JAYPLAS
UK recycler lifts capacity, creates packaging unit / Family-run business “committed” to home market
 The latest investment further improves Jayplas' UK infrastructure (Photo: Jayplas) |
In an investment said to be worth “several million pounds”, major UK recycler Jayplas (Corby, Northamptonshire; www.jayplas.com) has installed a new extrusion and recycling plant at Worksop and a new wash facility at Loughborough, Leicestershire, where the company in summer 2014 increased output of LDPE packaging resin recyclate by 20,000 t/y. At the same time, it has created a new packaging division as part of a strategic investment in improving its national infrastructure.
Jayplas said the newly created packaging division is a “direct response” to the UK retail sector’s increased demand for recycled plastics to reduce the carbon footprint. It added that this also will help keep valuable secondary materials such as back-of-store film waste from retailers, post-consumer polyethylene and plastic films from agricultural and construction sources at home rather than being exported to Asia for reprocessing.
The new packaging division, the company said, will be able to offer a complete range of sizes and types of recycled plastic bags designed and produced in the UK to customer specifications, using a closed-loop process. After segregating and reprocessing the waste, Jayplas will convert it into pellets at three UK locations before extruding the pellets to film and converting the film into finished products.
Operations director Michael Maxwell said the family-run business owned by J&A Young (Leicestershire) Ltd is committed to investing in the UK’s recycling infrastructure, and its closed-loop solutions enable it to provide a much shorter, traceable supply chain to its customers. As Jayplas controls the whole process from collection of waste from retail outlets to the distribution of recycled packaging products, it can meet “rising demand for high quality, domestically recycled plastics and packaging.”
The company that claims to be the UK’s largest plastics recycler operates eight recycling and recycled product manufacturing sites across the country, each specialising in what it says is “a unique polymer type and process.” Established in 1975 in Loughborough, Jayplas by its own account can process around 200,000 t/y for more than 200 customers in commercial and industrial markets, including many major UK brand names.
Jayplas said the newly created packaging division is a “direct response” to the UK retail sector’s increased demand for recycled plastics to reduce the carbon footprint. It added that this also will help keep valuable secondary materials such as back-of-store film waste from retailers, post-consumer polyethylene and plastic films from agricultural and construction sources at home rather than being exported to Asia for reprocessing.
The new packaging division, the company said, will be able to offer a complete range of sizes and types of recycled plastic bags designed and produced in the UK to customer specifications, using a closed-loop process. After segregating and reprocessing the waste, Jayplas will convert it into pellets at three UK locations before extruding the pellets to film and converting the film into finished products.
Operations director Michael Maxwell said the family-run business owned by J&A Young (Leicestershire) Ltd is committed to investing in the UK’s recycling infrastructure, and its closed-loop solutions enable it to provide a much shorter, traceable supply chain to its customers. As Jayplas controls the whole process from collection of waste from retail outlets to the distribution of recycled packaging products, it can meet “rising demand for high quality, domestically recycled plastics and packaging.”
The company that claims to be the UK’s largest plastics recycler operates eight recycling and recycled product manufacturing sites across the country, each specialising in what it says is “a unique polymer type and process.” Established in 1975 in Loughborough, Jayplas by its own account can process around 200,000 t/y for more than 200 customers in commercial and industrial markets, including many major UK brand names.
05.01.2015 Plasteurope.com [230051-0]
Published on 05.01.2015