REHAU
Collaborating with Germany's Tönsmeier on the recycling of PVC window profiles / Joint venture company Dekura established
PVC window profiles collected for recycling (Photo: Rehau) |
Plastics processor Rehau (Rehau / Germany; www.rehau.de) and recycler Tönsmeier Kunststoffe (Höxter / Germany; www.toensmeier-kunststoffe.de) have set up a joint venture for the recycling of used PVC windows. If the German anti-trust authorities give their go ahead, the two companies plan to set up a joint venture, called Dekura, in which Rehau will hold a majority stake and Tönsmeier an undisclosed share. Dekura will operate as an independent player, a Rehau spokesperson told Plasteurope.com.
Tönsmeier will bring to the joint venture its existing PVC window recycling activities, which include its three plants in Höxter and Bad Schmiedeberg / Germany as well as in Tillmitsch / Austria. In total, 170 employees are working at these sites. By contrast, the company’s facilities in Herford and Börde-Hakel, specialised in collecting and processing polyolefins, engineering thermoplastics and PVC pipes, will not become part of the new company.
The three Tönsmeier production sites that are to join Dekura have an overall recycling capacity for 50,000 t/y, and do not appear to have been operating at full capacity last year, when they processed about 40,000 t/y of used profiles. In the future, the two companies plan to invest at all three sites, although further details were not made available. As one of the buyers of Dekura’s PVC regrind, Rehau plans to lift the recyclate content of its own window products. At the same time, the company is working on developing “new intelligent products based on recyclate,” although the spokesman did not specify what exactly these will be.
Tönsmeier will bring to the joint venture its existing PVC window recycling activities, which include its three plants in Höxter and Bad Schmiedeberg / Germany as well as in Tillmitsch / Austria. In total, 170 employees are working at these sites. By contrast, the company’s facilities in Herford and Börde-Hakel, specialised in collecting and processing polyolefins, engineering thermoplastics and PVC pipes, will not become part of the new company.
The three Tönsmeier production sites that are to join Dekura have an overall recycling capacity for 50,000 t/y, and do not appear to have been operating at full capacity last year, when they processed about 40,000 t/y of used profiles. In the future, the two companies plan to invest at all three sites, although further details were not made available. As one of the buyers of Dekura’s PVC regrind, Rehau plans to lift the recyclate content of its own window products. At the same time, the company is working on developing “new intelligent products based on recyclate,” although the spokesman did not specify what exactly these will be.
11.03.2016 Plasteurope.com [233551-0]
Published on 11.03.2016