ALPLA Group with its joint venture partners Ecohelp and UPT has opened its first PET recycling plant in Romania after a construction time of nine months and investment of around 7.5 million euros.
ALPLA recycling plant is on an adjacent site to the existing Ecohelp site in Targu Mures. The joint venture partners will host the official opening ceremony on 4 May 2023.
The state-of-the-art plant is now producing around 18,000 tonnes of recycled material per year from household waste.
ALPLA is one of the world’s leading companies in the manufacture and reuse of plastic packaging. Around 23,300 employees produce custom-made packaging systems, bottles, caps and moulded parts at 190 sites in 46 countries.