cambridge, U.K., has announced that Kraft Foods has signed up to join Enval’s consortium to support the construction of its first commercial scale plant for its patented material recovery technology. The project will be built at the company’s facility in Luton, U.K.

Perfecto Perales, senior director, Packaging Research, Development and Quality for Kraft Foods, says, “We're proud of our track record as an industry leader supporting innovative groups to help advance recycling and reduce waste. We're hopeful the Enval Consortium will build on our past successes with other groups that proved effective in driving the collection and re-use of post-consumer flexible packaging waste. The Enval Consortium brings together a cross industry group of people from across the supply chain, focused on determining the commercial merits of this promising technology for aluminum recovery in flexible films."

Enval says its’ technology will be designed to offer end-of-life solutions for difficult-to-recycle pouches and tubes based on plastic and aluminum laminates. According to Enval, its technology would offer a recycling route for plastic aluminum-foil flexible packaging laminate, which has to date been unrecyclable.

David Boorman, Enval’s business development director, says, "The primary purpose of the consortium is to share the capital cost of building the first Enval commercial plant and drive awareness of the technology to accelerate its adoption. Enval's focus now is on constructing the new plant so that it is ready for commissioning early next year and then commencing commercial operations soon after that.”