MBA, EMR Choose Site for Joint Venture

MBA Polymers Inc. (MBA) and European Metal Recycling Limited (EMR) have announced that they will locate their joint venture plastics recycling facility in Worksop, United Kingdom.

The joint venture, known as MBA Polymers U.K., will be located in a building that was formerly used for glass production. In a news release, MBA says the building “is well accommodated to house the planned 80,000 tons-per-year plastic processing facility, and the central location is ideal for servicing sustainable plastics customers throughout the U.K. and greater Europe.”

MBA Polymers UK will process shredder residue that has already been upgraded by EMR at its U.K. operations. MBA has developed processes to recover, separate and purify what it calls high-value plastics from the shredder residue stream. MBA, in its news release, says, “The result is high quality plastic that can be re-used in automotive and other durable goods applications.”

Adds Michael Biddle, MBA’s founder and president, “The MBA Polymers UK facility is an exciting development as it expands our company’s global ability to deliver high-quality resins from recycled plastic with a very small carbon footprint.”

David Ireland, EMR’s director of technical services, remarks, “The site selection has taken longer than expected as it was important to find the right location to maximize the benefits of lower logistical costs with suitable markets for the finished goods. We can now move quickly to complete this project and start recovering plastic from shredder waste in early 2010. This is an important development in EMR’s goal of eliminating waste from our shredder operations.”

EMR, www.emrltd.com, is one of the largest metal recyclers in the world. Based in Warrington, United Kingdom, the company handles more than 10 million tons per year of scrap materials, operating from more than 100 locations worldwide.

MBA Polymers Inc., www.mbapolymers.com, describes itself as a company that uses patented processes to create high-performance plastic resin from plastic waste recovered from end-of-life durable goods. The company currently operates plants in the United States, China and

Austria.