The Austrian plastics manufacturing company, ALPLA, celebrated the inauguration of its first high-density polyethylene recycling plant located in Toluca with an investment that exceeds 470 million pesos.

The plant will process 20 thousand tons of containers that will be used for hygiene items, food and beverages, and will also produce about 15 thousand tons of recycled material that will enter the industry again to be reused.

In addition to the sustainable objective, ALPLArecycling will create around 80 new direct jobs and will generate a strong impact on different activities related to the company's line of business.

It is estimated that it will indirectly benefit 10,000 workers in the Metropolitan Area of the Toluca Valley, according to what was communicated by Alfredo del Mazo, governor of Edo. Mex.

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The new ALPLA project emerged as a proposal towards new pro-environment production chains and as part of a plan towards circular economies.

The Austrian company developed, with the help of state-of-the-art technologies, quality production processes and sustainable innovative solutions, seeking to be ecologically responsible in the 45 countries where it operates, including Mexico.

More than 15 years ago, the plastics manufacturer established itself in the city of Toluca with the project known as Industria Mexicana de Reciclaje (IMER), a joint association between ALPLA México, Coca-Cola México and Coca-Cola Femsa), this being the first PET bottle-to-bottle recycling center in Latin America.

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Now, the new Toluca plant joins the Global Commitment to the New Plastic Economy, organized by the UN Environment Program and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.

ALPLA has committed to investing more than $ 60 million annually from 2021 to 2025 to increase its recycling levels.

For this reason, the company will make an additional investment of 20 million euros during the last quarter of 2022, aimed at doubling the initial capacity of the recycling center in the State of Mexico, according to Carlos Torres, ALPLA General Director for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean.

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