A ground-breaking approach to keep plastics circular

Ful­ly in line with its award-win­ning No Waste vision, Cov­eris is now intro­duc­ing a new busi­ness seg­ment named ‘ReCov­er’, bundling all efforts in waste sourc­ing, pro­cess­ing, and recy­cling to close the loop for cir­cu­lar plas­tic recy­cling. ReCov­er will act as a sep­a­rate com­pa­ny sup­ply­ing Cov­eris sites on an arm’s length basis but also sup­ply­ing third par­ty cus­tomers that are inter­est­ed in recy­clates on a qual­i­ty lev­el that are not avail­able in the mar­ket today.

As part of its sus­tain­abil­i­ty strat­e­gy, Cov­eris has already announced the ambi­tion of reduc­ing waste in all its forms. Expand­ing its recy­cling capac­i­ty and capa­bil­i­ties is just the next log­i­cal step for avoid­ing pol­lu­tion and sup­port­ing cus­tomers in their sus­tain­abil­i­ty efforts.

“With ReCov­er, we have launched a game-chang­ing process – unique with­in the entire indus­try. With sev­er­al high-impact projects in the pipeline, we are aim­ing at estab­lish­ing a stand-alone Busi­ness Unit in the next cou­ple of years, entire­ly ded­i­cat­ed to cir­cu­lar econ­o­my and clos­ing the loop. ReCov­er is a plat­form for all mechan­i­cal recy­cling activ­i­ties but also leads our devel­op­ments to achieve food con­tact com­pli­ant mate­ri­als.” com­ments Jakob A. Moss­er, CEO Coveris.

To fur­ther strength­en and expand its recy­cling capa­bil­i­ties Cov­eris has recent­ly acquired the site and assets from Cap­i­tal Val­ley Plas­tics Blae­navon in Wales, UK. CVP is a well-estab­lished PE recy­cler, pro­cess­ing post-con­sumer and post-indus­tri­al waste via in-house mechan­i­cal recy­cling extrud­ed most­ly into build­ing films. The Blae­navon site is equipped with the lat­est state-of-the-art mechan­i­cal recy­cling tech­nol­o­gy, with an annu­al capac­i­ty of 20 000 tons.

“The new­ly acquired Blae­navon site and assets will serve as an impor­tant recy­cling hub for Cov­eris’ Films and Flex­i­bles oper­a­tions, clos­ing the loop for cus­tomers and for our own film pro­duc­tion across the net­work. This new recy­cling acqui­si­tion marks a per­fect start for our new com­pa­ny ReCov­er and our quest to con­tin­u­ous­ly enhance our recy­cling offers to our cus­tomers, tru­ly clos­ing the loop and bring­ing us clos­er to our vision of No Waste.”, clos­es Mosser.