Aliplast (Hera Group) strengthens its leadership in plastics regeneration by acquiring 70% of Kronos Polymer Polska

Aliplast (Hera Group) is further strengthening its leadership in high-quality plastics recycling, thanks to the binding agreement signed by its Polish subsidiary Aliplast Polska to acquire 70% of Kronos Polymer Polska, a new company that will be formed by spin-off from Kronos Polymer, a Polish operator active in the recycling and processing of polyethylene (PE).

With plants in Italy, France, Spain and Poland, Aliplast has developed an integrated industrial model: from the collection of plastic waste to its transformation into secondary raw material, to the production of 100,000 tonnes/year of recycled products (including PET and LDPE flakes and granules, PET sheet, LDPE film, PP and HDPE flakes).

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Kronos Polymer operates at a newly built industrial site located in Gniew (Pomerania, Poland), about 300 kilometres from Aliplast Polska's branch in Tuszyn.

The newco involved in the transaction will receive a plant equipped with a complete polyethylene sorting, grinding and washing line, with an installed production capacity of 12,000 tonnes per year.

This will allow Aliplast to progressively expand also in the local market, carrying out recycling and regeneration directly on site, thereby optimising flows and logistics.

Thanks to this transaction and other Italian projects currently underway – such as the rigid plastics recycling plant in Modena and the new PE-LD recycling plant in Borgolavezzaro (Novara) – the industrial synergies already existing within the Group will be further strengthened, and Aliplast will be able to increase its recycling flexibility, doubling its capacity to over 210,000 tonnes per year.

Aliplast is continuing the path that has characterised it in recent years: expansion of production capac...