Industrial packaging company Mauser (Brühl / Germany; www.mausergroup.com) is setting up two reconditioning joint ventures in Spain. The company said it has entered a strategic alliance to establish the jvs with Empresa de Gestión Medioambiental (Egmasa, www.egmasa.es), an environmental agency owned by the regional government of Andalusia, and businessman José Enrique Sendil.

The joint ventures are: Arbiden (Aprovechamiento y Recuperación de Bidones y Envases), located in Seville, and NCG Iberia Reconditioning, located in Barcelona. Mauser said both jvs offer a full range of reconditioning services, including recollection, reconditioning, rebottling and recycling. They also offer recovery of feedstock through an in-house washing and re-pelleting process.

Mauser added that the new businesses will be vertically integrated through its existing joint venture, Mauser Reyde Ibérica, which supplies the Spanish market with new IBCs (intermediate bulk containers).

Peter Schaefer, head of the reconditioning division at Mauser, said the acquisitions expand the range of services of Mauser subsidiary NCG (National Container Group). The move “strengthens our position as a leading global collector and recycler of industrial packaging and allows us to meet the requirements of European customers, wherever they are, with regard to cost-effective recollection and re-use of IBCs and drums”, he added.