
New state of the art tetra-pak carton recycling plant opens in barcelona
Business Investments
07 Sep 2011
The new clean plant run by palwaste recycling in castellbisbal, owned by the storaenso group has opened following an investment of over €8million in the latest technology. the plant, which is due to take on a further 15 workers, will be able to reprocess some 30,000 tonnes of tetrabriks per year, making it a world leader in terms of volume. it will also be the only factory in the world capable of completely separating and recycling 100% of tetrapak cartons, for reuse of both paper and aluminium content whilst using the energy stored in the plastic component.
“it’s a small miracle,” insists juan vila, director general of storaenso barcelona, who went on to add that the new project which began in 2003 has enabled to pass from 75% of cartons being recycled to a full 100% without producing any further waste in the process.
source: la vanguardia, 06/9/2011
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