ALPLA Group, a global manufacturer of plastic packaging and recycling, announced it is investing more than €5 million in an extrusion system for food-grade recycled PET (rPET) made of post-consumer PET bottles at its site in Anagni, Italy.
Anagni is in central Italy and is home to one of the ALPLA Group’s most important preform production plants. The plant, which currently has a workforce of 91, processes around 50,000 tonnes of PET a year, of which only a very small proportion is recycled material as of today. But a substantial portion of the volume required in the future will need be supplied in the form of recycled material, giving customers the option of sourcing preforms made partly or even entirely of rPET.