— By Plasteurope.com staff — 

Mensing Group, the company behind German recyclers TM Recycling (Hohenwestedt; www.tm-recycling.de) and AFA Nord (Hohenwestedt, Germany; www.afa-nord.de), is planning to enter the market for strapping recycling. Corresponding plans with strapping manufacturer Fromm Plastics (Kölleda, Germany; www.fromm-plastics.de) were reported by AFA managing director Marvin Mensing.

To implement the project, Mensing and Fromm have founded F+M Recycling, based in Hohenwestedt, Germany, with each holding a 50% stake. The aim is to build a recycling plant with an annual capacity of around 15,000 t. The investment sum for the construction, which is planned to be in the immediate vicinity of the other Mensing recycling plants, amounts to around EUR 10 mn.

The new recycling plant is scheduled to go into operation this year; the recycled materials will be used by the Fromm Group to produce new strapping.

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Fromm Plastics opened a new plant for PET strapping at its Kölleda site in Germany in mid-2024. The company belongs to transport goods specialist Fromm (Spreitenbach, Switzerland; www.fromm-pack.ch), which has more than 40 subsidiaries in Europe, North and South America, South Africa, Asia, and Australia. The company employs around 1,400 people. 

Just a few weeks ago, Mensing Group announced the withdrawal of LyondellBasell (LYB, Houston, Texas, USA; www.lyondellbasell.com) from their recycling joint venture. The polyolefin group had sold its share in the 50/50 joint venture LMF Nord (Hohenwestedt) to its JV partner, agricultural film recycler AFA Nord. 

As Andreas Mensing, managing director of TM Recycling and shareholder of parent company Mensing Group, confirmed to Plasteurope.com at the time, the group intends to continue with the construction of the mechanical recycling plant for LDPE and LLDPE film waste from household and commercial waste collections that was originally planned with LYB. MFR Nord, also based in Hohenwestedt, was founded specifically for this purpose and began construction work on the recycling plant in January 2025.

Beginning in the first quarter of 2026, a total of around 35,000 t/y of film waste is set to be recycled on the two lines – with one processing film from Germany’s dual-system collection scheme and the other handling commercial film – and various LDPE regranulate grades are to be produced.

— Translated by Elspeth Lenhard