Marking its entry into the African recycling market, packaging converter ALPLA is building a PET recycling plant in the South African coastal town of Ballito, north of Durban. The plant, which will have an output of 35,000 tonnes of rPET material from an input of 60,000t of PET bottles, is set to be completed in…
ALPLA enters African recycling market
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