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Bernd Wachter (Director CE & Recycling Asia), Dietmar Marin (MD Recycling), Günther Lehner (Chairman), Kongkrapan Intarajang (CEO and President, GC), Georg Weingartner (Austrian Commercial Counsellor), Korn-eak Thamrongwang (Project Manager Asia). (Photo credit: ALPLA)

Recycling Partnership

ALPLA and PTT Global Chemical realise Thailand's largest plastics recycling plant equipped with state-of-the-art technology

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Following 18 months of construction and installation, the ALPLA Group and PTT Global Chemical are opening the state-of-the-art ENVICCO recycling plant in Thailand. With an annual production capacity of 45,000 tonnes of recycled PET and HDPE, it is one of the largest recycling plants for these plastics in Asia. With this plant, the two companies will strengthen the region's circular economy and supply the growing markets with high-quality recycled material.

Thirty thousand tonnes of recycled, food-grade PET and 15,000 tonnes of recycled HDPE – the packaging and recycling specialist ALPLA and the chemical company PTT Global Chemical (GC) have realised Thailand's largest plastics recycling plant of its kind. After around 18 months of construction, production is set to start at the ENVICCO joint venture. Located in an economic zone on the coast of the south-eastern province of Rayong, the plant is equipped with the latest recycling technology and production lines to manufacture high-quality plastic recyclates with approval from the USFDA.

'Built in record time thanks to the excellent collaboration with GC, this highly modern plant is an important part of our recycling activities in Asia,' said ALPLA Chairman Günther Lehner during the grand opening on 13 September. The opening was also attended, among others, by Kongkrapan Intarajang (Chief Executive Officer and President, GC), Dietmar Marin (ALPLA Managing Director Recycling) and Bernd Wachter (ALPLA Corporate Director Circular Economy & Recycling Asia).

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