MTM Plastics announces plant expansion

MTM Plastics, a plastics recycling company headquartered in Niedergebra, Germany, has unveiled a strategy to grow its operations. The company says that by the end of 2016 it plans to invest around €8 million ($9.54 million) to expand its production facilities in Niedergebra.

The company, which produces recycled-content polyolefins from mixed plastic scrap, says the expansion will include the addition of 20 new jobs. The company is presently constructing two additional rooms that will extend its granulate warehouse. That project should be ready by February, 2015.

MTM currently produces around 30,000 metric tons of granulate in Niedergebra. Starting in 2016, the company will provide for an output of nearly 40,000 metric tons. For the planned growth in sales MTM says it will focus on higher volumes and on improved quality in order to gain a higher price for its granulates.

With the expansion and investment the company also says that it will be able to undertake the following:

• Get better input for instance from bulk waste collections
• Use a pre-product sorted according to type and colour, which mtm produces through a newly developed and patented separating process. 
• Offer high-purity pellets  and compounds suitable to be converted into high-quality plastic products – also for B2C markets. 

On completion of the new warehouses, MTM will shift its attention to enlarging the production area by around 20,000 square meters. The expansion means extending the present production space by 20 meters and demolishing the administration building that now stands there. A new administration building will be erected elsewhere.

The company also has says over the next five years it plans to build a second plant at a new location because its site in Niedergebra will no longer be large enough to handle the increased business. If the conditions allow, MTM wants to locate the new plant in the same region of Germany.