ALPLA Group is building a new recycling plant in the South African coastal town of Ballito, north of Durban. The plant, with an output of 35,000 metric tons per year of recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET) material, marks the company’s entry into the African recycling market. Construction will start in summer 2023 and completion is planned for autumn 2024.
This 90,000m2 site is the first investment in a food-grade PET recycling facility in South Africa’s second largest province by population and a key investment for the region. In future, almost 60,000MT of PET bottles will be recycled per year and 35,000MT of mechanically recycled rPET flakes and pellets will be produced from them, the majority of which ALPLA will process to produce its own bottles.
Project: Recycling Plant
Value: USD 65,732,100
Client: Alpla Group
Website: www.alpla.com
