Plastics recycling company Jayplas has announced that it has created a new plastic film packaging division after installing a new extrusion and printing plant in Worksop.
Built at the company’s Nottinghamshire facility as part of its ‘long-term strategic investment to grow its nationwide recycling infrastructure’, the Erema 212 blown film extrusion and printing plant has increased the company’s output of recycled plastic granules by 15,000 tonnes a year, taking the company’s UK-side processing capacity to approximately 200,000 tonnes per annum.
On the back of this development, the company has announced that it has also created a new packaging division, to ‘offer a closed-loop solution’ and ensure that plastic is recycled in the UK rather than being sent abroad.
According to Jayplas, the new plastic film packaging division has been developed as a ‘direct response to the UK retail industry's drive for greater levels of sustainability within their own supply chain’.
The division will offer organisations a range of sizes and types of recycled plastic bags, such as tie-top bin bags and plastic Bags for Life, which can be designed and produced to their own specification.
‘Providing a much shorter, traceable supply chain to customers’
Michael Maxwell, Operations Director at Jayplas, commented: “Our commitment to investing in the UK's recycling infrastructure and closed-loop solutions has put us at the forefront of the market, enabling us to provide a much shorter, traceable supply chain to our customers.
As we control the whole process from collection of retailers' waste to the distribution of recycled packaging products, we can be sure that we are growing in the right way to meet the rising demand for high quality, domestically recycled plastics and packaging.”
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